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by zb 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Our_Lisa The "solution" to the puzzle is basically the way Lisa and Homer accidentally discover the secret of the Orb of Isis in this episode. It's basically a crap puzzle based on an in-joke that only pe
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by zb 17y ago
This guy is clearly not a Simpsons fan.
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by zb 17y ago
> Apple if your [sic] listening, why not just open source PastryKit? Perhaps they already intend to, but they don't want half the world using some half-baked prerelease version and then asking them for support? I have no idea if that's
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by zb 17y ago
I'm sorry, but these strike me as the epitome of chartjunk (see Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information for context). Whatever actual data is in there is hidden in a sea of bogus pseudo-data. On the other hand, if somebody were l
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by zb 17y ago
He seems to hint at some awareness of this in Part II, but doesn't really address it explicitly. It seems more likely to me that the transition was due to existing (but very real) discrimination in the higher-status jobs combined with aut
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by zb 17y ago
To answer your (clearly rhetorical) question: Because language is the ultimate pop culture medium.
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by zb 17y ago
It's interesting how the copies are (inevitably) always deeply inferior to the originals. Except for the chair, which appears to be identical. Copying an existing design and then changing it to try to make it look like you didn't might be p
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by zb 17y ago
Well, you can't tell them. You have to lead them on a journey that ends with you both finding out.
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by zb 17y ago
The point he's making is that it isn't all about feeding your own ego. With the implication that that would be bad.
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by zb 17y ago
There are some very interesting examples of this given in the book "The Logic of Failure" by Dietrich Doerner.
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by zb 17y ago
It certainly wouldn't be considered socially acceptable here in New Zealand, even ignoring the fact that you'd almost certainly be prosecuted if you tried it. For some reason it appears to be tolerated in the U.S. despite it apparently bein
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by zb 17y ago
A better title for the article might have been "Five Heuristics for Writing Good Code".
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by zb 17y ago
I can't decide which part of this is more wrong: the part about science being purely empirical with no theoretical component, or the part about triangles having to have sides of equal lengths.
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by zb 17y ago
It's nice to see a design critique where the author actually acknowledges that it's ultimately impossible to judge the success of a design without knowing the context in which it was created.
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by zb 17y ago
That's a very good point. The assertion in the article that "All software is discovered and not invented" is making a false distinction. You could say that about anything. Was the wheel invented or discovered? In fact "invent" and "discover
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by zb 19y ago
i installed it, i'm excited