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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
Was this written recently? Exclusive use of jQuery, not using browser drag and drop (manually edits element position), using JS to animate and fade/transition instead of CSS, etc. Is localStorage the only modern/HTML5 concept bein
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
There are many things possible that no one has written software to do yet. I think it mostly comes down to money, market, and difficulty.
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
I was thinking about why Wingdings, a popular phenomenon in Word docs, didn’t translate into the web, chat, and mobile SMS until the iPhone let us add the Japanese emoji keyboard. The technical difference that I can see is that Wingdings is
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Tandem Diabetes mobile app using all of users mobile data without explanation(reddit.com)
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
Screenshot from someone with 40 GB usage: https://imgur.com/gallery/yq7ceSq
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
Whether the app name will be changed or not, I’m glad that this sort of thing doesn’t happen in silence or under NDA.
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
Sanitizer is always first choice in hospital settings. It’s MUCH faster, and MUCH easier on the skin over repeated use than soap and water.
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
That’s a very nit-picky thing to critique, while ignoring everything the post is writing about.
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
I think he wants to spread awareness that people in power can use technology and medicine to widen the class divide, and biotechnology shows signs of going that direction. I think that a biohackers’ line of reasoning goes: the same way that
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
iOS has always used the same kernel as macOS.
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
Usually a graphic is called a logo because it is used to represent a thing. Since these geometric designs don’t represent anything yet, it seems premature to call them “logos”.
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
> Actually, generating power with their muscles provides a valuable lesson for kids, whether or not the power goes out. The article ends on this point about parenting philosophy, but I think the author does not set up or discuss it enoug
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
I'm thinking that arbitrary domains should not have access to any resource on '127.0.0.1', for the same reason that browsers restrict access to resources at 'file://' without user permission.
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by gayprogrammer 6y ago
What is the backstory behind why the company stopped selling this software? Has anyone asked the author or company about it? Would it be worth asking them to release the source since it's been so long since selling it?
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by gayprogrammer 8y ago
If the author and others haven't seen "BetterTouchTool" for Mac, there might be some useful code or inspiration to come from it. It has a "multitouch live view" debug window that displays exact pixel touch locations
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by gayprogrammer 8y ago
I'm confused that Windows XP is the "Modern OS", and I want to know why there is no mention of any kind of linux.
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by gayprogrammer 8y ago
I don't understand how the elevator story is an example of a dark pattern. I see that the sign did not effectively accomplish its goal, but that doesn't fit the definition given: the intent to trick users into doing something unde
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by gayprogrammer 9y ago
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by gayprogrammer 9y ago
>> Q: What connection might there be between drug-maker payments to physicians and the current opioid use epidemic? The article is pure speculation. They did not correlate the payments made to doctors with the prescriptions those doct
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by gayprogrammer 9y ago
Is this a joke? Cut your nails with mini scissors? These suggestions are just replacing dedicated tools with poor substitutes. You shouldn't use a less efficient tool, just because it can technically do multiple things (with more effor
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by gayprogrammer 9y ago
AI minds shouldn't be any different from our own consciousness. An AI mind will be able to work out that killing humans results in humans killing that AI. So the AI would choose against it for the same reasons that humans choose not to
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by gayprogrammer 9y ago
Be aware of your own human nature: you will want it to work, more than you will want to accept the signs that it won't (confirmation bias). You will say to yourself that "little things" can easily be overcome, but people rare
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by gayprogrammer 9y ago
There's data, and then there's metadata. Consider how you want to shift information between your files of data (variables), and the tree-like structure in a version control timeline. You shouldn't need to record how the dat
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by gayprogrammer 10y ago
The linked discussion has a lot of speculation and "that's a dumb idea" posts, but no actual debunking.
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by gayprogrammer 10y ago
She describes sex as only happening in infatuation romance. She redefines sexy to something non-sexual. She details laying in bed together and being alone together in a way that most people would call boring (playing a phone game).
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by gayprogrammer 10y ago
> arcane troubleshooting stuff ... is exactly the reason to have useful comments in there.
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by gayprogrammer 10y ago
I agree. Including: > Base-122 encoded strings contain characters which did not seem to play well with copy-pasting. A very important part of web development is being able to manipulate text documents. It seems that using UTF-8 in more p
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by gayprogrammer 10y ago
This isn't an all-or-nothing issue. The author generalizes that developers and users today use browsers/html differently than they did before, but what I'm hearing is actually a new way to use the word/button for "(
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by gayprogrammer 10y ago
put the pedal to the metal (idiomatic) To exert maximum effort. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/put_the_pedal_to_the_metal#En...
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by gayprogrammer 10y ago
I'm glad that the inventor of Windows PowerShell addressed this issue in a positive way, and asked one of the PowerShell-RFC committee members to start the RFC to fix this.

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