msutherl

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by msutherl 14y ago
Good point about Francis Bacon – that didn't occur to me and, for my own uses, I might be able to drive out the mental associations by fixating on Sir Francis.
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by msutherl 14y ago
It really disappoints me when good projects are given names that trigger bad mental associations. Sure, everybody loves bacon – except vegans, vegetarians, Jews, and other swine-shunning cultures – but I really don't want to be thinking abo
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by msutherl 14y ago
And what of working retail, or in a factory?
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by msutherl 14y ago
I feel I should write about this somewhere else with proper justification, but something I've observed is that design culture is not an intellectual culture to the extent that programming culture is. Having gone to school on the same floo
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by msutherl 14y ago
Great advice. The most important thing to understand about life is that you don't know what you don't know! Put negatively, if you're not interested in further educating yourself outside of your direct interest areas, understand that you wi
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by msutherl 14y ago
Go ahead and read Understanding Media while you're at it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262631598/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... ! Incredibly insightful book, totally transformed my understanding of the world.
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by msutherl 14y ago
I recently read Douglas Coupland's biography of Marshall McLuhan: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935633163/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... After having read some of McLuhan's work, which provides theories that explain much of the effect informatio
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by msutherl 14y ago
Does that imply that you can just make up a word for whatever the medium of publication is?
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by msutherl 14y ago
I always wonder about the use of the word "neu", is it meant to be pronounced "noi" as in German, or "new" as it might be phonetically pronounced in English?
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by msutherl 14y ago
As a student, I shouldn't have to know about complex citations rules while writing a paper. There are a few tools that take care of this, but they are either non-free (EasyBib), non-comprehensive (other online generators) or require that yo
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by msutherl 14y ago
I hope you will be making it publicly available! Citation tools are sadly still lacking.
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by msutherl 14y ago
Strange indeed that they use the word "Tweet" when there are many other microblogging services, including Facebook. How does one cite Status.net?
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by msutherl 14y ago
I would love it if somebody could register a domain and create a canned reply that we could copy paste when asked to review papers with appropriate links to all relevant open access projects.
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by msutherl 14y ago
Agree this is very much in order. Especially responsive design tools are badly needed. Keynote with a good blank theme and extra chrome hidden has been the closest I've come to adequate. And if you don't require perfect comps you can ditch
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by msutherl 14y ago
Very clean UI. Would love to see indication of what articles I've already read.
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by msutherl 14y ago
You say two things: "meditation shouldn't have anything to do with a financial worry" I disagree with this in principle. Meditation is very much a habit and I think it's quite possible to incentivize developing the habit without somehow 'ta
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by msutherl 14y ago
While useful for the non-designer, Don't Make Me Think is a relatively shallow book compared with those recommended here.
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by msutherl 14y ago
There is not. And honestly I don't think it's a must have. It's certainly a beautiful book, but you can learn most of what you need to know about grids just by Googling around. Typography is a comparatively much more complex topic, warranti
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by msutherl 14y ago
MIT.edu is down. Let's see what comes next.
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by msutherl 14y ago
What's wrong with the "I want to beat you with an oar" approach? This is what I do and it works great.
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I hate to say this, but 4chan will take care of this and they will be effective.
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by msutherl 14y ago
1. One downside of this interface is that it's difficult to keep track of where you are. The scroll metaphor is broken and the pagination metaphor is not fully implemented (you need an indicator of where you are, like pages in a real book).
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by msutherl 14y ago
The tabs vs. spaces debate makes me very sad. I get it, big companies use spaces because interns are stupid and don't understand how tabs work. And some people monomaniacally want their code to look exactly the same everywhere. But I wish i
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by msutherl 14y ago
The Verge's photo / blog coverage to get a sense of how weird this is: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3850056/qualcomms-insane-ce...
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Qualcomm CES 2013 Keynote Video(qualcomm.com)
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by msutherl 14y ago
Lovely advice – it took me some time to realize that I needed to find myself before finding a career – but oh how I wish this advice were more compatible with 5-figure debt.
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Programs should be easy to write and easy to read Formatting should delineate structure wherever useful Syntactical noise should be avoided Should provide powerful tools for expressing ideas succinctly Static checking should be available bu
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by msutherl 14y ago
Why not do both and allow users to select whichever they prefer? You could then A/B test which is the better default option.
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'People are using it like assembly' does mean that all or even a significant fraction of people are doing that. It's sufficient that a noticeable number of people are doing it and there are tens if not hundreds of projects that compile ot
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This post reads a bit inflammatory to me and I take issue with most of your points. > > everyone hates [Perl] because it’s “too hard to maintain” and too “strange.” > I didn't know everyone hates Perl and I also didn't know thos

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