Guide of ARGUMENT FROM BAD DESIGN
- The True.Origin Archive -
Timothy Wallace's alternative to the Talk.Origins Archive, intended to provide
an intellectually honest alternative to such popular and highly pro-evolutionist ...
(Jerry Bergman)&—explores in detail the function and design of viruses in nature
&—A Problem for Naturalistic Science (Jonathan Wells)&—shows how without an empirically demonstrated naturalistic mechanism to account for homology, design remains a possibility deniable only on the basis of questionable philosophical assumptions
Sarfati)&—discusses criteria to determine design, and whether design is a legitimate explanation for lifes complexity
Essay archive - scottberkun.com
Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design.
- Design is a zero sum game, and you have to carefully choose which elements should take priority at a given time
- Critique meetings are one way to make sure teammates are involved, while maintaining a high level of design dialogue and quality idea discussion
- There is every reason to use logical and creative approaches when working on any kind of design problem
The best designers know how to switch between approaches, and bring together both kinds of thinking into a process for discovering and crafting the best ideas
It's a good anecdote as to how one team managed the cross discipline work of design and usability, with the engineering and development process
Its the smartest and most effective designers that work to understand the principles of influence, and how it effects the decision making process
Covers topics range from usability strategies to web design and information architecture techniques
2001 : You can't make anything that's perfect - or at least that's what I argue in this essay about the conflicting goals and practices of web design
Includes pictures, design problems, and other materials from CHI 2000 and CHI 2001
Dmitry's Design Lab - Graphic Web Design Using Fonts, Photography ...
Monthly articles on basics of graphic design, including color, fonts, shape,
texture, the principles of using artwork, photography and animation, ...
's monthly column HTML (M-F) Text (M, TH) enter email: These articles written by are for everyone interested in the important basics of design proper--design as art and science
Such design essentials as, the principles of using, photography, and, plus some more specific issues such as or logo design, are treated in detail and illustrated by
-- from, Tutorial 25 You'll also find here sample chapters from and, two authoritative volumes dedicated to the more technical issues of web design
Scroll down for a complete list of Design Lab articles, or view a page of extended abstracts
: Learn how abstractions can refine your design practice, and how structure can make content and presentation collaborate, not rival
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related
news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.' With the redesign of my own site last month,
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A Java Critique
Substantial text criticizing Java, written since the other pages mostly address
this topic from aC language viewpoint, while this is based on software ...
Many people claim that Java is a well designed OO language
Design Flaws in the Java Language This section is divided into two parts: problems inherited from C++ and problems created by Java itself
There are two arguments I know why this design decision was made: performance reasons -- copying an object can be expensive due to constructor calls and should be avoided for the simple types semantic reasons -- what does a reference to the value 5 mean? Handling the base types as references would be irritating Both arguments are weak and the design decision produces two significant problems
The problem here is that Java has the wrong type for clean software design since a call-by-reference implements an in/out parameter
If your code is designed well, a function has a simple and easy to describe meaning: it returns a property of an object or it calculates something
If you need two or more return values, they either belong somehow together and should thus be modeled as separate class, reducing the number of return values to one, or your function returns two not closely related values which makes the design of the function questionable
Considered Design
Web developer living in Oregon muses on technology, media, and especially usability
issues. Goes well with coffee.
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The subject material is UI design, digital music, and corporate intrigue
(the suggest riding the wrong way up bartlett street.) posted by : July 02, 2006 5:42 PM : It also tells you to go the wrong way on Darlington, whichwhile corresponding to the actual behavior of a number of bicyclists, including a certain CMU grad student I used to see out my kitchen windowis extremely stupid.I'd guess it's a bug in the Pgh data rather than a fundamental design 'feature', though, since it seems to get Portland's one-ways right (e.g
Creation Design Features Q&A
Examples of complexity and design from the Answers in Genesis website.
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
A directory of wonderful things.
Shrewdly, he designed the museums with hotel rooms in which visitors can stay
Benefits
Photo by www.journalism.indiana.edu
Why Muslims Should Support Intelligent Design Article by Mustafa Akyol, presenting the concept of Intelligent
Design, and
arguing that it should be supported as a tool in the conflict between theism and
... Counseling: Search New New New Watch & Listen Sister Sites | Why Muslims Should Support Intelligent Design By 14/09/2004 I have traveled a lot around the United States and the United Kingdom, lecturing to Muslim audiences
Ertugrul also explained that the universe and life within it are designed by God and they tell us about His infinite might and knowledge
And what can be more important than the case against materialism, the modern denial of God? Intelligent Design as Our Common Cause Interestingly, Said Nursi, in the 1950s, foresaw an alliance between Islam and Christianity against materialism
This wedge is the code name for the Intelligent Design Movement, formed in the early 1990s by Christian scientists and intellectuals
Intelligent Design (ID) is a term that implies creation
The universe and life are not products of blind forces of nature, ID holds, but show evidence that they were designed by an intelligence
The ID Movement has deliberately chosen not to specify the identity of the Designer
Through science you can demonstrate convincingly that there is a designer, but you cant go further without invoking theology
Servlets.com | The Problems with JSP
Why pure JavaServer Pages isn't the solution. Describes alternatives and better
ways to use JSP.
