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by dcurtis 14y ago
At the fringes of every fashion era, there have been things that've peeked out into the future and tried to push things forward. As a designer, if you aren't constantly trying to build stuff that's better than what other people think is cur
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by dcurtis 14y ago
If you're not a designer, it might be hard to see, but the importance of this work is impossible to overstate. In 10 years, we'll look back on today and think about how barbaric and stupid it was that we didn't have re-flowable text in mult
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by dcurtis 14y ago
I know from multiple experiences that this graphic is misleading. Techmeme sometimes sends more traffic than HN; it depends entirely on the slant of the story and on its positions on TM and HN.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Interestingly, as he no longer works at Twitter, he no longer owns or controls the patent.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
That is exactly what he did. Just because it's closed source doesn't mean it's fair to make an identical copy (in the interface and interaction design sense) that is free.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
If you precisely replicated the New York Times website and posted one called The Old Vork Times, do you think they wouldn't care? This is not original. You copied my design work.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
-- Removed. Perhaps I overreacted. -- As a designer, I find it somewhat perplexing that people here demand that code be directly copied for something like this be wrong. Design is more abstract than code, yes, but it's just as fundamental a
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Pathetic? It perfectly accomplishes my goal: you'll remember it. (Edit: Sigh. Now I remember why I have a rule of not commenting on Hacker News anymore.)
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Please don't copy it just yet. I'm still working out the problems and polishing the interactions. When they're all ironed out, I'll open it to the public.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
I didn't really custom build it; it's just a normal textarea element with the borders removed and the typography matched to exactly how it's displayed on the blog.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
This is exactly what I used to do. It was during my attempts to move ideas.txt into the platform interface that the dual pane system was born.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Thanks. I have updated the post with a quotation and link to your comment here. I think the central point of my article stands because the tax burden associated with bringing Apple's significant foreign investments (about 60% of their cash,
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Really? - Apple bought a semiconductor design company and brought that in-house. - Apple does all software design, hardware design, industrial engineering, etc in house. - Apple develops its own processes for manufacturing their computers (
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by dcurtis 15y ago
That would be very cool. If you do, please add it to the repository and submit a pull request.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
The M icon in the Markdown Mark was created out of a modified version of the M from Gill Sans Bold (you probably should not try to recreate the mark using Gill Sans because of the modifications to the crotch on the M).
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by dcurtis 15y ago
At first glance, the second one might appear to be a better mark. However, if you don't know what it stands for, or that the top part of it is an M, the graphic is just an ordinary arrow. It doesn't accomplish the primary goal of the design
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by dcurtis 15y ago
In fact, I only made this a more serious project because of the response I received on Dribbble.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Funny you should mention that particular case, because it is fixed in Mountain Lion: http://screenshots.dustincurtis.com/Contacts-20120216-082547...
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Android 4 does use the GPU for some things, however scrolling performance is still nowhere near as good as it is on iOS. The "unmodified Halo theme" is referring to the icons and interface elements included with the operating system that de
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Thanks. I have fixed the error about RIM.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
This story appears on Reuters.com with the Reuters layout and Reuters branding. Whether it is syndicated or not, it is Reuters-endorsed content that, in my opinion, should bear the same weight as the Associated Press. It's kind of sad that
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Fun fact: Netflix now has almost the same number of subscribers as Comcast (21.67 million versus 22.4 million for Comcast). I find that amazing, because it means Netflix has the same distribution power as a major cable TV provider.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Oops, thanks. These are fixed.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
It has in fact been shown in countless studies that corticosteroids (stress hormones that are released in situations like the ones I described in the article) cause cognitive deficits in humans and other animals. Here is one slightly strang
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by dcurtis 15y ago
I was in Best Buy earlier today and the sales guy who was trying to sell me a TV reminded me a lot of the doctors/residents I was dealing with during a few weeks I spent caring for a family member at Mass General Hospital a couple years ago
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by dcurtis 15y ago
"Cash – As of September 30, 2011, cash, cash equivalents, and short-term marketable securities were $42.6 billion." During this quarter, Google made $302 million on interest alone. That's an impressive 11% of this quarter's net profit. I wo
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by dcurtis 15y ago
I hadn't really noticed these things until I used Android phones. Since switching, I've become aware of how much thoughtful design went into the boring things I used to take for granted on the iPhone.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
I drew the diagrams from my perspective, holding the phone in my palm, and extending my thumb over the screen. I don't think I have particularly large or small hands. If you hold the phone further out in your fingers, you can extend your th
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by dcurtis 15y ago
I have been looking for a higher resolution version of this photo forever. Anyone have one?
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Look at how much Android Voice Actions use the screen as a vital part of the experience, and how Siri commands chain like a conversation. I'd say the latter is more like a revolution than the former.

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