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The companion app, showcased at the middle of the page, looks surprisingly under-designed, despite LoveFrom having some of the best UI designers in the world.

Even their product names follow this pattern, leading to long and childish app names: "Mon espace santé" (My health space), "Mon espace France Travail"

This kind of soft infantilization, especially coming from the government, has always been rubbing me the wrong way.

Thank you!

Impressive collection, thanks!

Most of the kintsugi photos on Wikipedia do not state the date nor the origin of the object they depict, except for one, so I'm looking for something a bit more substantial.

I'm slightly doubtful that this is an authentic thing (by which I mean: "actually practiced in the 15th/16th centuries"). Most of the content around this technique on the web is not in Japanese, and even the Japanese Wikipedia entry about it [0] is quite terse.

Or maybe it's just that non-Japanese people have more interest in it than Japanese do?

If anyone has more knowledge about kintsugi, I would love some historical references which confirm that this technique was actually used in the past.

[0] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%B6%99%E3%81%8E

Hiding the standalone version purchase link helps them justify the move to a subscription-only service:

The overwhelming majority of people (97% in fact) choose to subscribe to our new service and many of those who initially purchased a license later changed their mind and traded it in for a membership.

(Source: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comme...)

Which is quite dishonest IMO.

This thread is missing a link to the actual product, so here it is: https://www.getflow.com/

They launched a new version last fall: https://www.getflow.com/blog/flow-x-is-launching-in-septembe...

Related: http://tilde.club/

tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages

And the story behind it: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...

Reminds me of this old Mac and iPad app: https://acrylicapps.com/pulp/

Not exactly what you might be looking for, but check out https://monodraw.helftone.com/ and http://asciiflow.com/

Will this typeface be only used for the UI and marketing, or also for Airbnb's logo[1]?

[1] https://press.atairbnb.com/media-assets/?categ=Logos

Check out https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/

Téléprocédures simplifiées | Ruby on Rails developer | Paris , France | Onsite | https://tps.apientreprise.fr/

We're building a government-backed Google Forms for the french administration: we help public actor digitalize their forms and thus help public agents as well as citizens and companies save time.

We're a small team (3 developers) looking for another Ruby on Rails developer to help us ship new features, implement our new UI, and improve the quality of our codebase.

Stack: Rails 5, RSpec, GitHub, CircleCI (CI + CD), Sentry, Skylight. Our code is open source: https://github.com/sgmap/tps

Apply: contact@tps.apientreprise.fr

Indeed, the map is hard to parse. I think that this presentation gives good advice regarding maps design: https://speakerdeck.com/cherdarchuk/data-looks-better-naked-...

It's more Trello than a CRM, but there are https://jobtrack.io/ and http://huntr.co/

Exactly, typography is a subject that is very dear to my heart.

And while I agree that it may be a personal preference, there is a side effect to using double spaces: layout engines consider single spaces the default for their line breaking algorithm, and sometimes, when using double spacing, new sentences start at a new line with a space before the first letter which, in this very case, looks weird and therefore hinders readability.

Is there a reason why this is published on Sam's blog and not on YC's blog?

Oh and a remark on the letter's typography: the double spaces after periods should be single spaces.

I hope they'll make a desktop web version of this app, because planning everything (what you want to see, where you want to eat, etc.) on a small screen is tedious.

For all my previous trips I have used Google My Maps [0], which is good but not great: on mobile, the places you added to your layers don't contain any Google Maps information, such as opening hours, and you even need to have data to get the name of a place you saved.

However, what's great with My Maps compared to Trips, in addition to the fact that there is a desktop web app, is that thanks to layers you can color-code the places you add to your map, so for example make all the museums pins purple, the restaurants pins blue, etc.

[0] https://www.google.com/mymaps/

This article is really, really, bad. It makes a gratuitous generalisation from a single example. Yes, the “Tony” who wrote the “Hey, big spender” essay upon which this article is based sounds like a huge douchebag who asks his mother to do his laundry so he can enjoy “experiences”, but I don’t see how you can infer from this that everyone who lives a minimalist lifestyle is doing the exact same thing.

