ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
Let's assume (mostly) good intentions from google. The article mentions that users don't understand URLs. Pause to allow a moment to blame users for not trying. Then let's actually approach the problem constructively instead
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Anyone who has to undergo “moral reconation therapy” may be a dubious business partner. Googling turned up a bunch of sketch-looking references for this MRT, compared to other therapies I have heard of (CBT, EMDR) . Can any expound on
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by ergothus 8y ago
Why does the conclusion have to be "A/C Good" or "A/C Bad"? In some cases A/C literally makes normal functioning possible, and is thus a boon to society and opens the argument to what level of environmenta
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by ergothus 8y ago
In school I was interested in debate until I learned some of the rules, then I lost all interest. I expected to find a contest to effectively communicate and apply facts, but I found the opposite - a contest to be better at twisting, den
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by ergothus 8y ago
So we move towards a 5 star system, where anything other than 5 is considered a failure. Last time i looked lyft wanted their drivers to have a 4.8, and I've heard similar expectations from waitstaff and customer service call centers.
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by ergothus 8y ago
That's my point though - if it takes a half-dozen clicks to decide it's not worth it, then they weren't using a good format anyway. You likely did the last 5 clicks hoping things would be different after the click - the clic
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by ergothus 8y ago
This is compensating for the fact that font sizes dropped through the floor for years. I recall being told years ago that 16pt font was the desire, but actually most sites were using a LOT of 12 pt (or equivalently close). I even reca
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by ergothus 8y ago
Often the blame will lie with someone else - the designer or the PM. Some webdevs are to blame, but many of us would prefer to work on tasks OTHER than arguing with the browser over how it should do it's job.
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by ergothus 8y ago
But the problem there is that they used a carousel in the first place. Were it content that justified clicking 30 times into it, it would also justify backing out of it 30 times.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> I prefer a good life over one that ends with me jumping off a bridge I built. That's a fantastic way to put it. If we aren't being productive to improve happiness (directly or indirectly), then why are we doing it?
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Due to the frequency at which other malfunctions occurred, and that “treatment pause” typically indicated a low-priority issue, the technician resumed treatment. I found this the most telling sentence...here the UX was so terrible the
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by ergothus 8y ago
> But regardless, the whole "Google is trying to replace JavaScript with Java A claim I didn't make. They TREATED Javascript like Java, and tried to adopt the behaviors. This generally works poorly in any language transition.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Well, let’s see how deplatforming InfoWars turns out before trying to create general rules about it We can act before we have figured it all out, but we shouldn't postpone thinking about the broader question of when to step in, be
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Google was the first company to really take JavaScript seriously and launched the client-side JavaScript revolution with Maps and Gmail. True! Google Maps was a revolutionary use of AJAX. However, that is totally orthogonal to if JS
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by ergothus 8y ago
I think your points about Dart being treated unfairly are legit. OTOH, Google certainly invited criticism - early Google efforts on the web were VERY "let's make JavaScript into Java", and as the JS community matured this at
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Are you asking, how is banning someone for peddling hateful conspiracy theories different from banning someone for supporting human rights and dignity? No, I'm saying "what rules do we create that would apply to prevent horri
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by ergothus 8y ago
I play a mental version of what you list every time someone raises the "we should ban/disallow/make illegal..." concept. Generally, I'm hearing this about topics where I'm in strong agreement. Yes, we SHOULD t
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Those content producers have given users the tools to do linking themselves, and they express themselves in a variety of ways over a variety of mediums. ? How can I link to, say, a quote in that article that offends you? I can'
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Once you've experienced this kind of MMO it is hard to get the same highs from other games. I really, truly, am trying to understand, so please bear with my slowness. I can see how it is really rewarding to find not-bad people i
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by ergothus 8y ago
> If everyone is nice, no one really is. ...this sounds incredibly messed up. The good people might be harder to find in a nice crowd, but the experience of finding them is much nicer. I can see how a friendship forged in the face of as
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by ergothus 8y ago
It doesn't have to be a top-down manner. Truckers (and those that rely on truckers) aren't stupid. If you were to go to them as a group and say "hey, we expect 50% of you to lose your jobs, or at least too many working hour
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Why are you so eager to protect jobs that are measurably killing the people who work them? uh...I'm not. Don't know where you got the idea that I was. Rather, I'd like to spend this lead up time before that industry i
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by ergothus 8y ago
I don't think the reaction should be "Let's not do this, it could hurt jobs!". I also don't think the reaction should be "This is nothing to worry about, the jobs thing will work out over time". Right no
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm generally pro-self-driving vehicles, and while I don't want to underestimate the difficulties, given how far related tech has gone in recent years I think it'd be a mistake to assume any of this is "never" going
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by ergothus 8y ago
But imagine a less one-sided scenario: You have the job of national security, with the presumption that $HUGE_NUMBER of lives are impacted. You have a medical aid group allegedly doing something good. But you know they could be a cover f
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by ergothus 8y ago
It seems overly simplistic to say that effective code reviews are inevitable if only you can prevent people from being rude. Certainly not a bad START, but I dare to think there may be additional ways a review can be a GOOD one as opposed
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by ergothus 8y ago
As noted by others, jQuery was essential in carving a path between the past of browser incompatibilities and the modern form of mostly reliable and evolving standards. It was hardly alone - other libraries did their part, evergreen browser
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by ergothus 8y ago
You are correct - I was focused on the "did he get to profit from this despite getting caught" because I was worried about the positive incentive to be a fraud. However, lack of a positive when caught is NOT the same as a negativ
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by ergothus 8y ago
> The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that New York entrepreneur William Z. (Billy) McFarland, two companies he founded, a former senior executive, and a former contractor agreed to settle charges arising out of an ext
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by ergothus 8y ago
Does this show it's come to pass at all? It's possible, but the only evidence we have is that insurance companies want to avoid the payout, not that poor practices impacted premiums at all. Given what I've seen from security

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