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That would be true for all phones with AMOLED displays.
But for devices with some kind of backlit TFT it wouldn't matter much.
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To prove the point, the author set the text color to some gray, but that only made it less readable...
While I agree that black isn't a good color for surface coloring, when you have a pure white background gray text will create a blur effect only...
So like with everything in design - no real rules, but guidelines with exceptions...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That is an interesting read and probably very much so to HCI professionals.
I will say 1 thing about black.
Using black or even a dark gray would substantially reduce the amount of glare from the screen. Law enforcement asks for their software in very dark colors and I know this because I have built software for them. They have to deal with working at night, with traffic lights coming at them and at the same time staring at a laptop with a white background nearly blinds them.
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How Schrodingerian is it that a web site that evangelizes for "never use black" uses body-type that is such a "whiter shade of pale" it is virtually unreadable (for my older eyes rapidly going downhill, anywho) ?
Oh yes, in theory, nothing we see is absolutely "black," but for a graduate of RISD to forget about contrast and readability seems remarkably blind to me.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: to forget about contrast and readability seems remarkably blind to me
Agree 100%
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That's what happening when you turn something to religion in design - a good designer looks on every work with fresh eyes, the moment stops doing so he ain't designer no more...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Don't make your color-preferences more important than usability.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Dominic Burford wrote: why you shouldn't use the colour black Except for when you should. Like for readability, which his website isn't.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This course is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes. The late, great Marvin Minsky teaches you about AI
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The Eclipse Foundation’s Web-based IDE, Che, entered beta today. All the performance you're used to with Eclipse, now in your browser
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Rule #1: Don't name your product something that nobody knows how to pronounce.
Chee?
Chay?
Shay?
Shee?
Key?
Kay?
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[ˈtʃe]...like in Che Guevara...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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A terrorist glorified by sunshines...
Yup sounds about right for a new version of Eclipse.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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**Cough** .gif **Cough**
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If your app handles user data, then secure authentication should be one of your primary concerns. Identity management is a hard thing to do well, involving encryption, reset mechanisms, and other security measures. It's better than an unencrypted password column
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's better than an unencrypted password column
But not by much:
Quote: In December, a sample app implementation for Microsoft Passport was published up on GitHub to demonstrate how this entire process works, including both the client and the server pieces. However, keep in mind that this Microsoft Passport sample is greatly simplified. It is not secure enough for a production environment
Oh Elephant! That's not going to end well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We've previously wondered when Apple would join virtually everybody else in tech and start thinking seriously about creating a VR product. Mental note: invest in anti-nausea pills
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Microsoft previews Azure Stack, a private cloud configuration which is actually public Azure in a box. Then you can tell people to get off of it
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If I recall correctly you need something like a 1400 CPU server farm...so it will be a pretty big (and hot) box.
Basically this is for large companies naive enough to think that hosting their own servers will keep the spooks out of the data.
It won't.
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Now Azure private cloud make sense. It was so illusion
Wonde Tadesse
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More clouds in the Azure sky.
Storm is coming.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Wow! So if I have four servers to host my system, now I can complicate it over by adding the Azure Stack layer...fascinating...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: Ars Technica[^]
Going forward, the company says that using the latest generation processors will always require the latest generation operating system
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The company's official reason for this change is a little opaque
That gives still over a year to learn linux.
Quote: As an example today, Windows 7 has no built-in support for USB 3, and downgrading a Windows 10 system to Windows 7 may, without additional drivers, mean sacrificing USB 3 support.
Drivers are out there...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft and their threats.
They used to be nice to us.
I wonder what ultimately they're going to do to y'all once they feel they have sufficient victims to loose a few when they drop the bomb.
My windows 10 technical preview sat dormant on a forsaken laptop here in the shop.
I was Tib-ing (Acronis backup) my dev laptop so I grabbed the win 10 TP laptop and when I started it I was presented with:
c:\windows\system32\winload.exe is expired.
Ah ha.
That's a way to hook you into recurring revenue now huh.
I'll see my way out....
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