Jordrok

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by Jordrok 11y ago
Holy crap, very cool! At first glance I thought it was just a neat little resizing trick, but then Zeus morphed right before my eyes and I did a double take. The way it responds to your movement makes it really effective in a way that wou
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by Jordrok 11y ago
No, it really hasn't. In most cases the new reCAPTCHAs actually take longer to solve than the old ones. The old variant which makes you read street numbers is pretty quick and painless - type in 3 or 4 digits and you're done. Wi
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I seem to remember AIM allowing customized fonts and background colors around 15 years ago... Just sayin'
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by Jordrok 11y ago
As a primarily PC gamer, there was a period around 2008-2010 where XBLA seemed to be flourishing and it was seriously making me consider buying an XBox. There seemed to be a lot of really good indie games suddenly popping up which were XBo
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I just don't understand the obsession over typography. It all feels like endless bikeshedding to me. All those words to explain the concept and I just can't muster any strong feelings about how the text looks before or after.
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Ok, that is pretty damn cool. I've played Dark Souls so I can appreciate how difficult that must have been. Very impressive. Devil's advocate though: this seems more like a case of the guy being good enough at the game to win in
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Er...so if you didn't tell them it was malware, then what DID you tell them?
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by Jordrok 11y ago
"Artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence, the IoT connects the whole world to the Net. Humanity created “Ethereus,” a super-cloud computer, able to re-design itself..." I, for one, welcome our new buzzword-compl
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Sites routed through CloudFlare are practically unbearable to use over Tor and ReCaptcha 2.0 has actually made things worse. The new challenges take more time to solve and most times you're required to complete multiple challenges bef
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by Jordrok 11y ago
The New York Times exists first as a print publication. Wikipedia has never shown commercial ads. HN doesn't show normal blockable ads. Reddit is replaceable. Xkcd doesn't show ads. Really, I think those work better as examples of
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I've actually been having similar feelings lately. I'm still not totally happy with Apple and fundamentally disagree with their closed ecosystem policy, but over the years I feel like they have been gradually gaining trustworthin
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Ok, so supposedly the redesign is based on the idea of "bits and atoms". The atom at least seems to be based on the textbook image of a circular nucleus surrounded by lines of orbiting electrons. (Let's ignore the fact that
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Fallout 4 was the game that finally got me to replace my ~9 year old Frankenputer. Almost every part inside of that case had been replaced at least once and it was still trucking along just fine for most games until F4. Even on the lowest
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I see this argument all the time and it has never made any sense to me. Do you honestly consider Twitter to have the same level of utility, ubiquity, and necessity as things like running water, electricity, sewage, roads, etc? Let's l
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Hang on... Didn't Jack Dorsey explicitly state that they weren't going to do this just a few days ago?[1] "We never planned to reorder timelines next week." I guess you could argue that the timeline isn't "re
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I've actually noticed this phenomenon quite a bit on Facebook in the past few years and it's part of the reason I've started withdrawing from the service. It makes me feel like I have no control over what's being displa
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Oh man, you guys are bringing back some highly emotional memories for me. Mine was slightly different, but with the same result. In my case it was Diablo I and rather than giving away my items, some guy tricked me into taking a town porta
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I can't upvote you enough. This is my #1 pet peeve with modern UI/UX design. I'm perfectly fine with the "big green button" scenario where the most most common use case is the one that gets most of the visibility,
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Ugh, speak for yourself. The idea of having my work and personal identities become that interconnected just makes my skin crawl. That said, I've long since resigned myself to the fact that I'm probably a rather poor representativ
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Anecdotally, I find this to be pretty true. I would probably still be using my old 2012 Nexus 7 if the combination of flaky storage hardware and Android updates hadn't caused it to die a slow painful death. Offtopic: All this talk of
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Just wanted to say that you're not alone in this. I program and read about tech things because they interest me and have useful applications, but I've never truly felt the drive to make myself into the next Gates, Jobs, Zuckerber
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I had only been using Soundcloud for around a month or two when they decided to push out the new version of their app so I had relatively little attachment to the old version, but even then it was blatantly obvious to me that they had butch
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by Jordrok 11y ago
> "Something tells me that bitcoin itself isn't dead because there's been too much invested in it by too many people, whatever the problems." So in other words, too big to fail? I don't necessarily disagree wi
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Another nice quote from that post: "With the blog in particular, the explicit model is that I write down whatever dumbass theory pops into my head and try to sell it as God’s final word. Then my readers shred it in the comment section
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by Jordrok 11y ago
"There’s no public view count, follower count, likes count, or any other social dick-measuring contest. You can just put whatever you’re doing on Snapchat; if people don’t like it, who gives a fuck, you’ll never know." Hmm...I g
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I wonder if part of the problem is that the news feed must always show the user SOMETHING, even when there may not be many recent posts that are particularly relevant for that user. The only variable that changes based on the "relevan
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by Jordrok 11y ago
This also describes my current situation almost exactly, and generally I am pretty happy with things. I know that these are the things that make me happy and I try to keep them in balance. Sometimes though there are some nagging doubts tha
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Can't speak for parent, but I didn't even realize those were links until someone else in this thread pointed it out to me. I'll try to avoid turning this into an aesthetics vs usability rant, but gray text on a gray backgrou
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Hah, ok fair point about the articles. I had no idea those were even links. Grey text with no underline or mouseover so I scanned right past them. Maybe I really am a relic of the desktop era...
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by Jordrok 11y ago
...their capabilities make them much more sophisticated as internet platforms than PC. Really, it’s the PC that has the limited, cut-down version of the internet. I honestly can't think of a single way in which that's true, and

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