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by ender7 15y ago
Can anyone recommend a good introduction to using state machines in code? Especially something in javascript/python? I know what an SM is and how it works, I just want to know how to use an SM library to actually do all these cool things.
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by ender7 15y ago
This might work for web design. In my experience, it doesn't work well for UI design. The first law of UI design is that you will fuck up most of the time. Most of your ideas are going to be bad bad bad . If you think that every mock comes
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by ender7 15y ago
Man, what a memorable post. I like to think about his main point of "people won't understand you" a little differently. Humans were originally pack animals, and it shows. You are nothing without your pack, but together the pack is strong. M
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by ender7 15y ago
There are many similarities, but the nature of the products each produces introduces some differences. Valve creates occasional monolithic products that depend heavily on art direction and experience design. Google produces a complex, inter
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by ender7 15y ago
For me, this should serve as a warning to anyone trying to let data do the designing for them. To me this screams "hey! Our data says 'X'! Let's apply it in the simplest way possible, with little to no editing or afterthought, and then bask
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by ender7 15y ago
Here's the issue. No one cares. Well, I care, and presumably a number of other readers care, but compared to the total sum of internet users we're just a rounding error. You know why people are using services like Gmail? Because it just
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by ender7 15y ago
Oh god, put some tennis balls on those threaded rods sticking out from the bed.
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by ender7 15y ago
I do a lot of Flash development. I would love to switch to HTML. I can't wait. I will probably be forced to quite soon in order to support mobile devices. But. I'm going to miss so very many things: 1. A decent display architecture. Every d
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by ender7 15y ago
Poor Gruber. Your favorite director's movie used against your favorite company. It's impossible to post a serious comment to a case that is already absurd.
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by ender7 15y ago
After seeing him give a talk, I've come to the conclusion that Simon Peyton-Jones is possibly the most British man alive.
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by ender7 15y ago
Original document here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61993811/10-08-04-Apple-Motion-for... Gruber claims that "The dispute here is over one image" [1], but I don't think that's accurate. Almost all of the images in the document have been squ
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by ender7 15y ago
Please supply a source for your claim in your first sentence.
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by ender7 15y ago
To me, this seems like a Big Huge Deal, but perhaps there aren't that many use cases for it. Is anyone excited to build something that runs at almost-native speed on a browser?
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by ender7 15y ago
I'll start worrying for Facebook when I no longer see "find us on Facebook!" at the end of every TV ad.
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Google+ Updates Real Name Policy(plus.google.com)
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by ender7 15y ago
I agree with lukestevens; there's a ton of value in A/B testing. A willingness to destroy your attractive but unusable mock is what separates the graphic designers from the interface designers. That said.... A/B testing can be extremely da
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by ender7 15y ago
The difference really is night and day. Amazing! I have one major issue, though. Their original "Redeem" button was ugly and garish, but it looked like a button . It screams out "click me. CLICK MEEEEEE". The new "Redeem" button is gorgeou
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by ender7 15y ago
All right, so we all agree that software patents are a problem. So what do we do? A). Abolish software patents. Existing software patents, or parts of patents that govern software, are nullified. B). ??? Personally, I'm fine with A, but I w
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by ender7 15y ago
This assumes that the customer has the option of choosing another service if they don't want to "opt-in" to such bullshit. Sadly, in many places in the US, especially those places served by the ISPs mentioned, that is not the case. In the a
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by ender7 15y ago
Exactly. Every patent that I've seen (for example, Apple vs. HTC) boils down to complete bullshit . I'd welcome someone finding a non-bullshit patent that Android is clearly violating (possibly something with Java? They don't use any of th
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by ender7 15y ago
Headline: "Google Researcher Exposes Flaws In Sophos Software, Slams Antivirus Industry" Inside: "Ormandy works by day as a security engineer at Google but said he was representing only himself at the conference and that his research had be
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by ender7 15y ago
Hegemony is very distinct from the white supremacist movement. While white supremacists probably promote hegemonic practices, this does not mean that some engineer who didn't take the time to think about people in circumstances very differe
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by ender7 15y ago
Very true! I was thinking of UI art assets. Aspects related to the layout or behavior of a UI (having a touchscreen interface, momentum scrolling, etc.) should be (IMO) neither patentable nor copyrightable. When you get into issues of truly
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by ender7 15y ago
Gruber's argument is dependent on the assumption that only people like Nathan Myrvold hold what I'm going to call "bullshit patents". "Google isn’t arguing against a handful of never-should-have-been-issued software patents. They’re not ar
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by ender7 15y ago
I'm curious how conservatives will find that this supports their existing political opinions. "Red states deserve more of those tax dollars that are evil and shouldn't have been paid?"
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by ender7 15y ago
However, he is correct if you just examine laptop sales among college students: http://daringfireball.net/misc/2011/07/u-texas.png When I worked IT for my college, we saw a similar pattern amongst residential computer registrations - al
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by ender7 15y ago
After losing a family member to Alzheimer's (a process which lasted almost a decade), most of my family appears to have independently decided that they would rather quietly off themselves (pills, etc.) than slowly have their brain melt away
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by ender7 15y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2292#c... "So...what does skepticism offer?" "A wondrous, beautiful, doesn't-give-a-shit-about-you cosmos." (and yes, anyone participating in this thread is just asking to get karma bu
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by ender7 15y ago
Circular logic statement is circular.
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by ender7 15y ago
I don't understand why people are bringing issues of the availability of scientific journalism into this. I agree that the prices and paywalls involves are ridiculous and a bad idea for a variety of reasons, but that seems orthogonal to the

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