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Sun, 27 May 2012 20:35:25 +0400

Sun, 27 May 2012 18:55:07 +0400

The Many Memes of Meta - Meta Stack Overflow

Fri, 25 May 2012 18:18:39 +0400

The Many Memes of Meta - Meta Stack Overflow:

На Stack Overflow есть отдельный подсайт для обсуждения самого Stack Overflow, называется, разумеется, meta.stackoverflow. А там есть отдельная ветка с мемами сообщества, их историей и (иногда) обсуждениями.

Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence “going viral”). As with their IRL counterparts, some infectious diseases are global (pandemic), while others are endemic to specific regions.

Stack Overflow and now even more predominantly Meta Stack Overflow have seen more than their fair share of these pathological social constructs spread through the user base. They are now ingrained units of our collective culture as SOpedians (a term which I hate, by the way).

"— Чему вас научили ролевые игры? — Ролевые игры меня научили воровать и обманывать."

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:15:58 +0400

“

— Чему вас научили ролевые игры?

— Ролевые игры меня научили воровать и обманывать.

”

- Прошлогодний твит после Зимней Школы. Вечная истина

Человеческие существа местами очень трогательные

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:54:00 +0400

Человеческие существа местами очень трогательные

— Hey I can’t compile this, there are 143 missing...

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:12:00 +0400

— Hey I can’t compile this, there are 143 missing files.
— What? What happened to them?
— How should I know?
— LOOK AGAIN
— Oh wait, found them. Build succeeded, no issues.

Чудесный блог «Text from XCode» как нельзя лучше подходит к моему тегу «говорящие компьютеры». Изначально этот тег был про интерфейсы, но в мире Сири, GLaDOS и искусственного интеллекта, заговаривающего с нами из шнурков и фонарных столбов, значение тега как-то перекувырнулось через голову и стало почти буквальным.

"This redesign is a response to ebooks, to web type, to mobile, and to wonderful applications like..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:23:34 +0400

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This redesign is a response to ebooks, to web type, to mobile, and to wonderful applications like Instapaper and Readability that address the problem of most websites’ pointlessly cluttered interfaces and content-hostile text layouts by actually removing the designer from the equation. (That’s not all these apps do, but it’s one benefit of using them, and it indicates how pathetic much of our web design is when our visitors increasingly turn to third party applications simply to read our sites’ content. It also suggests that those who don’t design for readers might soon not be designing for anyone.)

This redesign is deliberately over the top, but new ideas often exaggerate to make a point. It’s over the top but not unusable nor, in my opinion, unbeautiful. How can passages set in Georgia and headlines in Franklin be anything but beautiful? I love seeing my words this big. It encourages me to write better and more often.

”

- Web Design Manifesto 2012, Jeffrey Zeldman

Leap — сверхточная система отслеживания движений для Windows и...

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:24:00 +0400

Leap — сверхточная система отслеживания движений для Windows и Маков. «Особое мнение» уже здесь, с нами.

The Verge в заметке пишет, что разрешение в 100 раз больше у Кинекта, а стоить будет всего $69,99.

io9 пишет об исследовании того, как изменялось...

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:17:00 +0400

When is The Future?

When is The Future?

io9 пишет об исследовании того, как изменялось представление о будущем в фантастике на протяжении десятилетий:

In general, the future got closer at the end of the twentieth century. You can see a gradual trend in this chart where after the 1940s, near-future SF grows in popularity. Again, this might reflect rapid technological change and the fact that SF entered mainstream popular culture.

The future is getting farther away from us right now. One of the only far-future narratives of the 1990s was Futurama. Then suddenly, in the 2000s, we saw a spike in far-future stories, many of them about posthuman, postsingular futures. It’s possible that during periods of extreme uncertainty about the future, as the 00s were in the wake of massive economic upheavals and 9/11, creators and audiences turn their eyes to the far future as a balm.

Мексиканские художники из Барселоны рассказывают об историях и...

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:53:00 +0400

Мексиканские художники из Барселоны рассказывают об историях и блуждающих текстах на QR-кодах, которые никто рассказывает в нигде (Taken with Instagram at Додо спейс)

"Skeuomorphism is about communicating and reinforcing feelings — getting an application to become a..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:29:00 +0400

“Skeuomorphism is about communicating and reinforcing feelings — getting an application to become a memorable experience, not just a tool. It’s about communicating the purpose of a UI, not only the functions it enables.”

- Skeuomorphism & Storytelling / Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin

The toolbox — “A collection of the best time-saving apps, tools,...

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:13:32 +0400

The toolbox — “A collection of the best time-saving apps, tools, and widgets from around the web” • via uxrave

"23. Don’t be average. Be great at what you do. Life is short."

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:42:19 +0400

“23. Don’t be average. Be great at what you do. Life is short.”

- Our user manual — Hiut Denim

"Get uncomfortable. I’m coming up on two years with Adam. He is stable, supportive and fun to be with..."

