Can we have sans serif fonts please?

Maybe. I'm considering some customization options soon. Thanks for letting me know your request.

did anyone else just look up what "smegma" means?

I learnt that one from Red Dwarf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Red_Dwarf_concepts#Smeg

"There has been some speculation that the name is related to the word smegma; however, this has been denied by the writers"

I was one of the words we had to look up when playing Cards Against Humanity.

Is it bad that I knew what it is?

this is some javascript black magic right here

saying that the logo is just a small part of the overall identity is really dumb.

saying that the general public is unqualified to comment on it is even dumber.

if 90% of people don't like it, it is by definition a bad logo.

"Saying that the logo is just a small part of the overall identity is really dumb."

His point is that it makes no sense to evaluate a logo on it's own without greater context of how it fits with a fuller identity.

"saying that the general public is unqualified to comment on it is even dumber."

Why? Doing an identity is hard work and it requires more thought than just looking at a screen, evaluating it against something which it isn't even replacing, and then making a gut reaction. I wouldn't be surprised if most people went into the discussion with a bias introduction ("checkout this ugly logo!") without any rationale.

"if 90% of people don't like it, it is by definition a bad logo."

Well that depends on their taste.

"Well that depends on their taste."

Here is the problem: a logo is designed for the general public, not some elite audience of art critics.

Their taste is THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS. It doesn't matter whether the designers like it. At all.

If you want to do that kind of thing where only your esthetic opinion matters, you should be doing fine art, not web design.

You're kidding, right? It's just as important that the State, parents, alumni, research partners etc etc like it too. 18-20 year olds are probably one of the least important stakeholders at a research university.

The UC campuses are research universities not teaching colleges per se (not that there's anything wrong with teaching colleges).

18-20 year olds don't bring a lot of grant money with them, as a rule.

From Sentence 5 of Example 1.1:

"The symmetry is a smooth (differentiable to all orders) invertible transformation mapping solutions of the ODE to solutions of the ^ODE^. Invertible means the Jacobian is nonzero: x'x y'y - x'y y'x != 0"

Yeah, understood about 5% of that.

Here's how I broke it down, it has been a little while since I've been in a math class * Differentiable to all orders means that for each derivation, no cusp will appear in the curve. A cusp means that the next order of derivation will not be defined at that point on the curve.

* 'The symmetry is a smooth invertible transformation mapping solutions of the X to solutions of the Y'. - I now understand that the stuff I just paraphrased means that it's just a mapping, and that it's invertible. - ODE = Ordinary Differential Equation. Cool. Rings a bell. It looks like ^ODE^ is just the next order of derivation? And this mapping, the symmetry, is just describing how the next order of derivation relates to the first (I think, that is not exactly clear in the time I spent).

* Invertible means the Jacobian is nonzero... Describing to a sophomore that a mapping is invertible in these terms is pretty vague (this section is supposed to be accesible to sophomores). The Jacobian is the determinant of a particular form of matrix, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Jacobian.html

So aside from that last bit it came apart okay. I have noticed that when you have completed a certain amount of math (or any topic) it is hard to exclude certain bits or to describe things in a simpler fashion

Except that there's never any reception in subway stops, no?

So for the trains on which they have real-time data, there are already LED-boards that show arrival time:

http://i.imgur.com/QzgGr.jpg

If you're on the platform, you'll be able to see the time even if your phone isn't working. So the mobile app will be useful if you're en route to the station and need to know how many minutes you have left.

I was always amazed that the arrival boards are not available at every subway stop. In 1912 I could understand, but in 2012 this seems ridiculous.

So the next train comes in an hour, and the one after that comes in a day?!

I'll stop complaining the next time the L is a few minutes late. Yeesh.

Man, I've heard horror stories of the L, but 25.5 hours is ridiculous.

You're thinking about the G train.

The L has its own horror stories too (mostly because it lacks a third track).

spoiler: there is no actual pornography in this link. just sayin

can anyone take a guess as to how this works? i have not a clue.

On top of the obvious (resize to largest dimension, crop smallest) I'm guessing they set an anchor point on the image rather than use the center.

For example, the pig's face isn't centered. So rather than returning the center of the image, they crop the sides proportionally to the anchor point on the pig's face.

Edit: Nup. They just crop it down the middle. If you're the developer feel free to steal the above.

They have some set of categorized photos and simply crop them to the size you request after selecting a random one.

They have a page[1] listing all of their images (the "Images" tab at the top-right).

[1] http://lorempixel.com/images.php

I would guess they pull from the wiki commons and then use typical JPG or PNG algorithm libraries to stretch or compress the image. There's probably some AI to retrieve images that don't need to be stretched much so that it looks natural.

From their images list:

> The provided images are for layout purposes and each image we use for this project is released under the creative commons license (CC BY-SA). For more information visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ So, if you want to use the images for more than just layouts, you have to double check the license and ask the author. For this we will link to each photographer's flickr page. Furthermore, we assume no liability.

Almost any picture can be used, the algorithm just needs to stretch and crop to maintain the correct image size ratio.

shoutout to OP for making django-skel

Shout out: confirmed. >:)

It's clearly cardboard. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.