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Re:Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @06:28PM (#6637950)
When I hover over anything in Safari it disappears. https://www.dropbox.com/s/7j32ek1lmb0l6zd/Screenshot%202013-...

Doesn't load in Firefox or any mobile browser I have on iOS (Chrome, Mobile Safari & Dolphin)

Re:The Ocean is Broken on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @06:12AM (#6590774)
Glad I didn't
Re:Facebook users confirm services down globally on Monday October 21, 2013 @10:36AM (#6585812)
The Facebook login feature isn't working with the API. Getting massive headache emails now. Luckily we have lots of alternative login methods.

I hope people will see the importance of not putting all of your eggs in one authentication basket.

Re:The Ocean is Broken on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:53AM (#6579882)
Noticed right after I posted. Gave it an upvote
Re:GitHub: a case study in link maintenance and 404 pages on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:54AM (#6496081)
For something like Github, the more international it is, the better
Re:GitHub: a case study in link maintenance and 404 pages on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:29AM (#6495903)
I use it in production. You will always have 404's and this is what I feel to be a meaningful 404.
Re:GitHub: a case study in link maintenance and 404 pages on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:23AM (#6495860)
http://notfound.org/
Re:Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails on Thursday August 15, 2013 @11:44AM (#6218494)
No problem at all. The HTML version works just fine and I prefer HTML versions to PDF's anyway.

Looks fantastic for what it's worth! :)

Re:Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails on Thursday August 15, 2013 @11:25AM (#6218362)
Bought a copy. The PDF has the end of every line cut off :/

http://i.imgur.com/c4ZBUvq.png

Re:You Should Write Ugly Code on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @08:46AM (#5819049)
> personally think that developers shouldn't care about code beauty, because that's not their job.

I believe anyone else on your team will waste a lot of time and effort figuring out the spaghetti code you wrote.

Think. Then code.

Ask HN: Does anyone want to build a programming language reference with me?

Posted by samdunne on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @10:17AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have noticed that there is no structured central hub for referencing programming languages. How to implement certain things in them, what terminology means etc.Stackoverflow has a lot of this information but not in a structured way and the quality of answers vary widely.My idea would be to make a central service, which is completely free, which people contribute to (based on guidelines) to...

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Re:InfluAds to help 200+ open source projects with $1,000,000+ in spon... on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @07:53AM (#5711352)
Ah ok that makes sense. Thanks for the clarity :)
Re:InfluAds to help 200+ open source projects with $1,000,000+ in spon... on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @07:13AM (#5711190)
I signed up my project. But the form seems to be the standard form you guys use for everything else. There were no fields for the specifics that are defined on the open source page.

I think it would be clearer if you had a slightly customised form for the process

Re:Flat UI was Released - Framework for Designers and Developers,based... on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @12:00PM (#5674964)
Waste of money if you ask me. My opinion of this theme is that it provides a very poor user experience. The buttons do not look clickable at all. Unless you hover over them, which is useless on a mobile device

I much prefer Almost flat UI such as Gmail and http://websymphony.net/almost-flat-ui

Re:Ask HN: Why is Amazon's HTML crazy? on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @05:07PM (#5670786)
That is definitely a forgotten debug point

Ask HN: Why is Amazon's HTML crazy?

Posted by samdunne on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:26PM
from the ask-hn dept.

If you view the source on any product page you have around 100 lines of whitespace and the <title> isn't found until line 3,500-ishNot to mention all of their CSS is inlineWhy is it like this? It seems to me it is far more complex than it needs to be

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How important is a degree in CS?

Posted by samdunne on Saturday March 30, 2013 @09:38PM
from the self-post dept.

A lot of companies now have something along the following in their listed requirements:BA/BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience desirable. In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience.That example is from Google Ireland.So how much better than someone with a degree do you need to be? Or are most jobs out their based entirely off merit and not off a piece of paper?

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I just went to the Google homepage. This happened

Posted by samdunne on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:35PM
from the self-post dept.

I search for anything all day and I get a page such as this:http://i.imgur.com/o6vcovu.pngThis works fine. I click on any of the black bar tabs and this happenshttp://i.imgur.com/1sfNHJ1.pngIt's been happening to me all day on multiple machines in a few locations while being logged in/not logged inAnyone having the same issue? It was happening to me occasionally last night but all day today

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Re:Groundwork - A Responsive HTML5, CSS and JavaScript Framework on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @07:24AM (#5243900)
Well it is front paged on HN

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