vickytnz

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by vickytnz 12y ago
tl;dr I decided to take interest in something that lots of other people do so I could talk to them. I remember reading an article about the British show Bullseye that pointed out that the blue-collar workers shown in the 80s episodes actual
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by vickytnz 12y ago
OK, I missed that, but still, that suggests two US links (not that I can see the actual data, it just links to the homepage), and ... Wikipedia? What does that mean in terms of a data set?
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by vickytnz 12y ago
A comedy channel in the UK decided to rename the channel a few years back. They bandied names around, then someone said. "How about Dave? Everyone knows Dave, Dave's your mate." Dave it was. As it turns out, David has been in
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by vickytnz 12y ago
Gah, I hate stats that a) don't say where the information comes from b) don't say which part of the world they're talking about (US sites are particularly prone to this). I'm assuming this is from US census data, but it&
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by vickytnz 12y ago
The real problem with Wikipedia redesigns is that they don't address their real issue: editing . Wikipedia have serious considerations encouraging a wider audience of editors, and to do so in a verifiable and generally professional ma
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by vickytnz 12y ago
Case in point: I had an edit war on Guy Fawkes' since one person refused to let me include information about Australia and NZ celebrating it but only in organised displays due to fire concerns (with news references and all), as they co
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by vickytnz 13y ago
When I started working on my thesis, I immediately set up my entire document directory for it to be in Dropbox. At the time I paid extra for versioning but now I think it'd built into even the basic model. This also saved my friend whe
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Or as usability people say: "you are not your user".
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by vickytnz 13y ago
A pattern library is normally a collection of best UI practices: see the Yahoo UI pattern library http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/ or http://ui-patterns.com/ for the two most well known examples.
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Aral Balkan's Codename Prometheus revealed as Indie phone(indiephone.eu)
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by vickytnz 13y ago
… though as someone who's done conference reporting, it can get pretty exhausting fast (though for me I usually did the writeups that night and had to have them up the following morning. I used to go home after the conference and basic
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I hope everyone knows you're quoting "The Elements of Style" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style
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by vickytnz 13y ago
An aside: I've been reading Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store. Good, breezy, semi-techy read.
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I was at a girls' school. As a straight-A student in a rough school, helping fellow students was a tactic for not being bullied. But all it takes is one kid to decide to take an exception to you and it can all go horribly wrong. And yo
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by vickytnz 13y ago
To be honest, the distancing was only because of nuclear powered ships (NZ being proudly nuclear free and refusing US ships right to take harbour in the country cost us the ANZUS alliance). Unfortunately it only took a new threat (cyberterr
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I'd like to think that Macaw is like training wheels (or a fixie bike) for getting into web development. Is it production ready-code? Probably not. Does it do a good job of showing how things should work? Hell yes.
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I also took it to mean that it's not classy to smoke hash (i.e. 'you stay classy, San Diego' :D)
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I probably should have chosen a better mnemonic to start from! I'd point out that if you see greater and less than more like arrows it's utterly confusing. I'm not denying I'm probably weird in that respect, it's ju
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I was taught the crocodile thing, but had real issues with it: I can think it through but it's not fast. I'm pretty much ambidexterous (i.e. write with left and catch a ball with my right) so while I can do quite a lot of things w
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What coding mnemonics do you use?
27 points by vickytnz 13y ago|87 comments
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Urrgh, if you're going to ask for money, at least ensure you use 'its' correctly on the fundraising button (i.e. it should be 'reach its fundraising goal'. I really wish everyone would read the Oatmeal piece on a
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Also margin of error: the longer the name is, the more likely you'll mistype it somewhere and screw everything up.
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Amused to see how US commenters take to the famously opinionated yet erudite CIFers :D
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Great idea. One minor quibble though: it's 180 web pages or web apps for me at least. I'd say that websites require full infrastructure etc.
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Props for the Leave It To Beaver tshirt :)
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I know a designer who used to be a psychologist working with disabled children. He has a similar perspective: "it's design, not brain surgery!"
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Covers two of my pet peeves: random unnecessary info about coffee and hand-crafting pixels, and those damn skills graphs. I do like the location bit though (it's useful to know if someone is in SF rather than London).
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Doesn't being an EU citizen give you free right of work? (This is spoken as someone who's non-EU and is going to have all kinds of fun sorting out visas once I finish studying in the UK).
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I wonder if this is an American issue. I'd like to think that in the UK we're taught to be polite and that sitting at a table for hours on a single coffee would be rude.
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Depends if they can handle the infrastructure though. Auckland Central Library in NZ was right next to two universities which meant that during the day all seats were taken up by students and the internet slowed to barely able to connect. N

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