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d5tryr

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About d5tryr

I'm an interaction designer at the State Library of Queensland...

Recent public activity

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    Comment #7419876

    'far ahead - in terms of backwards compatibility' something poetic about that...

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    Comment #6681181

    it was a Russell Brand joke, nm...

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    Comment #6673613

    Russell up? Is this 4000 drone army the revolution that Mr.brand is speaking of?

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    Comment #6672772

    I absolutely adore this app, I've used illustrator for +10 years and I honestly feel that manipulating beziers through direct input in Inkpad is not only a more pleasing, and intui…

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    Comment #5811143

    That's a courageous and bold statement to make. Apart from the weasel words that entirely undermine it. If you want to say that all lawyers are evil, without any evidence, at least…

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    Comment #4908732

    The Google Play store charges developers with the same the 30% cut. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play#Applications

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    Comment #4625751

    Probably best to throw any science under the bus if it's going to get in the way of normal grown ups simulating mass murder.

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    Comment #4315504

    > They don’t show the product. This is a product ad, not a brand ad or a perception ad. And Apple has always impressed me (blah blah blah...) Does not bode well for the rest of the…

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    Comment #4310528

    Agreed, given the overwhelming discrimination that demonstrably exists in IT sectors it would be nigh on impossible to prove that hiring a lot of women was an act of discrimination…

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    Comment #4310481

    Interesting episode of QI(G07) points out that prior to the 20th century the colours pink & blue for boys & girls were reversed.. http://youtu.be/2f7urmRaRxY?t=2m12s

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    Comment #4310465

    Pinterest as a homepage is a pretty amazing idea...

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    Comment #4294069

    There are also a lot of apple-only apps in the business world. And how many business apps are being built for windows right now, compared to the number that are being built of iOS …

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    Comment #4275252

    How does switching to zero revenue possibly avoid the problem of developers not getting paid enough?

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    Comment #4224004

    It's extremely pretty, though I question some of the UX desicisions. Double-tapping an item makes it vanish. Due to the seemingly random selection of nodes that appear when re-sear…

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    Comment #4165827

    the 'share at a specific duration' feature looks fantastic.

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    Comment #4164871

    I just noticed that the spool sizes are also accurate indicators of duration. The two spools, how long you've listened for & how long remaining are another elegant way of visualisi…

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    Comment #4164600

    Podcasts aren't hosted on apple's servers. iTunes simply links to them, without ads.

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    Comment #4164359

    Which would be an appropriate arrangement of it was their content. But it isn't. Would you be willing to pay for those two products without the podcasts themselves? Of course not, …

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    Comment #4164216

    You don't see why taking advertising money for repackaging someone else's content is wrong?

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    Comment #4164204

    First of all it provides a visual cue as to the rate at which a podcast is being played at, a constant cue rather than an indicator that has to be found and read. For that reason, …

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    Comment #3902138

    I posted this in the comments of the blog yesterday but it hasn't been approved yet, I imagine there are a lot of comments to get through. Please excuse the second person singular …

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    Comment #3902121

    All or nothing? They gave users an entire year to transition!

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    Comment #3752334

    Cute interface. The aesthetic could be a little more refined but the behaviour and the animation is quite charming.

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    Comment #3635462

    Johannes Itten, of the Bauhaus, is the go to guy for colour theory, both these books are fantastic: The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color htt…

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    Comment #3619109

    >I’m pretty much only using it to consume content. I suspect that most people use their iPads similarly: And with that line it seems clear that this article is not about people lik…