Hello, my name is Matt and I'll be your tumblr for the evening. I'm 19, Canadian, and studying cognitive science at Carleton University. Since no one outside the program knows what that means, my two core subjects are linguistics and computer science. I'm also not very good at being brief! But I try to make my walls of text somewhat friendly.

10th November 2011

Link reblogged from net slum with 3 notes

net slum: re: Gmail's new layout is kind of bad →

geni:

I understand that they can’t have both the new and old looks forever because they’re not willing to maintain the older style, but modern doesn’t mean “no colors”. Here, have a look:

From left to right: archive, report, and delete email. The report button could have been red, the…

http://userstyles.org/styles/56063/gmail-easy-access-colored-buttons

here you go boys and girls

It doesn’t solve the problem of their default design being a bit dumb, and if you’ve used Gmail prior to the change you probably don’t need help knowing which buttons are which, but I agree that they could use a bit of colour.

Lifehacker’s got some more scripts in this post, though I have no interest in the others, myself.

Also, time for a Systems Programming midterm, woo! gcc -E is for the preprocessor stages, gcc -S is for assembly, gcc -c is for object code… The activation record for a function contains its portion of the function call stack, and the return address for the calling function…


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