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by aridiculous 12y ago
I agree, but I think what he's trying to get at is that designers were more politically engaged on the whole, especially during Modernism. However, it also had its downsides, the major being design hubris (e.g. over-planned cities, com
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by aridiculous 12y ago
This is uncomfortably scathing. And true. The part about the Icebergs acquisition is particularly depressing. We are losing the trust of consumers by constantly shutting down products. It's one thing if those products are failures, but
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by aridiculous 12y ago
The problem with your premise is that all of Freud's stuff isn't considered total bullshit. The mass media, science magazines, and materialists like to present it that way, but psychoanalytic and psychodynamic traditions (depth ps
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by aridiculous 12y ago
This kind of work is so important to offset the threat of complete top-down control. Thank you!
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by aridiculous 12y ago
I really love your selection of topics. For instance, the first one on PATH variables reminds me of when I first got started and wondered what all the auxillary command-line stuff does. I even learned something watching it now. Most beginn
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by aridiculous 12y ago
Gosh I love that 2/3 of this post is legalese. This is blogging in 2014.
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by aridiculous 12y ago
This is quite dense to unpack but it does remind me of a main theme from those Adam Curtis documentaries: That overarching master plans, especially social ones, are overconfident by nature and generally lead to large unexpected consequences
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by aridiculous 12y ago
It's interesting that your digestive system 'thinks'. I've always found the Vagus nerve's role in satiety to be interesting. It's a big nerve from the brain that extends directly down into the abdomen. http:&#
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by aridiculous 12y ago
Good joke, but sort of backfires! Aren't cats notoriously good at surviving in the wild? Both feral and domestic cats (if they have to).
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by aridiculous 12y ago
I just tried. It goes to an IP that resolves to Apple with WHOIS.
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by aridiculous 13y ago
May I ask what/who you think is the source then?
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by aridiculous 13y ago
Just had a look at their website. It's like a dream team of awful people.
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by aridiculous 13y ago
The question of mental illness is much more complicated than that. This is an issue with a rich and long history and shoe-horning mental illnesses into biological diseases (I suspect) will prove to be a foolish error historically. It's
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by aridiculous 13y ago
I wonder how much of Otto's benevolence is being played up in the article (discouraging weekend working, tolerance of gigantic strategic failures). If he truly does what he's saying, it sounds like a very pleasant and productive p
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by aridiculous 13y ago
>>10 years of experience staying invisible and just hanging on. Can you elaborate on this?
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by aridiculous 13y ago
I visited Seattle and Vancouver for the first time recently. I was surprised at how similar they were. I was expecting Vancouver to be a lot different than it was. Vancouver was even more high-rise, glass-everything, gated-community than Se
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by aridiculous 13y ago
I carry books and magazines, just in case I end up at acoffeeshop. Why not an iPad or Kindle? Because a book or magazine focuses me on one discrete thing.
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by aridiculous 13y ago
Good to see that crowdsourcing, one of the darlings of web commerce, is getting exposed for what it is: Cheap and crappy. The web capitalists loved the idea of labor competing against itself, maximizing value for the customer and minimizing
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by aridiculous 13y ago
I knew what your photo would be before I clicked on it, and thus your defense is also 'formulaic'. One photo meme doesn't adequately counter the massive psychosocial influence of technology, good AND bad.
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by aridiculous 13y ago
This is conveniently forgetting that demand (which eventually ends in consumer demand) isn't necessarily infinite. We have this thing called a planet we live on, that needs to remain intact (or Elon Musk needs to get a move on getting
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by aridiculous 13y ago
tl;dr Use Sketch if you're on a Mac I agree with most of your points except this: >>Moving divs around, adjusting CSS or erasing pencil off a piece of paper is never going to be as efficient as clicking on a layer and moving, res
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by aridiculous 13y ago
For some reason, this particular story of hit me hard. I'm rarely affected by human interest stories. Maybe because it's the quintessential example of the tension between abstract systems and conscious life. If this kind of thing
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by aridiculous 13y ago
I agree that interface decisions are political. If you allow students to sort by workload, you're sending the wrong message about academics. Or at least what a minority (I, included) believes academics to be about. The cynic in me is O
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by aridiculous 13y ago
>>>"But is any particular billionaire (or any other particular individual at all) somehow obligated to fix the homelessness problem? No." As you get wealthier, your ability to affect society expands. I'd argue that,
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by aridiculous 13y ago
You're right, I made a mistake. I should have pointed out that I didn't do anything of this stuff while in college. I didn't really know what positivism was. I didn't read Das Kapital (I didn't even spell it right!)
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by aridiculous 13y ago
For context: I spent my time across the arts and sciences at a top 20 school and graduated with a very high GPA — all without ever writing a paper longer than 12 pages. A lot of this was my fault, but it should not have been close to possib
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by aridiculous 13y ago
I had a friend (not a close one, but good enough to arrange one-on-one meetings in NYC) repeatedly pull out his phone in the middle of conversations. Everything just stopped for a minute 4-5 times/hr. I then defriended him in real life
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by aridiculous 13y ago
I'm curious as to why holes are so bad in the eyes of an employer? Is it a fear of non-compliance?
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by aridiculous 13y ago
Reasoning from first principles is ahistorical, and that is why it so rarely works in the real world. Political and social constructs inherited through time (like, say, the law) will butt heads against a "pure" new solution. You n
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by aridiculous 13y ago
Three reasons for me: 1) Establish and grow credit rating 2) An extra layer of defense against bad merchants (the CC companies will be your goon squad) 3) Bonus miles/points/etc

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