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by nsfmc 14y ago
in my experience, it takes a few tries to successfully roll the hard six to get a sympathetic genius. it's not exactly social engineering, but there are some folks who are more likely to take your side especially if you can show that the pr
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by nsfmc 14y ago
"it will be forever impossible to determine whether the game was remembered because of its own staying power, or just because the MoMA told us that we ought to remember it." Isn't that the case with all contemporary art acquisitions, thou
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by nsfmc 14y ago
the computer history museum provides: http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computer...
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by nsfmc 14y ago
when i saw this i really was hoping that the project would have some ~$50 option where you could buy the plans to assemble the desk out of 2x4s and support general development of some fancier option. (hi din0bot!)
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by nsfmc 14y ago
heh, i saw the same thing myself and i had the same sort of reaction but i think it's more an issue with the writer misjudging his audience (you can see this if you've ever taken a continuing education class or the opposite problem if you r
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by nsfmc 14y ago
There's a really nicely annotated version on waxy.org http://waxy.org/2009/07/code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/ if you haven't watched code rush yet, the annotations are really a fantastic addition to it and i'd suggest starting there in
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by nsfmc 14y ago
swipe to jump?
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by nsfmc 14y ago
speak for yourself, infidel!
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Chartjunk: a font for quickly making sparklines in your page(nsfmc.github.com)
2 points by nsfmc 15y ago|0 comments
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by nsfmc 15y ago
In light of all the hilarious 'best practices' talk after the github/rails incident, the best practice in this situation is to hire a graphic designer to do even this early stage mascot research. Why you ask? Much like API design, a logo/ma
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by nsfmc 15y ago
Aside from the fact that there exist many other canvas blend mode plugins, I'm just going to say that it wouldn't hurt to add to your fancy demo page: a) browser support? (this still matters to lots of people) b) _some_ notion o
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by nsfmc 15y ago
It probably would have been more helpful if this article had been titled after one of its bullet points: "Location Services Policies for Families." If it seems alarmist, it's because scott spends so much time on the (frankly creepy) exposit
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by nsfmc 15y ago
If you're going to make your webpage a photo of yourself, make sure it's a good photo. Neither the red-eye nor the dusky kitchenette with vertical blinds are really helping you out. Those 37 signals pages that everyone raves about or really
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Police Use of G.P.S. Is Ruled Unconstitutional(nytimes.com)
4 points by nsfmc 15y ago|0 comments
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by nsfmc 15y ago
random fact, but Thomas Pynchon also jobbed as a technical writer for a period of time shortly before publishing V. His fictional Yoyodyne company is loosely modeled after boeing, apparently.
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In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi...(mcsweeneys.net)
12 points by nsfmc 15y ago|0 comments
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by nsfmc 15y ago
People use architecture all the time. I think what's lost in this is the fact that architecture, once constructed, is fixed in space and barring any unforeseen disaster, is necessarily used on a daily basis by a group of people. It is oft
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by nsfmc 15y ago
The best tool is probably whatever you use to make webpages. epub is basically a simple variant of html that uses xml to deal with chapters and assets. You zip the whole bundle up and rename it and bam! epub! http://blog.threepress.org/ i
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Contact Congress - Talk directly to your representatives(shipordie.com)
8 points by nsfmc 15y ago|0 comments
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by nsfmc 15y ago
this sorta thing is pretty religious, so i'm just going to note the following points: 1. i've known traditional print designers that have jumped headfirst into html/css/js/etc and many of them have left behind artifacts that still live on t
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by nsfmc 15y ago
that's just, like, your opinion, man. i personally value anyone that can articulate what they think about those redesigns, either like or dislike, thoughtfully without buzzwording me to death and without parroting rhetoric. you're describin
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by nsfmc 15y ago
i was always a big fan of sloppy http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/ and hadn't bothered to look for alternatives, but the other projects here are equally heartening and have... less java
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by nsfmc 15y ago
well, i think the point is more "any time you're designing (or learning to design) is time you're not coding" (which, let's be honest, the times that you can actually be doing both at the same time are few and far between) for some folk
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by nsfmc 15y ago
The conflict that's weirdest for me is that he internally conflates mindshare, educational reform, etc with him earning cash money. It's as if he believed there was a direct correlation between his rising income and teachers' decreasing en
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Google Will Eat Itself: using AdSense revenue to buy Google stock(gwei.org)
2 points by nsfmc 15y ago|1 comments
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by nsfmc 15y ago
aside from this looking like a scam, the preview for this title actually focuses on the most useless part of authoring ebooks: building social media hype. if you want to learn to code an ebook, go to http://blog.threepress.org/ which is a
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by nsfmc 15y ago
i think the takeaway here is that the (100% subjective) design of their site benefited from (again, subjectively!) somebody that wasn't slavish to these sorts of prescriptives (although perhaps slavish to their own aesthetic, but whatever).
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When Data Disappears(nytimes.com)
24 points by nsfmc 15y ago|11 comments
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by nsfmc 15y ago
as a contrast, trademarks are handled in what most people would consider a 'commonsense' way, where it is required that the trademark owner actively use the mark for some period of time and also police that others aren't using or abusing th
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San Jose grand jury indicts members of hacker group Anonymous(mercurynews.com)
5 points by nsfmc 15y ago|4 comments

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