LeonB

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by LeonB 6y ago
Listening skills.
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by LeonB 6y ago
While developing a script I write them in short form then when it’s close to done I let vs-code help me convert them to long form. This way I write fast but leave a nicer product.
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by LeonB 6y ago
This is so much more believable than the idea that GoDaddy have chosen to perform front running.
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by LeonB 6y ago
There’s a little truth in what you say but a very fatalist part too which is quite untrue. We could say that roads are a natural monopoly (since they have to intersect everywhere it would be inefficient to have competitors fight and negotia
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by LeonB 6y ago
This is interesting. I was scrolling down and when I got to pagination I assumed I’d reached the end of the page and clicked on “2” ... which took me to the article on pagination. Not a bug, just an unexpected consequence.
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by LeonB 6y ago
I first saw it reported by ABC news (the national broadcaster) by reporters who live and work in the area. That’s a strong signal that it’s true. I checked if there was a registered business and there was. Details here: https://a
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by LeonB 6y ago
Do they? (work in reality)? You sound like you want to share information, go ahead. (And I think you misunderstood something I wrote, but I'm not sure what. I didn't mean that the same body of government investigate both crashes a
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by LeonB 6y ago
Chris Rock's take down of the "bad apples" argument is my all time favorite on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttd4985R0FQ His comparison of how errors in policing are treated compared to how plane
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by LeonB 6y ago
The “bad apples” analogy has been done to death. When bad behaviour is detected within a police force, they don’t eliminate the “bad apple” they protect them. No other “good apple” speaks up against the behaviour. Thus — in line with the me
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by LeonB 6y ago
In a game, you are creating a world and bringing the player into that world. The pixels are part of how that is done. They matter a lot. If you don’t think it’s reasonable for game designers to want complete control of the pixels inside a g
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by LeonB 6y ago
It sounds like you almost saw that there are trade offs involved in the two different approaches. But then just went for pejorative terms a bit more. There are some scenarios where total control of the style is an important part of the th
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by LeonB 6y ago
Sorry, what? Where is this hostility coming from? I’m not against accessibility. The trade off here is between trying overcome default styles of buttons on every single platform (hard! But necessary for a game) versus treating a div as a bu
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by LeonB 6y ago
Thanks for that link. I’ve read so many of these, and it all comes down to a trade off which they decide goes a particular way but I don’t feel convinced by their reasoning. It still seems like, in cases where the appearance has to be pixel
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by LeonB 6y ago
I think “terrible” is a bit much. With a little work a div can be both accessible and styled appropriately (without having to know platform specific ways to reset it) The scenario above is for a game. The look of the button should be pixel
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by LeonB 6y ago
Safari on iOS does not consistently apply HTML standards.
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by LeonB 6y ago
I was building a game and wanted to control the appearance of the buttons.
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by LeonB 6y ago
I can’t always use “button” for buttons because safari on iOS enforces its own style for those. Consequently, I end up with DIVs as buttons.
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by LeonB 6y ago
Agreed. MDN is very dependable as a reliable reference. But W3Schools is more likely to have the exact example or easy to use little tool I need in the moment.
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by LeonB 6y ago
They took Apple to court. There’s a huge battle over it. It’s been quite troublesome!
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by LeonB 6y ago
A normal business would not get away with that as it is an unreasonable request. If apple were to do that then it would only be because of their market power. Hence they’d be (further and more clearly) demonstrating that they are in breach
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by LeonB 6y ago
Do you have more information about this?
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by LeonB 6y ago
20 million * $99 certainly is real money. For a popular income generating app, the $99 will make an insignificant impact on the marginal cost. But the vast vast majority of apps are not in that category, and the $99 does have an impact.
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by LeonB 6y ago
Here is a talk by Jessica Kerr, that I find really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9I4loWogqw It mentions Nora Bateson, "Symmathesy" and mental models quite a lot. It covers many different ideas, all
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by LeonB 6y ago
There is this existing (and somewhat complex) system that measures people's income and diverts a portion of that to a fund which is then used to support systems that people deem to be socially beneficial. Various versions of it are ins
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by LeonB 6y ago
There's certainly nothing like the open source community. But if you generalize it sufficiently, all businesses are somewhat like that. Take banks for example. They rely on there being a functional society, with most transactions being
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by LeonB 6y ago
16 years ago, a man named Eric Sink decided to document the process of creating, marketing and selling a small piece of software he had always wanted to build, "Winnable Solitaire" which is, as you describe, always solvable. His s
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by LeonB 6y ago
Well said. I’m sure he felt justified, but it was an angry/impulsive/self-righteous thing to do. He needs help, particularly for the sake of the other members of the company who rely on him not to act like this.
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by LeonB 6y ago
I read this comment 20 minutes ago and tweeted about it. I came back here to provide a link to a browser plugin for vi keybindings and found many other people had also commented with examples- only different ones. Here’s another: https:&#x
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by LeonB 6y ago
I take your point generally but I think it's overstating it to say you learn nothing . Definitely the signal can be hard to isolate form the noise, but if it's a big enough signal you'll hear it. For example: if sales fall o
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by LeonB 6y ago
Okay that makes more sense. This is an important detail.

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