vinothgopi

I wonder what the ball looks like after it has been fired. Flat? Intact? Or completely blown to pieces.

Woohoo! I loved the site but felt limited by the fact that I couldn't just "edit-source" and fix things. It's great that this feature is finally in.

Really? I tried it on a few sites: Stripe, Bank of America and they all seem to work fine

Something wrong with the paywall? The link doesn't work for me. But if Googled, the exact same link works.

All the buttons are Google buttons' color scheme. Took me a while to notice that.

This is brilliant! Now why didn't I think of that :)

Small comment: It's probably just me but when you said "sign documents in GMail" I thought you meant you were doing some sort of email encryption/editing the email signature. Then I thought "ok this is just another random plugin for GMail". I had to watch the video and then i went "OOHHH!!".

What does that mean?

He means when displaying the icons on a webpage. You use one big tiff file, which is loaded using just one connection. Then with CSS you choose which part of the big tiff file you want displayed (as an icon). Like "show the second icon on the 5th row". Try googling "CSS Sprites".

Well you cant call it caching. By definition, that means data is written to both drives at the same time. In the case of Fusion Drive data is always read from and written to the SSD. It is basically a software which moves files around.

I am a little lost. So tailgate is installed on each of the servers or one central nodejs server which tails the logs from all the servers and sends it out via socket.io?

Am I the only one who noticed that the lid does not have the shiny words "Macbook Pro" anymore?

I am overriding bootstrap.css. Which on hindsight seems like a bad idea. Now I am finding it a little difficult to migrate over to 2.0. So what I've ended up doing is copying over the new features that I want (like the new icons) and leaving the rest in legacy mode. No biggie. Dont really need a responsive design for this website.

I'm used to 960GS so I was at home when it came to bootstrap. I spent some time reading the examples provided, then started on a clean slate. Top nav, the mast then footer, then finally the main content. That way you are not technically tweaking their templates. You are branching out.

Now you have a good excuse to rebrand (and/or change that icon?)

We built the site for http://www.semantics3.com/ and we tried my best to use as little elements of bootstrap 1.4 as possible.

We loved the grid, the form elements and buttons and its sized. The first thing we re-did was the nav bar though. Apart from that we think the framework really accelerated the design process.

I have a slightly different view. I prefer to spend time designing a unique/good looking website but I do not like to waste my time creating my own buttons, text boxes etc. Modern design styles leans towards a 3D css button and nice large curve text boxes. Just grab them from bootstrap and use the grid for the layouts. Do everything else on your own.

It comes down to the same issues that I have with templates of tumblr,posterous and wp. They all look the same. I think bootstrap should be used as a way to jumpstart the design process and not built a WHOLE website using the components bootstrap provides.

When I see that grey-black gradient nav bar i go "Haizz yet another bootstrap site."

This is not thehackernews.se

I have a feeling netvarun dint mean it in a "take ALL the money and leave" way.

Singapore is seen as an up and coming startup haven and the goverment is trying really hard to build that entrepreneurial ecosystem (and i should say they are doing a pretty good job!). But that hasn't yet negated 2 issues with starting up a business in Singapore.

I'm sure you've heard the argument about how small a market Singapore is so I shall not go down that path. The govt has been very supportive of early stage startups with grants ranging from 10k to 100k. But have you noticed that very FEW startups have actually made it big? I've spoken to several startup founders and all of them seem to voice the same opinion: its easy to raise a seed round in SG(<$100k) but anything more than that its gonna be very difficult. Singaporean VCs are risk-averse and are only focused on whether the startup has solid numbers to back its requested funding amount. Nothing else. Cant blame them as well. We Asians are wired that way. At this point of time, Singapore is a great launchpad. Not a place to grow. If we want to grow, we got to move.

With the influx of Silicon Valley investors, angels and incubators, the situation might improve though. And if you think your product is suited for the US market anyway, why stay in Singapore?

The designer of the iOS app is sadly a perfectionist and is refusing to put it up on the store until its pixel perfect!!(by his own standards)

In all seriousness, we have a bit of work validating the ranking algorithm, pulling in more sources and general UI cleanup stuff. We are really keen on putting it on the store though. Maybe a couple of weeks to a month?

We managed to gather data for about a month when building this app. Some of them were as recent as a few hours and some a few days.

We implemented a weighted average algorithm to calculate the risk levels and how confident we were of the data. For the risk levels I took into account 1) How recent the data was 2) What time of the day it occurred relative to the time of query (for eg: the crime occurred at 4pm on another day and its 5pm now, it will be given a higher weightage compared to something that happened at say, 11am.) 3) The severity of the crime itself (murders >> theft) 4) Number of occurrences of crimes in the area

The assignment of weights wasn't thoroughly scientific though. It needs some tweaking.

And thanks for the suggestion on push notifications :)