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I agree with things said in here and it is a surprising anecdote considering it is probably one of their most famous songs and one of the most famous songs ever but I want to throw in:

It was created in five minutes, yes, but by artists in GnR so those five minutes for them might have taken the average player days to weeks to deliver something like that. It sure is simple, just three chords, but you need a lot of skill to pull something like this off and make it sound full, interesting and catchy.

Yes, creating something and inspiration can come in the absolutely weirdest, strangest moments and situations but then it takes a whole lot of skill to actually make something of the idea and ultimately deliver a song.

Many people like to call it "talent" then but I like to believe that talent is rather what non-musicians like to call the result of countless hours or practicing, playing and studying and applying music theory.
Does anybody know how much that kind of work costs? I'd shoot mike an email but I'm guessing you guys could give a broader range of answers.
You could add in 8.5% for sales taxes. There are also other 'hidden' taxes like gas and property taxes.
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Eh, who didn't do this in Animal Crossing?
I switched to mac from windows a couple of months ago. I guess I am still waiting for the magic to happen.

OS X is fine. There are the initial annoyances which I was expecting, like the different hotkeys. Fine, I got over most of those pretty quickly. But there are things that still annoy me. For instance, there seems to be only one hotkey that opens the application menu. On Windows I am used to pressing the alt-key and then the given underlined letter of the menu that I want to open. I have a lot of "secondary" hotkeys memorized this way. In Photoshop for instance, "alt+i, p" is "crop" -- there is no (default) hotkey for crop and now I have to use the mouse.

Not using Lion yet so I couldn't say if the fullscreen mode is going to cure my longing for maximize but the point of that green plus-thing on every window is completely beyond me. The reason I maximize windows is because I want to focus on a single thing, not because I want to see a bit more of content.

I prefer Explorer to Finder. I'm sure this will get better but again it feels like Finder was made for the mouse more than the keyboard, compared to Explorer (mac-gurus, how can I see and copy the path that I am currently browsing?).
I also prefer the behavior of alt-tab in Windows of switching between windows rather than apps. The fact that two documents happen to be opened by the same executable seems arbitrary to me and it annoys me that I have to first switch to the app I want and then to the window I want.

There is, I think, a noticeable difference in the way processes and threads are prioritized. I am sure OSX is better at this but it mostly just feels different to me. Processes seem less able to take down the entire system but on the other hand, music playing apps will sometimes lag which seems to never happen on Windows.

All that said, I am still happy. I love the hardware. The air has enough performance for me (even running two simultaneous win7 vm's with visual studio) and I get happy every time I double check my bag to make sure I remembered my laptop because it's so light. And there are definitely upsides to OSX such as Spotlight which feels like your own personal google (with everything including calculator and dictionary) whereas on Windows it feels like all search gets me is the indexer eating up all my cpu.
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The article never - never – claims that Minecaft was engineered that way. Whether or not some features of Minecraft that make it work were intentionally designed a certain way is something this article doesn’t even attempt to discuss.

The rationale for the article is that Minecraft works (9,000+ copies per day sold) and that it is consequently very worthwhile to explore why it works.

Your prejudices (NDF and all) seemingly colored your interpretation of this article and you consequently completely misunderstood it.

That really baffles me. The article is completely consistent with your interpretation. (The author may not agree with your interpretation but he doesn’t tell and we just don’t know. Maybe he would agree with you, maybe not, there is no way to tell.)

I guess your comment shows the evils of confirmation bias.
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It depends. I work fulltime so 37.5 hours a week but then I do more from about 7pm till midnight or later. Then theres the weekend where I probally do 48 hours over a month.
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I can't win+d to the desktop.

Four finger swipe upwards if you are on a macbook or have a magic trackpad. Cmd-F3 otherwise.

