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by jimmar 15y ago
True, the aesthetics are the worst part of the site. I find it odd that there are two main sections: permanent content and news. The news items don't have any dates, which I find annoying. And putting things "reports" in the permanent conte
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by jimmar 15y ago
Before listening to anything Jakob Nielsen says about usability, go look at his website: http://www.useit.com/ . Can you honestly tell me that the man is a usability expert who has a website designed like that? EDIT: I've read some of his
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by jimmar 15y ago
When the GAO issues a report saying that your department is ineffective, people listen. They may be bean counters, but they are fairly well respected bean counters. The reports that I have read really help identify problems in government en
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by jimmar 15y ago
Yes, people are good at managing physical things. The issue I'm guessing you'll run up against is the implementation. You have to convince every developer to adopt a new mechanism for authentication. I don't think passwords will be displace
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by jimmar 15y ago
MIT according to the project page on Github. It's a little strange that they didn't include the license in the .js file. I guess they wanted to save a few bytes...
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by jimmar 15y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but over its life and decomposition, isn't a tree carbon neutral? While growing, trees basically absorb carbon, and when they decay that carbon is released back into the air. Therefore, planting more trees wi
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by jimmar 15y ago
Does anybody know how the entropy is calculated?
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by jimmar 15y ago
I haven't followed news about BankSimple, and the firs few minutes of the demo I watched didn't help me understand what it is. Is BankSimple an actual bank (with ATM card, routing numbers, etc.)? Or is it a PayPal competitor? Or is it just