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by ggwicz 15y ago
"Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment." - Nassim Taleb People procrastinate because they're doing something they don't like. I procrastinate when I'm doing homework. But wouldn't you know, I always get motivated when hac
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by ggwicz 15y ago
In any competitive environment, like game development, a tiny minority will win. I don't understand why that then gets drawn to "bundle sales aren't good for most...". I was never exposed to indie games until the Humble Bundle, for exampl
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Exactly. As a 17-year-old I've been able to run my own little freelance business. The internet = opportunity if you use it right.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
One of the most attractive things about being a dev/designer to me is the ability to work pretty much wherever there's an Internet connection. Great Article!
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by ggwicz 15y ago
And juuusst as the anti-SOPA movements were giving me hope. Way to go, Universal.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Haha, I meant the Turing part is relatively short. But yeah it's really well put together.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
There's also a documentary made a few years ago about Turing and 4 other brilliant people. It's free on Google Video and called "Dangerous Knowledge". It's short but super interesting and thought-provoking. Check it out if you're interested
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Turing had more in common with Newton or Einstein...than with Henry Ford or Thomas Edison. Yeah, I agree. It's really a shame more people aren't aware of his brilliance. His code-breaking literally did save a massive number of lives.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Turing allegedly killed himself by putting cyanide in an apple in and eating it. That is, according to urban legend, why the Apple logo has a bite taken out of it. Probably entirely false, but a neat idea. And re: established narratives, I
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Cool. It'd definitely spice up placeholder images when designing a website...
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by ggwicz 15y ago
That statement was not in reference to you; I'm referring to the fact that Lorem Ipsum is just a popular thing to do. Many people don't think about it like you are and simply do it because the design crowd at large does it.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
This would really be useful on many, many levels. Why has this access to such data been so roped-off?
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by ggwicz 15y ago
I answered another comment and feel like it addresses your comment, as well. Check it out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3259963
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by ggwicz 15y ago
I feel that adding abstract meaning to content does objectify the content (in our case, using Lorem Ipsum). I speak English and work with English speakers. The text from classicipsum is only a better option than Lorem Ipsum, it is not i
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Focusing on what to do is fragile. Removing negatives and learning what not to do is often more valuable in a general sense. Health is a good example of this. "Doing" could include, for example, taking a drug. It may solve the surface pro
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by ggwicz 15y ago
You are coming from the stance that content, i.e. words, is separate from the design around it. I'm saying this is bullshit and that words/content are the most important parts of the design. Using a fake language and text that you don't r
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Users' natural inclination is to read a site's content, as well. Why not design with that same behavior in mind? What you're saying is that a site's design purpose is to get people to read content; so build the site using unreadable text so
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Content is not there to just "fill space". Content is the reason people are coming to a website. Long written content, like blogs, is important to keep in mind when designing for some projects. For me, I often design WordPress themes, which
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Better than Lorem Ipsum(classicipsum.com)
7 points by ggwicz 15y ago|12 comments
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by ggwicz 15y ago
exactly. The majority of my job as a freelancer is working with WordPress sites and I love it, but for my own site I just use plain HTML and CSS static files. If you need to hammer a nail you don't use a screwdriver. The right tool is what
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Why can't it be both? The claim in the article is that there are deadlines, "you have to ship", etc. It seems to me like you'd skip the whole deadline-shipnow-ASAP nonsense and just write awesome software with awesome code, even if it takes
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by ggwicz 15y ago
For people commenting on his statements about WordPress: Yes, there are better ways than having 12 files to generate what you need. In fact, you can do it with two: an index.php and a style.css file (technically). But the point is that if
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by ggwicz 15y ago
I like this a lot. Placehold.it features would be nice, too. so like, if I wanted just a picture of Bruce Willis: http://bruce_wilis.jpg.to/ But then if I needed a 500x500 picture of Bruce Willis, because who doesn't, I could go to http:
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Any use of advertisement to fund modern digital distribution is indicative of one of two things: - A failure find a less round-about, more efficient, and more profitable mechanism for directly charging consumers for what they consume OR -
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Yeah. I wonder how the results would be if they were told it was "Zen" or "Stoicism" or some type of set philosophy, ya know? Maybe people would attach to it stronger like people attach to religion.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
There are other surveys like some used by the infamous China Study that count pizza as meat! I wonder which categorization is worse...?
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by ggwicz 15y ago
So, basically, stoicism.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
I liked this article a lot, so please don't think I'm being negative. The only thing that I sort of disagreed with was "we should optimize for the most likely scenario" I disagree. 1) optimization is fragility 2) the extremes will inform
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Yeah, it's insane. This law isn't that extreme yet but it's a push over the ledge towards censorship (it seems...)
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Yes, the need is going down. That's one reason why this law is unnecessary.

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