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December 2011

Rachel Ward

by garageband777
Letters to the Editor | The Watch Magazine By printing Rachel Ward's article in September, the Watch effectively stated that this article is factual and accurate, and we stand behind it. But by remaining entirely silent to the letter—without allowing Ward an opportunity to ... 13 December 2011 The Watch Brave New Words: A Year in Books - 2011 THE BODY FINDER by Kimberly Derting THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE by Jandy Nelson DELIRIUM by Lauren Oliver WAIT TILL HELEN COMES by Mary Downing Hahn NUMBERS by Rachel Ward THE BEGINNERS GUIDE ... 13 December 2011 Emily Hainsworth ponytails and capris: Daily Christmas Lights #12 Numbers - Rachel Ward Jinx - Meg Cabot April 2011. War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells Zombicorns - John Green Across the Universe - Beth Revis The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins March 2011. Paper Towns - John Green ... 12 December 2011 smg

notes on "the berg cloud little printer alternative"

by karlcow

Don’t want to wait to get a cute, Berg Little Printer? Weekend hacking project

November 2011

Alex MacCaw - Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces

by Spone & 2 others
It's an interesting time to be working on the frontend now. We have new technologies such as HTML5, CSS5, Canvas and WebGL; all of which greatly increase the possibilities for web application development. The world is our oyster! However, there's also another trend I've noticed. Web developers are still stuck in the request/response mindset. I call it the 'click and wait' approach - where every UI interaction results in a delay before another interaction can be performed. That's the process they've used their entire careers so it's no wonder most developers are blinkered to the alternatives. Speed matters; a lot. Or to be precise, perceived speed matters a lot. Speed is a critical and often neglected part of UI design, but it can make a huge difference to user experience, engagement and revenue.

September 2011

[Caja] Fwd: "Future of Javascript" doc from our internal "JavaScript Summit" last week - Mark S. Miller - com.googlegroups.google-caja-discuss - MarkMail

by karlcow

Developers who can focus solely on Chrome can expect to be able to see some Harmony features in Chrome (behind a flag) by the middle of 2011. Developers focusing on all browsers will have to wait multiple years for direct Harmony support, due to the relatively slow pace of the standardization process.

The cough cough moment.

July 2011

Require.js - A tiny javascript loader

by srcmax & 1 other
How it speed up your loading time ? Without Require.js you need to download all javascript files when you come on the site. If you have jQuery, jQuery UI... it's more file to wait before your page be "ready". With Require.js, you just have one file to wait before your page be "ready". All other files are loaded after the page.

Q: I don't understand book lengths. How can books have the same number of pages but have different word counts?

by night.kame & 1 other

Books need to be a predictable size; they have to be manufactured to a price, stored, transported and displayed. Then they have to fit on home bookshelves. People tend to like books that are easy to read, handle, and store. We generally like and need novels to be certain sizes. If you picked up a diary-sized novel in a series one day and the sequel was the size of a family bible, you'd probably find that annoying. I know many readers won't buy hardcovers and wait for mass market paperback editions simply because the regular size of "MMPBs" fits their bookcase, or is easier to carry around.

So, production editors and typographers do a very clever job of smoothing out that big variation using white space and font sizes to get more words on each page - or fewer. They're so good at doing it that a manuscript of 100,000 words can be made into a book that is identical in overall size to one up to twice the length. Don't believe me? Pick a few books at random, do a word count, and then look at the appearance of the pages. You won't notice it unless you're looking for it.

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Page count doesn't mean a thing. It doesn't tell you how much book you're getting for your money. And, to be brutal, if your evaluation of any book is based on how many words you get rather than the impact it has on you and how well it's written - well, that's just dumb. Sorry, but it is. It's not like a pound of apples for 50 pence being better value than a pound for 75 pence. You're not being short-changed if you get a shorter novel. And left wanting more is not being short-changed. It's what good books are supposed to do.

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So don't get hung up about counting pages. A book is as long as it needs to be to tell the story. Just open it, and enjoy.

May 2011

The Ingenious “Cinemagraph” GIFs Of Jamie Beck And Kevin Burg Are A Game Changer In This Evolving Art Form | FEELguide

by sbrothier
Just when you think GIFs have hit their ceiling of maximum ingenuity, along comes photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg with their absolutely phenomenal contribution to the evolving art form. My friend Gerard forwarded me John Pavlus’s FastCo Design profile of this duo and I’m still in a state of “Why didn’t I think of that?” disbelief of what these guys have done here. Beck and Burg have termed this style of GIF a “cinemagraph” — sublime little animated gems that enter the realm between photography and video. Each sublime cinemagraph requires hours of manual editing in order to inject life into them, and not one second of this hard work goes unappreciated. I can’t wait to see what these guys do next. To see more of their creations be sure to visit their Tumblr page.

February 2011

Why we have to get rid of pi for the sake of good math

by bouilloire
Oué, c'est la révolution dans le monde des mathématiques. Ça va être le chaos, il va y avoir du sang ! Puis ils ont de l'humour, faut pas croire : "And if you think that the circular baked goods on Pi Day are tasty, just wait - Tau Day has twice as much pi(e)!"

January 2011

Aardvark

by keusta & 5 others
ask, wait, read answers from expert (or not)

November 2010

Remember the Kakapo – 3 reasons why large companies on the web are losing ground | Christian Heilmann's blog – Wait till I come!

by karlcow

The fallacy of a lot of large corporation communication is that there is the notion of having to control it.

