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by lowboy 14y ago
Bouncebacks and inertia scrolling help the user experience because they're closer to real world behaviour. On a subconscious level, people more easily interact with something that has a little weight and closer to real physics to it.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Same here, Chrome stable on Win 7: http://i.imgur.com/1MXJp.jpg
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by lowboy 14y ago
Fair enough. The author did accept the deal they presented on his laptop the second time around.
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by lowboy 14y ago
True those analogies are very hard to make, as evidenced by the media piracy debate and "you wouldn't download a car, would you?" I think the majority of my vitriol comes because it's an asinine way to split up service based on what we're a
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by lowboy 14y ago
He paid for a WiFi connection between a device and the internet. He received a connection between a device and the internet. If GoGo can't tell the difference between a laptop and a mobile phone, that's their problem. And no, the UA str
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by lowboy 14y ago
I'm all for heavier users paying more for the service, but breaking it down by device is asinine.
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by lowboy 14y ago
No contest to (a) and (b) - I agree there. As to (c) I was reading "system" as the two signup pages, not the overall wifi system. Still, unless there's a difference between the mobile and laptop services, they're the same product regardless
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by lowboy 14y ago
Again, this branch was to the specific question referenced by tptacek: (i) Did the defendant knowingly access a system used by the federal government, a financial institution, or a system used in interstate commerce without authorization? M
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by lowboy 14y ago
Unless there's something differentiating the two services, product "A" and product "B" are the same product, with different prices. I find GoGo's double pricing to be the most morally objectionable thing about this whole situation.
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by lowboy 14y ago
That's fine with me. You've shifted the argument back to the overall case and refused to address my specific concern about the answer to question (i), so I'm just going to declare myself the winner of this branch, if that's OK with you.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Wellllll, it would be reasonable to expect that 99.99% of people wouldn't change their UA.
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by lowboy 14y ago
I think that analogy is flawed because the airline can only sell that seat once. If you used that hack, then you would be removing the chance that the airline could sell that seat for the full price. That doesn't apply to the wifi situation
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by lowboy 14y ago
He received what he paid for: wifi services for that flight. I still don't see fraud here.
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by lowboy 14y ago
What is your reasoning there? Remember, we're not talking about the overall fraud case, just the answer to this question.
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by lowboy 14y ago
> The only question you really have to ask here is, "am I tricking a business into offering me something with a dollar value without paying for it?" Yes? That's fraud. It's the definition of fraud. What services did he steal? He paid fo
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by lowboy 14y ago
I'm not saying there's not a case for fraud, but the answer is resoundingly NO to this question: (i) Did the defendant knowingly access a system used by the federal government, a financial institution, or a system used in interstate commerc
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by lowboy 14y ago
> Did the defendant knowingly access a system used by the federal government, a financial institution, or a system used in interstate commerce without authorization? The answer to that one is "no". He had authorization to both pages. Un
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by lowboy 14y ago
Assuming this isn't a troll post: 1) He didn't trespass on a protected computer system or hack anything - he's using a web browser. 2) Users are not required to leave their browser's default settings intact when interacting with websites.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Vector images are fine for larger or very simple elements, but we're not at a point where we can rely on them for icons. http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-...
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by lowboy 14y ago
If anyone has a line to some execs at Groupon, I have an idea how they can turn things around: http://i.imgur.com/IgLqt.jpg
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by lowboy 14y ago
Exposure to different subjects is good, but there are better, cleaner languages to use for introducing concepts of programming such as variables, functions, algorithms, and data structures without taking up students' attention with syntax a
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by lowboy 14y ago
This is unfair - the author of the article has no control over SmashingMagazine's markup/CSS.
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by lowboy 14y ago
> Maybe it's a matter of taste, but in my opinion always go for matte over glossy If you can control your lighting environment and manage direct reflections (bright spots behind you), glossy isn't a problem. I just got a glossy monitor
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by lowboy 14y ago
Get as many pixels as you can afford in terms of money and desk space. Dual (and triple+) monitor setups are just a way of achieving that, and you should strive for it. I have a Dell u2711, which is a great 27" 2560x1440 monitor that can be
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by lowboy 14y ago
Sadly, I think there are jQuery "programmers".
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by lowboy 14y ago
It might be ad hominem out of context, but I don't feel it's improper to question the motives of someone working for a company that would most likely benefit from a decline in javascript in the app space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_ho
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by lowboy 14y ago
There are many many ways to package and deploy an app. That's a double-edged sword of the javascript ecosphere right now. For larger apps/projects, I think that a clean separation of concerns into widgets with a mediator of some sort is the
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by lowboy 14y ago
Javascript has no native module system that I am aware of. But there are formats+libraries such as AMD (used by Require.js) or CommonJS.
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by lowboy 14y ago
As my fingers say, thanks for the reduced keystrokes.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Right, and I agree that the underlying value of FBComp hasn't changed. But that variability in the correctness of pricing of a stock is part of the game, is it not? As is the mis-estimation of a company's "true worth" by investors. If the p

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