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Comment addicted to animations (Score 1) 140

Alas I've seen a trend where product designers and front-end engineers like to add animated transitions to UI elements. I find it just slows me down, waiting for the software to be done being clever. I do think animations have a place, when the computer wants to draw my attention to something. However if I initiated the action (clicked on something, etc) I don't really need to wait for that to "take effect" unless there's some slow action behind the scenes which is being reflected by the animation.

Please: by default no animations, add animations to draw the user's attention (not waste the user's attention).

Comment Re:Arduino, AVR, RPi, Beaglebone (Score 4, Interesting) 228

by DrewFish (#42721909) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Electronics Prototyping Platform?

I just got an Arduino for Christmas, and I'm having a blast learning electronics. (I'm programmer by profession, so the coding part is only mildly challenging/interesting.)

The thing I've been enjoying about the Arduino is the community. When I hook an LED up, why do I need a resister? How do I compute -which- value resister I need? What do I need to run a 1A brush motor? So far I've very often found these questions have already been answered (with ideas, suggestions, hardware, etc).
Internet Explorer

Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE 154

Posted by kdawson from the think-of-the-developers dept.
Ricky writes "Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds of Internet Explorer — or at least something more frequent than months-to-years. Ars talks with Microsoft's general manager for IE, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. Not a great idea."
Earth

Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam 336

Posted by kdawson from the price-of-green dept.
stadium writes "An oil-filled transformer exploded at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power plant in Siberia, destroying three turbines and bringing down the ceiling of the turbine hall, which then violently flooded. The dam itself did not sustain any damage. It is unclear how many people were killed, but with 12 confirmed deaths and as many as 64 still missing (all presumed dead), this is a serious incident. The huge transformer had enough oil in it to produce a three-mile-long oil spill slowly moving downriver. BBC News reports with three separate videos. The dam produces a quarter of the total energy of RusHydro (whose stock thus took a steep dive at London Stock Exchange) and also feeds the world's largest aluminum smelter. The damages will take years to repair."
Medicine

Cure For Radiation Sickness Found? 385

Posted by kdawson from the since-my-fallout-with-you dept.
Summit writes "A scientist has claimed to have discovered a radioprotectant that all but eliminates acute radiation sickness even in cases of lethal doses of radiation in tests on rats and monkeys, when injected up to 72 hours after exposure. They also claim the drug, a protein, has no observed negative effects in humans. They have not irradiated any people just yet, but if this turns out to be true, it could mean everything from curing cancer to making manned interplanetary space expeditions feasible... not to mention treatment for radiation exposures in nuclear/radiological accidents/attacks. If this drug works, it would mean a true breakthrough as past experiments with radioprotectants were not particularly promising in any respect." The only source for the story at this time is an exclusive in YNet News, a site with the subtitle "Israel At Your Fingertips." Such a radioprotectant would be huge news for Israel. Make of it what you will.

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