October 2010

Jo HTML5 Mobile App Framework

by srcmax & 2 others

# A Pretty UI Widget Framework With a side of DOM, event and data stuff

# Open Source Under a friendly OpenBSD License

# Cross Platform webOS, iOS, Android, Symbian, Safari, Chrome, Dashboard Widgets (wait, what?)

# Light and Efficient Minified JavaScript is just over 8K with no dependancies

# Compatible with PhoneGap Plus most other JavaScript frameworks

The Wilderness Downtown : Arcade fire

by sbrothier & 2 others
An interactive film by Chris Milk Featuring "We Used To Wait" Built in HTML5

Lab Rat: Does A Balanced Email Diet = More Focus & Productivity? :: Articles :: The 99 Percent

by Spone
If I had to identify the single greatest offender when it comes to reactionary workflow – a passive approach to work where our priorities are ruled entirely by incoming communications – email would be the obvious choice. Empowered by the alluring goal of “Inbox Zero,” we feel a sense of accomplishment in tending to a constant stream of incoming (but not very important) requests. It’s the Inbox Hero Mentality: “I may not be making any headway on my to-do list, but I’ll be damned if there’s one message lying in wait!”

September 2010

» Six JavaScript features we do not need any longer - Christian Heilmann's blog – Wait till I come!

by ghis (via)
Things to avoid in Javascript: non-standard things, things that should not be done with JS, ...

Fans, but no frenzy, await iPad -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- English Window to China New

by night.kame

Although Apple announced it would issue reservation tickets yesterday afternoon for the iPad's debut this morning, to prevent customers from rushing for them, only about 10 people were lined up for the products at 4pm yesterday, willing to wait throughout the night to be the first batch of buyers.

Ces chinois, ils n'ont rien compris à l'avenir.

Chrome Experiments - Arcade Fire

by srcmax

Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.

August 2010

July 2010

Hemisphere Games Osmos-iPad –

by sbrothier
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.

June 2010

How-to produce an online video Show: Export & compress. The blip.tv Learning Center.

by tadeufilippini & 1 other
Export When you finish editing your video it's time to prepare it for distribution by exporting it in a format that will work well on the Web. When you upload your video to blip.tv we will keep it just as it is — so make it good. We'll also create a new version of your video in Flash. If you're just starting out and using MovieMaker or iMovie, we recommend taking a look at Freevlog's excellent step-by-step video tutorials on exporting for the Web: Step-by-step exporting in MovieMaker | Step-by-step exporting in iMovie. The settings may not be exactly what you end up using, but don't worry, you can refine your skills once you get the hang of it. General Advice CODEC stands for COmpress/DECompress video. Key frames are frames that CODECs look at to judge what kind of video they are compressing. Video compression is somewhere between a science and a mystical art - and it changes constantly. The basic problem compression solves is that video is captured at resolutions way too high to be broadcast on the Web (at least for now). The video on a DVD or miniDV tape, would take hours to download on a high speed connection. Compression software called CODECs were invented to compress video, ideally down to a file size that looks great, and also transfers as fast as the video plays, so there's no wait. CODECs delete repeated and unneeded information by looking at Key Frames. They are constantly being improved, while at the same time the file size the Web can handle is constantly increasing. Once again, it's the audio stupid! High quality sound is the most bang for the buck in terms of small file size and ability to make your video look better. However it's not only the CODEC settings that affect quality and file size, the content of the video affects how well a CODEC works. The more complex the editing, subjects and backgrounds, the larger the file will be, REGARDLESS of the settings and CODEC you use. Err on the side of high quality, full frame rate and 640 or wider video and you'll be OK.

April 2010

Read all of ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action now while you wait for the printed book

by ms_michel
En attendant la version imprimée de "ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action", il est d'ores et déjà possible de lire l'intégralité de la version finale sur GitHub.

100 Meters of Existence, a print 30 inches high, and 100 METERS wide !- Did Simon Hogsberg

by decembre
Did Simon Hogsberg Shoot the Widest Photo Ever Taken? The trouble with photographers like Simon Hoegsberg is that it’s difficult to choose only one of his projects to tell you about. To create We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence, he stood on a railroad bridge in Berlin for 20 days, photographing strangers. The result: a print 30 inches high, and 100 METERS wide. Gasp. He captured 178 people in all, each experiencing a beautifully simple moment of their lives, completely unaware. Thanks, Simon, for reminding us that sometimes you don’t need to go far for inspiration, you just need to wait. 100 Meters of Existence

March 2010

Marco.org - Overdoing the interface metaphor

by sbrothier
DVD players don’t make fake whirring noises for five minutes before letting you eject a disc to simulate rewinding. Similarly, nobody should need to perform a full-width swipe gesture and wait two seconds for their fake page to turn in their fake book1, and nobody should need to click the fake Clear button and start their calculation over because their fake calculator only has a one-line, non-editable fake LCD.

I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die - Ted Dziuba

by karlcow & 4 others

Developing the app for Google-sized scale is a waste of your time, plus, there is no way you will get it right. Absolutely none. It's not that you're not smart enough, it's that you do not have the experience to know what problems you will see at scale.

Le plus difficile de pas d'optimisation précoce est le client. Cela nécessite une bonne compréhension des chargés de compte que la réécriture du code est une partie du projet et donc du budget.

I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die - Ted Dziuba

by night.kame & 4 others

The sooner your company admits this, the sooner you can get down to some real work. Developing the app for Google-sized scale is a waste of your time, plus, there is no way you will get it right. Absolutely none. It's not that you're not smart enough, it's that you do not have the experience to know what problems you will see at scale.

C'est bien de se prendre la tête, mais si votre application n'a que 4000 abonnés, ça tourne sur votre portable normalement.

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