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by alsomike 16y ago
I was hoping that it was possible to separate the issue of the assailant's responsibility I don't think that flies, because the point of her post was to identify a sexual assailant. She said she was the victim of an assault by another per
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by alsomike 16y ago
Yeah, but that probably means the smart thing for a woman to do is assume all men are potential rapists. Maybe you're OK with that? Not me.
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by alsomike 16y ago
I think you're missing that the very fact that you had to wonder if you were running afoul of the honor code is what makes people compliant. The Harvey Mudd honor code specifies "integrity" - but what does this mean? When there aren't clear
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by alsomike 16y ago
I agree, people are even more obedient in the absence of clear rules.
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by alsomike 16y ago
We actually had less alcohol-related incidents than any nearby college, despite their having significantly more restrictive policies I'm not sure how that is a benefit and I think a lot of people are mistaking the absence of rules with th
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by alsomike 16y ago
Maybe you're misunderstanding - many of the new CSS3 properties that make life easier for designers implement features that IE has had since IE6 and even earlier. Standards-compliant browser developers are only catching up now.
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by alsomike 16y ago
I'm not saying they did a good job, implementation wise. But isn't it a shame that I have to thank Microsoft for helping out designers instead of the browser standards people?
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by alsomike 16y ago
Reading this, it occurs to me that designers probably had little to no input into the creation of HTML and CSS. In other words, everyone struggles with this format today because the creators didn't pay attention to a group of users that wou
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by alsomike 16y ago
Personally, I don't think Marc gets it at all. He says the goal was to get people to change their financial behavior, and this is a noble goal. Maybe, but so is building a weight loss application for people who don't want to lose weight.
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by alsomike 16y ago
The Aesthetics of Reading: http://affect.media.mit.edu/pdfs/05.larson-picard.pdf
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by alsomike 16y ago
I don't think you're work requires no creativity. But I think you have to explain why visual design that's experimentally shown to impair creative cognition is tolerated and even embraced by people in "left-brained" professions. My explan
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by alsomike 16y ago
Maybe you will find this interesting: graphic designers have lots of rules about the proper use of typography when laying out a document, like correct kerning, use of old-style numerals, ligatures, etc. The reason for following those rules
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by alsomike 16y ago
But I hate it when old people try to tell me how to live!
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by alsomike 16y ago
"Update profile" seems more in the style of Computron 5000 to me, but yeah, the move to "update my profile" was an attempt to make it friendly and now it has that connotation. But I think it works mostly by making the idea of a dialog (in t
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by alsomike 16y ago
I agree with this, but for different reasons. The difference between "Edit my profile" and "Edit your profile" is really a difference in how the relationship between user, interface and back-end system is conceived. When the interface says
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by alsomike 16y ago
You get to make choices in life, no matter where you are or what your situation. Let's say there's been a rash of home invasions in a town, a criminal gang ripping people off, holding them at gun point, that sort of thing. Would you say t
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by alsomike 16y ago
And yet all kinds of claims are made on Hacker News, like how to be an entrepreneur or the best way to run a start-up, and no-one ever asks for the data. It seems like this demand for data is highly selective and used to justify the lazy at
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by alsomike 16y ago
And screen readers would implement that by detecting a meta tag named "ms-application-jumplist"? In other words, screen reader developers should support proprietary Microsoft extensions rather than using the standard methods of supporting s
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by alsomike 16y ago
His solution is to put the menu in the page content, and use a CSS work-around to not display it. What about screen-readers? I don't think he thought this through.
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by alsomike 16y ago
Yeah, this is a classic passive-aggressive reframing move, throwing up dust to obscure what the original problem was. The glowing, 'happy client' email sounds like it was written by a PR drone, and even then it doesn't even try to address t
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by alsomike 16y ago
The solution to people not knowing about your product is called marketing, not search. I don't know why Apple would be in charge of solving marketing problems for app developers.
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by alsomike 16y ago
You don't have a hypothesis, you have an unfalsifiable conjecture that maybe women have some mysterious natural disinclination that you leave undefined and then conclude there's no problem.
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by alsomike 16y ago
Here's actual data: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/cwsem/PGA_049131 What "natural disinclination" do you think women have, exactly? They don't like math? Women received 47% of math undergrad degrees in 2002 and that number has bee
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by alsomike 16y ago
A bit of arrogance helps. If they're a little intimidated, it gives you the chance to be magnanimous when asking for feedback. This offends people who think they're smarter than you about design, but you can head this off by prompting them
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by alsomike 16y ago
Communism's aim was always the abolition of the state. Technically, communist countries were what Marx called dictatorships of the proletariat, which he thought was a transition stage between capitalism and communism. This transition never
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by alsomike 16y ago
The claim that language shapes our thinking is consistent with the claim that language is itself shaped, by environmental factors, customs, etc. Also, I think the effect of language on our thinking is not so simple as "We give directions fr
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by alsomike 16y ago
But in fairness, in Gandhi's and Martin Luther King's time, the app store policies were even more restrictive - all apps were rejected, since there was no app store at all! I don't understand it myself, but somehow they were able to change
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by alsomike 16y ago
I think reading Apple's marketing as being about hip and cool says more about the anxieties and insecurities of the hacker culture than it does about what Apple is actually doing. In the first place, coolness is way oversaturated in adverti
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by alsomike 16y ago
Interesting background, I didn't realize Creative Lab worked on that campaign. It's certainly an improvement on Google's usual branding efforts and I totally agree that that's a better direction, but I think it still misses the mark in some
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by alsomike 16y ago
Many businesses depend on division of labor, and many are run by non-technical people, and rely on specialized employees to manage mission-critical software and technology. According to PG's logic, this should be impossible. The real proble

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