Row upon row of shelves containing some of this year’s most-wanted gifts. The 800,000 sq ft warehouse is 60% bigger than Amazon’s huge distribution centre in Milton Keynes.
Amazon’s distribution warehouse in Swansea | Money | guardian.co.uk
“This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Even if it erases your hard drive, too bad. Although we did fix that bug from the last release.”
—README from a long-ago release of DJGPP
If you have a large enough container, let that bitch freeze. Enjoy your show, go to bed, grab life by the scrote. The center of the ice block will be opaque but there’s enough ice around the edges to get Scientology-clear ice.
When you’re ready to get all ol’ school with an Old Fashioned, grab an ice pick or table knife and chip off a clear hunk just smaller than your Old Fashioned glass. That cube will shine like it’s the mother fucking Dark Crystal and your drink will be richer and lovelier than Kira’s everlasting essence, if you know what I’m saying.
Now, remember, these dimensions are all in opposition to one another. You can spend a three days writing a routine which is really beautiful AND fast, so you’ve gotten two of your dimensions up, but you’ve spent THREE DAYS, so the “time spent coding” dimension is WAY down. So, when is this worth it? How do we make these decisions?
The answer turns out to be very sane, very simple, and also the one nobody, ever, listens to: “START WITH BREVITY. Increase the other dimensions AS REQUIRED BY TESTING.”
He and another employee went to work creating beautiful mock-ups depicting the perfect interface for the new program. On the appointed day, Evangelist and the rest of the team gathered in the boardroom. They’d brought page after page of prototype screen shots showing the new program’s various windows and menu options, along with paragraphs of documentation describing how the app would work.
“Then Steve comes in,” Evangelist recalls. “He doesn’t look at any of our work. He picks up a marker and goes over to the whiteboard. He draws a rectangle. ‘Here’s the new application,’ he says. ‘It’s got one window. You drag your video into the window. Then you click the button that says burn. That’s it. That’s what we’re going to make.’ “
A fixed focal length is not only going to give your work an admirable consistency, but it’s also going to surprise you. It’s not simply a tool to bring mental images to light- Instead, let your camera teach you how to make a picture.