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Ideal assembly size is the cube root of the population it represents
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoAnnoying auto-starting audio. From the guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please > warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title. I would suggest that the same applies to audio. To try to explain why, here's something I wrote some time ago. You can find the original here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459449 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459449 - but I'll quote the relevant bits: > When I browse I open up to 30 or 40 tabs at a time, > then go through them breadth first, opening more tabs, > continuing in this vein for a while. There have been > times when I've had 80 tabs open, moving through them > systematically, letting the browser load the next page > while I'm reading this one. > > Eventually the tree of pages/tabs closes down as links > I opened speculatively have nothing of interest, and so > I get my browsing donw efficiently and effectively. > > Until some video starts up. Or worse, two. Now I have > dozens of tabs to search through to find the one (or two) > that are playing something at me without being asked, > without giving me warning. It's really annoying. > > I know I'm unusual in the way I browse, and maybe I just > need to get used to it. But perhaps it would be useful > to others as well. > > Thanks for reading, sorry about the rant, I hope someone > sympathises with me.