JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Many bootcamps are terrible and promise things that aren't possible. (People generally can't learn how to code professionally in 12 weeks.) The bootcamps that tend to deliver do so because they only accept people who already have
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Anyone interested in Stonehenge should also check out this book: http://www.lynnekelly.com.au/the-memory-code/ It goes into some new ideas about what it was used for.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> That's it. Full stop. You bought a car without having a stable job. You bought a house way outside your earning ability. You bought fancy clothes and gadgets without having the cash to pay for them. Don't blame credit, you di
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Examples?
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Which extensions send every URL you visit to remote servers?
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
One can't authorize something that one isn't aware of. Users wouldn't install many common apps if they really understood what the systems were doing. For example, most people don't really understand that they are being d
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Google Hangouts has serious UI problems. People can't find the chat even when it's pointed out to them. Chat should be more prominent. At the moment, it's easier to send people to a Slack channel to chat during a Hangout than
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
After Microsoft bought Skype, it went downhill. The Linux version became even more buggy. The Android version didn't work well. So I started telling people that "I don't use Skype" and to call me on Google Hangouts or my
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Thanks for that link. For years, I've been arguing that animation is an accessibility issue, but the situation keeps getting worse. I hope that there is a way to enable that on Linux and Android.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It's called Material Design, and it keeps getting worse. (unrestrained animation, oversaturated colors)
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It seems more difficult to read programming books on a Kindle than as PDFs. I don't know if it's the lack of scrolling on Kindle or something else. I don't think that I would buy another programming book on Kindle.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Ctrl-shift-n to quickly launch a window without your extensions enabled (unless you've overridden it).
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It actually rendered very slowly here.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Thanks, I'll check that one out. The Memory Code is one of the best books I've read. Highly recommended.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Thunderbird has an RSS reader that works well: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
An RSS reader that fetches articles from a few news sources that you like.
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Naming Progressive Web Apps(fberriman.com)
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I think that it would be better to use better practices in regular HTML. There doesn't need to be a new markup format -- just more restraint with JavaScript/animations/CSS/advertisements.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> In terms of benchmarks, AMP pages are lightning fast. But apparently not faster than doing it yourself. "Pinboard founder Maciej Cegłowski already recreated the Google AMP demo page without the Google AMP JavaScript and, unsurpris
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> Bards pre-literate-times in Greece purportedly could recite Homer's Odyssey themselves after one hearing. Writing destroyed that all. They had amazing memories, but they couldn't memorize large works like that after just one
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
The heavily animated demo is worrying. Animation is making the Web very unpleasant lately. It's extremely distracting when trying to consume text content. Please don't animate your fonts.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
A link, for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Barnes_.26_Noble
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Amazon uses them offensively, so that argument probably doesn't apply in this case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Barnes_.26_Noble
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Firefox has better controls for that. You can reject 3rd party cookies only from non-visited sites. It also blocks some trackers by default when using private browsing mode.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I see -- I thought the patent was new. I'd ask you why you wrote a patent that allows large companies to block the open flow of online information (considering that it might prompt other companies to block information in different, but
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It's probably a combination of defensive and opportunistic. Companies stake out positions and then watch how the winds blow.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Maybe a combination of defensive and opportunistic.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Amazon or Google? One hour ago you posted that you're "a Director at Google". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14597662
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I know -- that's why I used the phrase "long-term". :) I probably shouldn't have used the word "plans" though, since I don't know for sure if they will implement it.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Yesterday, I saw an article[1] about Amazon's plans to block websites in their stores (a very bad thing) and was wondering when a company like Google was going to launch a VPN service. I wonder if these things will meet in the long ter

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