Why oh why WaPo did you change the design of the crossword puzzles i/f today. Do you really think clues on a hot pink background are better? Sigh.
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I can play the original version until June 30... wtf is the point of that, except to rub it in.
@CraigStuntz there should be...
The wikipedia article on concision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concision outline's Joseph William's 6 step process for writing concision (e.g. making writing more concise)
1. Delete words that mean little or nothing.
2. Delete words that repeat the meaning of other words.
3. Delete words implied by other words.
4. Replace a phrase with a word.
5. Change negatives to affirmatives.
6. Delete useless adjectives and adverbs.
Question of the day: Is "being concise" really better explained by replacing it with the more unfamiliar word, "concision"? Inquiring minds want to know...
@RuthMalan note: I think that was in a talk about Playing with the concept of time...
@RuthMalan And a paraphrase complementary heuristic, shared by Eric Evans at a DDDEu talk one year... purposefully give awkward names to cncepts that are unclear about or that you are still figuring out what they should be in your design
@tastapod Which implies we need another means to organize them all... and that it should "move" wht me to whatever device I choose to use my stuff
@tastapod I want my stuff and have a logical structure that organizes it all. Nice idea. And don't get me going about shared files...
@gvwilson mouth fog?
@ricci It is rather long, so I think listening to it in bite sized chunks might be worthwhile.