I do believe that sexism is still very much present in our society, but I don’t see how minimalism has anything to do with it, and the article provides no explanation as to how they might be linked.

A more interesting approach on minimalism would be to ask “are all minimalists rich people who cut back on their possessions”, which is also something that “Tony” could be an illustration of, and which seems more plausible:

- another rich-guy-turned-minimalist is mentioned in the article [0]

- an opinion piece from the NYT on the subject was written by someone with a similar profile [1]

- the New Yorker even published a comic on this [2]

What’s interesting about this other angle is that you can then discuss why this “get rid of all your belongings” advice might not apply to everyone, especially poor people, despite what some minimalists might think.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/fashion/whit-stillman-dire...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/living-with...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/gJVaMXb.png

EDIT: typos and formatting

Caching might be the best way to do it.

Full text history search.

The title is misleading. RideWith isn't a direct Uber rival, as it's a feature of the Waze app matching people doing similar trips on a regular basis. It is therefore closer to ride sharing/carpooling than to private transportation.

"Mot-dièse" isn't even a correct translation. It is literally translated as "sharp-word", so there is a confusion between 2 distinct signs:

- #, the "croisillon" sign (hash)

- ♯, the "dièse" sign (sharp)

Therefore the literal translation should be "mot-croisillon", not "mot-dièse".

And on the subject of the the Académie Française, the Commission générale de terminologie et de néologie and the Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France (DGLFLF), the problem is that they often try to find translations to words that, in my opinion, shouldn't be translated.

For example, the DGLFLF has a website [0] where people can suggest french translations for english words. Here are some words from the website that it is pointless to try to translate:

- BitTorrent

- barcamp

- Facebook

As a result, the proposed translations are often ridiculous (filoutage, langage à objets, offre groupée).

Another problem is that the people working there are not technology-fluent. That's why they come up with wrong translations such as "accès sans fil à l’Internet" ("access without wire to the Internet") for Wi-Fi, which is incorrect as a Wi-Fi connexion does not always imply an Internet connexion.

That said, some english words have a great french translation :

- firewall -> part-feu

- mailing-list -> liste de diffusion

- byte -> octet

[0] https://wikilf.culture.fr/

There's also Mapbox's Altas Server: https://www.mapbox.com/enterprise/

So one should use Apple Pay when paying in apps, but the credit card stored in iCloud Keychain when paying on the web? I find it a bit confusing.

On a related note, Marked and Ulysses (two applications that use Markdown) recently launched TextBundle [0], a package file format that allows to include the images referenced in a Markdown file with the Markdown file itself.

I would be interested in what the team behind Standard Markdown thinks about this problem, it does not seem addressed in their spec (but it might be beyond their scope).

[0] http://textbundle.org/

There's a documentary about the best Tetris players (on NES): "Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters"[0].

It follows one man's journey to gather the best Tetris players in the world for the first "Classic Tetris World Championship", as well as the preparation of the players, who try to break a new record, or to reach the unattainable level 30.

If you like obsessive people and want to learn more about the boundaries of Tetris, I recommend this documentary.

[0] http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/

Simple's logo has been designed with "responsiveness" in mind: the more space they have, the more complex their logo is.

For example on https://www.simple.com/, the logo in the header is simpler that the logo on the credit card.

They also show the 3 versions they use in a blogpost: https://www.simple.com/blog/simple-branding

I agree with you, Gruber's posts are indeed sometimes tainted, but Gruber has always claimed that DF is a column, as he explained in an article [0]:

If asked to describe Daring Fireball with just one word, I would not choose weblog. Rather, I would call it a column. Given a few more words, I would call it as a Mac column in the form of a weblog.

He stated it again in an interview[1]:

In 2002, when I started Daring Fireball, doing a sort of columnist-style weblog simply felt like something I was compelled to do. I could write whatever I wanted, however I wanted.

[0] http://daringfireball.net/2003/07/independent_days

[1] http://shawnblanc.net/2008/02/interview-john-gruber/