JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Google doesn't have a list of everything you do online unless you're loading resources from their servers after you leave their site. AMP always loads from Google. If you block those 3rd party scripts, AMP pages literally take 8 s
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Being forced to load everything you read via Google is worse for privacy. There are already plenty of solutions for blocking 3rd party scripts, like Privacy Badger and umatrix.
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AMP isn't truly "open" technology. You can't even discuss its problems on Github without getting the conversation shut down. AMP is an insidious threat the the open WWW itself. It doesn't solve problems that can&#x2
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Looks interesting. Music theory and harmony would be good topics to approach with computers. I think that there could be books on poetry (analyze meters, language, cross-references, symbolism, poet connections), literature, biology, math, p
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"Learn <subject> by Programming in <language>" would be a popular series of books. I hope someone writes them.
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I only became aware of it after seeing the edit war on Wikipedia. It may not be the reason for downvotes but it's apparently a controversial topic among some people.
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> Cuban advises ditching degrees that teach specific skills or professions and opting for degrees that teach you to think in a big picture way, like philosophy. I'm not sure if big picture thinking skills come from studying one spec
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I'm not sure, but it might be the use of the phrase "leaky gut". Some people will have a knee-jerk reaction against that term vs. the term "intestinal permeability".
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I don't think Turbolinks is a good idea from a usability standpoint. Too many UIs have a similar bar at the top, and they mean different things: a browser's loading bar, a website's loading bar, a website's read-progress
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I'll try to round up some comments later tonight. I have visual-motion sensitivity, and plan to write some articles on some of the problems with recent animation trends. I'm also planning on creating browser extensions that disabl
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The new design is pretty awful too. Material Design has accessibility problems for people with motion sensitivity. Everything animates, even if you aren't supposed to be looking at it at the time. Sudden movement can cause nausea, espe
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I like borders too. They often help make it easier to understand the layout from a quick glance.
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Google Search isn't serving the sites.
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Sometimes is not even about ease of development, but just a following of trends without thinking. SPAs are a bad choice for content-based sites for several reasons. People often ask the wrong question: "which JS framework should I use?
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If it makes the Web terrible for desktop users who block 3rd party JS from loading, then it's not an edge case, regardless of the name.
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I think that edible insects would be a better protein route than lab-grown meats. It would require a cultural shift in some places, but probably not as large of one as people think. (Lobsters were considered inedible until relatively recent
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Extremely slow is an understatement. It's literally 8 seconds. Loading 3rd party JavaScript without restriction is extremely unsafe and not an edge case. It's basic Web-browsing safety.
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> which is an extremely tiny portion of people clicking links on the internet. Most people don't know enough about how the Internet works to have an opinion. It's a specialized field, and only people who understand the related
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They each get to put a giant back button on the top of your site that takes you back to the search results instead of deeper into your site. If Google is going to steamroll over independent websites, then the others want in on the action to
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> among iOS users The main arguments against AMP have nothing to do with iOS or Safari. I don't have any Apple devices. Also, how is that the top comment just a minute after being posted on a site where most people don't like A
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Wouldn't that just give an advantage to large sites with tons of cash at the detriment of smaller, independent publishers? If hosting other websites increases the engagement on Site X, users might say, "getting my news on Site X i
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How would writing a whole new UI in AMP be easier than cleaning up the current HTML templates or writing new templates in HTML rather than AMP?
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Why would other sites be motivated take on the extra bandwith loads? Downloading websites before even clicking on the links seems like a huge waste of bandwidth for a problem that could be mostly solved by: - writing better HTML - stop writ
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The WWW is supposed to be decentralized. There shouldn't be one (or a few) companies that host the Web. I don't want Google to visit sites on my behalf.
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If someone is going to implement AMP templates they have the ability to implement better HTML in the templates instead. It does matter that users are on your physical servers. It affects referrers and copied/pasted links, which affect
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It's a terrible idea. AMP is a shameful attack on the open WWW. AMP is slower than hand-optimized HTML. AMP pages are often hosted on a 3rd party domain, even sending the wrong referrers to other sites. AMP is also extremely slow on de
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Also Sanctuary RPG: http://www.sanctuaryrpg.com/ Unfortunately, they only run on Windows, not Linux. They are missing out on a large audience that likes text-based things.
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It's a dystopian prediction. The WWW is what makes the Internet great. If a company would take down their website, they would lose a lot of customers, including me. I don't use Facebook and only use a few mobile apps. I'm als
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> I find it extremely hard to believe that this was a bug. It reminds me of this comment: "Whoops, I accidentally inserted 350 lines of code across some .java and .xml files and linked a vendor's library and when my hand slippe
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What do you mean?

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