Foomandoonian

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by Foomandoonian 7y ago
Oh, and the slogan 'We know' is incredibly sinister. :D
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by Foomandoonian 7y ago
This seems poorly thought out in a lot of respects, but I think specifying "unusual people" is emblematic. The kinds of people who describe them selves as 'unusual' brings to mind very conventional folks trying to projec
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by Foomandoonian 8y ago
The Medium Design blog is a great resource if you want to unpick their design. They talk in great detail about the various typefaces they have chosen over the years, and why. https://medium.design/ Butterick’s Practical Typ
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by Foomandoonian 10y ago
I really want a fully-featured podcast player that syncs with an app on my phone. I want to be able to manage subscriptions, ask about new episodes, play episodes at different speeds and generally use the kinds of features that the good p
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by Foomandoonian 10y ago
As if the ergonomics of laptops weren't bad enough already. Makes my neck tense just looking at it.
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by Foomandoonian 11y ago
New when? The 90s? I'd rather just use plain text.
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by Foomandoonian 11y ago
"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today ar
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by Foomandoonian 11y ago
See also ReMarkdown: http://fvsch.com/code/remarkdown/ I'm sure there was another one too. I was going to make a WordPress theme with it at the time, but never got around to it. You can go in the opposite dir
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by Foomandoonian 11y ago
I was wondering this recently. It's hard to imagine this happening here in the UK. The thought of police in riot gear kicking down doors and waving guns around sounds beyond crazy to me.
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Google has a terrible 404 page(halfblog.net)
2 points by Foomandoonian 12y ago|0 comments
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by Foomandoonian 13y ago
Ironically when I read this on my iPhone the text size was much smaller than an average novel. (Also, the line-heights need some TLC). I like larger text, but I find this too big (when I read it on a computer). And I think for valid reasons
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by Foomandoonian 13y ago
I agree. If I don't want to be interrupted, I close down the client. I don't really see how this is much different to manually setting my status to 'busy'.
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by Foomandoonian 13y ago
Relevant: 'Here’s how central London would look if the Tube map was geographically correct' http://www.mapfodder.com/london.html
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by Foomandoonian 13y ago
Same here. In addition, I usually attempt to perform an action that will result in a visible response, like scrolling or selecting text, so that if/when the app does start responding again, I'll see. I also sometimes move the window or swit
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by Foomandoonian 13y ago
The Wired PR one is too much. I read WIR :D PR. I quite like the idea of having a smiley in a company name actually…
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by Foomandoonian 13y ago
The idea needs a lot of development - and a name better than a 'thinkerspace'. Math and music? What about philosophy, literature, other branches of science? I can think and write with my flouncy fountain pen at home, so what are the merits
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by Foomandoonian 13y ago
[Wondering aloud] Would a better approach be to activate the sharing icons on mouseover? Sure, users would do this accidentally, but those concerned about privacy could learn to avoid those areas of blogs. Those who don't care (or pay atten
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
And I don't think the site has improved in any meaningful way. Someone should fork it and make something better. (Also, the headline should be 'Dark Patterns: Are They Ethical?' not 'Is It Ethical'.)
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
I could have written this myself! I wish I had some answers for you...
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Unexpectedly awesome! I kinda wish you could navigate from it though. Eg: When I click on the TED laptop, load the talk in below.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Dropbox should rename mods 'Support Volunteers' or something, just so users know what kind of help they're getting. I don't understand why the mods were so quick to defend DB, especially since they don't appear to have access to any privile
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Like a priority inbox for Twitter. I've wanted this since very early on. Some of the best tweeters get drowned out. It says a lot that Twitter basically gave this power to advertisers (promoted tweets) for them to put themselves in front of
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
SMS will never take off. Why would anyone fiddle with a tiny keyboard when they could just use the same phone to call someone?
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Vive la revolution!
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Kudos.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Gruber once mentioned that he'd like to have Thurott on The Talk Show. I'd love to hear that.
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Same as ReMarkdown? http://fvsch.com/code/remarkdown/
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
I've uploaded a screenshot for anyone who just wants a peek: http://decodering.com/post/41361083824/helium (I tweaked the padding too.)
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The infographics of xkcd(halfblog.net)
3 points by Foomandoonian 14y ago|0 comments
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by Foomandoonian 14y ago
Agreed. It was the very first thing I looked for. Even if there aren't enough ratings to be meaningful, seeing movies higher up or lower down than fans think they should be will encourage them to jump in and 'fix' things. :)

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