I do not put much faith in Hick’s Law. I’ve seen it misapplied and drastically misinterpreted. Its limits, and edge-cases, are not widely known. I am convinced that it is generally not a dominant factor, even when it is relevant. I don’t agree with many design choices it is used to justify. In [...]
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Interesting, and useful tidbit:
Just a curiosity, but it happens that in a yes-no binary response test, the reaction time to select “no” is longer than for “yes.”
Source
This is worth investigating further, but tonight I’m bushed. If anyone has any more information, especially quantitative data, I’d love to hear it.
This is a bit of the design process behind one line of one settings panel inside IMLocation.
The “Locations” panel controls everything having to do with to locations. The pane’s “headline”, outlined in red, shows what is assumed to be the current location.
It reads like “Your current location is home”. It does not say [...]
Version 0.29 (beta) is out! Download the latest version here.
This update fixes a bug with iChat compatibility.
As always, updating is very strongly encouraged during the beta period. I try hard to make the latest build work, but I do not support old beta versions.
Enjoy!
–Vincent
A few days ago, out of morbid curiosity, I went looking for a a quine written in AppleScript. To my surprise, I couldn’t find one.
I’d never actually written a quine before, so this was a good ‘excuse’ to make one (and brush up on some computability theory — use it or lose it).
Well, here [...]
Version 0.28 (beta) is out! Download the latest version here.
This update brings Leopard compatibility.
As always, updating is very strongly encouraged during the beta period. I try hard to make the latest build work, but I do not support old beta versions.
Enjoy!
–Vincent
Before you consider using any of the unsupported hacks I’m about to discuss, check to see if existing frameworks , or iChat’s AppleScript interface, will do what you need. Any software update can break unsupported code in unpredictable ways at any time. When Leopard came out, all the hacks I had been using [...]
