chiefofgxbxl

18 ms·

91.
by chiefofgxbxl 8y ago
There's a nice virtue to this, also. Build walkable and bike-able places and you're building public spaces to be shared . If you only embrace a car-driven model of development, "public" spaces are to be competed for (
92.
by chiefofgxbxl 8y ago
Agreed. If car crashes kill so many in the U.S., wouldn't it make sense to make the country a less car-dependent nation if we want to reduce fatalities? Walking and biking generally won't get people killed, so why not promote that
93.
by chiefofgxbxl 8y ago
Would you mind sharing why you want progress toward eliminating favicons? Do you think there is some other replacement, or that nothing at all should be used? For me, I know having small icons helps me scroll through my bookmarks and identi
94.
by chiefofgxbxl 8y ago
I would be interested to see a (opt-in) social experiment by YouTube where they enforce a hard 1.5 hour limit of watching per day. This would encourage users to ration their time, making the decision of which videos to watch far more consci
95.
by chiefofgxbxl 8y ago
Aside from the thought that a portion of these bad passwords may be for throwaway accounts, I think what we really need is a "Beyond Passwords" movement similar to the push for Let's Encrypt. I use KeePass 2.x on my laptop an
96.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
The difference between secrecy and privacy is the key here. Emphasize that. People think they have nothing to hide (implying secrecy or guilt), but they'll admit that there are things they want to keep to themselves. There was a spea
97.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
Looking at their website, they should really swap the landing page [0] with their "Problem" page [1] if they mean to communicate the strongest message they can about this issue. The landing page isn't as clear at what they&#x
98.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
Given Amazon's knowledge in warehouse operations and supply chain, I wouldn't guess they plan to use this technology widespread in grocery stores. At that point, they could take a simpler approach than all the cameras and computer
99.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
I think people are focused on maximizing the wrong metric. Traffic projects like this tend to want to maximize car throughput , when what we really need is to minimize travel distance/time . Maybe then society would start looking at
100.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
Right, SMS probably wouldn't be able to bear that full weight of a whole social tech, but I believe with just a few additional features added to its spec (or a fork), the effort-to-payoff ratio would be large, if your goal is to help w
101.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
In some ways I think Americans are cheap. I'm imagining a paid FB-like service in the range of $5-10/mo, considering ISP packages can easily run up to $80/mo, and a FB-like site should ideally only consume a portion of that.
102.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
> The fact a customer has a comment doesn't mean you should just implement what they asked for, it means you should really look to understand what they value in the current product and enhance that. I often felt this way with publi
103.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
I guess it's sort of like a fast-food restaurant owner telling the customers that the food isn't healthy. What's the point? Everyone probably already knows that, and they'll eat it anyway (for various reasons). Facebook
104.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
> please try to spend even a few months off of it I'll place extra emphasis on this, for those that are hesitant. Just give it a try for a few months, and if you want to go back that is always an option. Right in time for New Year&#
105.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
Wind farms are a blight on the landscape, but suburban sprawl, massive parking lots, 6-lane highways still backed up with traffic, giant gas guzzling cars, coal power plants, and air pollution are beautiful. I'm not sure how you don&#x
106.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
Indeed, plus it's in our best interests to get involved in local govt. because our voices are much easier to hear at that level. At the federal level, your vote is competing against 300 million other citizens (assuming they all vote, w
107.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
It's frustrating enough to see private enterprises using SSN as a form of identification, e.g. getting a lease on my apartment I had to provide my SSN. What's worse is when government agencies themselves use it, knowing full well
108.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
> We've known that humans tailgate like hell for decades, and haven't found a cure. Haven't found a solution, or have found one and haven't implemented it? For example, I've been recently pondering how to resolve
109.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
Perhaps add an option to hide the to-do list once you get it setup, so that the user can't see any items except the one they rolled. This could be a useful tool to force me to finally pick a task off my list instead of just staring at
110.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
> "Email is bigger than Facebook. Hell, it's bigger than the internet." Ugh.. Email is a widely successful platform of conversing that hasn't been locked into walled gardens like new forms of communication today, so
111.
Show HN: Spread the Fox, a personal checklist to recruit users to Firefox
2 points by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago|0 comments
112.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
It's good to see Mozilla's ramped up PR, but given how deeply entrenched Chrome is, I doubt it will be enough. That is why we developers, if we support Firefox's/Mozilla's mission, must make it our goal to spread th
113.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
Small heads up: on the sample report (for Amazon), on the last page of the report it says "We will be happy to fix bugs and develop new capabilities that will enhance your website. Fell free to contact us!" Should be "Feel&
114.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
Technology has helped a great deal. I'm saddened that enforcement hasn't played a bigger part, though. What I see around me on a daily basis is pure complacency . People switching lanes without turn signals, drivers with half the
115.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
An equally important question to ask is, if you are accused of such harassment, what do you do? In the U.S. we have the concept of "innocent until proven guilty", but due to the sensitive nature of the alleged crime, the accused m
116.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
I know at least with Do Not Track, advertising companies were asserting that if a browser had activated it by default for the user, then the user showed no intent on blocking the tracking; it was a decision made for them by the browser, and
117.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
Isn't that because cities and towns have been built with cars in mind, though? Things are further apart exactly because cars allow "quick" transportation between those points. What's quick for a car isn't quick for
118.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
It didn't work out for Microsoft, namely because lawsuits and coverage brought attention to the issue of market dominance. That's what people on this HN article are proposing we do today. And it's about time, given that our c
119.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
> If you don't like Google don't use it. What happens when people don't know they're using Google? I have an Android phone and one thing that is bugging me is how the default browser on the bottom "toolbar&quot
120.
by chiefofgxbxl 9y ago
I've noticed this in a sense of town "character". I've lived in New York State, Vermont, and now Colorado, and I can't say there's much of a difference between suburbs. You'd think that three different sta

More ›