Bottom line, if you're used to driving a car, getting around on a motorcycle is going to take some investment of effort and willingness to learn. I got to my mac from windows via a year or two of linux. I'm happy using all three. Happiest on mac.
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I seem to recall that what Facebook did violated at least (the university's?) copyright, but IANAL (nor even a resident of the US). Either way, I would likely have complained about their actions/asked for my data to be removed/filed a DMCA takedown if I were in Harvard at the time, and would recommend that you not look to Facebook's early days as an example to emulate.

I understand that you have the best of intentions, though, and wish you good luck. Just leave me out of it.
At this point it's clear that the card can be abused as there are people who for some reason think it's cool to suck the balance completely dry.

However, a company like Starbucks could set something up that is very similar to Jonathan's experiment but with a reduced abuse potential: just introduce a card with a limit per transaction. For example, if you could only charge 6 USD per purchase to the card, it would make life difficult for the cheaters.
It's not likely that solar is tomorrow's oil for two reasons; 1) it won't provide orders of magnitude more energy as oil did when it was discovered and, 2) it is not a finite resource. Solar/wind/green whatever will merely allow us to prevent a grind to a halt.
Istanbul is about 3000 years old and built on 7 (some very steep, think San Fransisco steep) hills. It was never designed (if designed is a word you can use at all here) for either tall buildings or vehicles.

Over the past 10 years something weird happened, people started buying cars, and some people would buy more than one but as most people live in apartments in Istanbul it appears as though there are more cars on the road than there are parking spaces in some areas (I know this is the case where my in-laws live near Nisantasi).

In my experience Istanbul drivers will mostly adhere to traffic lights, but not necessarily to things like zebra crossings and road markings. The worst drivers tend to come from the countryside as they don't necessarily know the road layout and drive as though they're in a village or open countryside.

I've been told quite a few times that the only reason the fatality rate from car crashes is not as high as it should be is because for most of Istanbul it's hard to drive faster than 50kmh for any period of time.

Of course, if you really want to see what 'driving by inshallah' is like, then you need to go to Saudi Arabia. When god determines whether or not you live or die, there's no point in driving properly.
We compare element trees directly. It would be easier to extract the text and just do a regular text diff, but this loss of element/tree info means you can't reconstruct html versions of the page with differences highlighted, which for us is an important feature.
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True, but previously it has snowed quite heavily when I've been there in the winter, and the effect it has on traffic is quite big, mainly due to the steep hills and people not using decent chains on their tyres.
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Seriously, what's going on with this title?
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Congrats to the girl for giving a presentation at age 10, but in all honesty this is nothing new. I'm positive that this is pretty much common knowledge to anyone who has ever played a time based game. Also, calling it an "exploit" makes it seem like it's some sort of security risk; when in reality it's about on par with turning off a device before saving to erase unwanted actions.
You're right, and I agree with you. But yes we've seen stories get changed considerably with no reference to the update. Unfortunately retroactive continuity seems to be pretty much the norm. From a publishers perspective, that's the beauty of the web: unlike print you can change your spin at any time.
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They exist outside of the Japan too.
It's called Lolita Fashion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_fashion
They have lots of different sub styles - Gothic Lolitas, Sweet Lolitas.
Generally from what I understand they're their own sub culture outside of Japan, but they're not uncommon at anime / manga events.
The retailers at these events already sell Japanese sweets, even the seasonal and limited edition ones. In the US JBox.com – and their NSFW parent company JList.com are probably the biggest retailer of such candies in anime / manga fandom.

JList buy candy in bulk from wholesalers and advertise heavily to anime and manga fans. They have a generous affiliate banner ad scheme too, which means lots of sites link to them. As Candy Japan expands I imagine JList would be a primary competitor for selling Japanese Candy. They already have the market share and infrastructure in place, with offices in Japan and the US. I'm sure there is plenty of room for competition, but I'd be aware of them as a business rival in this market.
Pretty common elsewhere in the world too. In the Netherlands they call it the "Green Wave", and marketed as such. I suspect b/c speeding in those area's really doesn't buy you anything. So when traffic is light, they double as a "speed bump" :-)
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Why don't (some) developers like, e.g., the Lean Startup? Because you can execute your job perfectly, and drive the business right off an effing cliff. It strikes at some of our core narratives, like "successful startups are made on the backs of technical competence, largely by upstart engineers who are a) ridiculously competent and b) scorned by people in positions of power."

