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I use this - try example 4:

http://en.gibney.org/calculator/


As a VIM user, these things irritated me:

1) I cannot delete the end of a line with this thing. Is that normal? Im only used to VIM so this might be a VI thing.

2) CLTR+ does not scale up the font size


> Is that normal?

Yes. You're not "meant" to be able to backspace over content that wasn't added in your current transaction. Which is really inconvenient, because if you delete things when you're in command mode then it overwrites what's in your buffer, which is often convenient.

In vim you can simulate this by doing

    :set compatible


If you use Linux or some other Unix, you can also do it with standard Unix tools:

  wget -O- news.ycombinator.com | grep -o http[^\"]*
Personally, I prefer curl because it writes to stdout per default:

  curl news.ycombinator.com | grep -o http[^\"]*
(After posting this, i noticed that HN cuts * signs at the end of a message. So I have to add this text here, or the last * would not be displayed.)


This shows all urls on HN including images etc. whereas the original post demonstrates retrieving only linked articles


You can filter that with another grep for example:

  wget -O- news.ycombinator.com | grep -o 'title"><a href="[^"]*' | grep -o http.*


I like the Macbook Air except for the glare type display. And im not sure how well it supports linux.

Currently i think about buying one of the sony vgn-z notebooks. Any expriences with these?


There is an ~$50 filter which sticks to the Air's display, converting it into an approximately normal (non-glossy) one.


You might also like this way of looking at all the requests your browser is doing to a certain host:

http://en.gibney.org/capture_webtraffic/


Looks like cuil.com

I would prefer they made a simple list like here on hn instead. Is there some general news site with a simple list of news on the web?


Where is the Demo?


http://bespin.mozilla.com/

Register and go to the dashboard.


Wouldnt these two solutions be even nicer?

* Backup the Binlog of the DB (At least its called Binlog in MySql)

or

* Make a diff of the uncompressed dump and zip that. This diff would even be human readable.


Looks like its not canvas either, but svg.


I'm sort of confused what the difference is. Care to enlighten us?


In my daily browsing, I often see Designs that are not on that list.

For example Hacker News is a very standard interface to me. I would call it "Forum".

"Search" looks like it has multiple columns, but in my daily experience the main characteristic of "search" is that it only has a single column of results. (Google, Amazon, Yeahit...)

Another standard Layout, I would call "Portal". Yahoo is an example. Most pages are more or less "Portal" these days. (Another name for "Portal" is "utter mess".)


Speaking of the design of Hacker News. I think that not having a footer that gives visual feedback that you've reached the end of the page is a glaring usability flaw!

On HN, when you scroll down page by page and you reach the bottom there is no visual indication that you are at the bottom. And since you haven't scrolled a complete page down you are forced to rescan the page to find where you left off reading.

The NYT gets this right. Their footer is big enough so that with a regular window you'll always scroll complete pages until you see the footer.

I like the HN contents, so I put up with the design flaw.


The author qualified this list as designs he has used for himself in enterprise software. I don't believe that he was suggesting that these were a list Set In Stone.


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