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:31:21 +0400

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Get uncomfortable. I’m coming up on two years with Adam. He is stable, supportive and fun to be with (he is also tall, passionate, and deeply sensitive in the goofiest way imaginable). But our relationship is so far from what I had imagined love to be. We have lots of sweet times, but we also have the moments where I feel bloated after eating too much dessert or he is withdrawn and worried about money, or we sit across from each other at dinner with nothing obvious to say. These feel hard to deal with and always make me afraid that something is terribly wrong. But they pass.

A few years ago, two wise, married yogis gave me a piece of advice. They told me that while it’s essential to have honest intimacy in a relationship, it’s just as essential that your partner earns the right to see your struggle. Before Adam, I thought it was good luck or good breeding or even good karma that led to being in a satisfying relationship. It didn’t occur to me that loving another person is essentially an exercise in being ok with being uncomfortable with someone you care about, and not holding a grudge about it.

”

- Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life, Gracy Obuchowicz | Lifestyle - GOOD

Хорошо, что можно пока шутить, а не перешёптываться.

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:05:42 +0400

Хорошо, что можно пока шутить, а не перешёптываться.

Преступление в должность

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:59:00 +0400

Самый прекрасный момент вчерашней инаугурации вряд ли можно было увидеть где-то, кроме дома — для этого недостаточно было сидеть у экрана в баре или выходить на площади с шумным протестом — слишком легко упустить момент.

Утро открывалось солнечной репетицией к девятому, когда авиация метеорологов традиционно разгоняет облачность по периметру столицы, чтобы хоть ненадолго гарантировать спокойное небо над пустынным центром города, по которому проходит парад. И все во вчерашней церемонии напоминало именно девятое мая в миниатюре. Празднование главного культового ежегодного праздника последнего столетия должно пройти без огрех, так что тут тебе и проходящий небольшими коробками марш кремлевского полка внутри кремлевских стен, и оба президента, и православное золото вокруг. Ничего не предвещает странного.

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Поэтому странное приходит незванно. После слов представителя Конституционного суда о том, что Владимир Владимирович Путин теперь официально вступил в должность президента, солнечное небо закончилось, резко потемнев.

Те, кто был на улицах, поймали в инстаграм продвигающийся к центру города грозовой фронт, и ничего более красочно не смогло бы проиллюстрировать возвращение к нам нового старого президента, чем этот расширяющийся серый вал в сочетании с прямой трансляцией на телеэкране — все такой же бодрой и блестящей среди отреставрированного и надраенного Андреевского зала.

Мордор крепчал.

"But in a world where magazine are a lot more than their printed artifacts, what’s a brand?..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:31:24 +0400

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But in a world where magazine are a lot more than their printed artifacts, what’s a brand? I’ll go through my evidence in a minute, but here’s my current hypothesis.

Brands are probabilistic now. The primary power of a brand is to increase the probability that someone clicks on, upvotes, or links to a story associated with your brand. It is not calculated primarily on a per issue basis as in the past. Instead, it’s a kind of implicit regression based on all the stories a publication has produced.

This isn’t a completely foreign idea. In the past, a brand’s strength would have been measured by how likely people were to buy or subscribe to a magazine. Today’s probabilistic brand, though, is less coherent and much broader than before.

”

- The Probabilistic Magazine Brand in the Social News Age, Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic

«Ты — всё!»

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:57:00 +0400

«Ты — всё!»

"He looked at the kids in front of him and wondered if they’d ever heard of Infiltrators, or if this..."

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:00:20 +0400

“He looked at the kids in front of him and wondered if they’d ever heard of Infiltrators, or if this had become obscure knowledge of his profession. Infiltrators were a probably-mythical subculture that invented subcultures to sell to coolhunters, and then flipped the money into making those subcultures a reality. Then, later, they sold the proof that the subcultures were fakes to the highest bidder. When Doug was coming up in the ’20s, a lot of his colleagues had been burned, worried that every new lead led to a camouflaged tar pit. Just as the industry had gotten used to a level of stability as cultural commentators, a collection of malcontents had put the fear of God into them: their tag, an “i” with a circle around it, appeared everywhere, and made their numbers seem infinite. Doug, with no reputation yet to lose, dismissed it as a covert branding campaign and was brazen and fearless where his colleagues were cautious. Harris had liked his moxy and had promoted him quickly.”

- Джим Манро, Everyone in Silico, 2004-й год

"Developers would love to sell more copies of their game at a higher price, but the choices offered..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:39:00 +0400

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Developers would love to sell more copies of their game at a higher price, but the choices offered to gamers across XBLA, PSN, Steam, and other services have never been more extensive.

“Everyone has a queue in their head and a queue on their hard drive, and for most games, sales aren’t even a way to make sure your game gets played; they’re a way to move your game from a gamer’s mental queue to their hard drive queue,” — Ambrogi said.

“It could still, without hyperbole, be years before that person actually downloads, installs or plays your game.”

”

- How Valve “devalued” video games, and why that’s great news for developers and players