kitbrennan

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by kitbrennan 12y ago
You didn't actually explain why this is a terrible idea? At the end of the day it enables developers to access native APIs such as notifications or file writing through their language of choice.
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
It is true for business contracts that the written word is considered the ultimate authority. The principle is called 'caveat emptor' which can be translated to 'buyer beware'; essentially a business that enters into a c
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
Actually I'm using a Macbook Pro. The problem with messing with scrolling is that my usual flick of the trackpad does not get me to the point that I expected to reach on the page. It's very mildly disorientating. I was going to sc
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
Please do not mess around with my scrolling when I visit your website. It means my first experience is horrible.
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
A simple example would be storing data on your 'logged in user' on a large application that has multiple controllers/services. A scope only extends as far as a particular controller/service. If you wanted every controlle
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
Facebook beta is still up: https://beta.facebook.com/
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
Hushmarks.com is a very simple solution in that you can just add their bookmarklet to every browser you use.
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
The first step is to understand consciousness and how it works. Once we understand how it works it has a multitude of applications. Not least in computer science (eg. trying to create machines that display consciousness), and neuro-medicine
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
One of the main benefits over Hailo is that it doesn't appear to have Hailo's minimum pricing: https://hailocab.com/drivers/blog/2013/02/04/minimum-fares-s... I imagine it will also have d
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
From the comments: Google searches 'Panda' updates. More info on Panda here - http://searchengineland.com/metafilter-penalized-google-1921...
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
If their value proposition is true (the customers would otherwise not have come to you), then it is 8% off sale that you otherwise would not have received. Paying typical card fees, but receiving no sale is a far worse proposition.
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by kitbrennan 13y ago
The checkout page you links deserves a notable place within Dark Patterns. ( http://darkpatterns.org/ ) But lets break down exactly why that page is designed to trick a significant number of customers into purchasing somethin
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by kitbrennan 13y ago
Hi _Lemon_ I work at GoCardless. I would love to hear your feedback about ways that you think we could improve our fraud protection! Feel free to reply here, or give me an email (kit AT gocardless DOT com), or to call me on 020 7183 8674.
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by kitbrennan 14y ago
In none of those examples the criminal 'successfully' sued the victim (ie. won), they merely brought a frivolous case before the court.
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by kitbrennan 14y ago
And though I'm finding this train of thought increasingly alluring, I know nothing of how philosophy ever brushed it, or it may well have tackled it head on and I wouldn't know it. Philosophers have actually wrote a lot about the subject
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by kitbrennan 14y ago
Looking for philosophical truths that are well-defined and correct is a bad starting point. If something can be described of as correct or incorrect, then there would not be much of a philosophical discussion since you would be able to find