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Negative blockers and tiny gods
It seems so obvious now that it’s laughable, but until I started working in such a large company, I had never realized how key communication and collaboration were in the development process. It was a naïve notion, but I pictured designers mocking up the UI, ‘throwing it over the fence’ (or in this case, the [...]
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While on an only semi-hokey ghost tour of Old Town, Virginia, the tour guide mentioned a ’spite house’ nearby. Being a Texan and unfamiliar with the term, I elegantly removed the stalk of wheat from my mouth and asked the question, “What’s that?”
A spite house, it seems, is a design solution to an interesting [...]
This ain’t like dusting crops, boy
It’s funny how in science fiction everything is so advanced, but looks incredibly complicated. Prime example: the infamous Millenium Falcon, which is noted for making the “Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.” Despite it’s speed and agility, the dashboard of the space craft looked horrendously muddled. Was it because the ship was simply “the [...]
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Do you ever wander what happened to geocities? It’s still there…just waiting for you to come back.
I can’t think of any circumstance in which blink tags should be used.
