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by acbabis 10y ago
How do you measure the productivity of cognitive work over an entire week? It's kind of subjective, and having the subjects self-report their level of satisfaction would probably be unreliable. EDIT: I guess the trick might be to not u
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by acbabis 10y ago
That's a good point. Internet commenters tend to overgeneralize. Fortunately, those people aren't strictly needed for a solution. The only party who needs to listen is the content provider (in my example, the news outlet).
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by acbabis 10y ago
How would you design an experiment to control for that? (Not a rhetorical question. I'm curious)
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by acbabis 10y ago
Many news outlets will say "Warning, the following story contains graphic imagery," and people don't think this is unreasonable; nor do they expect more specific content warnings in the future. This tells me it's possibl
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by acbabis 10y ago
Screen-readers can iterate and skip paragraphs. If you have an article and you group your sentences in paragraphs, the document is easier to navigate. Paragraphs would also be helpful if you wanted to write a script to export an HTML docume
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by acbabis 10y ago
Yes, the white on black is fine. I checked the #8a7ae2 purple ( http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ ) and, surprisingly, it passes WCAG AAA guidelines. I say "surprisingly" because it hurts my eye
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by acbabis 10y ago
Why would you select against people with poor vision?
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by acbabis 10y ago
I don't know why this was downvoted so much. This is actually a pretty clever summary of the article. Have an upvote.
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by acbabis 10y ago
Some comment service providers like Disqus only load the comments if the user scrolls to them, while others only load if the user clicks on a button. If these services' analytics tools don't track this, they should. I'm much
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by acbabis 10y ago
> The conclusion: NPR's commenting system — which gets more expensive the more comments that are posted, and in some months has cost NPR twice what was budgeted — is serving a very, very small slice of its overall audience. If this
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by acbabis 10y ago
My criticism of the article would be that there isn't really anything to disagree with. Most STEM people already understand that analytical ability is more important than knowledge; and the people struggling with this are unlikely to g
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by acbabis 10y ago
I'm saying I wouldn't have noticed any problems on my own, but I agree that the authors examples of what he considers good look nicer than the examples of what he considers bad. The house with lots of windows looks particularl
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by acbabis 10y ago
I'm not an architect, and I probably wouldn't have even noticed how ugly these houses are if I spotted them in the wild, but having read this article, it seems mind-boggling that someone would spend the money it takes to make a ho
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by acbabis 10y ago
Be sure to review these: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-30-css-selectors-you-... . When I interview candidates, I make sure they know more than just class and element selectors.
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by acbabis 10y ago
Now that I think about it a little more, this seems like a red herring. Just because the budgeting office says two numbers are the same on paper, doesn't mean anything about the efficacy of the policy, for or against.
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by acbabis 10y ago
> For this reason, organizations like the Congressional Budget Office treat tax breaks and government spending as essentially equivalent. This seems weird. Collecting and spending money has overhead and externalities (enforcement for exa
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by acbabis 10y ago
> They get paid regardless of whether a transaction is fraudulent or not, so they have no incentive to improve. It doesn't take away from your main point, but credit card companies do have some incentive to improve. They want the
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by acbabis 10y ago
If the cars obey the posted speed limit and slow down and split-the-difference when on curves or near hazards (such as children running on the sidewalk), the hypothetical moral dilemmas shouldn't even happen. So far, I've only hea
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by acbabis 10y ago
It might depend on which one. Modest lifestyles in those places isn't always by choice
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by acbabis 10y ago
Does the Amish country count?
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by acbabis 10y ago
> - The built-in rule for [hidden] { display: none; } is often of no help as another css class may set display to something else, so from the developer's perspective the "hidden" attribute seems to be broken. [hidden] {
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by acbabis 10y ago
The biggest problem with these hacks isn't a preference for CSS over JS (which IMO is fine in moderation); it's the fact that they aren't keyboard or screenreader accessible. A person using a screenreader can't even navi
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by acbabis 10y ago
I don't use Lodash, but I remember reading that it does lazy evaluation[1]. For example, if you map an array, then take the last 3 items, it only calls the map function for those 3 items. Does anyone know if V8 can do any optimizations
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by acbabis 10y ago
I'm pretty sure most of the points made in this thread have been made before. That doesn't mean everyone here has heard them.
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by acbabis 10y ago
I can't argue with that, but shouldn't you want to eventually take off the training weights so you can go that much faster?
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by acbabis 10y ago
Except the article is not an opinion piece. The author makes a factual claim that removing syntax highlighting makes the code ironically easier to read. That's something that could be measured and either confirmed or refuted in a lab.
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by acbabis 10y ago
Exactly!
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by acbabis 10y ago
> You may hate it but... you clicked on it. We're giving you what you want. If you like looking at stupid cat pictures (or worse), someone will give you stupid cat pictures. We're not paid to provide moral or intellectual censo
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by acbabis 10y ago
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding you? Perhaps he's suggesting that otherwise honest people have to resort to clickbait tactics to compete with the worsening signal-to-noise ratio
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by acbabis 10y ago
That's OK. It's often regarded as bad practice to use variables and functions before they're declared in scope, and clearly that's what the author was after :)

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