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by nfoz 13y ago
We really need to rewrite the entire stack, carefully and with the intent of security, from open-source-DIY hardware up, to have any trust in technology.
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by nfoz 13y ago
How can you know?
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by nfoz 13y ago
One of the nice thing about menus being at the top of the screen is an adherence to Fitt's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitt%27s_law > Edges and corners of the computer monitor (...) are particularly easy
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by nfoz 13y ago
The "application context" vs. "window context" UI dichotomy is certainly interesting; I think both mechanisms can be fine and implemented well or poorly. Ubuntu's was always extremely poor. Unless the toolkit and,
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by nfoz 13y ago
These anecdotes about human psychology/sociology are observations from systems where work was expected and understood to contribute to the private, if not public, good. It's not at all clear that they would remain very long in a
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by nfoz 13y ago
Am I the only one OK with "cheating"? The line between what is "tool assisted", "bot" etc. is entirely artificial, just like "no drugs" is artificial and awkward to deal with in sports. If you'r
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by nfoz 13y ago
That will last for a while, but I know a lot of people who choose to live simple lives. You can make shiny gadgets, and I'll probably buy them, but we'll increasingly find people who are content not to have them.
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by nfoz 13y ago
> :) Computer games are no problem -- they never say, "What have you done for me lately?" Win or lose, you can walk away. You've never played an MMO...
729.
by nfoz 13y ago
.... I was hoping this would be about the olympics ;)
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by nfoz 13y ago
Wow that f6s applications thing is obnoxious. No, I will not sign in with linkedin or facebook, until I read what we will need to fill out on the application form. So get your popup out of my face... thanks.
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by nfoz 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite#Humans This is a thing, there are people. Human sex is non-binary.
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by nfoz 13y ago
I'd rather they just remove the box altogether. But I'd also rather we just do away with the concept of gender. Sex is a thing, and is also non-binary. But "concept of gender" is something strange altogether.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Remember when Microsoft's websites only worked in IE?
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by nfoz 13y ago
Ah, I suspect you're right. How is this solvable? Management engineering??
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by nfoz 13y ago
I'm serious about the 12-year-old point: that's not pejorative, I think that young people can sometimes be very good at identifying the problems that older people miss. Maybe youth has less to do with it than staying distant fr
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by nfoz 13y ago
They should have hired a 12 year old to point out the obvious flaws in their products, which are typically quite good but with arbitrary gaping holes. I hope the VAIO machines stay around, under the rule of someone that knows how to transfo
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by nfoz 13y ago
> Slow update does not mean you have secure version. This was not my claim. When there are security vulnerabilities I'm happy for the updates to be as quick as possible and as frequent as necessary. The problem is: > (3) new fe
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by nfoz 13y ago
That's great, I didn't know this existed. Thanks.
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by nfoz 13y ago
I would much rather a long-term-stable product with fewer security vulnerabilities that didn't need frequent updates.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Click "I Agree" to accept the terms of service and proceed to the download page.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Perfect. That's the same number of people that have google glass.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Honestly, please don't use sticky footers. I curse CSS not because that's difficult, but because it's possible. :/
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by nfoz 13y ago
> Problem is, the open source community apparently decided Gimp and Inkscape were probably good enough I suspect the projects are just short on developer effort, and that no-one decided it was "good enough" to not need improvem
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by nfoz 13y ago
I should probably register pleasedontusejavascript.com
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by nfoz 13y ago
I clicked that link and my web browser gave me a type of popup I didn't think it could, declaring: "This is a next generation website that is best viewed in an advanced web browser such as Apple's Safari. You will be able to
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by nfoz 13y ago
I use different emails, for everything. I manage my own domain(s), so I have anything @mydomain.tld. I'll usually give unique email addresses that identify, to me, the organization or service that gets the address. Occasionally an a
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by nfoz 13y ago
That sounds like a flaw in HN moreso than the post.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Some blame goes to javascript and the DOM (mouseover should not an event IMO), but this is a truly obnoxious feature. I forgot why I don't click links to svbtle but thanks HN for reminding me why :)
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by nfoz 13y ago
Exactly; their behaviour is still extremely friendly to the spammers/trackers.
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by nfoz 13y ago
That was an extremely non-simple webpage to say that.

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