andy_herbert | 2 years ago | on: Zig 0.11
Are people supposed to realise this version number is related to Zig?
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andy_herbert | 8 years ago | on: Apple Is Really Bad at Design
I tried to take the article seriously, but the CSS animations become so distracting that it turned the piece into sublime piece of satire.
andy_herbert | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Artpacks.org – Archive of the ANSI and ASCII art scene (1990 to present)
There are still a couple of ANSI and ASCII art groups with quite an active membership. Perhaps the most notable is Blocktronics:
http://blocktronics.org
andy_herbert | 11 years ago | on: Google glass now in UK
The photography of an individual can constitute harassment even in a public place - there is no implied consent involved. Even if it were, as you implied, perfectly legal in all cases then this in no way makes the act ethical. This is especially true when concerning a new technology which makes it trivially easy to perform. I'd expect if Glass, or some descendant of it, becomes more ubiquitous, then social guideline and laws would eventually prohibit it's use in certain situations. Would you, for example, be happy with someone recording you in a public restroom?
You're also repeatedly missing the argument I've already made twice in this thread with your second paragraph,
andy_herbert | 11 years ago | on: Google glass now in UK
Either you're wilfully ignoring the point I'm making, or you've missed it completely.
I get that I might never know if or when I'm being monitored by some device, but that in no way justifies explicitly recording someone without their permission.
andy_herbert | 11 years ago | on: Google glass now in UK
Anyone recording me with a camera in their hat or on their lapel or a microphone embedded in their clothes would be treated in roughly the same manner as someone recording me using Glass.
Just because the act of wearing the recording device is in plain-sight doesn't make it anymore acceptable to people who find it objectionable.
andy_herbert | 11 years ago | on: Fazlur Khan: The engineer who made it possible to live in the sky
I appreciate the sentiment, and no disrespect for the guy either, but it makes this site a little less like 'Hacker News' and more like the front page of Wikipedia.
andy_herbert | 11 years ago | on: Fazlur Khan: The engineer who made it possible to live in the sky
Very interesting, although is there a reason that it's been posted now?
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: CSS Buttons Generator for your pleasure
Great looking button, but I have a strange aversion to stuff like this as I normally equate them with the worst examples of web advertising.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: All great managers are alike
It's worth mentioning that Woody Allen has a fairly unique relationship in Hollywood; the studios grant him an unprecedented amount of creative control and allow him to continue making films within the system for very little returns, and Actors also voluntarily take a cut in their usual fee to appear in his films.
I'm not sure what lessons can be drawn, if any, from this stray point away from the normal distribution curve.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: BigVideo.js
I really hope the websites that implement this also supply an off-switch, it looks great but detracts away from the text and reduces readability.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: Should App.net change its name?
I've got to admit this was my first thought too, but I think the scope of the business is to provide the plumbing for apps, rather the just a Twitter replacement.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: It's Time for an Open Twitter
I'm no zealot, but arguably it's always time for an open alternative to any service or product.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: The Cost of a Logo
Some of these examples are redesigns so it makes the actual cost extremely difficult, or impossible to quantify.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: A social network for programmers
I've always thought of Stack Overflow as the programmer's social network.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: Why isn’t Twitter charging for their API?
Because it wouldn't bring in as much revenue as advertising, I'm guessing. And I think they'd rather have less third-party client than they do now.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: Apple's aesthetic dichotomy (2011)
These skeumorphism-is-bad posts are pretty familiar with people who follow Apple blogs, it's been the darling of amateur design critics for years now.
The counter argument is pretty simple, even though it looks hideous and adds nothing to the app's functionality, it is supposed to encourage feelings of familiarity with people who wouldn't necessarily use an computer application. Whether it does or doesn't is up for debate, and I've never seen any stats to support either position.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes
The rules on displaying a tweet on a website seem so batshit insane I can only assume that my interpretation of it is wrong, and it should only apply to applications that provide the functionality of a Twitter client.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: Do you really know what Philosophy is?
"Objectivism is objectively the greatest system of Philosophy ever put together up until now."
I wish this post spent less time concentrating on revealed truths, and instead supported assertions like this one with reason and argument.
andy_herbert | 13 years ago | on: Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative)
I don't want to see this fail by any means, but to me it seems like a slightly immature response to a [very public disagreement][1] The Oatmeal had with a Forbes journalist, which involved a [very unusual retort][2].
[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesl...
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