TorbjornLunde

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by TorbjornLunde 7y ago
I find it strange that when people defend so called “race science” today a common argument seems to be along the lines of “this is correct because some people have negative emotional response to something”. While having a negative emotional
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by TorbjornLunde 7y ago
Different moral considerations sometimes come in conflict forcing you to choose between different compromises. Avoiding harm is a moral principle I'm sure many share and there are cases where this conflicts with being honest. If you g
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by TorbjornLunde 7y ago
My bet is the licensing stuff which can make it difficult/expensive to make proprietary apps with it. (In practice , I know the picture is a bit complicated.) Also, personally, while QML probably is the nicest OOP/bindings style
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by TorbjornLunde 7y ago
Web != internet. HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc are web technologies. TCP/IP (among other things) are internet technologies. Web tech builds upon internet tech.
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by TorbjornLunde 7y ago
TypeScript's complexity comes from trying to model typical JavaScript patterns using a compile-time type system. It turns out trying to model a dynamic language's typical usage at compile-time is lead to some complicated stuff. Pe
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by TorbjornLunde 7y ago
One problem with banning plastic straws as well is that many disabled people are dependent on them to be able to drink. AFAIK the alternatives (other kinds of straws) don't work well.
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by TorbjornLunde 7y ago
> I always thought this was communism Communism can be slightly confusing to talk about as it describes both a specific kind of society, ideology/ideologies and a kind of state. It's certainly one kind of socialism. Communism a
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by TorbjornLunde 7y ago
Socialism means that the workplace are owned and controlled by the workers. You can still have a marketplace of such workplaces. There are forms of socialism that do include a free market (i.e. left-wing market socialism, etc…)
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by TorbjornLunde 8y ago
It's complicated. We are also known for being some of the most conformist cultures in the world.
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by TorbjornLunde 11y ago
According to John Sculley’s in the book Points of View a tribute to Alan Kay, Apple invested in Cray hardware in order to simulate what the computing power of a desktop 10 years ahead would be and what kind of possibilities it would offer.
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by TorbjornLunde 11y ago
Anybody used it compiled to JavaScript? What’s your experience? How does it compare to TypeScript?
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by TorbjornLunde 11y ago
While this talk could be said to be a talk where he points out problems but don’t show solutions. Anyway he has a talk here which at least show some more recent examples of what he considers a better way: Is it really "Complex"? O
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by TorbjornLunde 13y ago
I think Oculus Rift i combination with something like Leap could lead the way for useful 3D-interfaces. I don’t like the term VR reality. To me it’s the skeuomorphism of the 3D-world. Instead of trying to simulate the real world, why not us
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by TorbjornLunde 13y ago
Talking about “true” feminism is almost meaningless (or at least very imprecise). There are several strands of feminism. Radical feminism in particular tend to have a complete disregard for men’s issues, but my experience is that there are
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by TorbjornLunde 13y ago
I think Adobe have slowly killed Fireworks for years by slowly letting it languish (as opposed to the swift axe that cut Freehand).
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by TorbjornLunde 13y ago
I’m always annoyed when Norway is called socialist. It’s social democracy (which I think could be called socialst-capialist democracy). I think the same applies to many european countries.
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by TorbjornLunde 13y ago
Rasmus is also behind the original design of Spotify interaction design, branding and more. He is one of the most talented designers I know about, this is really good news for Dropbox!
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Movist has a “navigation mode” that works well as a simple Front Row replacement.
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
I strongly disagree that reversibility is a small feature. Whenever Plugging the chargers to new iOS devices is effortless the same way as headphones jacks. Non-symmetrical connectors are an affront to usability.
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Really cool. Does something similar exist for Ruby?
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
I disagree, there is a lot of design that still feels quite modern, especially within furniture (Dieter Ram’s famous shelving system holds up quite well for instance). If you go for a timeless style it’s usually the technology limitations (
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Looks really interesting. I’ll definitely consider using this. Seems great for collaboration. Idea: integrate something like this with a version control system like Git(hub)?
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
“Engineers shouldn't think about design.” In my experience engineers who think a little bit about design work better with designers than those who don’t.
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
AFAIK it was only a part of that was moved to Scala. The web interface is still written in Ruby. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Technology
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
It depends on the target audience. I agree that there should always be some difference between non-visited and visited links. Also, if your website’s main audience is Joe User I guess having it in a color (if you play it safe: blue) is an a
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Very interesting, but the Flash-based player of this is not very readable. Is it available as a PDF?
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Because Apple has been inspired by them, not out-right copied them. Apple take ideas from Braun and put them into different contexts (products). Samsung have taken Apple’s ideas and put them into the exact same context (or so the argument g
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
I imagine this is primarily meant for creating static content such as print posters. (I see that they are working on a web version, and regarding that I have to say I agree.)
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
You might want to check out Flow by MetaLab. They have a really native iPhone client and quite desktop-y web interface. http://www.getflow.com
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
There has been quite a debate in the wake of this, and the our anti-terror institution have admitted that no increase of power and knowledge of their part would likely not have done a big difference. It is apparently extremely difficult to

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