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by johnday 7y ago
Ooh, how about this? 1. Point a camera at a surface (be it a piece of paper or whatever). 2. Write/print a word on that paper and use CV/OCR to parse it. 3. Detect when a person has pressed on that word and exec the command specif
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by johnday 7y ago
The debug mode induces a seriously huge overhead. In return you get stateful hot reloading and high quality error management and tracing, both of which are incredibly valuable while developing.
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by johnday 7y ago
I think the person above you is saying that it sometimes reads as "I cannot believe just how good I really am", or something to that effect.
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by johnday 7y ago
Asymptotically, yes. But if you factor in development time, infrastructure management and security concerns, the point where serverless really "costs more" may be very high indeed.
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by johnday 7y ago
It's a shame the larger corporate machine wouldn't wear it, but you could, say, have a lower (or subsidised?) minimum wage for the first 2 years of business operation?
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by johnday 7y ago
Do you think there's more chance of this happening, versus Barbara down the shops being shown a photograph and saying "oh yes, that looks just like mcny from two doors down"?
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by johnday 7y ago
Oh - it gives me the error but then does redirect to the correct location (with https security).
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by johnday 7y ago
What a fascinating tool. Thank you for sharing it.
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by johnday 7y ago
Those seem to redirect to the same place.
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by johnday 7y ago
"Expose" is a loaded term in many cultures. In particular it means to reveal something which the other party was trying to hide, usually in an adversarial way.
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by johnday 7y ago
Why does it matter what they were? They have changed their public image (and, in point of fact, their actions) and they are being rewarded for it. We should reward companies which make positive changes and condemn those which make hostile o
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by johnday 7y ago
I think there's a difference (moreover, a percievable difference) between a UI redesign which users hate and a UI redesign which users merely complain about . People love complaining and will happily point out the rough edges of any
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by johnday 7y ago
The old UI also supported multiple accounts, and quite well. Now I wouldn't know where to click.
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by johnday 7y ago
I guess that's a side effect of the siloing that goes on on Facebook. I certainly heard nothing major about it, and orders of magnitude less than the same/similar people about the Twitter redesigns.
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by johnday 7y ago
It's interesting to compare the user responses to updates by Facebook and Twitter respectively. Facebook's UI has changed significantly over the last 15 or so years. Features have appeared and disappeared, boxes have been arranged
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by johnday 7y ago
You might have misread the thing I was proposing. If your application "keeps getting more and more complex due to the functionality requirements" then by definition there's no off-the-shelf library or service that can help. I
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by johnday 7y ago
I think people tend to talk past each other on this issue. The real problem with deciding upfront that something must be complex, is that it switches off that part of your brain which searches for simple, but hard-to-find, solutions. It enc
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by johnday 7y ago
> You see this is because the new generations expect to rent .... Nope. We just can't afford not to rent.
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by johnday 7y ago
> Areas where centralization and high levels of security are important such as tax filing, flight booking, and online banking will likely use proprietary software for the foreseeable future. Financial institutions, and government institu
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by johnday 7y ago
Not the design, no, but bicycles themselves are trademarked and sold as a product. It's a free-as-in-beer problem rather than free-as-in-freedom.
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by johnday 7y ago
Yes, we have also been leaning towards running our sites for only "office hours" of 9-5, sometimes closer to 9-10 to allow for people who wake up outside of "human hours". The downside of week-long events is that you exc
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by johnday 7y ago
That's a pretty good analogue, given that bicycles are proprietary.
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by johnday 7y ago
It seems like you are recommending teaching something which is entirely different to what the vast majority of learners will come into contact with on a regular basis in their future lives. That is not useful and it does not prepare people
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by johnday 7y ago
People tend to compete in hackathons not for the prizes/job. They do it because you can spend a small amount of time producing something tangible which you can understand and be proud of. They are rewarding, intellectually stimulating,
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by johnday 7y ago
> You can't properly work on a screen smaller than 14" or so, and I'm sure there'll be lots of people that tell me [...] I think the 13-inch Macbook Pro is a fairly good counterpoint. There are plenty (millions) of pe
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by johnday 7y ago
Agreed. I went in hoping to see some code snippets.
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by johnday 7y ago
The short answer is yes. I assume you've noticed yourself walking and talking from time to time; or standing up while looking around.
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by johnday 7y ago
Some clientside APIs (embedded timelines, for example) still seem to be working.
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by johnday 7y ago
Fun article. Looks like there's a fairly solid business model in: 1. Implement something which Yahoo has built, and charge money for it. 2. Wait for them to inevitably sunset the project for no reason. 3. Collect all the displaced user
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by johnday 7y ago
Try looking on the Facebook group (if you can bear it!). There are lots of people getting rid of theirs, normally in favour of an iPad. You can often find some for 350-400 euros.

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