If you install this, the messaging tab in the primary Facebook app now just switches you to the Messenger app. What a weird choice.

I decided to uninstall Messenger, I like being able to chat while browsing other Facebook pages.

Just tested, this happens on iOS. Not sure about Android. I definitely agree with you.

Pressing back brings you back into the standard Facebook app.

That's extremely strange behaviour. I can't imagine that sticking around in the long term. Switching views takes milliseconds, switching apps take much longer.

In-app messaging still working as normal on my Nexus 4.

As a flat design proponent (I suppose[1]), there's no reason all apps without textures need to look the same (see [1]).

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/svpply/id516820047?mt=8

See also: Layervault, Artsy, Letterpress.

NJ Transit and the LIRR are heavy rail (as are the subway and the PATH train).

Men can wear the same OCBD with shorts or with a casual suit, I don't think there's really a formality gap issue in menswear.

You should, there's lots of vanity sizing nonsense going on. For example, a 3sixteen ST-100x in size 30 is actually a 31 inch waist, and it will stretch about another inch!

http://www.3sixteen.com/collections/homepage/products/st100x...

Uh, is that a direct copy of the iOS "share" icon?

Is there an edition of Grid Systems with just English for, uh, half the price? I don't think I need a copy in German as well.

There is not. And honestly I don't think it's a must have. It's certainly a beautiful book, but you can learn most of what you need to know about grids just by Googling around. Typography is a comparatively much more complex topic, warranting the purchase of a book, and there's more to layout than grids and Swiss-German design.

If you want to buy a beautiful multi-lingual design book from that era, Emil Ruder's Typographie is the better buy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3721200438/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

The copy you get from Amazon is bilingual in German/English and it's totally worth it. The way they set the bilingual text in itself is a pretty fascinating study on grid systems.

I read this book in design school and its probably some of the best reading I've ever done. If I had to pick one book out of all of these, it'd be this one.

I wish. I can't read German either :( Some secondhand copies around, but they're still expensive. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/3721201450/ref=dp_olp...

As someone who has owned it for years, it's still one of my favourite books, but you don't need to read it for UI design, there are other references now days

IRT trains can run on BMT/IND tracks, but you'd have to jump off them if they stopped at a station.

The Time Out NY app is fantastic. As in this one:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-out-new-york-for-ipad/i...

So what's the deal with the horrible magazine one?

Don't use "RT". Use proper retweeting.

RT is still useful when you want to add a comment. For example...

There are exceptions to this, but generally agree RT @natesm Don't use "RT". Use proper retweeting.

I typically see that done like this in my Twitter crowd...

> There are exceptions to this, but generally agree "@natesm Don't use 'RT'. Use proper retweeting."

I see both pretty evenly, I prefer the RT way personally, but both work for sure.

I wondered how to handle native retweeting, given that it doesn't show up as anything other than the original tweet just in a different timeline. I ended up just including "RT" as a convention, but it could probably go in as a section or something.