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kadjaron Looks by Dr. Dre

Or... maybe the reason behind the acquisition has more to do with Beats' subscription streaming service than hardware.

kadjaron Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

Is there really no way to see the pricing structure before I upload things? That's frustrating.

kadjaron Improving democracy with lines of code

Fill this out - let's kick this off.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T0FtpC7RfGJGC57ewRUZ6iTjix9...

kadjaron Improving democracy with lines of code

I've been sketching up ideas for this for years. Want to chat?

kadjaron The Beautiful Table - communicating football statistics with D3.js

Any chance of getting MLS in there?

kadjaron Subscription Men’s Clothing Startup Bombfell Raises $730,000 Seed Round

I was way excited for this, but was a little disappointed as I went through the signup process.

I'm not terribly fashion-savvy, and I don't know how to pair things. If there were an 'outfit' option where you could receive a pair of pants / shorts and a fitting top for about $150 / month, I would sign up, and many of my friends would too.

kadjaron Using AngularJS/BackboneJS in Windows 8 JavaScript app

That's a misunderstanding of what's going on here. It's quite easy to create or manipulate HTML5 elements in Win8 - it's merely that some of the methods used by Angular and Backbone don't play nice with WinJS unless you tell them to.

kadjaron Microsoft forgot to solve a problem

All of those are good points. None of them are in the article.

kadjaron Microsoft forgot to solve a problem

It's easy to forget what the iPad looked like when it first came out.

It was roundly mocked for merely being a larger iPod touch, and the same criticism that is the thesis of this post was levied against it. Industry experts claimed it had no place, and posited that Apple was inventing a need simply to push a product into.

Over time, people found and invented new uses for their iPads, and they came to realize that they can serve legitimate needs and desires.

This article is as myopic as those experts once were. Perhaps the Surface will be complete failure. Perhaps it will catch on, and people will invent new uses that make them compelling. Reading tea leaves and slamming Microsoft are fun to do, but this is hardly convincing.

kadjaron Larry said to Gaga, ‘Do you ever a/b test your music?’

Lady Gaga's entire career has been an A/B test. She started out as a singer and songwriter who actually poured some meaning into her music, and had no success. Then she seized the common pop chords, added a heavy back beat, stripped her songs of any meaning, and started wearing meat dresses. I'd say that B worked for her.

kadjaron Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East

Looks like it's coming from Syria:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hXpzxDWlS...

kadjaron CascadiaJS - a JSConf for the Pacific Northwest

For $275? No way.

kadjaron Website where anyone can post anyone's information to label them as a predator

This is extortion.

There might be a way to fight them through this, if you claim that the poster didn't have the right to grant them the license:

6. Proprietary Rights/Grant of Exclusive Rights

By posting information or content to any public area of POTENTIALPREDATORS.COM, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to POTENTIALPREDATORS.COM an irrevocable, perpetual, fully-paid, worldwide exclusive license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

kadjaron The Mail Pilot Public Beta

So.. there's no way to try it without dropping $60?

It looks nice, but I don't even buy operating systems without trying them first, let alone subscription services.

kadjaron Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

Sally Ride comes out as a lesbian in her obituary: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/first-female-us-astrona...

kadjaron Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

Wow, you're right. I've been saying it wrong for some time, then!

kadjaron Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

"your own copy of Transformers: Dark of the Moon"

Oops! Accidentally a word, there.

kadjaron Bookmarklet to see YC / Reddit thread of any URL

Use this: http://sandbox.self.li/bookmarklet-to-extension/

kadjaron Content Based CSS

The bang (!) sign would make more sense to me. It's already used in css to express priority (!important), so it's not much of a logical jump.

kadjaron Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE

Did anyone else notice that font smoothing was significantly better in the Win7 screenshots than Win8?

kadjaron Babelverse - people powered real-time interpretation of the spoken word

The Arabic in the header image is backwards, and the letters aren't connected (they should be).

I'm guessing Photoshop was used to make the image - PS doesn't have Arabic support unless you buy the Middle Eastern edition, which I consider a massive oversight.

It should look like this: http://www.muhammadspeaks.com/essalamoualeikoum-peacebeuntoy...

kadjaron Starbucks Style Guide

Does anyone know where they got that awesome debug panel?

kadjaron Are Newer Games Excluding the Disabled?

The Kinect might make a game unplayable to someone who can't move their body, but it opens up a world of gaming to people who don't have hands. Why do these able-handed people want games to continue to discriminate against the handless?

kadjaron Microsoft Makes Fun of Older IE versions To Promote IE9

http://www.caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=chrome+...

No thanks.

kadjaron GoDaddy's SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers

Here's a handy map:

http://www.spatialsituation.com/sopa-map/

kadjaron JQuery Mobile Beta 3 released

...why doesn't standard jQuery have pushState?

kadjaron Lessons from Valve - How to build a designer's paradise

Yes =)

kadjaron Lessons from Valve - How to build a designer's paradise

Indeed. Technically two chords (ethernet too!), though.

kadjaron Lessons from Valve - How to build a designer's paradise

^ Garrett

I finished my contract at Valve a couple of months ago. I'm still fairly early in my design career, and work with a contracting agency in Seattle. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not quite well-rounded and seasoned enough to be a true Valve hire, but I also think I was there to fulfill a short-term need.

Still, it was a great experience. I learned more in that contract than any other, by far. Just thought I'd share some of it!

kadjaron Our Commitment to Trust & Safety

I wonder how they're now going to prevent fraud.