Foomandoonian

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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
I have my own headphone rule: If I can hear your headphones over my headphones, then your headphones are too loud.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
I'm always sad when people treat open source as a dumping ground for abandoned/old/unprofitable projects. The rest of my sympathy went away when he misspelled 'substantial' and signed off with an all-caps 'GO TO HELL'. Classy. I'm probably
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
It looks far from pixel perfect to me: http://d.pr/i/U13O (Chrome/Mac)
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
We've seen that before. It's better than the skin servers being down. Which they probably are.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Who? Bitly.com? Perhaps Libya is as reliable as anywhere else in the world - it's all a matter of perspective. Ask The Pirate Bay guys how confident they would be using a .com. Still, the idea of putting a service that offers 'permanence' o
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Interesting choice to use a Libyan domain for a service like this.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
I use Georgify, which only makes cosmetic tweaks but IMO makes HN much more pleasant to use. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...
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If I May Speak Procedurally, Sir: Building The British Countryside Generator(big-robot.com)
1 points by Foomandoonian 14y ago|0 comments
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
favourite
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Why does it have to be such a blatant steal of the Buffer design? Being 'inspired' to produce a similar (but open) service is a fairly noble goal, but slavishly imitating the UI is bad form, surely? You should have called it 'Blue Buffer'.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
I don't really understand why he used ligatures (or why he called these web font icons 'Ligature Symbols'). Surely if you are going to be substituting letters for icons, you may as well use easily accessible, memorable and slightly semantic
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Agreed, but a version that fell open almost instantly and swayed just for a moment would be very cool, and perhaps an improvement on the standard UI. I wonder what other subtle animations might be helpful?
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Hiring designers: Writing a brief that’ll kick start your project(jammycustard.co.uk)
2 points by Foomandoonian 14y ago|0 comments
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An idea for the iPhone home button(halfblog.net)
2 points by Foomandoonian 14y ago|0 comments
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
To my surprise, Nielsen have (after a delay) published all comments AND fixed the graphic. > Update 7/16: The original graphic in this post included a chart depicting U.S. smartphone manufacturer share which did not scale proportionatel
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
24 hours later, and I think it's pretty clear that Nielsen aren't accepting any comments on that article.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Hm, one of us doesn't have a good grasp of what 'zero-sum game' means. In truth, it may be me, because you lost me there. I wasn't praising the headline because it was 'clever' though. I think the question it raised highlighted a bigger iss
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
This story used to be called 'Why is Nielsen misrepresenting smartphone market share?' I thought that was a brilliant headline, and it made me jump into the conversation here. I doubt the new title, 'Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufact
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
I found it odd that there were no comments on the original Nielsen blog post — http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=32494 — so I left one politely pointing out the inaccuracies. It's being held in moderation. I doubt it'll ever see the
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
There's a lot about this Apple/EPEAT story that doesn't add up to me. I'd be fascinated to read some educated speculation as to what exactly happened, and why.
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Apple products are back on EPEAT, glued-in batteries and all(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by Foomandoonian 14y ago|1 comments
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Bottom, below Chrome.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
This is a nice web technologies demo, and there is good information in here ( I especially like the browser screenshots), but the thing I find most striking about this is how useless it is at visually illustrating the 'evolution' of the web
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Neat. The presentation would be vastly improved without the text-align: justify; though.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
An expletive in the headline, followed by a pretentious Shakespeare quote. I stopped reading when he described Zuckerberg as 'an arrogant 28 year old man-child'. I don't like Facebook much, but I'm not siding with this guy.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
This seemed relevant: http://unfunnythings.tumblr.com/post/1312737586/theoatmeal