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Komo News is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, a right-wing media organization that regularly forces local affiliates to air propaganda.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/sinclair-requires-...

Here is a a cogent rebuttal to the documentary in question. https://crosscut.com/2019/03/6-reasons-why-komos-take-homele...

Yep! Neil Diamond wrote I'm A Believer.

Also, Carole King wrote Pleasant Valley Sunday. Here's her original demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtyqPzeso5A

I was able to get my java-applet-based VPN working again by temporarily re-enabling Apple's Java SE 6 applet plugin: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5559

Was it this one? http://www.geekwire.com/2012/lean-technical-chose-furnished-...

Support for aria-hidden is still pretty spotty: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201205/hiding_visible_...

Thanks for the info!

Although, forgoing "data-" prepending by default in the interest of saving a few bytes doesn't seem like a good tradeoff. If you have any HTML5 validation as part of your testing process, not having valid attributes is going to throw a whole mess of errors that you'll have to ignore.

Why aren't the "ng*" attributes prepended with "data-" to make them valid HTML5 attributes? It's a minor nit, but kind of annoying nonetheless.

Small bug: the fixed-position "See Plans & Pricing" link that shows up at the bottom of the page when you scroll is partially hidden by the fixed-position "Talk to Us" link when the browser window is narrower than 1245px or so.

Hopefully a Wordpress plugin is in the pipeline. This would be a no-brainer any Wordpress site if setup is as simple as installing and configuring a plugin.

How about testimonials? The designs are fantastic, but I want to hear the story of someone catching a recruiter's eye from one of these.

Figure out away to demonstrate social proof that your resumes are giving job-seekers the edge they desperately need.

Surprisingly effective. A colleague of mine published some techniques to add consistency to Javascript events across screen readers: https://github.com/ryanfitzer/Accessibility

Nope. Screen readers have been able to handle javascript-generated content for years. According to WebAIM's most recent screen-reader survey, 98.4% of screen reader users have javascript enabled: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/#javascript

Love this!

A few notes:

- When I click on an item thumbnail on your sample list page, it takes me directly to the image hosted on S3. Having the image appear in a lightbox would ensure that users are kept on the page.

- The title tag for every page reads "List of Things for Sale". I would populate the title tag with the name of the user (e.g. "Matthias McGregor's List of Things for Sale")

- Add FB/Twitter/Email to Friend links, which would provide three one-click marketing channels for users to share their for-sale items with their immediate network.

- Populate the page with Facebook Open Graph metadata. That way if users want to post a link to their store on Facebook, they'll get a nice link description and thumbnail automatically.

- I like the single-page experience, but I can't help wondering if it would be better if the app would generate discrete pages for each item users are selling. This might make it easier for users to share each item discretely, instead of just point people towards a single store page.

Really nice work!

Houston the NYC street is pronounced "How-ston" whereas Houston the Texas city is pronounced "Hew-ston".

A few more:

http://www.google.com/search?q=hubpages

http://www.google.com/search?q=ezine+articles

http://www.google.com/search?q=all+experts

There are better ways to manage CSS bloat.

See Nicole Sullivan's Object-Oriented CSS approach: https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki

I agree with Chris here - I wince a little bit every time I see a candidate start off on the whiteboard with a dollar sign.

However, this article emphasis on Javascript at the expense of the other technologies and soft skills that make a truly excellent front-end engineer - HTML/CSS, solid understanding of SEO, Accessibility (WCAG/508/WAI-ARIA), etc.

I've interviewed plenty of front-end engineers who breezed through a similar no-framework javascript question, but fell to pieces when I had them hand-code a three-column, fixed width, centered layout in HTML/CSS (nav/content/sidebar) with the stipulation that the content column appear first in the HTML source.

These candidates also tend not to know:

  - What rel="nofollow" means
  - What WAI-ARIA is.
  - What browsers were affected by and how to trigger Quirks Mode.
  - The difference between PNG-8 and PNG-24

Front-end engineering is a holistic discipline that demands a wide array of skills across a big chunk of the spectrum between back-end developer and visual designer. Overemphasizing Javascript skills at the expense of others is a dangerous precedent.

EDIT: Fixed formatting.

Be careful with these robots.txt suggestions.

Disallowing your css/js files in your robots.txt is probably not a good idea - Matt Cutts said as much himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNEipHjsEPU

If you're running Wordpress, disallowing your /uploads/ directory will nuke your Google Image Search prospects, as Googlebot won't be able to crawl any of your images to begin with.

Also, submitting to a paid directory such as Best of the Web or the Yahoo! Directory would be a much better use of your time. DMOZ is still a valuable directory (for a lot of reasons), but the likelihood is small that they will review, let alone add your site to the directory in a timely manner (if ever).

A few other things worth doing: - Create a Twitter account for your site. - Create a Facebook page for your site.

He was most likely waiting on the final results of on Washington State's income tax initiative, which would have cost him millions had it passed:

http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Washington_Income_...

What in particular about the rewritten filename would be detrimental to image search traffic?

The filter retains the original filename as well as the alt text.

If they enabled gzip compression on their CSS/Javascript files could cut down their page weight by several hundred kb.

Even just running their pngs through a lossless compression tool like Smush.it would probably be worth it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796101

PageSpeed and YSlow yielded many other fruit-bearing ideas.

Update: Added link to Autosmush HN item.