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juiceandjuice commented on Yahoo Expands Maternity, Paternity Leave nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/... · Posted by u/cwb71

bluthru · 12 years ago

The problem is that different paternity/maternity times makes employers view women as more hazardous. This also reinforces the sexist notion that fathers aren't as integral to early childhood development. I'm sure a new mother would love the extra help for another 8 weeks!

Also, lets say that you're a child adopted by a homosexual married couple and you only get 8 weeks. How is that fair to the adopted child versus 16 weeks for a birthed child?

Equality means treating people equally--including men and children.

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

If you gave birth, 16 weeks. If you didn't, 8.

Now there is an equal metric regardless of the sex. Happy?

juiceandjuice commented on Restoring the first website first-website.web.cern.ch... · Posted by u/ColinWright

kalleboo · 12 years ago

The last time this came up I had a good time looking at the source for these early pages. A lot of HTML tags have disappeared or changed, and standards were far looser back then.

For instance, on the index page, http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, there's a <HEADER> instead of <HEAD>, and on the other pages it's missing altogether. Each A HREF has a incrementing index (the purpose of which I'm unclear of...).

It's also interesting to dive into some of the early mailing list discussions, such as the early implementations of embedding images - competing implementations were the "img" tag we know today, an "icon" tag, and other suggested a generic "object" or "embed" that would have been extensible. edit: Just remembered that one proposal was overriding the A HREF tag with a TYPE attribute that could be set to an image.

I'm surprised some of these still work, such as LISTING: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Test/test.html

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

my boss is in that email thread. I was talking to him last week because he was mentioned heavily in the Dive into HTML5 guide. He was talking about the real first WWW conference in Boston in 92/93 with about 25 people where he first met Marc Andreesen, Tim Berners-Lee and they collectively wrote the form tag.

juiceandjuice commented on Apple’s Jony Ive said to be bringing flat design to iOS 7 techcrunch.com/2013/04/29... · Posted by u/rachbelaid

nsxwolf · 12 years ago

What does a computer display look like? It looks like whatever is on it. When you have ultra high res displays with 32 bit color, well, what do you use all that for? Certainly not a 4 color 100% flat interface.

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

There's a difference between a 4 color interface and a 4 hue interface.

juiceandjuice commented on Flat Design and Color Trends designmodo.com/flat-desig... · Posted by u/SmeelBe

keenerd · 12 years ago

> Buttons didn't have ... 3D effects

Buttons on windows have always had 3D effects.

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/full/win31....

Note the 24 instances of shadows cast from a north-west light source, as if the buttons were objects with depth.

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_2.1.png

juiceandjuice commented on Flat Design and Color Trends designmodo.com/flat-desig... · Posted by u/SmeelBe

nfoz · 12 years ago

Usability failures include low contrast, no delineation of borders, and no visual cues for the interactions that are permissible for different parts of the interface (e.g. "clickable" button vs. bare text).

Sigh. I like the aesthetic but fad-monkeys overwhelmingly fail at the engineering part of design. You can be simple and elegant without going backwards on other usability principles.

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

Buttons didn't have gradients or 3D effects or often even colors for nearly 10-15+ years on Macs and PCs and people were able to use them just fine. The did often have highlights and borders, however. A button in Classic Mac OS was unmistakably a button without most of those cues.

It's possible to have a nice, useable flat design. However, great care must be taken to use visual cues and be consistent in the UI. It's also possible to have high contrast. Low contrast is not flat design, it's a poor implementations of colors with a flat aesthetic.

juiceandjuice commented on Flat Design and Color Trends designmodo.com/flat-desig... · Posted by u/SmeelBe

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

Designmodo and the Flat-UI is pretty mediocre to poor at contrast. I forked the project and ended up ripping out a lot of the components which were low contrast and modifying the palette to have high contrast, then modifying the borders to my own inset/outset values to have a more muted level change on the buttons but still have them look somewhere between flat and and normal buttons. I did experiment with an inside white border on buttons for an Classic Mac OS feel (the original monochrome "Flat UI" )

Much of the flat aesthetic is rooted in swiss graphic poster design, however that doesn't translate so well to pages where dense text actually matters, especially with poor color choices. Much of designmodo's color scheme actually fails the contrast algorithm for small text, except at larger text it's generally okay. Bootstrap itself is pretty abysmal as far as this goes as well.

