mrpigeonpants

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by mrpigeonpants 5y ago
Shocking news. Not as shocking as watching a video on LiveLeak, but still surprising.
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
haha, also, refuse to use any time increment smaller than quarters. "I need to go use the restroom, but I'll be back this quarter."
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
It sounds good at first, until you find out the role was filled by a swarm of bees shaped like a human being.
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
Almost half of all marriages result in divorce, so Craigslist is a good place to start. You'll want to have the item evaluated at a reputable jeweler, and work out a fee in advance, but you can save a fortune that way. I think the mind
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
This site is just an ad for a book.
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
I've been using their meat in things like pastas and tacos and it's slightly tastier. The thing that hit me is that we consume so much meat in a heavily processed way that it seems silly a creature should have to suffer and die to
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
Why not just troll individual people directly rather than general trolling? You might enjoy it more.
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
So psyched! Had to leave my billing details in the comments of the reserve page. Fingers crossed.
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
Finally, someone willing to advocate for the voice of the server rather than the obstinate user!
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
And this was how Bechtel managed to root out the notorious break room farter, with the Fart Detector 9000.
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
But did they find out if she was a witch?
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
Sunk cost fallacy is real, but sometimes ambitious pursuits accidentally end up making the world a better place.
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
If Product is editing designs, you have bigger problems than money. And there might be some causality there.
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
> Designers are frustrated because the systems they built are ignored. Designer here. My experience has been that Figma has done the opposite. It's created a lot of consistency with shared component libraries and standardized type &
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
Those are good reasons. To add to that: 1) Companies are still paying for office space right now, even though people aren't using it. If they reduce their physical spaces in the future, the capital will likely go into hiring more peopl
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by mrpigeonpants 6y ago
"How I moved out of a house and learned to live in a van down by the river"
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by mrpigeonpants 7y ago
Almost as fast as a car correcting into a telephone pole!
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by mrpigeonpants 7y ago
For me, teenage recreational cannabis use helped to cure another severe disease I was struggling with. Unfortunately, since I've gotten older I've had to slow down a bit. Since then, there's been a gradual progression to the
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by mrpigeonpants 7y ago
Thats a great point. There's a precedent of them heading in that direction. Although with Apple, they're trying to make keyboards that can be activated by a light sneeze or slightly higher than usual barometric pressure.
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by mrpigeonpants 7y ago
I'd expect Porsche to put out a minivan first.
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by mrpigeonpants 7y ago
I was just on Seller Central yesterday and the only current barrier to committing fraud or selling dangerous goods on the worlds largest marketplace is a $40 monthly fee, a bank account, and enough creativity to make up a company name. I ho
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by mrpigeonpants 7y ago
That's a good point. Often when I see UX this bad, it's also usually the result of siloed teams or designers working on individual parts without thinking about the whole experience, and it all just gets stitched together at the en
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by mrpigeonpants 7y ago
Yikes. I see it the opposite way. My title has evolved from UX Designer to Product Designer. A lot of organizations have started to understand the value of design and are now giving us the power to think through everything, rather than just
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by mrpigeonpants 7y ago
Great points! Those are wonderful design principles, and can really help everyone in evaluating the layout of a table.
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by mrpigeonpants 7y ago
Weighing in as a UX designer. I appreciate the attempt to encourage people to think about design, but this guide has issues. What's wrong with the advice: -Removing horizontal lines decreases readability in the complex examples given -
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by mrpigeonpants 8y ago
My computer wouldn't break down without updates. I previously had windows 7 for years and never updated. And had consecutive months of uptime. You don't get it.
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by mrpigeonpants 8y ago
What if I'm about to go to a concert, running late and I need to print tickets last minute, and suddenly windows needs to spend 30 minutes updating, without giving me a choice? The fact that you can't stop it in the moment is infu
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by mrpigeonpants 8y ago
When an author is so confident in their assertions, it always raises red flags. Also, the latter part of the article seems to posit that "in order for the U.S. to win, China has to lose".
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by mrpigeonpants 8y ago
That ship has sailed, but they could up their vendor standards from grey-market to perhaps a soft creamy beige.
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by mrpigeonpants 11y ago
It just makes you reminisce back to a simpler time when you'd save all of your personal data and key logs to floppies and then mail 'em to Microsoft. Sigh...I can still smell the sharpie ink and wet postage drying on the back of a

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