JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Firefox has some better plugins and features, like container tabs. You can block ads with the built-in tracking protection, uBlock Origin (not uBlock), and uMatrix. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It doesn't seem like a good idea to make HTML more complicated just to save 13 characters per page. It's just one more unclear thing that beginners would have to understand. "These elements go in the <head>" is eas
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
What about meta tags (viewport, description, robots), Open Graph tags, and inline styles? Is it correct to put a title element outside of a head element? "Permitted parents: A <head> element that contains no other <title> e
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Personal development isn't easy, but there is no pill that can replace a healthy lifestyle. I took the plunge into a strict, healthy diet 3 years ago and it eventually became easy.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
> "If that's true, then the benefits of daily aspirin clearly outweighs the costs." Why add aspirin though? If you want to reduce the chance of cancer, eat less junk and more vegetables, legumes, and fruits.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It doesn't let me delete them without deleting the emails.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
8 seconds is not a reasonable delay, and AMP pages work perfectly fine if the JavaScript is blocked. Which is going to annoy users more -- a slight delay in a font's loading or an 8-second delay in the entire page's loading? I sus
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
> If you were paid to work on this, you are either wilfully ignorant or morally corrupt. I think the ignorance comes from living in a bubble. It's hard to notice the bubble when you're inside of it, and programmers get manipula
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
> Disclosure: I work on AMP. Do you all just not think about the long-term implications of what you're building? It's going to destroy the open WWW. Web publishers (and other people who are paying attention) don't want AMP
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
I don't think it's "what users want" as much as it's "what makes the most money out of the things that we can convince users to want". And "what can we manipulate our engineers into believing about wh
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
> negative comments appear more often on this topic That's because the Web itself is under attack. Google is doing something completely unethical.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
The open WWW is one of the greatest things that humans have achieved, and Google is in the process of destroying it. It looks like the goal is to replace the Web with their own product where ads and tracking can't be blocked, and fewer
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Flutter is restrictive in ways that JavaScript isn't.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Flutter looks like the junk food of programming. It looks like you get a choice between McDonald's (Google / Material Design) or Burger King (Apple). People are giving up long-term technology freedom for short-term, beginner'
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It looks like a way to sort-of link to a site, but to make the default action to return back to the linking site instead of going deeper into the other site. You aren't sending people to the target page, but are just loading a preview.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It's going to hurt small sites the most, because sources of traffic like Google, Facebook, and other large sites will eventually stop linking to websites, and load them as previews in frames ("portals") instead. "No othe
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
The ripple looks bad and is terrible for accessibility. Not everything on a page should move. Look up animation and accessibility.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
It's already here: Material Design "ripple" effect.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Quitting isn't a laughable idea. I live in California (SF Bay) and got all of Facebook's companies out of my life in 2017. I had over 2,000 connections there. Since leaving, my offline social life improved and I'm more produc
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
You might like umatrix and stylus. The make the Web bearable. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
The goal of Esperanto is having a quick, easy way for people around the world to communicate with each other. You don't need to live near Esperanto speakers to use it online, by mail, or while traveling.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
The Material Design guidelines have terrible advice. There is way too much animation (bad for accessibility), and unbelievably garish color recommendations. Google's own implementation of MD have no aesthetic restraint and they are mak
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
> the flashy, material designed dribble UI polish that is largely an exercise in branding, typography, and basic color theory than actually understanding user needs through traditional UX methods based on best practices. Material Design
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I've had a similar experience after leaving. My in-person social life is much better too. I read more books. If you want more motivation to quit, track the amount of time you spend on social media sites. After you're done scrollin
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
> I spent a fair bit of time trying out many of the different chat systems out there for our tech community. Do any of them allow you to see a list of who's online? That feature broke on Slack. I was told it's a known bug and i
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Is Google Chrome sending browsing history and webpage content to Google (via Google Translate) even when sync is off? I didn't see anything about that in the settings.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
My social life and productivity have greatly improved since I quit Facebook. I also started to read more books, because my general concentration is returning. Every time you read an algorithmic news feed, ask yourself, "is this more ed
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I'm referring to the huge cost of Facebook in productivity and cognitive functioning. I don't think there is a price for knowing phone numbers and email addresses. It's much more harmful for Facebook to have my data than for
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I know where people live. I have a contacts list on my computer with phone numbers and email addresses. I don't use Facebook, WhatsApp, or any of those sites. There is a price for knowing exactly where everyone is at all times. http
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
T460, 24 GB RAM, i7, two batteries (over 10 hours of battery life). It was about USD $1900 including tax, shipping, and the support plan. I deleted Windows 10 and installed Ubuntu 16.04. Works great.

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