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by bitsavers 4y ago
I've moved my discussion here, where it has gotten some traction https://oldbytes.space/@bitsavers/109688913474142565
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Written in 2019. Covid has popped the theme park's profit balloon https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/28/23482803/disney-parks-pop...
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by bitsavers 4y ago
LinkedIn is Microsoft's blundering gasp at trying to stay in social media with a walled garden. The longer they have control of it, the more annoying and invasive it has become. You can see the same trends now with Github
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The person doing this has made some really bad resolution/contrast tradeoffs
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by bitsavers 4y ago
It should have been titled "Stop Reading Today's News" "Today's news" was invented with the telegraph. If you haven't read Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" it's worth your time.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Amazing what you can do if you are Disney and have more money than God.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"But saying that JavaScript is “a” Lisp when talking about JavaScript… That’s a different matter. It makes one pause. The obvious response is to ask “In what way?” This leads to conversations about recursion and trampolining and the us
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The companies who are paying for browser development want your eyeballs, preferably on their controlled content, with telemetry to them.
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It is past time to kill the web browser
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The concept of a browser history, where you can end up having visiting something and it NOT showing up in the history is broken. Who would knowingly have code downloaded to your machine which then opens connections to some unnamed IP addres
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"It built a vast monopoly that made it difficult to navigate the online space without stumbling into its products or services." It is long past time when the way you interact with the Internet is a browser. The whole concept needs
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"this is discussing no other thing called Memex than memex.marginalia.nu" Please consider changing your name. We all know what Memex REALLY means. Don't pollute the namespace.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"What are we going to do tonight, Brain?"
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by bitsavers 4y ago
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/apple-celebrates-a-gr... Disney is now realizing how they blew it when they let Jobs' nose under the tent.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
They made it addictive. Bury your nose in your portable device. Ignore the world around you. Lock users in. Push everything onto their servers. Lock out anything that might compete with the path to the Apple Store. It was brilliant from a b
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Google bought Android for the eyeballs it would bring to their ads. They honestly could care less about user experience or usablility. Apple built their portable device to generate a customer base for their store. Anything that makes that e
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Your insight in one link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law And the industry supporting that 90% is having problems. Color me surprised.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Someone needs to write up the rancid mess Google has created around Shoreline Blvd. Buying up property, letting it sit for a decade and the re-doing of the 101 interchange offramp.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
https://storage.googleapis.com/x-prod.appspot.com/files/The%...
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Where is the Checker Marathon ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_Marathon
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by bitsavers 4y ago
You can't. PIPs are designed as a CYA to get you to leave by putting you in a situation you can't recover from. You also can't get a transfer if you've been put on one.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The only reason it looks good now is Redit is worse
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by bitsavers 4y ago
It's BLUB studies. I was wondering why HN would be talking about Democrats
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by bitsavers 4y ago
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Hacker-News-ban-conservative-...
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by bitsavers 4y ago
one sentence takeaway: "people can plan to concentrate on important tasks when their mental resources are at their peak for avoiding distraction. Our research found that most people have peak periods of focus in the late morning and m
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Discussed here https://mastodon.radio/@ai6yr/109640312935251341
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by bitsavers 4y ago
click analytics? wonder where all the topic-related images are coming from?
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by bitsavers 4y ago
And Gaetz votes for Trump. Unbelievable
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by bitsavers 4y ago
https://aarongiles.com/
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by bitsavers 4y ago
he ended the sabbatical program, not the person

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