tiddchristopher

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by tiddchristopher 14y ago
It's a TIE Advanced x1. Although features developed for it were incorporated into the later TIE/IN Interceptor, the x1 had substantial differences, such as shielding and FTL capabilities. The mass-production craft resulting directly from th
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by tiddchristopher 14y ago
To improve the preview for Windows and Linux users, why don't you use Typekit with Nimbus Sans (a rather accurate Helvetica clone)? Many designers and typophiles won't trust a service that doesn't accurately render the type on a typographic
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by tiddchristopher 14y ago
I think you're looking at the wrong page. If you go to facebook.com while logged out, the "Log In" and "Sign Up" buttons use the technique described by the above poster.
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by tiddchristopher 14y ago
Excellent points, especially regarding photographs. I was thinking of that case already, and hadn't considered the arrangement of facts within a post; what came to mind first was the collection of posts as their own arrangement of facts.
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by tiddchristopher 14y ago
You're right about that, and I think that's going to make their claim a bit unsteady. But I see an argument they might make: 1. Classified ads are facts, with negligible creativity put into their composition. 2. Facts are not copyrightable.
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by tiddchristopher 14y ago
It's not at all like that. The interesting thing seems to be the claim that Craigslist posts lack creativity, which Amazon reviews certainly do have. 3Taps is claiming the posts can't be protected by copyright, because you can't copyright f
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by tiddchristopher 14y ago
This is an example I threw together to demonstrate: http://i.imgur.com/0z73s.png I hope it helps explain. Also, lbotos posted an excellent example of hanging quotes and other non-bullet punctuation. If you find yourself liking typographic
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by tiddchristopher 14y ago
Designer here. I recommend aligning your bullets with the paragraphs above and below for inline text, and hanging to reinforce the grid when you have blocks of content next to each other horizontally -- say, two paragraphs and a list. I hop
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
If you're honestly interested in knowing how I came to that conclusion, here's my proof: Try telling apart "be" and "ad", with no nearby words. They are identical, because you don't know where the baseline is.
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
Typographically, this has horrible legibility: the letters are difficult to distinguish and recognize on an individual basis. This contributes to poor readability when the letters are grouped to form passages of text. This seems much more a
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
To clarify, we measured about 8000 Ohms of resistance through the head, using our electrodes. For some reason, our measurement was off. I'm assuming it's a problem with the electrodes. To fix this issue, we'd need constant monitoring and ad
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
Nice work, Chris! I particularly like your embedded calling functionality. Where did you get it from? If anyone's looking something a bit more configurable, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sopa-blackout-plugin/ is another option. Dis
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I've been using precisely that solution for several months. It's perfect, and I have absolutely no worries about weight, because there are several screws along the length of each bar. My laptop and monitor go on one rack, and my keyboard an
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
These are all great resources, but remember: The most important part of design is sitting back and thinking about the impact your choices will make. What will a given element say about your product? How will it affect functionality? If you
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I sent you an email. (chris@ctidd.com)
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I've had a problem on my system (Firefox 4.0-9.1, Windows 7), where upon clicking a result link, the search results page refreshes. Nothing else happens. I can't get to individual results without middle clicking to open them in a new tab. T
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
The room's pretty neat, but I'm having trouble understanding why a college student would put this much effort into something that needs to be torn down at the end of the year. I get the "because I can" hacker attitude, but as someone headin
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
That sounds brilliant for single-column layouts. Too bad it wouldn't hold up to a multi-column approach.
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
One of the things vertical rhythm's used for is making two parallel columns of text align with each other at regular intervals. From my limited knowledge of music, every measure of a song, the song's elements align. In a design, every measu
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
That would be the cynical way to look at it. For a sole inventor, working independently of any company, I think the filing fee is about $150. It's possible he had enough saved to pay for it himself. :) Heck, judging from his report, the kid
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
The description, "The study earned Aidan a provisional U.S patent," is misleading. A provisional patent is merely a completely automated recognition of your claim to an invention. You submit your provisional filing, and then have one year t
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
Regarding constructive criticism, I posted elsewhere in this thread that Muse generated a div to preload hover images. It's a nice bit of usability optimization, but the code could certainly benefit from a dose of minimalism. Even if Muse i
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I can't tell whether you're suggesting a solution or taking a guess as to what Muse did. I think it's the latter. Sorry if I interpreted your question incorrectly. :) They're using a hidden div full of <img> elements to load the hov
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
The original does have at least one advantage: preloaded hover images. It's nice for them to improve usability a tiny bit, along with all the bloat. I can't imagine a complete newcomer to HTML and CSS hacking together a page and having it c
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I strongly disagree with your recommendation. The article talks about saddles with relief cutouts or depressions, to make sure no pressure is put on the perineum. Saddles with cutouts are fine--even better than normal saddles for some peopl
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
My gut reaction is that well-made typefaces for digital use, which are often designed with hinting in mind, would lose their benefits. For most fonts, though, it shouldn't make a difference whether antialiasing or subpixel rendering is done
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I remember creating a blank password on Mac OS9 in grade school. It was clearly a bug that allowed me to do it, because the minimum password length was set to six characters, if I recall correctly. After I set the null password, I couldn't
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
So the primary purpose in giving people economically worthless education is to prevent them from committing crimes? So it's economically worthless to decrease the number of criminals in society?
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I agree. I gave that code as an example of a bad idea. For me, "If you can, then use that relative size in your CSS", has never been an option. Ems also have the same sizing problems regarding not knowing the browser's base text size. I'm s

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