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by mark-r 5y ago
Yes, JSON or XML would probably be overkill. How about a simple text file with a sequence of 8 '0' or '1' characters?
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by mark-r 5y ago
Yes, I went to that link immediately on landing on the page hoping to find what I was looking for. Didn't realize the titles were actually additional links that I needed to click through.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I went to the link hoping to see what it was, or what was the motivation for the project. So disappointed.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The last product I worked on, we had constant problems sometimes trying to reproduce bugs. Accessing a feature through a keyboard shortcut vs. a menu might take you down a completely different code path, and it was critical to know which w
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by mark-r 5y ago
Paradoxically the ribbon makes harder the one thing it was supposed to make easier. Nothing lines up, so a visual scan of the whole thing is very hard to accomplish.
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by mark-r 5y ago
It wasn't just Microsoft. Joel Spolsky had a lot to say on the subject: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...
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by mark-r 5y ago
The customization process becomes part of the UX though. That doesn't automatically make it good.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Myfonts.com WhatTheFont feature is incredibly useful. I've gone through the list of Garamonds before by hand and it's tedious work.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I think Georgia is highly underrated.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The first appears to be Adobe Garamond. The fourth looks like Simoncini Garamond.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Sony was forced to cripple the "night vision" feature of some cameras because it was too easy to abuse to see through clothing.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Customization is nice, but it's a nightmare for testing and support. You can't test every combination, and you can never know if you're seeing the same thing the customer sees. Plus it's murder if you have to share a d
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by mark-r 5y ago
Thank you for the link to the book. It reminds me of a product I worked on. The first version was command-driven, because that's what us programmers were used to. When our own sales people proved unable to do a demo without messing
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by mark-r 5y ago
Which reminds me of the funniest name for a pig: Chris P. Bacon.
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by mark-r 5y ago
When I make a batch of pancakes, I always make the first one about 1/3 size as a test to make sure I have the heat correct. Then I eat it straight, no toppings. The rest get syrup.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I have an æbleskiver cast iron pan. Only used it a couple of times, seems like a lot of trouble for what you get.
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by mark-r 5y ago
ISO 8601 dates are perfect! It's too bad they're not more popular. I tried to push for them in labels used in a manufacturing plant with locations both in the U.S. and Ireland. Seems like a slam dunk because it eliminates the co
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by mark-r 5y ago
Bill Gates prided himself on being the smartest person in the room. He was probably over the top mad at being shown up. If he could have gotten away with killing at that moment, he would have.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Even more true for open source software. If it isn't recently updated, people assume the project is dead.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I think the convention started with movies.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I wish Wayback had an indicator for how much the page has changed from one capture to the next. A simple count of the diffs should give you a good idea.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Just because you attempted, doesn't mean you succeeded.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I think you're mixing up Chesterton's fence with cargo culting.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I like Joel Spolsky's take on software rewrites. He never mentions Chesterton but he's thinking along the same lines - old code is a collection of fixes to problems that real people had. You throw it out at your peril. https:&#
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by mark-r 5y ago
It's commonly attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and is a lot older than I thought, from 1935 and originally in French. https://english.stackexchange.com/q/38837/178351
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by mark-r 5y ago
Cute gimmick, but not being able to get school busses through the snow are not why schools have snow days. They do it because they don't want kinds dying of exposure while waiting at the bus stop.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The link for xkcd is incomplete. I think he meant to link to this specific one: https://xkcd.com/386/
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by mark-r 5y ago
For anyone who thinks I might be being facetious, I live in Minneapolis where there was an actual bridge collapse that killed people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge...
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by mark-r 5y ago
I read a story in the last couple of years about small towns that shot themselves in the foot by keeping out the big box stores - I wish I could find it again. The theory was that the traditional small downtown couldn't meet 100% of e
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by mark-r 5y ago
> What Apple would be doing in this position is (a) determining where real estate profits are being made (b) moving to claim the majority of those profits as revenue. In the real world it's just the opposite. Apple has a monopoly o

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