george_morgan

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by george_morgan 17y ago
This seems similar in aims to the Firefox fork Flock, not sure if Flock is still in active development though. It also seems very “un-Firefox” considering Firefox (Phoenix…) began as a slimmed down Mozilla/Netscape Suite. Maybe short sighte
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by george_morgan 17y ago
I’m sure most people support your sentiments, but self-conciously shoe horning Niemöller & Orwell into your arguments like that comes across a bit over the top. Tone it down, less preaching more conversational. You’ll get a better respo
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Related, Vonnegut on drama: http://sivers.org/drama (more graph sketches!)
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by george_morgan 17y ago
"Helvetica is the font for the rich and wealthy; Arial is the same for the rest of us.” I find this an intriguing proposition, considering that Helvetica was born out of the modernist movement and it’s democratic ideals whilst Arial was the
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Arial seems to have been designed as a regressive version of Helvetica, it’s like an interim step between Akzidenz and Helvetica. Non-parallel terminals being the most distinctive, also the influence of the Akzidenz cap R can be seen. In th
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Although proportionally spaced electronic typewriters were fairly common place before the Mac. A little myth making by Mr Jobs I think.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
I own a digitisation of Unica, acquired many moons ago. It is rather nice. There’s not much more to say, I’m mostly just showing off.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
And on the opposite end of the spectrum, you apparently lack the time for vowels.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Thank you for trying to protect us mere human beings from ourselves.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
More on this from Tate Etc. magazine: http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue4/camouflage.htm
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by george_morgan 17y ago
It doesn't surprise me you were a management consultant. You're getting downvotes for repeating simplistic abstracts, without suggesting anything close to a reasonable course of action. "How do we fix this problem?" "Well, all problems can
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by george_morgan 17y ago
I realise this, it just seemed odd in the context of it being Apple and the exact same references given.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Did anyone notice the mention of the “auteur model of innovation,” attributed to “John Kao, a consultant to corporations and governments on innovation” which sounds an awful lot like John Gruber's auteur theory of design: http://www.youtub
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by george_morgan 17y ago
I found an old Phoenix (ver 0.1) binary a while back, super small and snappy. Didn't even have Add-on support then.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
I don't think this ridiculous self-referential trolling has any place on HN.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
I'm more surprised this is being reported by the BBC than anything. What makes this case any more notable than countless other web-design piracy cases? Is it the Chinese angle?
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by george_morgan 17y ago
I think it was David Ogilvy who said anyone who wanted to write advertising copy should spend a year working in direct response marketing. Same principle.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Schopenhauer also wrote some cracking stuff on women: http://www.heretical.com/miscella/onwomen.html
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Lots of evidence of Bauhaus quasi-mystic ideas in this test, talking about the 'energy' of a composition, 'visual influence'. All ideas rooted in early 20th century abstract expression, which I suppose are now widely accepted but are by no
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by george_morgan 17y ago
"Overconfident journeyman" sums up a lot of the web design bloggers. There is a nice quote about the difference between "men who understand everything and appreciate nothing", which seems relevant here in the sense the author appears to und
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Cringe.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
I always assumed the 'Hacker' in Hacker News was there to gently stigmatise the site, to avoid it going to way of sites like Digg.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
This would be more of an issue if it was a consumer service/product. I'm going to give web developers the benefit of the doubt and say they'll probably find this if they're looking for it.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
This is something the industrial designer Ross Lovegrove has been exploring for a while, here's the obligatory TED link: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ross_lovegrove_shares_org... He talks about early modernist design being dictated
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by george_morgan 17y ago
This is another crackpot, pseudo-scientific, poorly referenced, neo-luddite revisionist mess of untested hypothesis and outright speculation which is sure to find it's way back to my email inbox one day after being forwarded from a second c
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Being hot is, however, a valid criterion for judging 'hot tweeters', which is what the site appears to be attempting. It would be a 'misjustice' if they were being called the best/most amusing/interesting/insightful users, but were still on
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by george_morgan 18y ago
Grid systems are a staple of tool in print graphic design, but only seem to have been picked up by the web design community in the last year or so. It seems there is a lot of misunderstanding, grid systems are an invisible structure for lay