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That said, it is nice to have something different from the usual simple sans model of most modern monospaces (e.g., Deja Vu Sans Mono, Consolas, and Inconsolata). Anonymous has a lot of character – which either interests or annoys you.
It's been my default in Vim for some months now.
A sleeping computer could softly snore. Or the logo text on the lid could blur like tired vision. Neither of those is a blinking light.
I often don't think about the specifics of what I want until I've started typing, then I realize, "Oh, I actually want the wikipedia page of this." So I have to Ctrl-A to the beginning and type !w [space].
It's not a big hassle, but it'd be great if I could skip that step.
The sign-in requirement only exists when viewing on the YouTube site.
Here is a flagged video if you want to test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6ywcBY
I think it's because I interact with boarding passes so infrequently that the data alone isn't enough for me to glean information – I need the explanation of what I'm looking at.
E.g., I know (555) 492-2882 (in the U.S.) is a phone number without it being labeled because I use phones enough to learn the format. I don't immediately know that Zone 5 is a seating schedule or a gate, because I don't fly enough.
I could see the design slowing down experienced fliers though (verbose UI tends to do that). It looks like the data is repeated in a just-the-facts style in the right column (maybe for that exact reason), but rather than repeating everything I think it'd be cool if the descriptive section was rearranged so the numbers all line up vertically or something for even easier scanning for those who know what the numbers mean.
I'm really impressed with that design solution though, and how JJ approached it differently from everyone else.
In a 2002 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects "an individual's fundamental right to purchase books anonymously, free from governmental interference." The justices tossed out a subpoena from police to the Tattered Cover Bookstore asking for information about what books a certain customer had purchased.
And in a 2007 case, federal prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to force Amazon to identify thousands of innocent customers who bought books online, but abandoned the idea after a judge rebuked them. Judge Stephen Crocker in Wisconsin ruled that "the subpoena is troubling because it permits the government to peek into the reading habits of specific individuals without their prior knowledge or permission."
Google probably assumes email is closely tied with browsing.
http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Appl...
Making a show out of kicking out late students is self-important. The professor extrapolating from this one event that the student is failing at life and should be thankful this professor set him straight indicates more of that attitude to me.
I've been in classes where a late student was told to leave. It was way more distracting than if he'd just been allowed to sit down because it sets off a bunch of pondering and empathy, and you look around you to see what the other students think about the situation, and you're no longer hearing the teacher talk.
– Microsoft Laptop Hunters ad, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIS6G-HvnkU
Obviously cool here is meant as wasteful or snobbish, but it shows Microsoft is fine painting themselves as the frugal, not-exclusive brand.
You're right though that milliseconds should be the second argument, not the first.
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/6mkPT.png
Edit: Found this: http://soundinthemachine.org/2009/01/21/the-swaying-car-door...
Few things sound like they actually do. The sounds made by technology are more a story about what it should sound like than what it actually does.
Because drivers don’t get the sensation of a “real” car in a hybrid electric car, speakers are now being placed in the cab to play synthetic engine noise for the driver. And, because it’s synthetic, the noise piped into a Prius can be made to sound like a Lamborghini.
The main benefit for me, and one you don't mention, is safety. Knowing I have actual time to react in an emergency instead of being stuck with brake hard and pray I think really calms my subconscious.
– The linked article is all I could find about men having better stereoscopic vision.
– All women being able to see a fourth primary color is not at all agreed on, but there may be some who can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
I don't see how either trait necessarily correlates with being a better hunter or gardner. Are people who see a fourth primary color better at picking the ripe tomatoes? Maybe. But it makes sense isn't science.
Not snark – you have to justify throwing out your table + spacer.gif knowledge to learn how to do things with div + css. Maybe he doesn't see a huge benefit.
Also (http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html):
Arc embodies a similarly unPC attitude to HTML. The predefined libraries just do everything with tables. Why? Because Arc is tuned for exploratory programming, and the W3C-approved way of doing things represents the opposite spirit.
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Tables are the lists of html. The W3C doesn't like you to use tables to do more than display tabular data because then it's unclear what a table cell means. But this sort of ambiguity is not always an error. It might be an accurate reflection of the programmer's state of mind. In exploratory programming, the programmer is by definition unsure what the program represents.
It's amazing to me how nice odd light switches are. Twisty knobs or metal buttons – anything besides the normal off-white plastic switch and cover.
They don't play as well with my muscle memory, but that inefficiency becomes a good thing somehow: it's something I remember.
Edit: It has full names as the alt text for each photo. That is completely unnecessary.
Here's the open directory of all the photos: http://picktheperp.com/mugs/
Available as a Mac screensaver (link in the bottom left). Similar idea with a different execution.
Right, but you still have to talk about it carefully. People here definitely got obsessed with your dumbing down comment. It's probably good to avoid words like smart or dumb since they can end up being a distraction.
> How much value was there for me in explaining what I meant by "lounge in a club"?
Explaining the lounge area was very helpful to me. The lounge areas in the places I've been to aren't really separate from the main part -- so not quiet or intimate like what you're describing. Your comments about conversation there make more sense now.
> I don't understand why you think that, or why you think the problem I have is with the strip club.
I see only two comments that mention it besides your own, and your original post has it inserted as a distracting aside. I was just observing, not trying to confront you. I get that you're trying to give an encompassing view of your social circle.
But then if it is supposed to illustrate patterns of behavior, does it mean you regularly do things with your social group that you don't enjoy?
But I'm confused. Do you really expect meaty, stimulating conversation when you go clubbing?
Also, you seem to be going out of your way to bring up the strip club. If you don't like it don't go.
I don't know why some people here rag on new users so hard: everytime I've encountered a particularly low quality submission or comment it was from a 100+ day account.
The part about people justifying their anger post-explanation is really true and is present in some of the comments on the post. It seems to mean chastising Amazon for taking too long to address the serious situation – which seems code for giving people too much time to make fools of themselves.
People need to slow down and think.