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muan··on The Queen’s stylesheets
It links to the same page, so the music stop and start again....
muan··on The Queen’s stylesheets
If any Rubists want to play with it, I wrote a gem for it: https://github.com/muan/spiffing :)
muan··on StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs
AWESOME. I am surprised that I found this funny, though it doesn't seem to work with user url, does it?
muan··on No comment
You don't need to register to see them, see this post: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628 You'd need to register to comment though.
muan··on No comment
Is Medium doing that? I think quite the opposite, their new comment system seems rather encouraging for good quality comments.
muan··on How many 10K hours do you have left?
On a serious thought, here's how to NOT lose elders' expertise forever: http://www.theamazings.com/
muan··on Check you're wearing trousers first
This is surprisingly entertaining.
muan··on On being a girl in computer science - a confession
I've been thinking that I am very much contributing to the divide as well, and was too ashamed to say it out loud. So, thanks for the post.
muan··on Introducing Passion Projects
As a female developer, I would intuitively feel glad when seeing this kind of events/groups being formed, but thinking about it I am not sure why. I don't even think I feel like going to them for any other reason than, well, I am female and they're also female so I should probably check it out.

After reading the reasons Github wrote, I find it hard to relate. For me picking up coding has nothing to do with seeing some other women do it, but perhaps seeing some human beings do it. And I don't think seeing female developers would inspire me further more than male developers. But I could be completely false and it might be that turns out I don't know what I really feel...

Perhaps it's because I have not yet noticed any serious injustice around where I've been, could be that I just didn't realised what they were or I haven't spend enough time in the tech industry. The most unfair thing in tech I've ever encountered was interviewing at a company where there is no ladies restroom...

Anyhoo. I don't personally know any other female developer and I've been coding since 11, that's 10+ years, I guess that's ought to be wrong. And since there are no samples around me, I don't really know what inspired other female developer to learn how to code. Is there anyone here who cares to share her experience?

muan··on Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success
I think the biggest difference here is that he's not dreaming alone. His wife is extremely supportive on his career and was as committed as him in his pursue to be great in film. In the essay he wrote he tore up the schedule after his wife told him: "Don't forget your dreams." because she found out he'd been going to computer classes and got upset by that. He was not the only on in the pursue of the big dream, they both were, so he doesn't get to make the decision to give up on his own. It's a great, great fortune to have someone who stands by you in the long, frustrating journey, and it made all the differences.
muan··on Dream, but don't forget to live
Imagine the joy of getting 2 marshmallows instead of 1, the struggle is definitely worthwhile; especially when it's not about marshmallows but about expectations on oneself, I believe she's merely trying not to disappoint herself, as the alternative is simply unbearable.
muan··on Don't Be Lazy, Use HTML Labels Correctly
They use labels (correctly) in almost all the forms on the site except this one. They might have gone through the trouble to take it out on purpose.
muan··on Show HN: Responsive Email Templates
According to campaign monitor(http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-...), that is 15% not tested 'so far'(support dropped?) Is it worth it? Nonetheless it does look very interesting. Would be much more convincing if the preview can be sent to an email address though.
muan··on iPhone App Prototyping Made Easy
You guys still made it to the top on another post(weirdly) regardless. Congratulations! :)
muan··on The Flat Design Era
Cannot agree more on that layerVault's audiences being designers and developers sure does make things simpler. It's simply true that "designing specifically for tech savvy people OR a group of 60 years old folks" has each a set of very different things to take into consideration. Although if we are saying that those 60 years old non tech savvy people would eventually disappear, then sure, why not?

I adore flat design in a aesthetic way, but saying flat design is the answer to or even plays a part in UX decisions making just sounds silly. Is there really a point in advocating an aesthetic? It is subjective in every way. Though if the purpose is to make a style trendy, the article perhaps does make a great deal of sense. Flat design and skeuomorphism are both styles, whereas applying affordance IS a means to an end.

muan··on The Flat Design Era
For the purposes of making things clear, "not having hover states for your buttons" and "not making it clear to users what pieces of the page they're meant to interact with" have very little to do with flat design as a style, the exact same things can happen with skeuomorphic design as well(suggesting of skeuomorphic is the contrary style). Your 2 examples sound more like a lack of user experience consideration rather than a poor design style decision.