nchlswu

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by nchlswu 4y ago
To elaborate, the distinction is professional engineering . SO not just structural integrity of a building. Under the Professional Engineering Act is: >“practice of professional engineering” means any act of planning, designing, composi
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by nchlswu 7y ago
a lot of people mentioning "thing," and it's simply not used that way. That said, "ting" of Jamaican Patois origin would be appropriate.
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by nchlswu 7y ago
What do you consider scrolljacking? I opened the breakfast article and saw some scrolljacking right away. Is my understanding mistaken here?
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by nchlswu 8y ago
my original post wasn't clear. what I meant was one farm generally wouldn't have a crop that yields "great" produce that tastes great while simultaneously having produce that is: > plasticky, perfect-looking, and utte
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by nchlswu 8y ago
it sounds like the poorer quality produce you're describing is just coming from lower quality farms? I have no clue how the supply chain works, but I don't think produce from the same source is separated by the quality you're
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by nchlswu 8y ago
This reminds me vaguely of when a provider automatically unsubscribes users from newsletters they don't read. Does anyone remember which company this is? Twitch?
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by nchlswu 8y ago
Apparently you're expected to authenticate 1 shoe a minute https://niketalk.com/threads/what%E2%80%99s-it-like-to-work-...
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by nchlswu 8y ago
sounds like otiswealth.com would be the place.
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by nchlswu 9y ago
which restaurant? I've seen a few food court spots go cashless, but nothing about downloading an app.
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by nchlswu 10y ago
Shopify has been piloting the app with retailers that have the same target market as Restocks (YC W16). The first pilot was with Kith in October sometime and now they're definitely doing some Black Friday stuff and are launching Yeezys
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by nchlswu 11y ago
> But it also was pretty awesome to have an almost latency-free experience (and good information design, making efficient use of my screen). It's funny. I think most people would agree that the experience you described isn't di
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by nchlswu 11y ago
So much FastCo Google coverage feels like astroturfing.
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by nchlswu 11y ago
> I don't think google gets design. I agree. That said, I think they're very early in infusing design with their culture. I would even argue pre-'design' @ Google, they were still very user centered, but in different
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by nchlswu 12y ago
Yep. Every keynote. Usually some people will post source links which should be streamable from non-mac machines.
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by nchlswu 12y ago
How much do PR firms cost? and how well off do you have to be to afford one?
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by nchlswu 12y ago
I'd be curious what proportion of public facing space would be lockers. I imagine it'd be great to showcase flash sales and extremely high demand items. I really believe a retailer selling physical goods needs some sort of physica
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by nchlswu 12y ago
I think the lectures so far aren't exactly inconsistent with your thinking. They're skewed SV and given their origins, why wouldn't they be? But at the same time, the first two lectures have politely/subtly pointed out w
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by nchlswu 12y ago
no source, but I was told it was just an idea that was sitting around that none of the former leaders wanted to launch.
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by nchlswu 12y ago
don't most nfc implementations use a coil of wires that are some minimum physical size? I imagine the coil is the size of the watch (horizontally)
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by nchlswu 12y ago
> Most UX methods and guidelines come from HCI (and HCI, of course, comes from other disciplines). I don't think you can simplify it to HCI preceding UX or UCD methodologies. As you point out, HCI of course comes from other discipli
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by nchlswu 12y ago
where did they comment on the matter? Can't find said comment or was it an article?
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by nchlswu 12y ago
> The problem that I'm increasingly encountering is that everything (up to XXXL) in shirts is too small for me. There's nothing that can be tailored to fit. > Jeans simply don't tailor well on account of seams and other
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by nchlswu 12y ago
What I find interesting is the forces that enabled this explosion are potentially the same or similar forces that has enabled the development of fashion that isn't necessarily "fast fashion" in a F21 or Inditex sense. The sen
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by nchlswu 12y ago
Reminds me of a startup in Toronto: Usehurrier.com This is really Uber's "On Demand ____" promotions (read: experiments) coming to life and I imagine partnerships with retailers (similar to their local partnerships for events
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War on Ferguson: First-hand reports from Ferguson(waronferguson.com)
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by nchlswu 12y ago
> Secondly, your UI shouldn’t mimick the native style of the platform. hmm..? > After all, it’s another case of copying the looks and the two reasons mentioned earlier apply here too. It still is time-consuming and distracts you from
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by nchlswu 12y ago
> I imagine much Toronto talents gets sucked down to Kitchener-Waterloo. I'm not sure about the actual numbers, I don't think movement is in any one direction where a reliable conclusion like that can be made. While a lot of ta
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by nchlswu 12y ago
Didn't Twitter declare something similar? Is there anything they can do that's binding outside of a declarative 'we won't sue you unless...' statement?
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by nchlswu 12y ago
After a while of reading the replies, Iron Man came to mind.
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by nchlswu 12y ago
I've worked on the UX team @ a Canadian bank and briefly touched a project that dealt with passwords. Based on the bank I've worked at and the limited information I've received, it really isn't about the customer experie

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