You can't tell someone who really feels that narrative that, by the way, technical competence is not sufficient for success. (To say nothing of saying it isn't necessary.)

So why don't designers like A/B testing? Well, what's their narrative? User-loving highly-skilled artist scorned by people in positions of power. (Wow, we have a trend here.) They don't want to be told that a) users provably don't care that this design looks better or is more intuitive or b) that beautiful/responsive/intuitive/etc design is not always worth actual money.
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The Syrian government has already said the protests are illegal. So if we follow pure logic, they are all criminals and should be locked up. This comes back to a fundamental question of democracy, who owns the government?
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> This re-imagines passwords as nouns. As a side effect, you get a complete log of whenever anyone changes their password or requests to reset it.
> Want to enforce password reuse policies? Do analysis of password lifetimes? Track down malicious abuse of your password reset system?
> Those things are now pretty easy with a schema like this

I am also proponent of the more "resource oriented" view of an application but I fail to see how the CRUD approach you proposed is unique in order to support the above.. Because, all of the things that you mentioned can be also implemented/supported if you transmit the tokens in query strings. I.e. /password/:token and /reset_password/?token=:token are more or less the same thing from the REST point of view although the first is more user friendly, cache friedly, etc. After all URIs are opaque to the client: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#opaque and that's where HATEOAS enters so the client just needs to know a single (bookmark) URI and the hypermedia will guide to the creation of the rest resource identifiers needed by the application (HATEOAS is indeed the "highest level" of REST: http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...).

Unless you mean that by following the 'noun'-oriented view of the password tokens you can easily spot these operations in the apache logs.. to which I agree if you also include the user id in these URIs...
Remove "10 year-old" and "girl" and you have another content-less fluff piece.

This is not something new or interesting.
A traffic light is already half of a snow sensor by virtue of being a light. If it's covered with snow, the snow will reflect light back. Add a few photoresistors and you're in business. It'd be the cheapest part of the whole project.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be_bu...

And only the old Istanbul (historic peninsula) is claimed to be built on seven hills.
May I suggest you look into "Hot Corners", which is built into OS X and allows you to specify certain actions when moving the mouse to the very corner of the screen.

I heavily use the gestures, but I still find these rather handy

My setup is;
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Top Right: Expose (on Lion, Mission Control)
Bottom Left: Blank Screen (without sleeping)
Bottom Right: Screensaver
What do you mean? You can "virtualise every OS" on other platforms as well.
It does not have to be less detectable to be worse.

Imagine if there were a way to remotely disable all such locks in a building, keeping them locked, or to remotely make them burst into flames (or both).
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When it comes to Lebedev's designs, one would do well to reserve judgement until seeing the final result.

For example, Lebedev designed bus stops for the city of Perm with tremendous fanfare, see here: http://www.artlebedev.ru/everything/perm/bus-stop/ . There were hundreds of press articles about it, which is surely unusual for a bus stop design.

It then turned out that the bus stops could not be built with rounded corners with the specified materials (http://pics.livejournal.com/denis_galitsky/pic/000220ap/), and that lighting couldn't be connected to most of them, and that the benches are too high and narrow (http://pics.livejournal.com/denis_galitsky/pic/0001h036/ - this is called "the Lebedev pose"), and that the flat roofs are inappropriate to the climate and now look like this: http://denis-galitsky.livejournal.com/33098.html .

It doesn't help that Artemy Lebedev is a giant, giant douche nozzle - if you read Russian, you can convince yourself of this by browsing his blog.
Cmd-O has opened files and applications alike since I can remember (OS 6.) It's no more/less sensible than Windows, just different.
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She's 10, and she figured it out on her own. Let her have her 5 minutes.
A couple of companies ago, I worked with a designer who believed "users like a challenge" (his words) and every interface he designed was like a little puzzle. For example you couldn't tell what was clickable or where without studying the page for subtle clues.

