izaidi

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by izaidi 16y ago
There can be more than one barrier.
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by izaidi 16y ago
Yeah. I'm not denying those kinds of experiences can happen on Facebook, but Facebook the company doesn't seem to care about making its users happier so much as it cares about keeping them on the site. Like network television or any other a
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by izaidi 16y ago
It's interesting that the only time Facebook seems to want to offer you any kind of emotional experience is when you're trying to leave the site, and the experience is designed to be a negative one, rooted in guilt.
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by izaidi 16y ago
It's pretty non-obvious. I'd recommend making the text readable without mouseover if you want people to read it at all.
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by izaidi 16y ago
It was an existing trend accelerated by the recession. An excess of stuff is no longer fashionable. Hopefully it lasts awhile (the fashion, not the recession).
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by izaidi 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=715667
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by izaidi 16y ago
I spent probably half an hour reading those comments. Good stuff. Do you have a background in cosmology?
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by izaidi 16y ago
Or if they insist on calling it that, at least shorten it to "Social Network." It's cleaner.
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by izaidi 16y ago
(rips up plans for echolocation-based social gaming startup)
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by izaidi 16y ago
Nah, he's just making sure Steve Jobs knows there are no hard feelings.
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by izaidi 16y ago
What'd he say?
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by izaidi 16y ago
"Since you are reading this because you or others don't think you are good at using humor, the best technique is to follow the lead of others."
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by izaidi 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_motion
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by izaidi 17y ago
I'm pretty relieved to discover I'm not the only one who misread that heading as a Spice Girls lyric.
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by izaidi 17y ago
http://whatwoulddondraperdo.tumblr.com/
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by izaidi 17y ago
Might want to consider a different screenshot on the main page. The big centered arrow made me think it was a clickable demo video.
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by izaidi 17y ago
I'm the same way. My best work has been happened on some of the worst days of my life. I think it's an "Everything sucks so I have to make something that doesn't" sort of thing.
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by izaidi 17y ago
This is needlessly hostile. It's like you're assuming everyone should want the same things as you. Not everyone cares about being good at business. The author was just trying to understand a reaction he had to something that happened to him
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by izaidi 17y ago
"The same system will allow anybody with a camcorder to distribute videos to the world -- a development that could open the floodgates to a wave of new filmmaking talent or a deluge of truly awful home movies."
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by izaidi 17y ago
I agree. A lot of designers excel at making things that are nice to look at but not especially nice to use. I've always thought of this as a sort of "heaviness" -- the design has so much inertia that you're reluctant to manipulate it. Thi
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by izaidi 17y ago
We need a ".ego" TLD.
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by izaidi 17y ago
Why use four characters when you can use three?
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by izaidi 17y ago
You're right in that technology hasn't done much to fuel the uprising itself, but with mainstream media outlets utterly failing to do their job, blogs and Twitter have proven to be pretty useful for disseminating information and making the
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by izaidi 18y ago
That's interesting. I'm the opposite way: I find I think less before writing and edit a lot more when I write on paper. Words on a screen look as flawlessly rendered as words in print, and to me that makes them seem more permanent; I feel
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The microprinter, an experiment in physical activity streams and notification(tomtaylor.co.uk)
1 points by izaidi 18y ago|0 comments
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by izaidi 18y ago
Well, it's Christmas. Maybe he was visited by three ghosts?
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Interview with Clay Shirky(cjr.org)
3 points by izaidi 18y ago|0 comments
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by izaidi 18y ago
For me it's 99% frustration, but the other 1% is the moments when the thing that used to be an idea in my head becomes a part of reality, and those moments feel so good I'm willing to put up with the frustrating ones.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Those of us at WebMynd do not. :)
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by izaidi 18y ago
Sofa ( http://www.madebysofa.com ) is really good (they did that excellent Cappuccino icon), but I imagine they're pretty expensive.

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