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by tomgp 8y ago
As discussed further up the thread (and as per the point of the article) the barriers to entry aren't technical but social. An example not mentioned in the article (it's kind of tangential wrt the problems of wikipedias community)
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by tomgp 8y ago
Couldn't disagree more, many of the words are halfway between two other words or are deconstructions of existing words fragmenting and refracting their meaning though Ridley's understanding of the world. To give the most obvious e
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by tomgp 8y ago
As other users have pointed out metrics is probably part of this but I suspect there's also a matter of music licensing. The Sounds app has more music documentaries where they keep the music in (BBC podcasts tend to strip it out) as we
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by tomgp 8y ago
Those 17 million voted for many different versions of leaving, different sets of changes to our relationship with Europe (many of those were impossible or illusory -- based on lies). All those who voted to remain voted for essentially the s
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by tomgp 8y ago
>now with GDPR would of course be illegal with actual consequences if it contains data about EU citizens. which, as an EU citizen, I can confirm it does
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by tomgp 8y ago
I think there's something in this. Reading through the OP the "some of the mistakes we made" section struck me -- with a suitably plastic UI framework these would all be trivial to solve (simple paper prototyping would have s
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by tomgp 8y ago
That's certainly true for clicking on a target but with a trackpad you can swipe to scroll/ pan and pinch to zoom and rotate giving you a much more expressive interface for many tasks. And as others have noted the difference betwe
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Army's £113M recruitment website 'was 52 months late'(bbc.co.uk)
46 points by tomgp 8y ago|54 comments
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by tomgp 8y ago
Short version, think of it like this: The European powers had a ton of capital and resources garnered through colonial exploitation of Africa and Asia which was basically fuel burned through in massive bonfire of destruction that was the Fi
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by tomgp 8y ago
Clinique is not a no name product by any stretch of the imagination. They've been going since the sixties and their products are available on pretty much any UK high-street. I guess you're not the target market for mid-high end sk
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Almost 9 in 10 Android apps are able to share data with Google, says study(ig.ft.com)
3 points by tomgp 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomgp 8y ago
I’m sorry, no, I believe the precarious warehouse job is many times more stressful. Especially in the US where time off is limited and health care is essentially contingent on your employers goodwill. Stress is very often a function of lack
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by tomgp 8y ago
How hard is it really though? If someone said to me: "you can either work in an Amazon warehouse (either shift 7.00am-5.30pm or 5.45pm-4.15am) or be the CEO of Amazon but you're going to get paid the same whichever you choose&quot
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by tomgp 8y ago
Kind of beside the point though when we're talking about a children's cartoon. A straightforward 'people who hurt other people don't love them' message is probably preferable.
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by tomgp 8y ago
no, its more like a set of sets vs an ordered set of sets
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by tomgp 8y ago
This is a well known idea in data visualisation -- first articulated by Jaques Bertin back in the 60s (I think). Colour is known as a selective visual variable; selective variables are better used to represent categorical data as they &quot
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by tomgp 8y ago
It'd be very easy to make a proof of concept of this exploit which didn't breach copyright or record peoples personal information and then to publicise the problem immediately, instead he chose to operate on real sites, collect re
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by tomgp 8y ago
carbonfootprint.com offer carbon offset tree planting both in the UK and globally
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by tomgp 8y ago
huh? In a very real sense I read Dubliners last month.
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by tomgp 9y ago
Yes, I used D3 directly everyday for four or five years as did the whole graphics team of the Financial Times where I worked. Most of the print edition charts were created via D3 at some point in the process too. If you're making datav
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by tomgp 9y ago
> Can one not understand something about how cultures work without knowing how brains work? Can one not know something about how an ape behaves without understanding their gut-biome? Absolutely this. An explanation of evolution in terms
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by tomgp 9y ago
I think I get where you're coming from but 1. not sure what trust is required of you for content which is a gradient in the shape of an egg. 2. would you be more comfortable with ads that hid their intention to 'manipulate' y
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by tomgp 9y ago
I think there's certainly something to be said for the agility of small teams in shipping new features but I also think it's not particularly contentious to suggest that developers are more productive in higher level languages esp
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by tomgp 9y ago
I'm not sure that was what the article was suggesting. I didn't read the advice as only being directed towards the production of code (though I'll admit that that was it's focus and I didn't read too closely) but r
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by tomgp 9y ago
I don't know, doesn't seem that complicated to me. Weev was a piece of shit before he got a swastika tattooed across his chest (eg. the Kathy Sierra stuff) and there is a clear difference between reporting on individuals and befri
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by tomgp 9y ago
Still, introducing a framework and a build system and everything that entails for the sake of 300ish lines of code? You could rewrite that in plain js avoiding the pitfalls you mention in less time I would have thought. As others have menti
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by tomgp 9y ago
I prepare for interviews but rather than rehearsing technicalities I make sure I know all I can about the company, I think about what problems I might encounter in the role and what solutions might look like, and I think how my skills and e
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by tomgp 9y ago
Attention grabbing fool
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by tomgp 9y ago
Sorry, was facetious. The site looks lovely but if it's purpose was really to inform rather than to advertise the creators graphic design skills different decisions might have been made with respect to how the content is presented.
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by tomgp 9y ago
Is there a law of UX related to making a user scroll thousands of pixels to read 10 sentences?

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