The companion app, showcased at the middle of the page, looks surprisingly under-designed, despite LoveFrom having some of the best UI designers in the world.
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This kind of soft infantilization, especially coming from the government, has always been rubbing me the wrong way.
Or maybe it's just that non-Japanese people have more interest in it than Japanese do?
If anyone has more knowledge about kintsugi, I would love some historical references which confirm that this technique was actually used in the past.
[0]: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%B6%99%E3%81%8E
> The overwhelming majority of people (97% in fact) choose to subscribe to our new service and many of those who initially purchased a license later changed their mind and traded it in for a membership.
(Source: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comme...)
Which is quite dishonest IMO.
They launched a new version last fall: https://www.getflow.com/blog/flow-x-is-launching-in-septembe...
> tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages
And the story behind it: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...
We're building a government-backed Google Forms for the french administration: we help public actor digitalize their forms and thus help public agents as well as citizens and companies save time.
We're a small team (3 developers) looking for another Ruby on Rails developer to help us ship new features, implement our new UI, and improve the quality of our codebase.
Stack: Rails 5, RSpec, GitHub, CircleCI (CI + CD), Sentry, Skylight. Our code is open source: https://github.com/sgmap/tps
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And while I agree that it may be a personal preference, there is a side effect to using double spaces: layout engines consider single spaces the default for their line breaking algorithm, and sometimes, when using double spacing, new sentences start at a new line with a space before the first letter which, in this very case, looks weird and therefore hinders readability.
Oh and a remark on the letter's typography: the double spaces after periods should be single spaces.
For all my previous trips I have used Google My Maps [0], which is good but not great: on mobile, the places you added to your layers don't contain any Google Maps information, such as opening hours, and you even need to have data to get the name of a place you saved.
However, what's great with My Maps compared to Trips, in addition to the fact that there is a desktop web app, is that thanks to layers you can color-code the places you add to your map, so for example make all the museums pins purple, the restaurants pins blue, etc.
I do believe that sexism is still very much present in our society, but I don’t see how minimalism has anything to do with it, and the article provides no explanation as to how they might be linked.
A more interesting approach on minimalism would be to ask “are all minimalists rich people who cut back on their possessions”, which is also something that “Tony” could be an illustration of, and which seems more plausible:
- another rich-guy-turned-minimalist is mentioned in the article [0]
- an opinion piece from the NYT on the subject was written by someone with a similar profile [1]
- the New Yorker even published a comic on this [2]
What’s interesting about this other angle is that you can then discuss why this “get rid of all your belongings” advice might not apply to everyone, especially poor people, despite what some minimalists might think.
[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/fashion/whit-stillman-dire...
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/living-with...
[2] http://i.imgur.com/gJVaMXb.png
EDIT: typos and formatting
- #, the "croisillon" sign (hash)
- ♯, the "dièse" sign (sharp)
Therefore the literal translation should be "mot-croisillon", not "mot-dièse".
And on the subject of the the Académie Française, the Commission générale de terminologie et de néologie and the Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France (DGLFLF), the problem is that they often try to find translations to words that, in my opinion, shouldn't be translated.
For example, the DGLFLF has a website [0] where people can suggest french translations for english words. Here are some words from the website that it is pointless to try to translate:
- BitTorrent
- barcamp
As a result, the proposed translations are often ridiculous (filoutage, langage à objets, offre groupée).
Another problem is that the people working there are not technology-fluent. That's why they come up with wrong translations such as "accès sans fil à l’Internet" ("access without wire to the Internet") for Wi-Fi, which is incorrect as a Wi-Fi connexion does not always imply an Internet connexion.
That said, some english words have a great french translation :
- firewall -> part-feu
- mailing-list -> liste de diffusion
- byte -> octet
I would be interested in what the team behind Standard Markdown thinks about this problem, it does not seem addressed in their spec (but it might be beyond their scope).
It follows one man's journey to gather the best Tetris players in the world for the first "Classic Tetris World Championship", as well as the preparation of the players, who try to break a new record, or to reach the unattainable level 30.
If you like obsessive people and want to learn more about the boundaries of Tetris, I recommend this documentary.
For example on https://www.simple.com/, the logo in the header is simpler that the logo on the credit card.
They also show the 3 versions they use in a blogpost: https://www.simple.com/blog/simple-branding
If asked to describe Daring Fireball with just one word, I would not choose weblog. Rather, I would call it a column. Given a few more words, I would call it as a Mac column in the form of a weblog.
He stated it again in an interview[1]:
In 2002, when I started Daring Fireball, doing a sort of columnist-style weblog simply felt like something I was compelled to do. I could write whatever I wanted, however I wanted.