1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders • Hacker News Board

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by efreak » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:13 AM UTC

yreg wrote: post #64

Since we are on this forum, I'll take a bite: Carousels need to die. Everyone hates them, no one interacts with them unless they have to. The carousel doesn't work for the user and it doesn't work for the product. http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ https://www.dgtlnk.com/blog/website-carousel/ The plane model is nice.

I'm on mobile, and honestly the only problem I found with the carousel here is that it's actually too small; full screen height would be better. (This may be an issue with my use of Materialistic, some css and js don't work well with it)

On mobile, whether the article is long or not, it's nice being able to quickly scroll back to a section of text to find something you read previously; if there's 25 pictures in the way, that gets obnoxious quickly, and I'm more likely to just leave.

Having a carousel means the user can see all the pictures (used to good effect with overviews and varying levels of detail/zoom/cutout); scroll horizontally (or tap icons, but scrolling would be better) for more images and vertically for more text. A way to improve this one would be to make it an embed that can enlarge itself to take up the full screen and restyle itself vertically or horizontally; I know I've seen this functionality somewhere, possibly a php image hosting script.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by jugg1es » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:14 AM UTC

briandear wrote: post #116

correct_horse wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Upon first reading, I thought this meant baggage claim carousels

I was thinking amusement park carousels! Seems like some kind of Rorschach test..

You both obviously do not do front-end development.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by efreak » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:16 AM UTC

caf wrote: post #129

c3534l wrote: post #94

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Hour glass, floppy disk, envelope, AA style battery for laptops, and now manilla folders go on the pile of icons that are too abstract for people to recognize anymore. What next, people won't recognize the sheet of paper for document anymore? Clipboards are probably already weird now.

Even electric vehicles use the AA style battery metaphor in their UI.

So do cellphones

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by jdnier » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:16 AM UTC

dh5 wrote: post #76

Absolutely incredible. I clicked on the link expecting nowhere near that level of detail. One of the pictures even shows individual wires on the landing gear. I'm thoroughly impressed by the dedication here.

And one of the wires is even coiled!

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by efreak » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:19 AM UTC

Someone wrote: post #115

bookofjoe wrote: post #97

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also telephone icon

And ox head ( https://www.britannica.com/topic/A-letter ) Who knows what these things will look like a few millennia from now.

Any idea what this quote means?

> In the Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the Semitic alphabets.

What exactly is a _species of breathing_?

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by efreak » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:20 AM UTC

skybrian wrote: post #106

IncRnd wrote: post #81

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Actually :) :). The folder icon looks like a manilla folder :) :) :). Also, the main view where the wallpaper goes is called a desktop according to the same metaphor of a computer being a desk with a desktop where you store and view files.

It seems like a bit of a mixed metaphor since you don't normally paste wallpaper onto a desk's top.

It's definitely a mixed metaphor. It still works, though. Wallpaper is paper used to decorate a wall; in this case the wall is a vertical desk.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by culturestate » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:23 AM UTC

baddox wrote: post #132

c3534l wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hour glass, floppy disk, envelope, AA style battery for laptops, and now manilla folders go on the pile of icons that are too abstract for people to recognize anymore. What next, people won't recognize the sheet of paper for document anymore? Clipboards are probably already weird now.

I don’t know if hour glasses belong in there. Surely those were already mostly decorative when the first hourglass computer icons were developed. Also, I would imagine that most young people still have to occasionally interact with envelopes (government stuff, maybe paying some bills) and cylindrical dry batteries (TV remotes, home thermostats).

> Surely [hour glasses] were already mostly decorative when the first hourglass computer icons were developed

I was a toddler when these icons were created, but I can think of two notable exceptions: egg timers (which my family still used when I was a kid) and board game timers (the canonical example of which, in my mind, is the one that used to ship with Boggle).

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by c3534l » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:28 AM UTC

efreak wrote: post #155

Someone wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And ox head ( https://www.britannica.com/topic/A-letter ) Who knows what these things will look like a few millennia from now.

Any idea what this quote means? > In the Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the Semitic alphabets. What exactly is a _species of breathing_?

Some kind of typo or misunderstanding. "A" represented the glottal stop, not the vowel sound. Maybe the person who wrote that article was struggling to explain what a glottal stop was? Either way, its nonsense.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by culturestate » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:32 AM UTC

efreak wrote: post #155

Someone wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And ox head ( https://www.britannica.com/topic/A-letter ) Who knows what these things will look like a few millennia from now.

Any idea what this quote means? > In the Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the Semitic alphabets. What exactly is a _species of breathing_?

It's a pronunciation reference. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_breathing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_breathing

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by 7952 » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:32 AM UTC

_xnmw wrote: post #123

bosswipe wrote: post #117

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That's also a bad point, there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. But many other artists have different motivations. If Scruton is saying that only beautiful art should be produced than "dour gatekeeping" seems appropriate.

> there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. Except there’s not. Where is the Notre Dame of our time? The Mozart (who was well recognized in his time)? Who can be compared in our time to the sheer talent of Michelangelo? Who still produces ballets like Swan Lake? Yes, we have beautiful art in our time, but you have to be blind to not see the difference in the sheer majesty and scale of pre modern Weste…

What about film making, TV, photography or even computer games? They sometimes have scale and majesty. Just with a different funding model than a few rich benefactors.