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nsfw asked a question in Basecamp on January 28, 2009 19:42:
E-Mail Subject Line of [Parent Company] for everything is not usefulWhy doesn't e-mail notification show the Company the project belongs to in the subject line? Related why doesn't it show the project name in e-mail subject line?
That is e-mail subject lines should be of the form:
[project name] Your important stuff!
Not:
[parent-company-name] Your important Stuff!
At LEAST, it should show the company name of the company that the Project belongs to.
This seems to be an old issue... why is no one fixing this? Don't people use e-mail?-
nsfw replied on November 15, 2008 14:24 to the problem "Twitterank posted to my Twitter account without my permission." in Twitterank:
Ryo-
Sounds like you addressed the 90% of the UI issue. The last 10% is user interaction / expectations dogma, that anything less that "opt-in" won't solve.
And, while doing so you I think you found the "real problem", which was Lane's twitterrank was way to low, which was the first thing I noticed.
Well done!
-Scott -
nsfw replied on November 14, 2008 01:32 to the problem "Twitterank posted to my Twitter account without my permission." in Twitterank:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha... urk.
Yeah - I saw just before I pressed the button.
BTW - I'm not saying what mine is, but even I scored higher than you; which I think means it's broken. -
A comment on the problem "Why does LinkedIn think it's OK to trick me into spamming my entire Gmail address book?" in LinkedIn:
Wow - Get Satisfaction Works! I feel satisfied.
Thanks for hopping on this guys. – nsfw, on May 21, 2008 07:06 -
nsfw replied on May 20, 2008 23:55 to the problem "Why does LinkedIn think it's OK to trick me into spamming my entire Gmail address book?" in LinkedIn:
That IS awfully poor (and probably evil) design.
What does the "Don't Invite Folks" button look like? (There is one right?)
The big blue "Invited selected contacts" button sure makes you want to press it!
Also - this illustrates how using e-mail addresses as a proxy for user's identity (as opposed to say an open-id) is just all sorts of evil. Your intention to find other linked-in users who are also your contacts would not couldn't have gone so terribly awry if your friend list was just a bunch of identifiers. -
nsfw replied on February 07, 2008 22:18 to the idea "One Way Pocket Idea" in Timbuk2:
Well, any opening compromises the water-proof lining! :) If you're talking about rain, then a small flap or some such stops that. Remember the slit for the pocket is somewhere towards the top, or the top-front of the bag. As long as you can easily slide your hand in. -
nsfw replied on February 07, 2008 00:23 to the idea "One Way Pocket Idea" in Timbuk2:
Gee - I don't think I have my old bag any more... I'll look for it.
I'll try describing it a slight different way... and if I get a second I'll draw it, but in the mean time.
Just imagine that you made a pocket accessible from the outside of the bag, just a slit in the outside, lined with a cloth pocket, where the 'pocket' hung into a larger storage area of the bag. Now if you cut the threads holding the bottom the pocket together, when you dropped something into the pocket it would just fall in to the the larger storage area.
But because the pocket is just loose cloth, it would be hard for things in the storage area to find their way back out through the hole in the bottom pocket, since the cloth would just tend to fold, turning it into a one-way door. Making the pocket out of something that constricts makes it even more likely that things can find their way out.
Does that help? -
nsfw shared an idea in Timbuk2 on February 06, 2008 20:41:
One Way Pocket IdeaDear Timbuk2 designer folks,
I have an idea for you to make your bags EVEN MORE AWESOME! Namely, something I did to my old (non-TB2) bag, I added a One Way Pocket.
I've yet to hack my Timbuk2 bag this way, but would prefer to buy a bag from you with this built in. Also, I've never seen it on anyone else's bag; this idea also goes a long way to addressing people's need for a "small outside pocket". For instance a one-way-pocket would be great for the big zippered pocket on my bag... it sure beats having to unclip the flap and unzip and then rezip and reclip the flap just to get a pen, or a usb-stick.
How it works: You make a slit from the outside to where you want your one-way-pocket to go, then on the inside of the pocket destination, sew a 4-5" cloth tube made out of something nice and stretchy (something that will close itself when not being held open). To put something in, including your hand to feel around for stuff, you just slide it in the slit and push down, opening the tube. When there is nothing in the tube, it closes and folds back on itself so things can't pop out.
This is super helpful at airport security, where you want to empty your pockets of things that annoy the metal detector. Come on Timbuk2, make your bags PERFECT!
-Scott -
nsfw replied on February 05, 2008 01:44 to the question "Wordpress code placement?" in Triggit:
Yep - slapping it in the header works swell.
Of course, there is this kind of weird editing experience, where you make the text portion of your post, save it, then visit the post and add the triggit... little wacky! -
nsfw replied on November 07, 2007 20:11 to the question "How long does the battery last before recharge?" in Chumby:
Actually - my understanding is that it does have a battery, but it's only for maintaining the NV-RAM. However, I haven't disassembled it... yet. -
nsfw started following the question "How long does the battery last before recharge?" in Chumby.
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nsfw replied on October 15, 2007 22:12 to the discussion "13 Reasons your Facebook account will be disabled" in Facebook:
Hey... no one has claimed Facebook yet. I'll fix that!
