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A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

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Re: A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

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dang wrote: post #143

Related. Others? CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple` - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42161919 - Nov 2024 (184 comments) Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924677 - June 2014 (25 comments) In memory of Rebecca Alison Meyer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863890 - June 2014 (69 comments) The Truth - https://news.ycombinator.com/…

Based on the dates of comments to the featured blog post, the "new CSS logo featuring rebeccapurple as the background color" is a related post.

CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple` - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42161919 - November 2024 (184 comments)

Re: A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

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Post by canucker2016 »

canucker2016 wrote: post #148
canucker2016 wrote: post #146

Flickr Photo Album for Rebecca Alison Meyer https://www.flickr.com/photos/meyerweb/albums/72157645061445... warning - the comments for the last page of photos - so heartbreaking.

Remembering Rebecca Alison Meyer - https://heightsobserver.org/read/2014/06/17/remembering-rebe...

One of Rebecca's godparents has a blog with related posts in the 2014-2015 timeframe.

see https://zoethe.livejournal.com/

Re: A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

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canucker2016 wrote: post #171
dang wrote: post #143

Related. Others? CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple` - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42161919 - Nov 2024 (184 comments) Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924677 - June 2014 (25 comments) In memory of Rebecca Alison Meyer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863890 - June 2014 (69 comments) The Truth - https://news.ycombinator.com/…

Based on the dates of comments to the featured blog post, the "new CSS logo featuring rebeccapurple as the background color" is a related post. CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple` - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42161919 - November 2024 (184 comments)

Added above. Thanks!

Re: A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

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Post by cma »

arrowsmith wrote: post #122
djeastm wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember reading that the upper classes didn't even name their children until they were a few years old and had gotten past the crucial disease stage.

Why only the upper classes?

I dont know if what he said is true, but passing on full first/middle name lineage was more common in the upper classes and that might have affected it.

Re: A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

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Post by hinkley »

iamacyborg wrote: post #110
red_admiral wrote: post #106

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> And that was just a dog. I forget which book I read this in, but the author in their autobiography described their "real man" father as someone who they'd only seen cry three times in his life. When his wife died, he was all stoic about it and didn't show any upset in public. But when his favorite dog died, he broke down crying. Many people who don't understand how upset one can get over a dog, have never had one.…

A bit daft, but my dad died when I was 6 and I had (and probably still have) a lot of issues expressing grief at the time. I absolutely lost it when a pet goldfish died ~5 years later. This kind of stuff can come up at the weirdest time.

I had an unrequited love thing in college that never got resolved but I gave up and started trying to date. The second one sat me down one day and said we were only ever going to be friends. I was grumpy the rest of the night but when I got home I just crumbled to dust. We would have been a terrible match, so it was the right thing to do. I don’t even know that we would have been friends except we had one in common. I didn’t understand why I felt so unanchored around her and so we stopped hanging out. Which I realized is just the sort of thing women complain about with male friendships but what can you do.

It took a while to realize I wasn’t grieving her. I was jammed in the Denial phase of a previous loss and adding a few more rocks to the pile caused an avalanche. I’m betting that’s what happened with your goldfish.

Re: A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

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Post by charles_f »

Once in a while I contemplate my own, and my children's mortality. On these occasions I tend to be more present with them, be more patient, and express my love.

It is heartbreaking to realize that you're one person breaking too late, one virus, one genetic lottery bad luck away from tragedy. That's also essential to remember that we're sitting on a very unstable equilibrium. The default state of things is broken and dead, and, at the risk of sounding cliché, every minute of "normal" life is something to be grateful for.

We're not exposed to death enough, and people sharing their experiences this way are helping us remember it's still there, in a way that helps empathize and understand. So, thanks.

Re: A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

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Post by adamcblodgett »

cyrillite wrote: post #150
adamcblodgett wrote: post #85

A long time ago I saw Eric do a presentation at An Event Apart in Seattle on something like Designing for People in Crisis. He used his trip with his daughter Rebecca to the emergency room as the example of why it's crucial to have a section of your hospital webpage for people in crisis that is very easy to read and very easy to use in case of shock, trauma and emergency. Things like phone numbers and emergency room…

This would be a really good read if anything like it exists somewhere. Do you have notes, more to say, a direct link to relevant work, anything?

My notes are long gone, but it looks like Eric took some here: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/01/25/designing-for-...

And it appears that this is the talk itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyZq6v3vZqo

Re: A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

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Post by canucker2016 »

adamcblodgett wrote: post #178
cyrillite wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would be a really good read if anything like it exists somewhere. Do you have notes, more to say, a direct link to relevant work, anything?

My notes are long gone, but it looks like Eric took some here: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/01/25/designing-for-... And it appears that this is the talk itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyZq6v3vZqo

It's amazing how dated the talk seems even though it's only 10 years old.

The talk references an insurance website that requires a Java applet for uploading a file. Last time I neede

It also praises Hipmunk for its ease of use. SAP bought hipmunk and shutdown the website in 2020. see https://www.concur.com/en-us/concur-hipmunk-faq

update: reddit had a couple of suggestions for alternatives - https://www.reddit.com/r/Flights/comments/13uqmba/website_wi...

Not sure if there's a comparable or better flight-booking site these days.

The CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) website looks more modern/cleaned up.

The Design For Real Life book is available to read for free on the web - see https://dfrlbook.com/

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