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Author here; I didn't (intentionally) lift the title—had no idea there was an article of a similar name already.

That's like telling me points are a terrible unit of measurement for print because we use different sizes of paper and points should be relative to the paper size.

The whole goal of points is that a point is a point is a point, regardless of whether I'm printing on a business card or a billboard. Why can't we have that uniformity for digital devices, too?

I only worked with Harrison very briefly (and merely in the same office—I never worked one-on-one with him personally).

I reached out to Harrison and Zee on Twitter, first. I was irritated that he would do something like that, especially because he knows me. He ninja-edited the post and Zee went on a tirade; that was when I felt wronged. Harrison said nothing to me until much later.

Nothing manufactured, nothing faked, and nothing personal. By and large, I was upset with Zee's reaction.

Just because you don't want to get clean and make scrambled eggs at the same time doesn't mean others wouldn't like to.

Those restraints are stronger than you think, in all honesty. Especially if you have any insecurity whatsoever about being able to find something else or make it on your own.

Once you can get beyond that insecurity, though, your feelings change entirely.

Luck can be increased with frequency. The more often you put yourself out there, the greater the chance the right people/time/moods will align.

One of my favorite high school teachers took the time to explain each and every dirty joke in A Midsummer Night's Dream; he was, consequently, one of the best English teachers I ever had.

By the end of the year, the school fired him.

Even better: http://jsfiddle.net/rVxTn/8/

pointer-events: none on an opaque container, with the FB 'like' button below it.

From a cursory look, it seems like the most common (in order of frequency) are:

1. Rude

2. Pedantic

3. Snarky

4. Negative

5. An ass

6. A downer

7. A jerk

I'd love for someone to actually analyze the results and get the numbers, though.

Even the CSS is nicely organized: http://editsquarterly.com/lib/css/edits.iancoyle.css?0.0.0.9

You effectively just described what "good design" is -- so effortless, it's invisible.

This isn't a new concept, but with the recent focus on design in startups, I guess it's finally coming to light outside the design community.

No problem, Hopper might not be for you. However, I've gotten a lot of requests re: emailing updates, so I will consider it!

Let me say, though, that I absolutely respect your privacy and have no intention of looking at your data. It's as private as you want it to be. I'm also happy to put this in the TOS.

Exporting is another story as its easier said than done. Emailing you the pastes periodically (optionally), however, may alleviate that problem.

I found that I regularly emailed myself notes and files for later processing, and they'd then get lost in the inbox. I wanted to be able to search my notes (and only my notes), as well as easily share them with one or several people.

Every other one of those services got me partway there but felt like they were lacking (no web search, burdensome to use, etc). Paste and forget until later - no more than 20 seconds to save something.

Notifications and device web apps are coming, too. Does that help?

A mobile version is coming soon. I'm just as eager as you are to use it on my phone.

They also gladly accept PayPal, to be fair.

I think this would fall under a "design patent"[1] (though I may be wrong). Since they didn't bother to get one, as long as the actual assets aren't used, the interaction and design can be imitated.

Also, speaking as a designer, I would be thrilled if I saw people so fervently duplicating an interaction scheme I had created. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," and all that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent

This article reeks of inexperience and just a dash of sour grapes.

Supplier got the order wrong? Your problem; you fix it. Sales team can't get their act together (despite a wonderfully choreographed song and dance routine)? That's on your shoulders. People fighting? Smooth things over. Someone is only working at 103% efficiency, not pumping out enough likes and tweets and check-ins? All you to handle.

Yes, that's called being in charge. If you can't handle it all and have the means, delegate.

Brief edit: turns out this guy went to my school and is a friend-of-a-friend. Did some due diligence and friend says he's just trying to provoke a reaction (aka "troll"). He is, says my friend, "one of the hardest working people" he knows. Nothing to see here.

For those curious, the trick works by creating strings (such as "NaN" or "Infinity") and integers, then treating the strings as arrays and selecting out characters. The [], +, ! and () are assembled in sequences that result in these strings/integers (thanks to Javascript's liberal language rules).

Here's a dictionary/more information: http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?24,33349,33405

Except, that's a poor argument: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/#javascript

The percentage of users with Javascript disabled[1] is smaller than the percentage of users using Opera[2].

So there is nothing wrong with choosing to not support 2 out of every 100 users; that's simply a time/cost assessment. What's wrong with you?

[1] http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-...

[2] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

UIWebView actually got slower in iOS 5: http://www.blaze.io/mobile/ios5-top10-performance-changes/

My earbuds block outside noise very well. (Also, I generally don't seem to mind working in noisy environments.)

Funny, I don't know what NYC you experienced, but the one I live in has a much wider variety of people than the types you've mentioned.

I know plenty of people that go to work in jeans and a t-shirt, and no one holds it against them. Personally, I prefer to dress a little bit nicer; not to mention that (other than during the summer), the weather dictates the dress code to a large extent.

I could go on with more counter examples, but the point is, you have a very narrow view of what NYC is actually like.

* P.S., re: Coffee: Try the Ace Hotel lobby on 29th between Broadway and 5th. There is an independently-run Stumptown Coffee shop attached (best coffee in NYC) and I'm there virtually every Sunday working on my laptop. With their free wifi. Along with about 20 other people doing the same thing.

Hey, I wrote that article! It seems like "reallysimplewebsites.co.uk" lifted it directly from Onextrapixel.com, where it was originally published: http://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/10/24/from-print-to-web-cre...

You may want to update the link to point to the non-plagiarized source.

> And I’d be the last person to discourage someone who feels compelled to start a start-up.

…Yet, you (the author) just spent two pages doing exactly that.

Donatello (the person) was a renowned artist and sculptor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatello

Please let me deselect letters while I'm kerning them. I find it hard to see the spacing with one letter in bright blue.

Have you tried native scrolling in Safari on iOS? It sucks.

Is the pain localized? Because you might be getting low-grade migraines.

I used to regularly get stress-induced migraines (before I regularly drank anything caffeinated). Then I started drinking 2 cups of tea or coffee per day, which completely cleared up the issue.

Of course, if I go "off schedule," I get a headache now almost immediately.

I should note this in the documentation, but if you add "visibility: hidden" to your content, it will automatically be set to "visibility: inherit" after it's ready.