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by takno 11y ago
Given that they don't have a large marketing team, 75 people would be a huge team to deal with 4 to 5 million page views
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by takno 11y ago
By the time I read it this had been corrected and acknowledged in the footnotes, so I guess it's good to know the system works
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by takno 11y ago
Oh, is that what was meant to be happening? I was reading on mobile and the page just kept randomly scrolling, and when I came back to it after 8 hours a bunch of boxes had spilled semi transparent shadows over the text. It's funny how
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by takno 11y ago
That's kind of the point though. They threw in lawnmower and a kitchen sink, but the word-processor and spreadsheet were lacking basic features
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by takno 11y ago
Star office 5.1 could run on pretty limited hardware, but honestly it's a stretch to describe it as feature complete. That was the bad old days when I had to boot into windows to get most non coding work done.
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by takno 11y ago
A manual typewriter is even better for this. You really lose the temptation to constantly go back and fiddle with what you're writing when fiddling involves hammering through retyping the whole page
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by takno 11y ago
But adding those will you get into the whole argument about whether Edison was an inventor or a relentless taker of other people's credit
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by takno 11y ago
I've never had a problem with calendar invites in other timezones on Google, and I suspect a number of those come in UTC. Is it possible that the UTC invites you are getting don't actually have the timezone attached? In the absenc
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by takno 11y ago
I'm not the designer. I'm just suggesting reasons why the designers of Android may have chosen the design they did rather than the design the issue demands is the "correct" way
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by takno 11y ago
Most people get timezone set correctly automatically to their current location, including folks in Iceland. Specialist users who want to do something odd might discover the unloved system settings widget (it's missing on a lot of phone
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by takno 11y ago
Reykjavik is available on the world clock, and if you go there it picks up the correct timezone automatically. The only missing part is that the system timezone widget which you would never normally use doesn't have it. Also, while exc
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by takno 11y ago
I'm not aware of anybody outside of IT who uses or even understands UTC in place of GMT, so making this change would be a significant backwards step in usability.
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by takno 11y ago
The article is a write-up of an 8 year-old paper based on research from 10 years ago and extensively quoting papers from 20 years ago, so current definitions of expensive don't really apply
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by takno 11y ago
My bike still worked in the rain
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by takno 11y ago
Certainly you can learn Fizzbuzz and string reversing, meaning that you could be a false positive in the interview. Assuming that you are interviewing experienced devs and you use the test as a kicking-off point for discussing any errors ra
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by takno 11y ago
I don't particularly experience the inconveniences since I like going into bookshops and usually have a backlog to read. I still have the kindle app and a few kindle books for the occasions when they are useful. The real killer for me
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by takno 11y ago
They really only intrude into my life when a particularly overenthusiastic friend actually bothers to manually paste a link rather than hitting the share button
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by takno 11y ago
Buzzfeed is about 20% of my "Hide from Timeline" list on Facebook
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by takno 11y ago
I've mostly gone back to physical books. The Kindle was a nice experiment and all, but honestly it's more expensive and less convenient
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by takno 11y ago
I do click on medium links if the content looks interesting, though they probably have to hit a higher bar than other sites to get past my nagging prejudices about medium content. Certainly anything that sounds like it might be hyperbole ge
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by takno 11y ago
Maybe I got to medium late, but a medium link has always been a sure sign to me that the content I'm about to read is obviously wrong and likely lacking in humility
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by takno 11y ago
It's honestly pretty difficult to believe that any kind of optimization has taken place on the Facebook app. I don't have the time or the bandwidth to keep up with the updates
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by takno 11y ago
Messenger works great for me and my friends group. Whatsapp seems largely redundant since we stopped bothering to swap numbers years ago
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by takno 11y ago
I made no comment on the fitness for purpose of the community standards or the skill of application. I'm mostly commenting that the standards are largely reactively enforced, and this can lead to bias.
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by takno 11y ago
This covers articles published in a large daily newpaper over 20 years. The CIF section in latter years does provide an online-only platform for blog-standard articles from enthusiastic amateurs, but I would have thought that most of the 12
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by takno 11y ago
The technology choices seem okay. I suspect it could have been done fairly quickly and slightly less expensively just by putting the metadata into the postgres image and running plain SQL queries there. On the other hand gaining some experi
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by takno 11y ago
Looks nice, and the payload is impressively small. I'd be happier if there weren't 4 separate downloads of JQuery on the demo page though
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by takno 11y ago
I'm pretty relaxed about that
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by takno 11y ago
I love the way marketers package a complete bare faced brazen lie as "not the absolute truth"
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by takno 11y ago
Implementing IPN on Paypal is a pain. It is really only required because the normal flow for Paypal is to take the user off your site to theirs and only redirect back to you when the user clicks a link or waits quite a long time. This resul

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