Clifton Royston
CliftonR@wandering.shop
<p>Me:<br />Reading SF&F since about age 9, friends with LGBTQ people since age 16, working in software/tech since I was 16, practicing Zen since 17 or 18, on Internet by late 1980s. I helped invent modern credit card terminals at Verifone in 1980s, founded small ISP LavaNet in 1994, back to sw dev from 2005 on.</p><p>Usenet (talk.bizarre), Making Light, Twitter.<br />"I'm normal by Cubetown standards."</p><p>Mostly here to chat, banter, & boost my friends & favorite writers.</p><p>Cis/bi, he/him, relaxed about it.</p>
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@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz I still have my Mathematical Logic and Set Theory textbook from almost 50 years ago - handwritten by the professor, W.W. Tait, xeroxed, and handed out chapter by chapter in the class. Cover? Certainly not! I hand-wrote my own cover/table of contents on the binders I put them into. Absolutely the best.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop @deathkitten@firetribe.org A design word for this is "affordances." At the obvious level, it covers e.g. putting a handle on a door to make it clear you can push or pull it. If you don't put something in the interface that *clearly* hints there are extra choices, then many (most?) people won't ever think to click there. For many users, the "..." or "Ξ" that are now in vogue for menus don't do that; IMO they're an unfortuna...
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@cstross @Cadbury_Moose @tienelle I'll drop the topic now, regardless. This probably all seems funnier to me than it should, because I'm completely groggy and punchy today after staying up until 3 fricking am reading 'The Regicide Report'. I very stupidly opened it last night at what should have been bedtime and I just could NOT STOP. Congratulations on 25 years of incredible writing; I can't believe it's been that long.
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Operation Unbelievable Tantrum