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by vicbrooker 13y ago
I have a bit of a feeling that this will be a point that people in 20 years will consider a turning point in the bubble that we're in now; it's too premature to say whether this is good or bad though. That said, I can't come
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
amazon?
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
Similar, but at least one option has a mathematical possibility of working out...
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
Perhaps to summarise further: subjective favouritism (perceived or actual) will harm morale and should therefore be avoided?
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
'Honestly' grading a kid is tricky, especially because, as you mentioned, a teacher's ethics (or lack thereof) may skew things. I'm not sure if it's the exact word I would use but I agree with the principle that met
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
> Yes. The question is how do you encourage curiosity and creativity in kids? I'm working on this now, and should be ready to talk more openly soon. More useful data than test scores can be measured in classroom, and I'm curren
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
The implications in this article that strict = effective are flat-out stupid. A teacher does not have to be hardass to encourage children to have high expectations and to be OK with failure. I think a truly effective teacher, at all levels,
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
I'm seeing a bit of confusion between correlation and causation, but the full paper seems to make a different point to the article anyway. I only skimmed so I'm not informed enough to summarise. Full study here: http://
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
Phraseology highlights selected words and is cumulative. Writer Pro dims the 'unselected' words and (I'm assuming) doesn't let you stack word classes. I prefer Writer Pro's execution. I can see it as something that
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
My understanding of the feature is that you can focus on a specific syntactical category and dim everything else out while you edit. This will let you focus solely on adverb use (for example) and make changes accordingly. Phraseology 2 has
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
Considering Tarsnap doesn't have a GUI I'd suggest a text-only logo - something like Tarsnap_ for a full logo and then just T_ for social media icons/favicon/128x128. I can put something together but at the end of the da
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
Looks great! It's probably slightly more iOS-7-ey to replace the hamburger icon with the text 'Menu' - but then you'd have to go the full hog and have a white overlay so that you can color the actionable text. Having a w
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
Personally I think that it's a bit misleading to lump bugs and questionable design choices under the same 'sloppy' banner. Good quality criticism regarding choices developers and designers have made have lead to some of the b
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
The message I'm getting from these examples is that designers will need to invest a lot more effort into UX under iOS 7 compared to 6. To me it seems obvious which teams have spent a lot of time reworking their app to fit the language
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
My startup is indirectly dealing with this - some schools are currently testing out app that helps children (and teachers for that matter) identify and manage emotions. Early signs are that children can be 'prompted' to apply empa
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Ask HN: How do you conceptualize the internet?
6 points by vicbrooker 13y ago|1 comments
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
I still don't really get what you're trying to say. Mentioning that a power is contained within a clause of the Telecommunications Act doesn't really mean much. All 594 subsections need to be read in conjunction with each oth
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
This seems to be the source, it has a little bit more information: http://www.wyndhamweekly.com.au/story/1628329/experts-slam-w...
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
I apologise because I'm probably missing something, but I don't understand how the amendment affects the gathering of metadata in any way. The explanatory memorandum seems to make it pretty clear that the Commonwealth isn't g
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by vicbrooker 13y ago
'I don't want to partner up with the wrong person.' This runs both ways. You need to prove to all your potential cofounders that you're the right person to partner with too. They will want to know that you're qualified and interested Do you
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by vicbrooker 14y ago
I happened to be poking around DN when this went up (I had a tab open from when I was reading about the Flat UI malarky) This was close to the top of the front page on HN, so I'm fairly confident that they're talking about this: http://new
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by vicbrooker 14y ago
tl;dr - Complaints relating to UI's are bound to get more common as the minimalist trend continues. This sucks because a lot of the time complaints will be invalid/mislead and stressful for all involved. Let's kill design trolling before it
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Ask HN: How do we stop 'design trolls'?
1 points by vicbrooker 14y ago|2 comments
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by vicbrooker 14y ago
In regards to the author's skepticism with using voice input, we had a bit of a theory running in a HN previous thread that Glass will measure sound vibrations of your skull to accurately work out what you're saying. Similar tech has been u
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by vicbrooker 14y ago
Trademark and trade dress have nothing to do with a DMCA takedown though. And besides, establishing an infringement of trademark and that it was then infringed will require an absolute mountain of cash and lawyers and time. I'm assuming the
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by vicbrooker 14y ago
Does this mean I'm not allowed to use Google any more because they're using that colour palette on something that's free...?
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by vicbrooker 14y ago
I know that its a bit of a stretch but it wouldn't have surprised me if the head/bubble icon came up during the email conversation that preceded the DMCA being filed though. Doesn't mean I agree with it, but if you're going to have everythi
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by vicbrooker 14y ago
Colour schemes are irrelevant to the DCMA as they can't be copyrighted, though they can be trademarked in some circumstances. Either way there isn't a relevant infringement. Hope it wasn't the basis for the DMCA takedown...
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by vicbrooker 14y ago
I can't help but think this sort of thing is going to happen more and more as we move towards a flat/minimalist UI. I've read comments (not on HN) from people who have endorsed the DMCA takedown because of their personal ethics and morals r
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by vicbrooker 14y ago
There's arguably the talking heads as well: http://dribbble.com/shots/800428-LayerVault-icon-set-for-del... http://i.imgur.com/xDDULcG.png

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