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@Carsten Friedrich:
Hilarious anecdote. You made my day.
How to Talk to Human Beings
I hesitate to say everyone should have a child, because becoming a parent is an intensely personal choice. I try my best to avoid evangelizing the experience, but the deeper in I get, the more I believe that nothing captures the continued absurdity of the human condition better than having a ch...
Thanks for compiling this list.
I agree, Fillerati is great!
The Eternal Lorem Ipsum
If you've studied design at all, you've probably encountered Lorem Ipsum placeholder text at some point. Anywhere there is text, but the meaning of that text isn't particularly important, you might see Lorem Ipsum. Most people recognize it as Latin. And it is. But it is arbitrarily rearra...
@Jespetersen
"Why is there a dog in the jet fighter?"
Or, consider the contrapositive question:
"Where is his human?"
The Opposite of Fitts' Law
If you've ever wrangled a user interface, you've probably heard of Fitts' Law. It's pretty simple -- the larger an item is, and the closer it is to your cursor, the easier it is to click on. Kevin Hale put together a great visual summary of Fitts' Law, so rather than over-explain it, I'll refer...
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