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What's the Best Way to Figure Out What Bike Riders Really Want?(theatlanticcities.com)
1 points by decklin 14y ago|0 comments
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by decklin 14y ago
I imagine Schultz has probably heard some derogatory comments about "Starbucks users". For companies that provide a service (as opposed to a product), it probably sounds more innocuous, to the point where you wouldn't question it. Edit: to
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Engineers plan to upload bee brains to flying robots(wired.co.uk)
1 points by decklin 14y ago|0 comments
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by decklin 14y ago
On the contrary, I think that automatic image carousels are exactly user interface with a purpose. They're what happens when the purpose of the website is to be demonstrated to "stakeholders", the people who sign off on the university budge
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Mind Your Git Manners(blog.8thlight.com)
2 points by decklin 14y ago|0 comments
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How Git shows the patriarchal nature of the software industry (megan.geek.nz)
2 points by decklin 14y ago|0 comments
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by decklin 14y ago
This needs to be covered by http://pizzaornot.com/ .
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The case of the mysterious explosion in space(serpentine.com)
1 points by decklin 14y ago|0 comments
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by decklin 14y ago
I'm not looking at this very deeply (on phone), but I think this does not make a good landing page. My impression of the copy is "sync what queues?" I have a Netflix queue; I don't want to have another one that needs to be synced with it.
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by decklin 14y ago
This is good advice, but I think using the active voice as well as the present tense helps. For example, instead of "...a Preview is shown", say "Show Preview when...". Simple sentence structure is easier to skim.
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by decklin 14y ago
The suit is back!
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by decklin 14y ago
I'd like to be able to drag the two thumbs on each "Lightness" slider past each other, to invert the usual relationship. (Just splitting them into two sliders each would be fine.) Otherwise, this is really great.
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by decklin 14y ago
Indeed. The twitter announcement had the vague feeling of something produced after many heated words between product and engineering. This sounds like what it is, someone trying to sell their own personality.
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Rehabilitating the Arrogant Engineer(scott.a16z.com)
2 points by decklin 14y ago|0 comments
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by decklin 14y ago
On a similar note, I like to periodically clean out my shell history by dropping commands less than a certain Levenshtein edit distance from earlier commands[1]. Looking at the removed lines would probably produce further ideas for optimizi
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by decklin 14y ago
Please, please do not scrape the HTML pages. The XKCD admin has put a JSON API ( http://xkcd.com/json.html ) in place for people who want to do things like this. Thanks.
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by decklin 14y ago
That article is mainly about the strawman argument that if Dvorak is better, then free markets are bad, because they lead to the kind of network effects that gave us QWERTY. (As a happy Dvorak user, I find this argument silly.) The author i
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by decklin 14y ago
For the same reason that they should make sure every tech has a functioning screwdriver? Everything that adds 5 minutes to an appointment adds up. The success of e.g. Apple is because they wake a product that works , not because of some ne
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by decklin 14y ago
And in case anyone is not familiar with just how long "long before" was: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001604.h...
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by decklin 14y ago
Everyone seems to be talking about the force-yourself-to-code part of this, but I recently read something about "write every morning" and as a tool for that this sounds appealing -- but only because my job is coding, not writing. Sort of li
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by decklin 14y ago
The first thing I thought of when I realized the author was seriously using SLoC as a performance metric was this story: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_O...
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by decklin 14y ago
Interesting! I wasn't sure if anything like this had been done. I guess it shows that there's nothing good that can come from change here.
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by decklin 14y ago
I wonder why browsers with a modern automatic-update process don't set their user-agent to something that discards all this madness ("Chrome/23.4.5678 (Windows)", or similar) for the cutting-edge/nightly builds only (or even betas, if they
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Delivering a consistent Twitter experience(dev.twitter.com)
19 points by decklin 14y ago|4 comments
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by decklin 14y ago
Actually, the order in which function arguments are evaluated is undefined. http://c-faq.com/expr/comma.html You can use a comma in other expressions to introduce a sequence point: http://c-faq.com/~scs/cgi-bin/faqcat.cgi?sec=expr#seqpoi
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by decklin 14y ago
You can communicate with the Skype client over DBus, which allows you to replace a lot (although not all) of the UI with something else. Two examples: http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/ https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/ma
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by decklin 14y ago
If you're interested in learning music theory (as I am currently) and how the the Beatles' music evolved, this series of articles by Alan W. Pollack is fantastic: http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-notes_... They were o
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by decklin 14y ago
OS X turns off the delay if you map that key to something else. The only workaround I've found in Linux is to force the LED on with setleds so that the hardware thinks it doesn't need to enable the delay.
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The Incompatible Food Triad(georgehart.com)
2 points by decklin 14y ago|0 comments
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Signs that you're a good programmer(sites.google.com)
4 points by decklin 14y ago|1 comments

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