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by leppr 11y ago
A few months later yes, after they kept repeating how " nothing is going to change for the users ". Made me truly grok how talk from a big company is just that, PR, while any sensible person could have guessed what was going to ha
902.
by leppr 11y ago
It at least set a bar in UX that other projects aiming to do it right will try to match.
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by leppr 11y ago
The thing this reasoning overlooks is that apps are complex tools that people use in very different ways, and it doesn't make sense to force people to reinvent the wheel everytime they want a feature that your use case studies didn&#
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by leppr 11y ago
It is
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by leppr 11y ago
So you're saying there's a final fractional digit to PI? That's good news.
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by leppr 11y ago
window.addEventListener("beforeunload", function () { alert("You just won our user lottery! Sign-up for a FREE iPad!"); return false; }
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by leppr 11y ago
I think the comparison with dragons is appropriate. Religion and talk about hell and demons was in-vogue at the time so dragons fit in well with that. Why did aliens wait for us to develop advanced technology before manifesting themselves,
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by leppr 11y ago
Do you think there used to be dragons roaming the earth?
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by leppr 11y ago
>I've never once been reading something and been grateful that the site menu was a one-line-of-text scroll-up away [...] The thing is that the user being grateful or not isn't what matters, what matters is that they click on
910.
by leppr 11y ago
They make you taste the product then slap you in the face one second after. Yes, putting a nag up over content (especially which you don't own) while someone is looking at it is the mental equivalent to slapping that person on the fa
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by leppr 11y ago
Try browsing it while not logged-in. You'll never want to come back to it again.
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by leppr 11y ago
It's a step back just as the walled garden ecosystem is in general, but it did make it easier to find documentation and hire developers, and thus grow the platform.
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by leppr 11y ago
Just FYI Vim is buffer-based too [1], windows (tabs) are a layer on top. There's also a nice plugin called fzf [2] for fuzzy searching open buffers or tabs. [1]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching [
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by leppr 11y ago
But Midori has always been open-source, why would a project made for... oh wait, wrong neighborhood, sorry I'm out.
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by leppr 11y ago
Well, low effort one liners are frowned upon for good reasons so I don't mind the downvotes but I couldn't resist. I just wish the same treatment was also applied to non-joke useless comments. "I too have a baby and I love
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by leppr 11y ago
Not me. (please no downvote)
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by leppr 11y ago
Just wanted to reiterate this. When I started with Spacemacs I had a few years of using and customizing Vim under my belt, yet I still found it very daunting at the beginning. The main problem is customization. Even though Emacs Lisp and th
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by leppr 11y ago
alias emacs="emacsclient -nw -a ''" is the best I've found. -nw : Open a new frame in current terminal (otherwise it just opens the file in whatever other emacs window you already have launched). -a : St
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by leppr 11y ago
If the code is open-source there likely is a history of contributions. But this research is about "De-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries" anyway, so really not an OSS scenario.
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by leppr 11y ago
It's not, but it IS different from looking at a tree and analyzing its bark and leaves, or looking at a bird and wondering why it has feathers instead of fur.
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by leppr 11y ago
That's just an intuitive hypothesis, but wouldn't the early focused teaching of a skill (especially a communication one) naturally introduce a kind of "thought determinism"? [1] It's something I think about often an
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by leppr 11y ago
"nigger" is never neutral (except when it comes from the mouth of black rappers but that is the exception to the rule).
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by leppr 11y ago
I'll just answer by emphasizing two words in the comment you replied to. a threat which cost millions of dollars was made from this service. ... anonymous mail service... the service was NOT shut down. ...wait as the
924.
by leppr 11y ago
The "anonymous mail service with offensive names" could be made a standard indicator of a country's freedom of speech status. Actually, that'd be a good research project: setup and host such a service in as many countrie
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by leppr 11y ago
I don't know about Chrome but it's very easy to do with Firefox, just start it with "-P", optionally followed by a profile's name to bypass the profile manager window.
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by leppr 11y ago
You might want to take a look at the 'Stylish'[1] extension if you often feel like modifying the CSS on sites you visit. Personally I got used to changing the zoom all the time, with the amount of sites that solve the DPI problem
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by leppr 11y ago
I've heard great things about that software too but the price is quite prohibitive for an amateur unfortunately.
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by leppr 11y ago
> Here too, the cream colored background looks gorgeous on paper and just weird and out of place on a webpage. Sounds like a case of habit. Or would you say Hacker News background color look weird and out of place too? To me it is eas
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by leppr 11y ago
i'm guessing they are just waiting for the auction to be near the end so they don't have to spend too much outbiding the terorists. speaking of that anyone manage to see when it ends? this new silk road redesign is really confusin
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by leppr 11y ago
This is exactly the kind of reaction that makes terrorists attacks dangerous to society. Obviously ISIS is past the point of laissez-faire tolerance but that isn't the point, ideological censorship should always be a last resort.

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