msutherl

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by msutherl 14y ago
I've recently been studying typography and it's been really heartbreaking to realize that what differentiates a good and a bad typeface onscreen is how it well it renders. Plenty of great typefaces are just unusable. Most fonts distort wild
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Don't make the mistake of thinking that because the communication channel is "encrypted", it is secure. SSL can already be compromised (so much for trusting encrypted transport) and the WebRTC client code could be compromised (always a prob
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As somebody who learned CoffeeScript before JavaScript, I have to say I very much appreciate it when people use CoffeeScript in all manner of examples.
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This is amazing! I had no idea that such a thing existed.
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They're water tunnels. They deliver water from the Reservoir to the New York Metro Area. They're so deep underground for two reasons (1) imagine you have to build a tunnel that should last for the next 150 years – it needs to survive nuclea
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So, there are two of those deep underground water tunnels, one which runs down from the Bronx through Manhattan and another that runs from the Bronx through Queens and Brooklyn. These tunnels were completed in 1917 and 1935 respectively. Ho
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The unfortunate reality is that any designer will garner vastly more attention for redesigning a popular website than for creating a fictitious brand.
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by msutherl 14y ago
Thanks dude. Totally agree about Designing with the Mind in Mind. Another similar book is 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People. Here's a little gem that summarizes some of that material: http://uxmag.com/articles/psychologi
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by msutherl 14y ago
But it's a cost/benefit problem, no? People say this bearing in mind free speech. Sure, free speech makes it ok to say lots of terrible things, but the boon to human rights outweighs by far the evil made possible. People assume that this lo
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It's good to read these guys, but it's nowhere near sufficient. Over time I've lost my fondness of Nielsen. He's too much of an engineer and doesn't understand subjective factors. Ever notice that his website has very poor usability due to
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by msutherl 14y ago
99% of UI/UX design is people copying each other. The remaining 1% advance the narrative. Becoming great at UI/UX means becoming the 1%, but there's no shame in just being good.
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There's a certain extent to which you can be your own coach. You still need to practice, but you can monitor your own performance if you can train your eye faster than your abilities. Training your eye involves a combination of noticing and
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I have a strong feeling that standards of rigor have dropped considerably since the 50's, but I have no data to back it up.
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Goes to show what it takes to achieve excellence: lots of trial and error. Produce at least 3 alternatives for every design decision (Bill Buxton agrees).
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by msutherl 14y ago
It's a product problem, rather than technical.
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Consolas is wonderful and definitely better than Iconsolata. If you like Inconsolata, I highly recommend trying to hunt down a copy of Consolas from Windows (I did this on my Mac for awhile). These days, though, I use Meslo because it allow
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This looks really great, but I have to take issue with your choice of typeface. While the description in the Google font database makes it out to be an award winning face for literature optimized for reading, its exaggerated serifs and unev
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Why Do We Wear Pants? Bicycles.
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by msutherl 14y ago
It took me 15 minutes to understand what "feed" means, which then lead me to understand what "social service" means. I think you intro paragraph could be clarified by replacing the word "service" with "platform". I know this isn't strictly
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by msutherl 14y ago
Most comments on my post are supportive, for instance this one: "You seem to be saying that as a defense of Amazon's treatment of warehouse workers. It's not. Read the Mother Jones article linked above [...] the unseen and unregulated treat
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Great for consumers like us, but terrible for all of the people who work ridiculous hours under constant stress on warehouse floors or do deliveries day in and day out. I try to buy from brick & mortar shops purely because running a sho
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SuperCollider is exactly like this, but for sound synthesis: http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/
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The hard part is finding something that people might actually want to do. Geocities worked for this because you actually wanted a Geocities website. It would be difficult to start a company with the assumption that you were going to create
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It's not a straw man, it's hyperbole. What I mean to suggest is not that people actually believe that any other form of knowledge is completely untrue. It's a matter of the relative importance of science compared to other ways of knowing. S
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By "like big canvases of entirely purple", you're probably referring to Yves Klein, who I think is actually a bad example for what you're getting at. Klein was interested in a kind of total, pure experience of color. He worked with a paint
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1. Backblaze for off-site backups: http://backblaze.com 2. Dash for access docs: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-docs-snippets/id45803487... . 3. Solarized and ir_black themes for Terminal and all editors: http://ethanschoonover.com
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Oh, I forgot to add that probably my favorite "post-structuralist" author is Manuel DeLanda, who actually quit his job as a hacker to become a philosopher. He does a great job of making Deleuze's work more clear and his own work is fascinat
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I've read at least an article that they wrote and all they did was take some quotes out of context and show how they were scientifically inaccurate when they seemed to me to be metaphorical from the start. I can't speak for the book, howeve
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An easy example is modern activist tactics, i.e. Seattle and Occupy Wall Street. Another hackneyed example is Israeli military tactics, which have been said to have been influenced by writings of Gilles Deleuze. Above and beyond specific ex
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I'm defining philosophy very broadly as written, systematic knowledge in the West. All major branches of knowledge where once subsumed by the title "philosophy". For instance, what we know of as science was previously called "natural philos

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