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by ronaldx 13y ago
The fact that programmers can't remember < and > well illustrates why children shouldn't be chastised for getting (for example) b and d wrong. I have dealt with this by conditioning myself to always read < as 'is l
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I feel that the correct solution to this is approximately the one that now exists: allowing people to control how the navigation screens look, and control for themselves how to access the apps they use.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is a super-interesting project, but not something I would be interested in using. If I arrive at Piccadilly Circus, I don't want my phone to tell me what service I [should need/should be using] - I want to easily and consiste
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Engineers were constantly told what to do. I read this in the original article and thought " so it wasn't all bad "
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by ronaldx 13y ago
that does make it psychologically harder - I have to go to a site with clear malicious intention, rather than pay a visit to a setting which the browser itself provides.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is apparently a good idea, but it justifies the recruiter's methods: if they can rely you hanging up quicker than the extra time they would spend on proper research.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I accept that you are an expert and that there is value in this expertise, but I remain unconvinced that it's so obvious where to execute A/B tests (in contrast to page load time, where bottlenecks can be measurably identified).
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> It was a preventable accident. Was it really preventable? How should we know when to make a quick decision and when to A/B test? [Clarification: it seems to me that it's better to decisively get things done] Considering tha
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> This is the death of twitter Quite possibly the opposite: If this leads to a requirement for microblogging tools to manage their content, Twitter has the most resources to throw at the problem. This allows them to protect their positio
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I would like to know if NoFlo is being bootstrapped, i.e. are NoFlo developers actively using NoFlo to further develop NoFlo? Some video of this type of development process would be an amazing proof-of-value.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> The complexity and spagetti will just end up inside those nodes rather than between them Great! I would see that as a massive improvement in itself. First priority: the overview of the system should be clear. Then: drill down a level t
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Flight is still the safest form of transport (per passenger mile, it's hardly even close) e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/736582.stm Engine failure doesn't kill people, because you can typically
733.
by ronaldx 13y ago
Can you be more specific? In practice, I agree there are several problems: it is common industry practice to ignore data protection concerns (led by example of large US corporations) and EU member states have neither the intent nor the mean
734.
by ronaldx 13y ago
None: the website requires explicit opt-in permission to collect personal data in the first place, making opt-out DNT largely irrelevant. e.g. from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/27/time_running_out_for.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
In the EU, the two situations I described are both legal obligations (regarding collection of personal data, the legal obligation is probably stronger than I described). [I have understood that this is not the same in the US and the situati
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes. If you choose to send an e-mail newsletter to your users, you should (at least) be obliged to provide an unsubscribe option - providing two different experiences. If you choose to track your users, you should (at least) be obliged to a
737.
by ronaldx 13y ago
> People get way too offended by analytics tracking when it's there for their benefit. Strong disagree. Whether a user finds benefit from tracking is the opinion of the user, not the opinion of the site doing the tracking. It's
738.
by ronaldx 13y ago
Isn't this graph more typical of a successful crowdfund?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's still not always clear where your tips are actually going in the UK: Pre-2008, credit card tips/service charges actually went to the employer, not the service staff, and the staff were generally told to lie about this[0]. Pos
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by ronaldx 13y ago
To formally define a hypothesis, the claimant should be obliged to define cognitive processing and willpower in terms of what you call "human phenomena". Then we can design experiments to challenge the hypotheses, as in any other
741.
by ronaldx 13y ago
>the generally accepted rule of the game is that the first to the finish line gets to keep the logo. Respectfully disagree. The generally accepted law is clear enough, as I understand it: that you have (automatic) copyright over your ow
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The point of falsifiability is that it must be possible to prove that a hypothesis is false by some experimental method, otherwise the hypothesis is unscientific. Here, you can try and prove it to be false, by using your own ideas as the
743.
by ronaldx 13y ago
> Like many things in psychology, this is basically unfalsifiable. Your comment doesn't make much sense. "basically unfalsifiable"? By which you mean, it is falsifiable but hard. In fact, you later make a fair attempt to f
744.
by ronaldx 13y ago
The blog post states " we value our community very much ". On this basis, I think you have every right to complain, and should do so directly.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I take this to be a proof-of-concept for ajax.googleapis.com in N years time. "The archive web, sponsored by..."
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The result of pricing too low for demand is ticket touting, e.g.: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/pax-tickets
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Looking at recent referendum topics, it seems to me that the right-wing Swiss People's Party have a lot of power and skill in choosing referenda that appeal to a mob majority against vulnerable minorities. e.g. the June 2013 referendum
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Although I would criticise my own system just as heavily as you do, the Swiss system is not exactly idyllic either: right-wing propaganda led the Swiss people into banning minarets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Agreed: as a British citizen, I find this vote incredibly close. As an analogy, there is absolutely no political will here to change the status quo regarding unchecked data collection. The two largest political parties would likely be aut
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If not businesses, then what are they? Removing something from its semantically natural label implies that it's not fine.

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