The flat aesthetic is nice, but those who continue on with it with disregard to contrast will not succeed. Accessibility and the flat aesthetic is possible, it takes more work and compromise, however.

juiceandjuice commented on Why I don’t like Maven johlrogge.wordpress.com/2... · Posted by u/shawndumas

emmelaich · 12 years ago

Like so many, I love and hate it. I can see that it helps at the large scale - big projects, many of them. It also helps people come in cold to a project.

On the other hand, unfortunately it doesn't scale to the low end.

I had a task just to transform a jar file. With Maven it took hours of scratching my head, finding the assembly plug-in, having Maven download 100Mb of stuff; all to do what would take a minutes of development time and executation time total to do in Python or Perl.

That makes you scream inside.

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

Learn to embrace writing maven plugins.

I've written a few maven plugins that are just jython wrappers that import a few flags into the jython script (like the build directory) and then execute them. I've even written a generic python plugin that executes a script at a given path and imports any declared maven variables into it.

Sometimes it feels wrong, I know, but it's worth it.

I also wrote a new site plugin for myself that diffs between versions and throws all that up on a site for a auto changelog thing. It's useful for those rare "What the fuck did you do to the code in this release" occasions.

juiceandjuice commented on Why women should embrace a ‘good enough’ life washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/ilamont

philwelch · 12 years ago

> Considering the USA has actually had the fertility rate drop below replacement levels recently

The USA is not a closed system. If Americans want a lot of kids, the most ethical choice is to adopt many of them from overseas.

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

Then go adopt some.

juiceandjuice commented on Signs that you're a good programmer sites.google.com/site/yac... · Posted by u/wyuenho

fusiongyro · 12 years ago

These are just rhetorical devices. An active Wikipedia account is just standing in for active participation in sharing knowledge online. S.O. obviously counts, and MDN probably does too (I know nothing about it).

Arduino is standing in for, knowledge of things that aren't directly applicable day-to-day. Hobbyist stuff.

I think it's acceptable to define a good programmer in terms of qualities that aren't beneficial to business. In the real world this is one reason why we have and need management. A big part of management's job is to convey to the rest of staff what the business goals are and how they are to be achieved. It would be nice if all programmers synthesized this without having to be told, but I don't see why that should be considered a necessary prerequisite for being a good programmer.

ThinkGeek toys, obscure stuff are just specific examples of a general pattern of curiosity and playfulness.

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

Signs that you have a general pattern of curiosity and playfulness could also likely include a molecular biologist with a picture of Lil Jon on her wall.

Following a general pattern is still a pattern. Patterns aren't as interesting as anti-patterns.

juiceandjuice commented on Why women should embrace a ‘good enough’ life washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/ilamont

UnFleshedOne · 12 years ago

It is not a body and personal choices that is under the question, it is sheer number of people and problems it carries. That does make it everybody's business and easily allows for disapproving statements if nothing else. Population density is a problem for the environment and eventually for people themselves, lowering average quality of life both due to deteriorated environment and strain on resources.

The strategy of relying on expansive growth to support the social net is easy, but ultimately unsustainable (not that I have better ideas though).

Naturally overpopulation is controlled by famines and diseases, technology just moves the mark, it doesn't eliminate it yet (there are still famines around). So everything will work out in the end, but it might be rather unpleasant.

Your comment makes talking about population control feel like a taboo (I'm not sure, is it normally considered as such?), and at first one might oppose it on the same principle one would oppose regular bigotry-of-the-day (homophobia, xenophobia and what have you). I think it should be treated instead akin to telling people they can't just dump industrial waste into a river even if the river is on their own property (for a lack of better example...).

juiceandjuice · 12 years ago

Population taboo isn't the problem. The problem is pleading and attempting to dictate to a person what they should and shouldn't do with their personal life. Considering the USA has actually had the fertility rate drop below replacement levels recently, I think it's a bit silly to tell someone to actually have less babies, and at the same time suggest adoption as a (more costly) alternative.

I'd sincerely suggest you reconsider looking into adjusting the quality of life in countries where high birth rate is actually a problem before telling someone how many babies they should or shouldn't have in a country with a fertility rate below replacement levels.