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by nfoz 11y ago
The general public.
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by nfoz 11y ago
I love one-based indexing. I prefer array[1..n] to array[0..n-1]. The reason is because with one-based indexing, I don't have names for things that are invalid. begin, end: these are valid places to be. Your "end" token c
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by nfoz 11y ago
That's what I used to think about all-flash websites. They did go away, more or less, but only because the Web became that same pixel-per-pixel full-designer-control application platform, with all the same obnoxious problems that made
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by nfoz 11y ago
> The user should never be given control. > the designer should have control over every pixel on his product. That's why I can't increase the font sizes or zoom in on mobile browsing, to aid my poor eyesight. Sigh. Why sho
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by nfoz 11y ago
Why should people be getting used to different UIs for different things? Why shouldn't we consolidate, so that there is a single consistent UI? It's not very easy, for example, for the elderly, and persons with some types of disa
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by nfoz 11y ago
People don't have much choice over what websites they access. People rely on websites, and basically every webpage provides different utility, so we're all stuck with what the designer published. Very many designers are bad, due
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by nfoz 11y ago
So, it sounds like just a bad idea. I don't understand -- why do people think it's a good idea for web pages to style my scrollbar? I wonder if there's something of an age/cultural separation at play here. Back in the
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by nfoz 11y ago
The browsers define what is portable. They're choosing to interpret webasm instead of ELF, or JVM bytecode. I guess I don't know why. If people just want to distibute sandbox-binaries to each other, that's what the JVM was
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by nfoz 11y ago
Why don't we just distribute ELF binaries, and have them execute in a sandbox?
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by nfoz 11y ago
People should not have to change their behaviours like this in order to avoid the intrusion of their own government.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Finally. I've been wanting this for ages.
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by nfoz 11y ago
I would pay the premium for newspapers without ads. In fact, I do -- I support news organizations that aren't driven by advertisement. If you can't find a business model that doesn't antagonize me, then you haven't foun
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by nfoz 11y ago
Good grief, we had an Internet full of fantastic content before the ads showed up. Universities, libraries, Governments and NGOs, donation- and government-funded organizations like many news/media agencies, stores/businesses, and
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by nfoz 11y ago
I switched from Android to Blackberry because I consider the OS superior. To each their own, I suppose.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Why not BB OS?
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by nfoz 11y ago
I understand the competitive pressures that drive us down to only a very small number of choices in the market (e.g. iphone or android, windows or mac). What I don't understand is why so many consumers seem to want that outcome.
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by nfoz 11y ago
I've run into some small issues, but I my Passport is the best phone I've owned; I'm a convert from Android. I think the hardware and the OS are both fantastic; better UX and more stable than my Google Nexus. Sorry to hear t
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by nfoz 11y ago
There are many situations in which "charging what the market will bear" is illegal. We have legal price controls, and restrictions on what/how items can be sold, in many asset classes.
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by nfoz 11y ago
You've described that they can be linked. But what value does that provide to post it here?
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by nfoz 11y ago
Why would you ask that? It seems rude to link up peoples' disparate online accounts.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Then I can't exactly support the "Let's Encrypt" effort. Any child should be able to make a website without having to sign a bunch of legalese. That's more important to me than encrypted traffic, frankly.
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by nfoz 11y ago
It was one of the first things I missed when I moved to NYC. Kijiji is so much better than craigslist.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Software would not be "where it is today"; it would be a fundamentally different place. Many of us see that place as being far better than what we have. It's strange to me that you mention Google and Apple, because in both c
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by nfoz 11y ago
This site uses javascript and an advertising company to track you.
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by nfoz 11y ago
You used to be able to pay $50 extra on Sony laptops for it to come clean. While that's technically better than no option at all, it doesn't make me miss them too much.
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by nfoz 11y ago
And/or use tax money to pay for good reporting, as has been standard practice in many jurisdictions for a long time.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Those are both reasons why it is in your interest to write a blog. They are not reasons why someone might want to actually read your blog (short of prospective employers). It's interesting that this is the focus.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Different people have different learning styles. And many people do not have an effective or appropriate learning environment where they can learn new tech through free resources. So I think direct-mentorship can be very helpful to some
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by nfoz 11y ago
You can't view a website without copying it; the copy is downloading it to your computer in the first place.
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by nfoz 11y ago
Perhaps pedantic, but "fair use" usage of a work would fall under "unlicensed but legal".

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