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jaspero··on Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages
They seem to address this on their site:

https://www.ampproject.org/about/amp-design-principles/

No whitelists.

We won’t give any special treatment to specific sites, domains or origins except where needed for security or performance reasons.

jaspero··on Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant
I do not want anyone of them tracking my movement. May be except Business vehicle fleets.
jaspero··on Foxconn Shuts Plant as Workers Injured, Arrested in Brawl
There's a Ted talk on fair trade cell phone.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bandi_mbubi_demand_a_fair_trade_cel...

jaspero··on Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
Suddenly my Gmail looks cluttered and old. Bonus, I got my name@outlook.com. That's a big win. Hope they make good stuff.
jaspero··on Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books
Seems like search tool needs some work. I can't find books that I am looking for 3 out of 3.
jaspero··on Fred Wilson: My New Nexus 7"
I disagree with you. You start ignoring the refresh flash and it is not distracting at all once you get used to it. Really the fancy page turn animation does not add any value to my reading experience. I would care less. What I care about is I can read my book outdoors in bright sunlight and go without charging for a month. And, my eyes don't get tired after long hours of reading.
jaspero··on Htmlshell - generate HTML skeletons
Just so that it doesn't make any difference to you or your presentation doesn't mean that you should avoid it. It is a best practice to include them and semantically right thing to do. It gives a structure to your document and defines what your document is about.

I don't see it as a redundant tag, not at all.

jaspero··on The Real Story Behind Apple's 'Think Different' Campaign
TL;DR Please
jaspero··on How 20 Popular Websites Looked When They Launched
The design for Twitter that launched in 2006 looks pretty ugly. I am sure there were better designs in 2006. It looks like 1995.
jaspero··on Apple Reveals Siri Voice Interface: The “Intelligent Assistant”
Naah. You still need to type in public places and don't want everyone to know what you are doing with your phone.
jaspero··on $$ Apple / HP laptop price comparison
HP Envy 17 is clearly a rip off.
jaspero··on Finally, real page numbers for the Kindle
I would really like to see the feature to convert any texts or pdfs into Kindle format. The converters I have tried so far are terrible with pdf books.
jaspero··on Google May Let Users Personally Blacklist Domains To Fight Spam
Same here. I hate that every click I make ends up at experts-exchange. I didn't even know you could find your answer by scrolling to the bottom until I read someone mention it on Hacker News.
jaspero··on Hiring Front-End Engineers
I felt that the author kind of mixed up front-end engineer and graphic designer. Good front-end engineers(developers) are not necessarily good graphic designers and vice versa.

I am a computer science graduate and front-end developer with four years of industry experience and I started it around 10 years back as a hobby. I do some graphic designing too but my strong domains are html,css and javascript. All of them are self-learned as the author has mentioned.

Wherever I worked, I hated the fact that people kind of undermine the importance of front-end. They bring in some software engineers and make them work with me. Everyone thinks they know html and css and its pretty easy.

Since there are no way of measuring the quality of their code, I get really frustrated seeing people undermine my domain. Even with this much of experience I feel there is so much to learn and so much improvements can be made.

jaspero··on Discuss HN: Dropbox Scavenger Hunt Thread
500 Error :(
jaspero··on For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
3.5" HD Floppies were awesome compared to non-HD.
jaspero··on Web Programming Is Hard
I appreciate the author for recognizing web development. I often stumble upon my 'programming' friends who think web development and especially front-end is boring and trivial. I have hard time explaining how important and how complex things can get.

It's something my fellow hard-core programmer friends will never understand. I love my job and what I do.

Web Development rules!

jaspero··on Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Give Away Fortune
Simple living high thinking. I bet many people in his position would have already mortgaged a mansion and ultra-luxury car.
jaspero··on Life Lessons From A 27-Year Old
Sounds great. I would like to hear more. jasper dot internet at gmail, if you would like to email.
jaspero··on Life Lessons From A 27-Year Old
I am aware of the Ruby on Rails' scaffolding, CRUD, DRY and MVC stuff. Matter of fact, I am currently self-learning Ruby on Rails.

Yes, it would be nice to have some template to start with. I have used YUI CSS framework, Reset, etc. to start off applications. I guess that's relevant to templates you are talking about.

jaspero··on Life Lessons From A 27-Year Old
* Nothing that I can think of. Immigration is the biggest hurdle for me to do anything beyond my current job sponsor. * My key strengths are front-end. Javascript, jQuery, CSS * I would like to create something to come up with a business model.

* Sorry for late reply.

jaspero··on Life Lessons From A 27-Year Old
I am up for it. Where do we start from?
jaspero··on Life Lessons From A 27-Year Old
I agree for most part. I think a good web developer is one who can use the existing libraries efficiently to get the job done, not necessarily build one. It's hard to build something when you have to get the job done.
jaspero··on Life Lessons From A 27-Year Old
Not a US citizen :(. I can't even friggin freelance.
jaspero··on Life Lessons From A 27-Year Old
Your point on be an engineer is what I have been thinking lately. I am 27 as well and not in a position to be an enterpreneur. What I have realized is I need to start developing libraries(javascript/jquery) and not just use it.
jaspero··on How Israel handles airport security
I don't think resources are the problem. You can decentralize TSA jobs. San Francisco area just needs to monitor one airport or three bay area airports. So, I think decentralization is the key and saying that US has too many airports is not an excuse.
jaspero··on I broke textCAPTCHA with Python
I think you should release your wonderful algorithm not directly as a way to hack text-captchas but in some other useful forms.
jaspero··on Hey Gmail, 1994 Called, It Wants Its Dial-Up Level Performance Back
I have started to feel that Gmail is getting bloated with features. I want my mail to be simple and lightning fast.
jaspero··on Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook
Seriously? Your GF needed Facebook to reunite with her mother? As stereotypical as I may sound, but she needs to get her life back and socialize beyond Facebook. It's simply absurd.
jaspero··on Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook
Google Wave was a great idea but making it standalone application was the mistake, IMO. I am pretty sure the ideas Google Wave generated will be implemented on the right application someday. Facebook might be the platform for Lars to implement his pet project (Wave).
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