ned

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Have a look at Scalingo, it's a good mix of simplicity and maturity.

https://scalingo.com/blog/heroku-alternative-europe-scalingo...

ned

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I see that you are quoting in extenso News articles (I read one from the DailyMail). How did you secure the copyright issues of reproducing full articles ?

ned

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

We'll see what comes out of ALTEDIC - https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/lds/items/797961/en

ned

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Very exciting project, specially the support for custom document schemas.

If the authors are around, I'd love to hear what was their thinking regarding implementing focus and selection, with regards to the inconvenients outlined by the author of ProseMirror here: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html#general-appr...

In a nutshell, ProseMirror chose to keep contentEditable in order to have browser-level support for spell-checking, screen-readers, RTL, etc.

What are the tradeoffs exactly?

Thanks.

ned

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

When you are full-time employed, remotely, by a european company, and living in another european country, does anyone know :

— do you set yourself up as a freelance consultant, and pay your healthcare and retirement fund yourself?

— …or do you let the company pay that for you in the country they are based in, and somehow benefit from that?

How does it work exactly for these social benefits that are very important in the european welfare model?

ned

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

  For instance, one day at school he was working with the student theatre.
  All week he had been struggling to produce the right sound effects, 
  but it just wasn’t coming together. Eventually, his boss lost his cool
  and started ripping into him. “My response was that something weird was
  happening with my body,” he says. “I could feel a tension, like my heart
  was racing, but my mind was distracted…

Isn't this an extreme case of repressing emotions, in the most classic sense? The disconnect between bodily reaction and lack of mindfullness seems to indicate it.

ned

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Yes!

Ted Nelson talks about this in this amazing and inspiring Google Talk video from 2006. He talks about the rise of packet-based networking, and how the future will be content-centric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM

ned

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Super interesting.

How does this compare to Xopus? https://xopus.com/

Of course, Xopus is closed source, so that's a big difference already.

ned

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Similar to http://chromatic.io Nicely done.

ned

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I'm not worried about being under surveillance. I'm neither interesting, nor engaged in anything interesting.

That's probably the feeling of most people. Martin Fowler wrote an insightful post about this subject:

Privacy Protects Bothersome People …and isn't about me (or probably you) http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html

He argues that privacy on the internet is important, not because normal people have something to hide, but because journalists and activists (or other counterpowers in a well-balanced democracy) need a certain level of privacy in order to work.

ned

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

In the long run yes, when they have revenue. But they mention:

But then, one day when I came back to their website, I saw that they had added a minimum fee of €100 to their plan, and that unfortunately tipped the scale for us, as we pay everything on our own, and we have zero revenue coming in.

So the problem is for the first few months during which you pay everything out of your own pocket. It probably all depends on how confident you are that you'll get revenue.

How simple/hard is it to migrate from system to another?

ned

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

The really crazy thing is that we had great proposals for much better layout systems, and they were rejected:

- First, the model with "springs and struts", employed by all major native GUIs for decades, and also implemented in Firefox as the first Flexbox model (for XUL, the UI description markup language) since ages.

- Second, the constraints-based layout model, now employed by OSX 10.8 and considered even superior, was proposed in 1999! http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/web/ccss-u...

The only explanation I can come up with is a giant disconnect between users (web developers) and implementors.

ned

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

* Documentation provided as a monolithic 600 page PDF.

ned

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Flexbox is the most underrated CSS modules out there. Making flexible layouts based on the size of the viewport without it is either a major pain or flat out impossible without resorting to JS.

I don't understand why all the CSS efforts are being put into elaborate effects (transforms, blend modes, compositing, etc) when we can't yet effectively create UI layouts. Other underrated property is the non-standard "-webkit-line-clamp" (or "-o-ellipsis-lastline" for Opera), that allows you to cut off with an ellipsis a block of text after a given number of lines.

It's such a shame that the idea of constraints-based layout (the UI layout method of OSX 10.8) in CSS was never adopted: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/web/ccss-u...

ned

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Excellent, really cool. On OSX, this is what AppleScript and Automator should have been.

Would it be possible to tap into GUI applications via OSX UI Scripting, and maybe mirroring the app's menus with Wiki menus?

ned

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

It also breaks two OSX defaults:

  - spacebar on a highlighted item should select it

  - the select menu should open on mousedown, not mouseup.

Otherwise, it's a very nice piece of work.

ned

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

The idea of compound images is really interesting, although it would require an extra HTTP request to fetch the hight-DPI portion of the image. But maybe less of a problem over SPDY?

The idea truncatable bitstreams is fascinating too. I'm not well versed in networking, but wouldn't the latency of a mobile network kill the benefit of this technique? e.g, by the time the server receives the "connection closed" signal, a large part of the extra data would have been sent, no?

ned

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

No, the distinction of device pixels vs. CSS pixels predates the first "Retina" iPhone. The distinction existed in all browsers supporting full page zoom, including the Safari on the first iPhone, and in Opera for years before that.

"Retina" is just a marketing term for "pixels so small your eye can't distinguish them at a normal distance anymore".

ned

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I'm afraid this boat has long sailed. The "pixel" term is in the CSS 2.1 Spec. It's set in stone.

Personally I've made peace with it. I say either "CSS pixels" or "device pixels", depending on what I want to express.

And although the high resolution screens have only made the difference between the two more visible, it was there since Opera featured full pages zoom many years ago, and when Mobile Safari introduced the "viewport" meta-tag in 2007.

ned

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Very nice. Better discoverability than http://dochub.io/ that is search only.

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