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by sings 5y ago
It’s a bit surprising that the linked article isn’t more carefully written to explain choices, given the audience. As you say, the reason given doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny.
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by sings 5y ago
Yes it’s certainly not a trivial problem. Assuming the requirement for a digital component in order to compute word scores, perhaps frequency could be weighted by previous (competition?) word plays.
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by sings 5y ago
My dream version of Scrabble would have a score system somehow based on word infrequency, so more interesting words would gain higher scores, exactly to mitigate the phenomenon you describe here.
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by sings 5y ago
I want to push back on this idea that designers are out to destroy everything. I think one interesting way to look at these sort of changes is analogous to the introduction of new features in code. In the short term, new features can be add
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by sings 5y ago
Yep this would be great. I was surprised that my two 10 letter words didn’t get the full score, so would be curious to see what the winning solution was.
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by sings 5y ago
Absolute stand-outs from my teens, twenties and thirties, respectively, are The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien, Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Every visual/graphic/product/
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by sings 5y ago
Totally. Usually all weights have the equivalent nodes and curves in their bezier paths, so that intermediate weights can be interpolated between masters. The only delta in size you would get is if the joining/flattening of these paths
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by sings 5y ago
Yeah I wonder how this will be resolved. The screenshots of Photoshop on the Apple store page show a menu that runs quite close to the notch. Will menu items be truncated or pop up randomly on the other side? How will it work for less terse
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by sings 5y ago
I didn’t really understand why the sibling selector was introduced as a scoped version of the lobotomised owl, as if that was the canonical implementation. The sibling selector has always been underrated.
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by sings 5y ago
There isn’t much difference and both are really correct. The problem with ‘any’ as raised here is the ambiguity. It could be taken to mean ‘any harm, if it occurred’ or ‘any single bit of harm that did occur’. So in this sense ‘all harm’ wo
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by sings 6y ago
Agreed, this definitely goes off on a tangent. The article is mostly about switching two fonts with the expectation that the visual size of the characters remains consistent. That expectation fails because the em size is arbitrary with resp
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by sings 6y ago
> The most common solution I see online is to swap layouts when the page drops below a certain aspect ratio or width, which can actually be kind of annoying on desktops. It's a hacky solution. In many scenarios, there is no way to i
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by sings 6y ago
Not to dismiss your comment - my partner is an architect and also swears by the mouse to navigate in 3D - but I got an external trackpad when getting an external keyboard (to replace my poorly performing MacBook keyboard) and I have preferr
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by sings 6y ago
Yep it's totally up to the type designer which extra glyphs are supported alongside tabular numerals. Usually period, comma, plus, minus, equals, dollar (and other currencies), space, but I've never thought to include a question m
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by sings 6y ago
As someone who does type design, "duplexed" is the term I've seen used most often. It is usually used when talking about tabular numerals, which are monospaced and duplexed (sharing the same advance width for glyphs across
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by sings 6y ago
Tabular numerals, when done correctly, are both monospaced and duplexed (sharing the same advance width) across weights.
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by sings 6y ago
Ha, I didn’t expect to see Robert Penner pop up, whose easing functions are kind of ubiquitous in the front-end world.
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by sings 6y ago
I agree that this feels like a critical misstep. Casual gamers will not want an over the top design in their living room. Maybe they are intentionally ignoring that market with this generation, but I was thinking of upgrading my PS3 and am
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by sings 6y ago
I love Coffescript, Sass and Pug for exactly this reason. Just my opinion, though.
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by sings 6y ago
If the transition is the biggest problem what about doing it gradually between the two extremes. Now that most devices adjust their time automatically it seems like non-standard day lengths wouldn’t be a huge problem.
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by sings 6y ago
This is awesome. The fact that it writes the same word very differently each time is impressive. Would be interesting to know the underlying mechanics.
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by sings 6y ago
> The characters within both subfamilies, Sans & Mono, maintain the exact same width across all font styles, independently of the values set on the Weight, Casual, Slant, and Cursive axes. It’s very impressive that they have managed
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by sings 6y ago
Love this idea. At one point a few years ago I was keen on creating a visual interface for lodash for non-coders. Watching nontechnical users try to navigate repetitive tasks is always hugely frustrating. Decided in the end that if they won
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by sings 6y ago
This is the browser trying to produce a bold version of the typeface when one wasn’t loaded in.
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by sings 6y ago
Personally I’ve also always found Coffeescript easier to read and more pleasurable to write because of its syntax, especially its reliance on white-space. But it seems this is one of those things that really divide people into two groups. M
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by sings 6y ago
My guess is a lower barrier to entry and lack of enforced building standards.
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by sings 7y ago
“Data thinking”, “data doing” and “data participation” struck me as an unintuitive way to categorise digital literacy, especially as the example for “doing” seems to fit more squarely under critical thinking: “being able to identify and hig
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by sings 7y ago
Personally I think it’s force simulation and geo/projection libraries are the thing that have made it stand out. It seems to be the de facto choice for any mapping or simulation visualisations. It’s DOM selection mechanics are neither
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by sings 7y ago
Not disagreeing – I do this often too – but the downside can be having a very large dataset which in turn generates a very large response, which might be more efficiently sent as data and constructed client-side. Less importantly, Google’

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