bits·done

Terrence Odean

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:42:13 +0100

Terrence Odean:

just jump to conclusion

10 Realtime and Reliable Photo Search Engines

Sat, 19 May 2012 22:45:15 +0100

10 Realtime and Reliable Photo Search Engines:

A little mention for PicFog on TNW

Lightbox is joining Facebook!

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:15:12 +0100

lightboxapp:

We started Lightbox because we were excited about creating new services built primarily for mobile, especially for the Android and HTML5 platforms, and we’re honored that millions of you have downloaded the Lightbox Photos app and shared your experiences with the Lightbox community.

Today, we’re happy to announce that the Lightbox team is joining Facebook, where we’ll have the opportunity to build amazing products for Facebook’s 500+ million mobile users.

This means we’re no longer accepting new signups. If you’re an existing user, you can continue to use Lightbox.com until June 15 and you can download your photos from here.

Facebook is not acquiring the company or any of the user data hosted on Lightbox.com. In the coming weeks, we will be open sourcing portions of the code we’ve written for Lightbox and posting them to our Github repository.

We’d like to thank the Lightbox community, our investors, and our families for supporting us during this journey.

Thai Tran & Nilesh Patel
Co-founders, Lightbox

ilovecharts: Yeah, Geeks!

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:58:43 +0100

ilovecharts:

Yeah, Geeks!

Photo

Thu, 10 May 2012 21:08:23 +0100

notscary: Elling (2001) director: Petter Næss “How different...

Tue, 01 May 2012 22:51:37 +0100

notscary:

Elling (2001)

director: Petter Næss

“How different people are. Some people ski solo to the South Pole, - while I have to summon all my courage to cross a restaurant floor.”

London sun

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:27:53 +0100

London sun

Look what I built!

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:53:48 +0100

Look what I built!

The Valve employee handbook - beautiful!

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:48:13 +0100

The Valve employee handbook - beautiful!

“Oh, look, Apple’s up!”

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:52:39 +0100

“Oh, look, Apple’s up!”

There, I solved it.

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:42:59 +0100

There, I solved it.

Shock: tory voters would vote tory!

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:22:15 +0100

Shock: tory voters would vote tory!

Javascript - only three "bad" parts

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:07:53 +0100

johnkpaul:

I know that Douglas Crockford and many others will disagree with this, but from my point of view, there are only three “bad” parts to javascript.

How does this work?

How does prototypical inheritance work?

Named Function Expression? Function Declaration? Hoisting?

Once a developer understands these three things in Javascript, they’re solidly on their way to rolling their eyes when they’re asked if they are a ninja at cocktail parties. It is these three concepts, in my opinion, that trip up most developers as they start to build applications larger than jQuery spaghetti.

There’s a much longer list in Javascript:The Good Parts and even more in our hearts. But I don’t think that these actually trip us up in daily development. When was the last time that you had a really hard time using the void keyword or were foiled by type coersion? All of these issues, we learn once, and almost immediately understand. Either that, or developers don’t encounter these because the libraries that they use, and learn from, don’t use any (anti-)features either.

Not only are issues like with and eval not often encountered, but also, tools like jshint/lint, remove any accidental uses. Chances are, as long as a developer l/hints their code, they’ll be making a conscious decision to use the potentially dangerous parts of the language. It isn’t so with these three concepts. Without this understanding, it is very difficult to become productive in javascript.

Other than these three concepts, I’d argue that Javascript is no more “bad” than any other mainstream programming language, like PHP or even Java. There are gotchas in every language and at least JS has most of them described very well in The Good Parts and online documentation.

I could give you my own explanations here, but so many others have done a much better job than I could. There are a lot of options. If you still feel confused after reading one, just go on to the next one. If you still feel confused after reading every single one. Find me or someone else in ##javascript on freenode.
How does this work?
PPK’s “this” blog post (from the DOM perspective)

Understanding JavaScript Function Invocation and “this”

Understanding JavaScript’s this keyword

How this is resolved

How does prototypical inheritance work?
The key here is to first learn about prototypical inheritance using Object.create and then come back to trying to understand what the new operator is doing. Most tutorials mess this up, by explaining it the “classical” way first, and subsequently lead to much confusion about following the prototype chain and this and that.

Prototypes: The Short(est Possible) Story

Understanding JavaScript OOP

Eloquent Javascript: Object Oriented Programming

Named Function Expression? Function Declaration? Hosting?
Named function expressions demystified

Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE)

JavaScript Scoping and Hoisting

Function Hoisting

Quick Tip: JavaScript Hoisting Explained

Do you have more examples or blog posts? Let me know on twitter and I’ll add them to this list.

Tweet

How obvious! S is large, L is small!

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:44:33 +0100

How obvious! S is large, L is small!

#lightbox people (Photo by tjp)

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:38:07 +0100

#lightbox people (Photo by tjp)

Photo by tjp

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:03:40 +0100

Photo by tjp

That time of year (Photo by tjp)

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:03:00 +0100

That time of year (Photo by tjp)

hollylevell: I’m really happy with this one I’m into stitching...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:10:27 +0100

hollylevell:

I’m really happy with this one I’m into stitching with my cottons lately rather than doing the whole sculpture reverse appliqued, i don’t think my favorite technique will ever be replaced though I’m too obsessed

Suggested by: Sam

Life is a circle! Check out the live stream on Lightbox - it...

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:53:14 +0000

Life is a circle!

Check out the live stream on Lightbox - it shows currently popular photos in a never-ending stream.

NUTS!

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:50:03 +0000

correct, correct, correct.

parislemon:

Business Insider on January 6, 2011 after OMGPOP’s $10 million Series B:

IS HE NUTS? This Guy Thinks He Can Beat A $5.5 Billion Company With A $10 Million Funding Round

Business Insider today after OMGPOP was purchased for about $200 million by aforementioned $5.5 billion (now public) company, Zynga:

“OMGPop Sold Way Too Early — They Left $800 Million On The Table”

You literally cannot win.

If they had turned down the offer, the headline would have been:

OMG: OMGPOP Nuts To Turn Down Zynga’s $200 Million Offer

Until a year from now when the follow-up headline would have been:

NUTS: OMGPOP Takes Zynga’s Billion Dollar Offer But Should Have Held Out A Year To Buy Zynga

Being right doesn’t matter. Only saying something, anything matters.