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🐌. Native speaker of American English. Linux user. Familiar with several programming languages in the procedural, OO, and functional paradigms.

Link rot is evil. Archive everything. The keyboard is king. Correctness over performance. Canonicalize, normalize, deduplicate. Don't repeat yourself. UTF-8 > UTF-16. Use static typing: good for tooling. Re-use; don't re-invent. Correctness, then clarity, then concision and elegance. Play devil's advocate. First understand opponents' positions.


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Feb
4
 comment why are circular buttons in software/websites so rarely used?
This very page has at least 2 of them (the star and the checkmark).
Sep
24
 comment Why does Apple use images of text for headers?
They don't seem to use @font-face for body text, which creates a visual inconsistency. Odd.
Aug
15
 revised copyright wiki description
Explain usages related to UX.
Aug
15
 revised copyright wiki excerpt
Explain usages related to UX.
Aug
14
 awarded  Tag Editor
Aug
14
 revised copywriting wiki description
Expand and link to confusables.
Aug
14
 revised copywriting wiki excerpt
Expand and link to confusables.
Aug
14
 suggested suggested edit on copywriting tag wiki
Aug
14
 suggested suggested edit on copywriting tag wiki excerpt
Aug
14
 suggested suggested edit on copyright tag wiki
Aug
14
 suggested suggested edit on copyright tag wiki excerpt
Aug
14
 comment 'My Account' or 'Your Account'?
@msanford: Hyperlinked username is a good idea; you should add that as an answer.
Jul
6
 wiki created copyright description
May
19
 comment Is there a point to paginating articles online?
@BenBrocka: A fair number of websites do this with paragraph signs that appear on hover. For example, the Python docs.
May
19
 comment Is there a point to paginating articles online?
@BenBrocka: if you are e.g. quoting a paragraph from a news article, you might want to hyperlink directly to the relevant paragraph.
Oct
13
 comment Undo History - Why limit it?
@WTP: A related problem is not supporting redo (e.g. Mathematica, Windows (XP) Explorer).
Oct
7
 comment Is this rotating cube interface user-friendly?
@colmcq: In case that site goes down, that's a tesseract.
Oct
7
 awarded  Commentator
Oct
7
 comment How to graphically represent a language
@Lèse majesté: ISO 639 does distinguish them; you just have to use the 3-letter codes. Taiwanese is a dialect of Min Nan (nan); Cantonese is yue; Mandarin is cmn. There simply aren't enough 2-letter codes for all the world's languages.
Oct
7
 revised Save icon, is the floppy disk icon dead?
upload image from some IP address to Stack Exchange/imgur
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