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by dictum 9y ago
> You can use a Google Pixel, and Google Chromebook, using Android and Chrome OS, browsing with Chrome, while using Google Fi and Google Fiber, connected directly to Google's backbone, visiting Google's Search, Maps, etc or oth
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by dictum 9y ago
On a sufficiently short-lived and well-targeted A/B test, nobody knows you're a listening bug.
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by dictum 9y ago
Hard nope. I don't have any research on this, but ergonomic concerns that apply to e-reader devices doesn't necessarily apply to desktop/laptop browsers. Personally, I find scrolling short-length content much better than havi
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by dictum 9y ago
Problem #1 can be fixed by making the Vimium blank page your newtab page. Vimium comes with a blank .html file; IIRC it's what opens when you issue a command to open a new tab by pressing `t`. I'm spending more time with FF 57 (it
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by dictum 9y ago
He also "played around with Firefox a bit" sometime around 2005 (2004?). I'll take his word for it that he really thought IE6 was still better by then ;) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4508
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by dictum 9y ago
> To click a link in Vimperator, you type `f`, then start typing the text of the link you want to follow. Once your search only matches a single link, the Vimperator clicks that link or button for you. You can also type a number, which s
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by dictum 9y ago
At that stage, the product is its marketing. You're selling the promise, as there's no physical product to evaluate on your own, or widely available reviews of your product. When a company is really invested in a product, they p
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by dictum 9y ago
It's funny how I intuitively noticed that all 3 were likely to be scams (or just unlikely to be shipped due to a team's inability to see it through to shipping) just from: - a lack of consistent, high-quality brand identity; you c
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by dictum 9y ago
>equifaxsecurity2017 It's so phishing-sounding that I want to believe it was chosen after a quick focus group with the "people who are most likely to become fraud victims" demographic.
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by dictum 9y ago
> If JD had posted his diatribe online on his own personal blog, there'd be a lot of discussion about it but he'd probably still be employed at Google Not so sure: "In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces
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by dictum 9y ago
> Would the same outcome have happened if this guy had posted his manifesto on a blog outside the office, rather than distributing it to colleagues at work? Yes. The only thing that could have prevented his firing was to have never publi
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by dictum 9y ago
Can't speak for him, but I imagine his thought process was: This is an internal matter, and the intended audience is Google employees, so to prevent attracting attention from the wrong audience and maximize attention from Googlers, I&#
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by dictum 9y ago
The reaction to this memo shows how the definition of misogyny can be spread very thin.
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Wrecking (Soviet Union)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dictum 9y ago
> Instead everyone shames him, tells him his mostly very valid thought process is sexist and his career is done. It's a method: https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
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Your banker is always in: Sweden rolls out the robots(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dictum 9y ago|0 comments
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by dictum 9y ago
It's easy if you try... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats
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by dictum 9y ago
I don't zoom in most websites these days[0] HN, Google, DDG and Wikipedia (the mobile version is nicer) are the ones I can't use without setting to 125%. [0] An upside of the mobile first trend? EDIT: Eh, scratch that. Just notice
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by dictum 9y ago
For Hacker News specifically: Verdana at 13px (12px for body text) was a fine choice at 72 dpi. HN didn't exist in the 1990s, but its design principles are from that era. The look itself is a nice throwback, but the type size follows a
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by dictum 9y ago
> 1. Hardly any websites work without JavaScript these days. Got to be that guy: that's a circular argument. Other websites are doing X, hence you should do X too. It's as much an argument for docs-as-SPA as it's for havin
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by dictum 9y ago
> If you turn off JS, you get a blank screen. I browse with JS on (but I block ads and most tracking scripts) and only use a separate browser profile with JS off for sites that look fishy. Requiring JS for a web app or interactive featur
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by dictum 10y ago
Storage Search is the best rabbit hole on the subject of RAM SSD that comes to mind. http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-ram.html I mean, how else would you get 80 MB/sec? http://web.archive.org/web/2
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by dictum 10y ago
Next we find out Earth really has 4 corner simultaneous 4-day time cube within single rotation.
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by dictum 10y ago
It does. Unless the content of the rant is literally the phrase, "neo-nazi's are awful", the rant will present arguments, anecdotes, feelings etc. that reveal the ranter's priorities and principles. It's not in the
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by dictum 10y ago
Every outgroup-is-awful rant reveals more about the ranter than about the outgroup.
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by dictum 10y ago
> “There are men everywhere, but they’re all awful,” said Amanda*, a twentysomething professional whose recent dates have included a web developer who didn’t know the alphabet and a software developer who starting talking about marriage
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by dictum 10y ago
> I still wonder how come the first syntax was considered a good idea in the first place ? I think it came from RequireJS, probably intended for one-off usage (e.g. a single require that requires a certain loader) Still a bad idea, thoug
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by dictum 10y ago
I'm sorry for him, but I can't overlook the poetic justice of him losing a silly game (the Google interview system) that he was inadvertently enabling.
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Returning to JavaScript After 5 Years(hackernoon.com)
14 points by dictum 10y ago|13 comments
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by dictum 10y ago
> So unless Alexa somehow develops a way to interact biologically with the contents This pipe dream overlaps with something I've wanted since I became a reluctant bodybuilder: an appliance to measure the macronutrients of a meal, or

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