Why must a client directly submit its request to a view? Shouldn't the client make a request to some general server component and let the server determine the JSP view to return? This belief caused many people to adopt what has been called the 'Model 2' design, named after an architecture laid out in the JSP 0.92 specification and based on the model-view-controller pattern
With this design, requests are submitted to a servlet 'controller' that performs business logic and generates an appropriate data 'model' to be displayed
Enter Template Engines But why suffer the complexity of JSP just to do templating? Might it not be better to use a dedicated template engine? By using a template engine intended for this exact use instead of the general-purpose JSP, the underlying design can be cleaner, the syntax clearer, the error messages more meaningful, and the tool more customizable
Using a dedicated template engine instead of JSP offers several technical advantages that developers should be aware of: Problem #1: Java Code Too Tempting JSP makes it tempting to put Java code in the web page, even though that's considered bad design
fpgacpu.org - FPGA CPU News
Exploring the design and implementation of custom processors and integrated
systems-on-chips using FPGAs.
The purpose of this site is to share the lore of designing new processors and integrated systems-on-chips using FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays)
It has also been voiced frequently by design teams (not represented on the panel) that are working with 130-nm designs
...' 'The notion of the predesigned, configurable platform is beginning to get serious notice at 90 nm.' Happy new year (belated)
'Confluence is a simple, yet amazingly powerful hardware design language
Its flexibility and high level of expression reduces code size and complexity of a design when compared with either Verilog or VHDL
Confluence also enforces clean RTL preventing common errors and bad design practices often introduced in traditional HDL coding.' 'And unlike C based approaches, design engineers love Confluence because it still feels like coding in HDL
Here, March: Lauro Rizzatti, in EEdesign:
'Realistically, now there is a simple, practical way to compare the design capacity of two emulation solutions based on the Virtex-II components
By listing type and quantity of Virtex-II devices allocated to mapping the design-under-test, possibly augmented by one or more external memory banks, you can now truthfully and reliably evaluate two or more emulation systems.' Well that's not very helpful
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric S. Raymond's seminal paper analysing why open source works so well; followup
papers "Homesteading the Noosphere", "The Magic Cauldron" and "The Revenge of ...
Clay Shirky has expanded on the value of rapid evolution and the design of systems that encourage it in an excellent paper, In Praise of Evolvable Systems ; also in View Source: Lessons from the Web's Massively Parallel Development The first critique of this paper to appear, When a Bazaar is Not a Bazaar, was thought-provoking but (IMO) basically wrongheaded
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Daytime Running Lights: The Studies
A list of studies both for and against the government mandating Daytime Running
Lights and DRLs in general.
C.: A study of daytime running lights design factors
In summary, although the studies of DRLs have differed in design, analysis techniques, and outcome measures, the later studies are largely in accordance with the earlier ones, indicating that the overall effect of DRLs on motor vehicle crashes is positive
City Comforts, the blog
Examines urban issues from a mildly libertarian standpoint.
What was this Blog About? Cities, architecture, the 'new urbanism, ' real estate, historic preservation, urban design, land use law, landscape, transport etc etc from a mildly libertarian stance
Archives City Comforts is primarily a book (Click on book cover to order!) If the ideas presented here on urban design interest you, take a look at City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village
An ideal reference for neighborhood planners, architects, and urban designers
Next-Generation Win32 exploits: fundamental API flaws
Step by step guide to privilege escalation using shatter attacks. Shatter Attacks
use flaws within the Windows API call SetWindowLong() as well as others.
Nuclear Energy is the most certain future source.
Discussion and FAQ from the Formal Reasoning Group (FRG) about nuclear energy
sustainability.
If the reactor design is much more economical of neutrons, enough U-238 can be converted to plutonium so that after a fuel cycle there is more fissionable material than there was in the original fuel rods in the reactor
Such a design is called a breeder reactor
Therefore, it doesn't depend on the particular design of the plant
Yes, if it is sufficiently badly designed and operated
The Chernobyl accident depended on the specific characteristics of the RBMK reactors, of which the Soviets built 16 before switching to designs more like those used in the rest of the world
RBMK reactors don't have containment shells designed to prevent radioactive materials from getting out
The RBMK was designed as a dual-purpose reactor suitable both for power production and bomb production
The US Department of Energy has a , and there is also a None of the projects is close to designing a plant
MS-Word is {Not} a document exchange format
Explains the appropriate use of document formats and argues against the use of
Word attachments.
That is a violation of the intent of the MIME standards, and indicates broken design for exchange of information
Word isn't even good at what it is designed for As an aside, I feel that MS-Word produces probably the worst output and is the slowest and most tedious to work in of any document preparation system in serious use I've seen in the past 15 years
Philosophy
Printable handout from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that “discusses
several common types of philosophy assignments and various strategies and ...
If scientists want to test a theory or principle, they design an experiment; they construct the experiment so that just one variable is tested
The Corner on National Review Online
National Review Online's multi-author conservative blog.
Using Rubrics in Middle School
Examines the use of rubrics in school. Mostly theory. Uses a couple of good examples.
The example in Figure 1 (adapted from Perkins et al 1994) lists the criteria and gradations of quality for verbal, written, or graphic reports on student inventions - for instance, inventions designed to ease the Westward journey for 19th century pioneers for instance, or to solve a local environmental problem, or to represent an imaginary culture and its inhabitants, or anything else students might invent
This rubric lists the criteria in the column on the left: The report must explain (1) the purposes of the invention, (2) the features or parts of the invention and how they help it serve its purposes, (3) the pros and cons of the design, and (4) how the design connects to other things past, present, and future
To boost the learning leverage of rubrics, the rubric design process should engage students in the following steps: 1
It also demonstrates some of the difficulties of designing a good rubric
A second challenge in rubric design is avoiding unnecessarily negative language
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