trogdoro

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by trogdoro 15y ago
That could probably be done. What's the use case? Maybe if you think of a good plot for the http://dotsies.org/game I'll take a stab at it :)
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Greg and Pitman both look interesting - http://omniglot.com/writing/shorthand.htm There's a potential to borrow some of the concepts while typing in dotsies, utilizing some of the many possible modifier keys that having the alphabet on bo
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Ok, now the alien can eat the other characters, but I don't know why. Anyone good at making up plots?
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by trogdoro 15y ago
I added some characters. Someone give me a plot!
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Ok, here's a start: http://dotsies.org/game/ You can move it around with the arrow keys. It says "alien". Now what should it do?
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Ah yes, it's fun to say those words while listening to a little of the old Ludwig Van. Maybe even a little of the old in and - alright I'll stop there.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Omg, there should totally be a game like that to help people learn!
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Just add the accents at the top - http://dotsies.org/m/#%F8x+isf+%F4x+pt%F2q+xysjhh%E1
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Numbers are unaltered. Optimizing them wouldn't save much space in normal english text, since they're rare. Hey, new anus is a perfectly respectable holiday. Here are some examples of accents: http://dotsies.org/m/#%F8x+isf+%F4x+pt%F2q+xy
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Here are some accents. I'm adding them to the font as people request them at https://twitter.com/dotsiesfont http://dotsies.org/m/#%F8x+isf+%F4x+pt%F2q+xysjhh%E1
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by trogdoro 15y ago
> The idea with chording is you press symbols simultaneously to write an entire word That's not typically the case - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chording_keyboard . > this is how stenographers are able to type >300wpm Stenogra
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Interesting! Here's a similar version that's more horizontally condensed: http://dotsies.org/morse I get asked this a lot, so I threw this together just now.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
> You can knock out /c/, /q/ and /x/ right off-- maybe a couple other consonants (/j/?) with creative digraphs (/gi/?). Sounds a bit like omniglot.com/writing/franklin.htm. Franklin scrapped c, j, q, w, x, and y. The idea sounds reason
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by trogdoro 15y ago
That's probably largely because the circuits in your brain have become finely honed on latin characters, after reading letters many millions of times for many years. It's difficult to know how that image would appear to someone who was equa
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Maybe a hybrid between the two would help?
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Yeah, I had a similar reaction. I wonder if it would be interesting to have a hybrid. Like maybe the letters could start out as Roman, then change (one at a time) into the letter-shaped dots, then change (one at a time) into just dots.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Cool. Curious if others like this style better than the original link also.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
It sort of makes the words become symbols.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
> if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently might work better for me. How's this? http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple-2.html
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by trogdoro 15y ago
You can grab the bookmarklet at dotsies.org to use the font on any web page. If you're referring to going gradually from letters to dots then yes, happy to post the script.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Try it out and post a link! It would be interesting to see.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Here you go (the 1st 12 chapters): http://dotsies.org/stories/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.htm...
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Mostly for space-efficiency. See http://dotsies.org for a better description.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Very interesting thoughts! > it would be fun to click a bookmarklet You can grab a bookmarklet for this at dotsies.org (the blue button).
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Here's a shorter one. The first one is a bit long: http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple.html If you have any preferences for any stories from gutenberg.org I can add those too.
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Learn to read a binary font by reading a story(dotsies.org)
196 points by trogdoro 15y ago|128 comments
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Video of new 3D web page view in Firefox - pretty amazing.(youtube.com)
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Great point. "This is correct for the reasons stated" comments are almost as annoying / spammy as the shallow negative comments, which makes it a tougher problem to solve.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Yeah, seriously. Was it necessary to add "stupid and wrong"? Your suggestion that he go off and play by himself at a new message board probably would have sufficed without that thoughtful addition.
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by trogdoro 15y ago
Just... your idea will never work!! K, joke over for now :) I agree. There have got to be a few clever / simple ways of discouraging low-quality hate, without discouraging high-quality hate or moving in the direction of censoring or comple

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