Jordrok

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by Jordrok 10y ago
To be honest, I didn't even realize that the grey 'i' was supposed to be a warning. I'm so used to seeing the little "blank document" icon there that my eyes totally glossed over it. I doubt many people are e
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Possibly, but I'd say it probably comes closer to matching the (relative) level of effort required to create an average piece of content for each platform. Video vs short video/image vs text.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
I'm imagining something like the brother in Better Call Saul, where it's painful for him to be in the presence of cell phones or fluorescent lights, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersens
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by Jordrok 10y ago
This is why using phone numbers as account identifiers is a bad idea. (For the users, at least. Not necessarily for the companies who want to own those users.)
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by Jordrok 10y ago
It's also a sign of how blind adherence to tradition causes old biases to persist and prevents any kind of progress, good or bad.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Yeah, how dare all those little people complain when they're inadvertently crushed by the glorious Google behemoth. Don't they realize how insignificant they are? Their entire lives are simply rounding errors at Internet Scale.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Maybe my experience is different from the real data, but I seem to remember people originally hating Steam when it just had Half Life 2 and a handful of other Valve things. It was more or less useless (and sometimes actively harmful) until
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by Jordrok 10y ago
This. Facebook as a company has no idea what it's doing when it comes to gaming. Remember when Farmville was king and social gaming on Facebook was going to be the future? Facebook is a platform for advertisers, but users are the one
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by Jordrok 10y ago
I still find myself absently hitting the backspace key to go back once I've finished reading a long page and moved my hands away from the keyboard/mouse. Then I mash the key for a bit to bring up the alt+left notification hoping
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by Jordrok 10y ago
I remember calling it "watching movies".
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by Jordrok 10y ago
You're exactly right that this would be incredibly annoying, but I think that should be the point. 99% of sites have no business accessing a lot of that stuff and popping up warnings every time they try to would make it a whole lot mo
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by Jordrok 10y ago
It's not the user's fault if the business model isn't sustainable.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
I think this is a fundamental truth that is rarely acknowledged by the creators of "free" services. Delivering value to your users and increasing profit for the company are almost always in direct conflict. Large groups of users
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Yeah...I have serious doubts about the longevity of the game. There's some cool tech behind it, and the sense of being part of a worldwide event is really impressive. But the core game itself just feels so...bland to me. The battle
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by Jordrok 10y ago
This is interesting and all...but wouldn't it have been easier all around to just modulate the voices of both genders into a single, gender-neutral tone, or even better yet, perform the interviews solely through text? Something about
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by Jordrok 10y ago
You're giving them a lot of credit. Would anyone be surprised at this point if that was just the date where the malware evolves into ransomware? How easy it would be for MS to automatically "upgrade" people to Windows 10 bu
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by Jordrok 10y ago
I still think that better support for contextual identities would be a net-positive across the board for the web, but I have to say that this little stunt gave me a good chuckle. Bravo!
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by Jordrok 10y ago
This is one of the few cases where I'm actually in favor of Chrome's rogue behavior, though I think they're probably doing it for the wrong reasons. I've been annoyed one too many times by webpages that refuse to allow
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Thus, adblockers. Maybe we need something like Adblock Plus at the publisher level which lets through the "good" ads and blocks the abusive ones? Something tells me that publishers don't really care enough to go that far th
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Dwarf Fortress is truly an inspiring project, not only because of how amazingly fun and engrossing the game is if you can get into it (granted, it's not for everyone), but also because of the sheer amount of dedication and love that is
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by Jordrok 10y ago
I came across these articles a while ago and decided to check my filtered messages just out of curiosity. I hardly ever use fb anymore so I didn't expect to find anything. Lo and behold though, there was a two year old message from m
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Yeah, this is an odd article. I read the post in question as soon as I saw the link before continuing with the rest of this one, and I came away with a totally different impression. It seemed like a thoughtful recounting of one woman&#x27
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by Jordrok 10y ago
I've always wondered about the extent of the info which DOESN'T make it into these kind of data dump features. Once you start thinking about it, it's incredibly obvious that the data made available to the user for export is
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by Jordrok 10y ago
+1 to this. I have never wanted to bind my identity to my phone number and never will. This is an anti-feature to me.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
If the purpose of the test is to subtly herd your users towards a result which is good for business but bad for the users, then yes.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
I love Pidgin so much. It's such a shame to see things move from "one client to rule them all" to hundreds of isolated, willfully incompatible clients.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Yes. You must have faith in the algorithm. Do not question its results.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
"So that's what things would be like if I'd invented the fing-longer. [Sigh]. A man can dream though. A man can dream..."
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Wow...this really spoke to me. Thank you for writing it. At the risk of being overly cheesy, I want to reply to your quotes with one of my favorites from Kurt Vonnegut: “Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel a
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by Jordrok 10y ago
You're right, but I would argue that the insane amount of over-integration was one of the main reasons that Plus failed. For once, here's to hoping that history will repeat itself.

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