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Comment Face recongnition (Score 0) 216

I uploaded 34 pictures of my two kids to Picassaweb yesterday. As soon as the pictures were uploaded, google extracted all the faces from those pictures and arranged them into three groups. One is my son's faces, one is my daughter's, the third one is two faces of my daughter which is in a slightly different angle and a little fuzzy. It asked what their names were, and scared the hell out of me.
I didn't answer the questions.

Comment Web pages are hard (Score 0) 342

A web page is a data structure made of HTML, and then apply some CSS (or a lot), and later you might want to add some unobtrusive javascript.

That is a very complicated process.

At work, I tell the graphics designer don't ever worry about the technical stuff, just use photoshop or whatever he likes to create the pages he desires. The advantages of this is he would focus on design not coding. When the design is out, I would let him create the basic HTML with a few guidelines, such as tables are for tabular data, use ul for menus, and always have alt attributes for images. The HTML will be modified by developers and CSS applied. I will never expect a graphic designer to understand HTML and especially CSS. If lots of developers can't have a grasp on CSS, it is harsh to expect designers to understand it.

Most HTML + CSS pages produced by designers whether by hand or by WYSIWYG editor are shit. They got rewritten anyway. The process of 1. HTML, 2. CSS, 3. Javascript really don't need too much WYSIWYG. The only value I can see in WYSIWYG editors is when we are on a tight schedule, maybe the designer could make some page quickly for us. Unfortunately, the lack of knowledge in CSS would probably make the result look really bad.

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