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by nsfmc 16y ago
yeah, i mean it's The Gap. really, is this a brand we're actually getting worked up about?
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by nsfmc 16y ago
So, what i think is missing is this link that explains exactly what this dude is writing about: Thanks for everyone’s input on the new logo! We’ve had the same logo for 20+ years, and this is just one of the things we’re changing.
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by nsfmc 16y ago
i thought this was a bullshit feature too until i was on hold for an hour (ironically, or not, with att). still, i think that's the only time i've used it.
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by nsfmc 16y ago
i encountered this sort of "pay with a tweet" (pwat?) via a macheist promo you're mentioning and i had exactly the same reaction as actually paying cash, except that it was more difficult because it was a sort of half-hearted, monetarily
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by nsfmc 16y ago
i don't think they started actually shipping large quantities of readers until recently, though. In any case, if you're freelancing and want to accept card payments, it's pretty good. I'd been doing a project and had been using an authorize
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by nsfmc 16y ago
there's something eerily calming and horrifying about playing back the reports and watching the red bites appear on the map.
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by nsfmc 16y ago
I recently read Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49", which is amazing and dense and hilarious. Highly recommended, but it's not an easy read, so be forewarned. It's short enough that you can easily power through it on a plane ride or wh
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by nsfmc 16y ago
Try to get the highest rated photos of the last week/month/year, for example. I don't really know anyone that uses flickr this way, or at least i should say that flickr is not explicitly about quantitatively accessing massive photos
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by nsfmc 16y ago
"even with innate talent you will still have to work hard at it." Word. I responded to an earlier post that this sort of thing is a learned skill. About a year or two ago, i started a font blog[1] so that i could learn about typefac
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by nsfmc 16y ago
no, it's a learned skill. Mostly you get better at it by a) using them and b) reading about them. It took me about two years of minor curiosity and looking up at things before i definitively spotted my first random non-system font. The key,
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by nsfmc 16y ago
Say what you will, at least the article has a sense of humor. “How can you tell that Patrick is a young economist from the preceding discussion? Because he finds that the current government solution for the coins we use is 98 percent effic
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by nsfmc 16y ago
So, can somebody tell me why this isn't true? Or what about this misses the point?
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Need a pronounceable random n-character string?(random-string.com)
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by nsfmc 16y ago
so, assuming that you're a dribble user, how do you rate the experience of using the service? How does it compare with showing screenshots to your friends over aim or talking at each other's desk? I'm intrigued, but i always find the more i
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by nsfmc 16y ago
"These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia called the Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. In its distant pages it is written that animals are divide
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by nsfmc 16y ago
Ok, so as someone that walked this path and is currently on the other end as a freelance graphic and web designer, i'll put out a brain dump. # Development 1. For web development, you'll find tons of best practices (i.e. alistapart, smash
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by nsfmc 16y ago
> I hate the idea that each publisher is going to try to create their own 'app' and we'd end up with huge images and inconsistent layouts, etc. This variety is exactly what is amazing about books, magazines and all media: imagine if wir
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whoosh!
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by nsfmc 16y ago
This is sorta halfway there, maybe a better analogy would be " the amount of milk america drinks in two weeks "? Although it doesn't sound particularly severe. avg american drinks 25 gallons of milk a year, an avg household of 2.59 people,
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whoosh!
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by nsfmc 16y ago
an actual distribution
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by nsfmc 16y ago
That’s just so wrong. Line heights, line lengths, fonts, font sizes and margins are vitally import visual properties of your website. If you want to make sure that you picked the correct values for those properties and if you don’t yet hav
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by nsfmc 16y ago
I take this sorta stuff with a grain of salt, sure, it looks neat and all, but there's so much post-facto rationalization that goes into these things. In honesty, it is a lot of work, but it's also trying to present it in a way that mak
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by nsfmc 16y ago
yes, we agree. science and rigor, not opinion and conjecture.
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by nsfmc 16y ago
> Well for one thing Lindzen has no testable theory, no data, and no papers explaining the current temperature trend. Despite this he still manages to get his opinions published... No, but in order to be a scientist, you have to do..
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by nsfmc 16y ago
Firstly, "white flight" is not due to "people [moving] out of the city because the burden it is placing on them does not match the value of the services they are receiving." The most correct explanation is that "it's complicated" and has to
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by nsfmc 16y ago
I think dropbox is an app that is instantly understandable and takes quite a bit of work to get functioning seamlessly. The big thing isn't the literal "rocket science" part, just the "easy" part where you don't realize that the problem m
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by nsfmc 17y ago
I thought that was a deliberate design decision (also notice that the sky becomes darker as you scroll up). Sure, some kind of min-height would fix the issue, but it's not like there aren't other sites that assume a minimum 500px webpage he
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by nsfmc 17y ago
i totally reblogged the first sentence of that quote. It's totally spot on and a great usability insight.
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by nsfmc 17y ago
"Ask her! First, figure out what exactly she wants to do/make/play with—then pick the best tool for the job." I think you've totally nailed it here, but the other part is actually providing something to do. Knowing how to program doesn'

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