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mildweedon The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising

Ad networks are going to have to finally get their act together.

mildweedon Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

People often say that the users of a site like Reddit are the product, not the customers. In the case of Reddit moderators, they are also essentially employees. Employees who need to be treated more as customers, due to the fact they're volunteers.

Anger the masses of Reddit all you want, but don't piss off the volunteers that hold your product together.

mildweedon Beyond Frontal Faces: Improving Person Recognition Using Multiple Cues [pdf]

So much for CV Dazzle

mildweedon LastPass Security Notice

The passwords themselves are rather secure.

But if somebody got their hands on one or two of your passwords, they could probably figure out the rest.

mildweedon The demise of America's once-mighty streetcars

Kansas City's streetcar construction is nearing its conclusion. The new, shiny cars arrive in a couple months.

http://www.kcstreetcar.org/rolling-through-town/

mildweedon Lumen – A micro-framework by Laravel

Market salaries are for rank and file coders. Build something that's wildly successful, and it won't matter what the language was.

mildweedon Jar of Fireflies

I tried doing this exact project for table decorations for my wedding reception. As it turns out, this project fell to the bottom of the to-do list and never got completed. Anybody need some parts??

mildweedon The Original Swift Programming Language – Tutorial

They'll have to start going by "Original Swift" or "Classic Swift" now.

mildweedon A Motion-Sensing Keyboard

Reminds me of the Haptix Multitouch. http://www.ractiv.com

mildweedon Introducing O.W.L.S.

Site is farked. Relevant YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agpB5FVMkOg

mildweedon On being the right size (1928)

Relate this to Dunbar's Number and an effective small business. Dunbar says 150 total for a social group. But we operate across multiple social groups, across all realms of life, not just your job.

If you wanted to put together an elite group of excellent professionals, how big do you suspect that could be? In other words, how large should you let your company get before you spit it down the middle into two subsidiaries? My guess: 125

125 = 150 - (5 close family + 5 extended family + 4 close friends + 6 extended friends + 5 extracurricular friends)

mildweedon Chrome’s requestAutocomplete()

Why is this needed in the markup? The autocomplete attribute is plenty. Everything else is just how the browser handles that attribute...

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/autocomplete-off/

mildweedon You can't detect a touchscreen

Great article, as was the one before it. You should keep writing AND add an RSS feed so I can subscribe.

mildweedon The Future of Adobe Fireworks

Does anybody have opinions on using Edge Reflow?

mildweedon The Clown Car Technique for Responsive Images

Better yet: Intention.js.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5587504

mildweedon Intention.js: Rewrites your HTML based on the user's context.

Allows you to do two things:

  *  change around attributes on tags, usually src, href or class
  *  move HTML elements around the page

Based on whatever you want (Context.js):

  *  Window width
  *  touch capabilities
  *  pixel ratio
  *  [code your own here]

mildweedon Google Fiber’s Next Stop: Austin, Texas

If not longer. I live in KC and am probably going to have to wait another 1-2 years.

mildweedon Google Fiber coming to Austin

I'm surprised they're going into other markets when they haven't even started phase 2 for Kansas City (getting the rest of the metro signed up).

mildweedon Check you're wearing trousers first

Elephant in the room indeed.

mildweedon The dire state of WordPress

Wordpress is making big steps in the right direction.

* Their wild pile of oddly-named functions are being deprecated and moved into well-designed classes.

* Better templating options are being promoted.

* Yes, the global $wp_query leaves some to be desired, but at its core, wpdb's WP_Query is a decently powerful database abstraction, and if used right can perform well at scale.

No, the hooks aren't going away, nor is the URL-to-template mapping. But those are the parts that make it so flexible and easy to work with. MVC is a controller dictatorship, WP's code is a democracy.

mildweedon JQuery 1.9 has been released

Important for those who haven't heard yet: jQuery 2.0 will not support IE 6, 7 or 8.

mildweedon JQuery's API documentation gets a redesign

Another feature of php.net I wish this had: a "Related functions" or "See also" section.

mildweedon QT 5 launched by new owner, Digia

Here, I thought that Apple had sold Quick Time.

mildweedon WordPress 3.5 “Elvin” Released

Wordpress has adopted the PDO standard. It will be in WP 3.6. http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21663

mildweedon WordPress 3.5 “Elvin” Released

As someone closely following (and contributing to) the progress of Wordpress over the last few years, I continue to believe they are heading in the right direction given their constraints.

mildweedon A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz”

Which doesn't include the image of the solution since the server hosting the image is down.

mildweedon Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps

Yes. BATS has been a positive member of KCMO's tech community for years and had no part in KCK landing the Google Fiber deal.

mildweedon Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex

The way that a perfect regex was found:

http://fightingforalostcause.net/misc/2006/compare-email-reg...

mildweedon Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop

Epistemology reigns supreme.

mildweedon WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

Just in time for Google Fiber here in Kansas City. Excellent timing.