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by bonaldi 7y ago
It wasn't claimed to be "beautiful", it was that it "works beautifully". And if it's not accessible, for a serious amount of people, it doesn't work. At all.
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by bonaldi 7y ago
>On the face of it, the Slack UI works beautifully in Browser, Desktop and iOS clients. It's not accessible. This alone destroys "beautifully". But even beyond that, it's just not a good citizen or experience wherever
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by bonaldi 7y ago
The standard iPhone headphones since the 1g support all those. Click to pause, double click for forward, triple click for back. Long press on the second or third click for rewind/fast forward.
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by bonaldi 7y ago
I think the problem is exactly the opposite: people are now getting way too much of the content they can’t help but like, and that in way too many cases turns out to be deliberately polarising and extreme content. The marketplace of ideas n
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by bonaldi 7y ago
The Christchurch shooter had no more right of access to a privately-owned live-streaming platform with an audience in the millions than he had right of access to a broadcast TV network. Saying so (which I suspect is what OP intended) is not
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by bonaldi 8y ago
I ride a bike in London traffic and you can tell which drivers are on phones from quite some distance. I think when police stop them they are mystified as to how they got caught - they genuinely don’t realise just how all-over-the-place the
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by bonaldi 8y ago
You can literally try it (and read about it) in the emulator itself!
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by bonaldi 8y ago
It's still a mystery why they didn't unionize when they had the opportunity. They believed Jonah would look out for their interests more than they themselves could?
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Accounts are unquestionably being exploited (often via reused passwords). I, along with others I know, have found mystery people squatting in my family plan. I had assumed they were also what were contributing to these weird artists in my h
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by bonaldi 8y ago
It's the problem of subsitutes that matters in the US: what do rich people who want a small premium iPhone do when they can't get one? They likely don't go to Android, there isn't a small phone worth a damn there. They p
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by bonaldi 8y ago
I agree totally. But this is partly Apple's bind: a phone like you're describing appeals to rich Westerners with multiple primary devices and that's just too small a market for them now. Their pressing corporate need is to ma
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Consider the iPod: the differentiation was about things people would care about, like size, capacity, portability, style, etc. You weren't made to feel cheap just because you entered at the lower price points. You wanted an iPod Min
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by bonaldi 8y ago
That's true, but it definitely works a charm in Outlook shops — Outlook tries to get you to reply to the latest message in a number of ways.
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by bonaldi 8y ago
If he had such expertise he should have sent his reply with all the recipients on bcc. Then even if a few people do reply they only go to him and things fizzle quite quickly. I don’t quite why so few people break reply storms in this way. B
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by bonaldi 8y ago
"Ass pulling"?
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by bonaldi 8y ago
It is possible to criticize money in politics; that's not what Facebook was doing. In fact, Facebook was spending money on politics. Their act was a dog whistle because it was done with the intent of discrediting Soros (to protect Fa
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Facebook's actions are controversial for a few reasons. 1. Their focus was Soros. They were criticised, and they essentially said "we haven't done anything wrong that needs to be addressed, he must have another motive for cri
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Interface Builder has been building complicated and resizable UIs for literally decades.
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Watch people here flock approvingly around a PG thinkpiece about the value of "unsayable opinions", though. It's like grappling smoke.
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Yes, that's right but this a technical variant of that: it's literally the first 16 lines of the story, where "lines" are defined by the Ceefax standard
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Ceefax has a long legacy: even today BBC News online stories are written so that the core of the story is told in the first four paragraphs, because that is what was sent to Ceefax. (It's not just nostalgia, though the concision is goo
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Control your anger. In many countries bicycles get a reserved space at the front of the lights. (Some even now have bicycle-only traffic lights too). Since that’s by far the safest place for them to be, filtering to reach it is absolutely a
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Click the "Clips" link on that page to hear the segment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00y83k6 (NB: The BBC makes thousands of hours of radio archives available, including the entire In Our Time archive,
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Equally difficult to see how you can have unlimited consequence-free speech and protection from the sort of things people broadly agree protection is good for, so something has to give. That balance probably means having consequences at the
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by bonaldi 8y ago
States should not be in the business of censoring speech, for all sorts of reasons listed below. But there are certain kinds of speech that we commonly do want to hold people to account for -- incitement to violence; dangerous speech (&quot
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by bonaldi 8y ago
I am explaining it quite poorly. It's different from Commander etc because they were (to my mind) essentially WIMP interfaces. You could use them with a keyboard, but it wasn't really the paradigm. BBG's terminal is fundame
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Oh, that’s a pity. I was looking forward to you finding another launching point for a straw man you could patronise. Busterarm: you were talking about posters with zero empathy who shut down conversation? You might need to widen the scope y
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by bonaldi 8y ago
I find this sort of complexity absolutely fascinating: I imagine it is similar intellectually to learning of a new order or family in biology: you understand the mechanisms and underpinning goals, but the mechanisms and results are wholly f
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Tis new to thee, perhaps. But this is wrestling with a pig now. Still, we’re getting somewhere amid the bluster. “Of course” radio played the role I said it did, all those screeds ago. Just like then, we once again have a new mass medium. J
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by bonaldi 8y ago
"Resort to picking out Spotify" in a thread about Spotify? If you want to talk about Facebook we can - but it still won't be the same thing as talking about state censorship. As for Popper, this is getting tedious now. Yes,

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