Skeuomorph

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by Skeuomorph 4mo ago
Skeuomorphs are cultural algorithms, borrowing functional forms of the past to make the new objects of similar function more comfortably familiar. The ribs on the handle of a knife are skeuomorphic of the vines wrapped on the hand end
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by Skeuomorph 13y ago
Form indicates function? Or at least insinuates.
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by Skeuomorph 14y ago
There's a tremendous advantage in making new things feel "comfortably familiar". His iPad drawing apps are great examples. I showed Paper to a Mom recently, who immediately purchased the full kit for her kids. It's interesting to me that
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by Skeuomorph 15y ago
I think that definition misses most of the point that the similarity is a deliberate throwback. I'd say a skeuomorph is a (often otherwise unnecessary) design feature that makes a new object feel familiar. "Skeuomorphs are material metaph
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by Skeuomorph 16y ago
> You seem to be saying the he's very talented, so it's likely not a lack of ability, but a lack of will. False dichotomy ... If a developer does quality work as claimed above, its unlikely he's missing deadlines from lack of will, wa
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by Skeuomorph 16y ago
> he is consistently missing deadlines and has failed to be very productive. His work is of top quality (why I selected him), but his progress is disappointingly slow Programmers "misunderestimate" deadlines. There are countless book
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by Skeuomorph 16y ago
Handstand. (Or fingers.)
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by Skeuomorph 16y ago
Tanks are still driven this way. Never thought of it as reins.
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by Skeuomorph 16y ago
I suppose now the cat's out of the bag.
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by Skeuomorph 16y ago
I agree with you. In the video I didn't see a medium white Canon lens as illustrated there. I'm not sure guessing at what a man in a hostile zone is brandishing from behind a corner is going to help: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/
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by Skeuomorph 16y ago
Right, because photo stills from "collateralmurder.com" are intended to convey the ease of identification from a moving helicopter during a live situation? There are other form factors for RPGs: http://world.guns.ru/grenade/rpg22-2.jpg
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by Skeuomorph 16y ago
> clearly unarmed Even "collateralmurder.com" says the men are carrying "something that might be a weapon" and "what appears to be a weapon" and that site is hardly unbiased.
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
Meaning revenue if this particular latest good month were multiplied by 12, which, if growing, gives a number larger than actual annual revenue.
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
I understand the pigeonhole filing example, but I quit "filing" years ago. It's tedious. Tagging also takes too much thought, particularly at recall time: did I tag that "development" or "programming"? I just use search. I have a script
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
First, I love reMail. Gabor breathes email and search. If you own an iPhone and use Gmail or Google Apps, get reMail--you'll thank him. That said, it's easy to skim this article and nod, "Yeah! Yeah!", but when we're discussing these, lay
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
Techcrunch could be delivered as a PDF. I get it on my Kindle. Just as most new web sites are not startup companies, most existing web sites are not apps. The distinction and difference is that a software application helps a user perform m
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
Is "O-off" a subtle dig at OAuth, or an audio transcription typo?
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
Sheldon State Community College in Alabama had their information rejected when their paperwork said that 14,500 jobs were created with the $27,502 they received. Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explai
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
> the interesting code snippets Copyright allows snippets of works for discussion under concept of fair use. It doesn't allow wholesale republishing into a distribution channel of the complete original work -- even if your first line d
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
The directions used to illustrate the improvements would have been more interesting if all were between the same points.
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
Except, say, CloudFront, which requires S3 as origin.
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
Speaking of Google, accepting username+label@gmail.com is a sign of the true faith. (Curiously, while most sites object, folks from Tirerack to VMware accept it but then occasionally URL-decode the + as a space, wreaking all manner of unfor
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you track frequency or recency of use? Just remembering, or is there data to be found?
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
> If you perceive that the value of something that you have is more than you're being offered, that's the market saying "keep it". Or, with no supply, and no demand, it could be argued there is no market--no people showing up saying any
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
Also LibyanSpider.com
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
That inline bookmarklet didn't work in Safari 4 (OSX 10.6), but the bookmarklet from http://www.longurlplease.com/ did--thank you for sharing it.
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
Sure: http://lindal.com/homes/gallery/dwell_homes.cfm I don't own a Lindal home, but do love this collection and their "small home" collection: http://lindal.com/homes/gallery/small_treasures/summit.cfm
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
That's like asking (in 2006 after the Intel switch but before everyone heard of the iPhone), "If it's so much better, why doesn't anyone want a Mac?" Arguably, "the market" didn't even know what it was, much less why they should value one.
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
In 2009, it's fair to say the market doesn't understand the term market. Less flippantly, "the market" and "the market for a well-patterened home" are two different things, and with zero properties of any kind changing hands for 10 - 12 mon
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by Skeuomorph 17y ago
There's an unforeseen problem with well patterned livable houses--they often don't sell well to conventional real estate buyers. If you need to relocate or access equity quickly, you're stuck with an remarkable property but buyers looking

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