See also https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv

possibly, but there's a reason that why companies such as Apple and Samsung can drive innovation and hardware, and that's by selling you a new phone every 2 years. Where's the repeat market if you only sell one device per customer? Ideologically this is noble, but i don't see a successful business case

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Isn't it obvious? … oh wait, I think it's a digital currency wallet

The enemy of my enemy is my friend?

This is going to create some kind of meta crisis over at the daringfireball household

Exactly, I was miffed that I couldn't watch the Royal Institute Christmas lectures on iplayer

… and I always thought it was just the canon marketing department, but thinking about it, that actually makes a lot of sense!

In the uk, the police have been using a similar message but with a very different outcome. Run, hide, tell is the procedure that the police want the public react in. The idea being is that a coordinated response from the police is much better than having members of the public attempting to deal with the situation themselves. Obviously the circumstances are different to the USA as the vast majority of the public don't have access to weapons, and would not have the means to fight back. But I do believe this approach is far less terrorising than asking members of the public to always be prepared to fight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35140754

I'd agree that many Icons are context sensitive and many require the user to learn their use, but they do, mostly, provide a language agnostic approach to navigation. An icon is the same size in any language, whereas the title could be very different.

> I'd agree that many Icons are context sensitive and many require the user to learn their use, but they do, mostly, provide a language agnostic approach to navigation.

They are "language agnostic" in that an icon system is its own language.

And it sometime appears that almost every icon system is its own special snowflake, unique more for its creator's convenience, with more creativity than reusability.

The result is more like having dozens or hundreds of different dialects of Esperanto - each system intends to be rational and useful, but the overall effect on users of multiple icon systems is more like cacophony than expressive consistency.

OTOH, the core challenge of using text labels is finding texts that work and are meaningful and reasonably consistent across dozens of written natural languages.