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by petilon 5y ago
What happened to Flickr? Marissa Mayer. She counted user experience as one of her core skills. She revamped Flickr's user experience. When she was done the site was unusable. I think she realized it, because along with releasing the ne
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If all of the useful information in a web page is mined and given away by a third party in an automated fashion, such that the copyright holder is deprived of revenue, then that's not the intention of 'right to quote'.
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Anyone who puts anything on the web is at the same risk. For example, ask Google how old Queen Elizabeth is [1]. Google tells you the answer in a big font at the top of the result page. Google sourced the answer apparently from usnews.com b
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> unification is Chinese core value Is warring with all neighbors a core value too? Chinese government, through censorship, controls the minds of the Chinese people. The government needs to update the core values.
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Because of "holistic review", admissions are subjective, which means admission officers can do whatever they want. Admission officers do have access to race, why else is it on applications? Read the NYT story I linked to, to under
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If they have that aspiration they have tools to implement it. The tool is called "holistic review", which opaquifies the admissions process. People who read college applications are "guided" by Universities using a syste
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What do you think the words racial "equity" means?
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> The Ivy League schools haven't exactly been discreet about their desire to admit fewer Asians. Just the Ivies? UW is explicit: they want racial "equity". Meaning they won't admit more Asians, as a percentage, than
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> Anyone can practice and improve their score. They're biased towards students whos parents or school pushes them to practice. You can say that about GPA too.
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> With postgres, they’ve got an MVP in a day, and shipped within a week. And the next week they realize they want reader processes to block until there is work to do. Oops that's not supported. Now you have to code that feature yo
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Just because something can be used to do something doesn't mean it should. Kafka is specifically designed for this purpose, it is free, and it is easy to learn and use. If "starting with Postgres and then switching out when the
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The first link is 404. Here's another link on the same topic: https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/11/fact-check-britis...
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According to https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ if you have this type of code where you log an attacker-specified string (in this case, the X-Api-Version header) then the vulnerability is trigge
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What is incredible here is that a UI developed in the 1980s is still attractive, and is arguably better looking and more usable than Windows 11 and Mac OS 12. What does that say about the last 40 years of usability and user experience resea
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> UWP is dead. Why do you think UWP is dead? Please post links.
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> Factually not true. No one who was active in the computer industry in the 90s will say that. Don't care what that book says.
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PowerShell as a scripting language is a major PITA. On one project I had to maintain a PowerShell script for provisioning. The provisioning takes 2 to 3 hours. After 2 hours the script would abruptly quit because of some syntax error. 2 hou
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by petilon 5y ago
This is underwhelming. Textarea in any web application has more features, such as spellcheck, and now in Edge, even grammar check! Multilevel undo/redo should have been delivered at least 20 years ago. How about the ability to handle f
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A related problem is, how do you make sure the domain goes to whoever values it most, as opposed to whoever thought of the name first? In the .com space a lot of good domain names are taken up by people who are not putting it to good use. I
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This 3-2-1 backup strategy is missing a dimension: time. Data is rarely unchanging. The 3-2-1 strategy is inadequate for changing data, because if you delete the wrong database table and didn't realize it, the 3-2-1 backups are going t
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Unless you want to spend the money abroad.
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I like the fact that you can annotate objects as well, not just literals. So this is valid: animal: Tiger:: { gender: 'F', weight: 450 } This solves the inheritance problem, i.e., if you have multiple su
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Previous hackernews post indicates that this used to be SVG-rendered. It is currently Canvas-rendered. What made you switch to Canvas?
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This isn't limited to newspapers! Have you tried canceling internet service? My internet service did not use internet for cancelation. I had to call. Free ad for t-mobile: their 5G service for home internet is awesome.
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Not quite. Now the business can send you to collections.
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Caste systems had been operating in Europe as well [1]. But for the embracement, formalization and expansion of the caste system by the British it may have died down as it did elsewhere. [1] https://socialsci.libretexts.org/
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See first two paras in wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India Excerpt: The British Raj furthered this development, making rigid caste organisation a central mechanism of administration. Between 1
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Has anyone seen the recent edition of Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language book? It is 1376 pages long. This is where C# is headed as well.
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Metaverse: What 24 Hours Feels Like(wsj.com)
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When you say embeddable subforms, do you mean master-detail forms? What is your scenario?

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