Except we weren't making games... We were making corporate intranets.
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Reading the article, and realizing that these are probably the best arguments against A/B tests that designers can offer, has actually made me change my opinion in favor of A/B testing. I'll try to go for a point-by-point reply:

> A/B testing may only be as effective as the designs being tested

True, but taken on face value, these words mean that A/B testing becomes more valuable when you have great designs made by great designers. Presumably not what the author wanted to say.

> As is true with any usability test, you gotta question
the motives behind the participants’ answers/reactions.

True, but how does the designer know in advance that "questioning the motives" and "applying healthy skepticism" will yield conclusions favorable to the designer?

> A/B testing is typically used for tightly focused
comparisons of granular elements of an interface,
resulting in poor pastiches with results drawn from
different tests.

This point is correct, as far as I can see. It's actually the strongest argument against A/B tests that I know.

> Would you A/B test the Wii or Dyson or Prius or iPhone? Against what?

This point doesn't have any bearing on whether you should A/B test websites.

> A/B testing locks you into just two comparative
options, an exclusively binary (and thus limited)
way of thinking.

This point is wrong. A couple months ago we ran an A/B test with four alternatives.

> A designer (and team) should have an opinion at the
table and be willing to defend it, not simply cave
into a simplistic math test for interfaces.

This point only asserts what the author is trying to prove.
Edit:

"The exploit is to do with the clock used on devices running the two mobile operating systems, and just as importantly how games use it to aid in gameplay progression. Many of these farm-style games rely on the clock to grow crops the player plants or by signifying general time progression. "

Oh christ, this article is just pure silliness. Ignore the below. And the article itself.

If the hacker and intelligent human being happened to have a penis wouldn't the title be one word shorter?

//this// is an actual real reason why people without Y chromosomes aren't as into tech or the engineering industry; because as soon as they get in, they are pushed into this subset of "girl hackers", "girl geeks".

I understand that it isn't "on-topic" and posts here aren't supposed to be motivated by emotion (especially not anger), but I really expect more from sites getting to the front page here.
Or c) that the "better" design is in fact provably worse for users and is worth negative money, which seems to be the main gripe in the post.

I actually think it goes deeper than just narrative; there's a difference of ontology. To a designer, a "better" design means a more aesthetic one. To a businessman, it means a more profitable one. They're not completely contradictory, but they don't always match up either— so it shouldn't be surprising that there's some cognitive dissonance going on when the A/B test says the worse design is actually better.
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Great story. Will do the same going forward.
It doesn't. This is imagination, not an actual product.
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Thanks for the great comments.

Yes, we are planning to work with him on a contract basis. It would be the best for both of us.

We have learned a lot from our users, and know what problems we need to solve now. We are working on the most important bit of the conversion funnel maximisation, and we think some UX input could help us to do that better, quicker, and more efficient.
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That is really funny. Too bad he did intranets and not landing pages/ecommerce - would love to see how playing "hard to get" works out for conversion.
There's a cafe under the castle in Prague where for a decade or more, patrons can buy an extra coffee for someone else. A physical cup goes up on a line above the counter. Others, usually students, will come in, see the cups, and ask for the free coffee. A Czech architecture student told me she never paid for a coffee -- just took one from those donated. When I would visit the cafe, I would make sure to add another cup or two to the line.

Jonathan's Card didn't seems to work, and it makes me think (unsurprisingly) that what works at local levels as this cafe in Prague, can't work in the Extremistan that is the entire global community.

We're so used to all the benefits of this new, suddenly-made-close world: play poker with a guy in Singapore one moment, buy an antique off an old woman in Portugal the next, without moving anything but the mouse; that we forget the beauty and function that the local still provides.
Ha! I'm glad his "talents" were confined to intranets, but I pity the poor employees who had to use or "be challenged" by them :)
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