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It's already gone away.

Whoa, easy there - many of 'us, as a culture' have been fighting this tooth and nail.

I was kicked off Quora yesterday because they didn't like my 'Real Name' (which is actually my completely innofensive real name)

This is still pretty depressing coming from the BBC, even when you ignore the comments.

Where does IOS use Singletons?

The correct way to deal with it is to realise that if you need some settings that can be accessed/changed from many different classes then the design of your app is severely lacking. However, this doesn't necessarily that you need a more complex/sophisticated 'design'. ie. if you stick to TDD this situation is highly unlikely.

Hopefully this will stem the tide of questions on Stack Overflow about different Objective-c singleton implementations.

We have reached the bottom of the barrel when how to send an email is on the front page of hacker news

I worked at a world famous design studio. I was horrified to discover that there could be no 'brain storming' - everything you said or every drawing you showed would be judged and held against you. It made it almost impossible for someone to come up with a truly creative solution. You had to be very careful and measured about everything you said.

There is going to be some overlap of concerns once all of Sproutcore has been integrated into JQuery.

Not quite, Windows uses hinting information from the font, OSX doesn't. Many freely available fonts contain terrible or no hinting, and they will look bad at small sizes on Windows.

By an insignificant amount.

Sadly, you are only as good as your last piece of work - not your best piece of work.

No. You need to be a deluded megalomaniac who believes copying code from the web makes them the worlds greatest super-genius. Be thankful you're not that fucked up.

Less by science, then.

It seems like a particular combination of colours, say a particular red and green, may be a comfortable, obvious, familiar combination right now, in a specific culture - but 100 years ago may have been shocking and outrageous. And, who knows, in 100 hundred years may again be 'less comfortable'.

Goethe, Munsell, Itten, Albers, Kandinsky may have spent a great deal of time putting coloured squares next to each other, but none of them ever conducted anything like an objective scientific study on the 'aesthetic quality' of a palette. Goethe's theory was based heavily on the work of Aristotle. Munsell's views on aesthetics seemed laughably conservative at the time, let alone now. Neither Albers or Kandinsky, ever put foward a 'theory' for evaluating harmonious colours. Albers said that each colour 'goes' equally well with any other colour. Itten & Kandinsky were obsessed by the occult 'meanings' of colours. Certainly they were genius colourists.. but scientists?

How can we know if this method of choosing colours results in colours 'aesthetically better' than, say, generating rgb values by flipping a coin?