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by voyou 13y ago
As the update to the article makes clear, that's wrong. Switching safe-mode off shows both NSFW and adult content.
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by voyou 13y ago
Yeah - blocking adult stuff from a "safe mode" search doesn't seem like a particularly bad thing, but Tumblr seems to just completely make stuff disappear, rather than making users aware that there is other content available
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by voyou 13y ago
It will still show up in tag searches, and Tumblr doesn't have any other kind of search.
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by voyou 13y ago
"why would you follow people if you were not interested in what they tweet?" Well, yeah. Who are these people that you want to silence but don't want to unfollow? What would unfollowing do, which you don't want, which si
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by voyou 13y ago
"Skimming 200 tweets" in one go might be a bit of a pain, but all 200 tweets don't arrive at once. If you briefly check Twitter during short pauses of work throughout the day, your 200 tweets would probably come in blocks of
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by voyou 13y ago
The job of a university teacher is to help students learn - if a student fails the class, then the teacher has failed to do their job. Sure, it's possible that some of the blame for that failure may lie with the student, but nonetheles
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by voyou 13y ago
That's true, but that any "dynamically-typed and lexically scoped languages" with closures and first-class functions could be considered mainstream is fairly new. Crockford wrote "JavaScript: The World's Most Misund
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by voyou 13y ago
On the contrary, to the extent something intends to "express, explore, or otherwise stimulate human mind," it isn't art - it's rhetoric, or science, or entertainment. Obviously lots of works of art were created for some
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by voyou 13y ago
A $10,000 Kickstarter for a problem that could be solved by just not using an unnecessary extra sheet in the first place! The blurb claims that washing a top sheet is easier than washing a duvet cover, which it isn't (I have alternated
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by voyou 13y ago
If they found a good way of incorporating RSS into Google+, that would certainly be an incentive to use Google+; but just adding RSS feeds to a circle in Google+, as this article suggests, would be terrible. Google+ (like Facebook and Twi
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by voyou 13y ago
Your proselytizing reminds me of Alan Kay's idea (at least partly instantiated in Smalltalk) that there should be no fundamental difference between using a computer and programming. This is an interesting idea, but it's incredibly
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by voyou 13y ago
Those are terrible solutions, though. If a user has turned off JavaScript, there are basically two possibilities: if they turned it off accidentally, your solution will (in the best case scenario, where they understand the popup and realise
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by voyou 13y ago
Spendthrifts! They could have used a CD and increased the capacity from 600MB to one petabyte.
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by voyou 13y ago
There's little if any used market for PC games, so not being able to resell a used Steam copy of a game doesn't differentiate it from a physical copy. The same isn't true for console games.
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by voyou 13y ago
"people will perceive both versions as having the same value and be willing to pay the same amount for them both." If they can resell one game but not the other, they're not necessarily going to perceive them as being of the
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by voyou 13y ago
How does having the page title in the title bar help with that, though? It only shows the full title of the currently selected tab, but can't you usually tell which tab that is from its content?
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by voyou 13y ago
I'd be interested to hear where you did your BA. In my experience in the UK and US, the focus is much more on using philosophical arguments than regurgitating them (sometimes even to the exclusion of understanding the context, which makes P
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by voyou 13y ago
Yes, the gap between the theoretical knowledge of how nuclear weapons work, and the practical ability to build one, is large. There's an interesting article about the possibility of "uninventing" nuclear weapons by stopping to make them, th
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by voyou 13y ago
Or just click on the "Call Phone" button next to the "Start Hangout" button in Gmail? That's still there for me, is it not for other people?
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by voyou 13y ago
I've seen quite a few sites which prevent zooming on mobile browsers. I think it's to do with: "Mobile Safari often just zooms the page when changing from portrait to landscape, instead of laying out the page as it would if originally loade
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by voyou 13y ago
So, the next Facebook is Tumblr? You may be a bit late on that one.
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by voyou 13y ago
While WordPress is a bit of a shitty CMS, all the other CMSes I've tried are even worse. Are there any actually good alternatives?
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by voyou 13y ago
And don't get me started on the obnoxious jerks in books: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elephant-Baby-Puffin-Picture-Books/d... EDIT: I should probably try and make my point rather than just snarkily wave my hands towards it. Material for child
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by voyou 13y ago
Is it really "good practice"? It seems like cargo-cult security to me. Usernames are usually public anyway; refusing to reveal the existence of a user name as part of the login process but revealing it elsewhere in your application is point
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by voyou 13y ago
You've never heard non-techie users complaining about getting too many irrelevant emails? The non-technical users I've talked to about email view almost any emails except ones they specifically requested as spam, and don't appreciate it.
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by voyou 13y ago
"We see from the fact that you haven't used our web site that you are not interested in our web site. Have you considered, instead, being interested in our web site?"
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by voyou 13y ago
"If you try to help and they don't want it? They don't want to farm virtual ants anyway. So they spam-flag you and you go away." But what if they later decide they do want a virtual ant farm, but don't want to use your virtual ant-farm bu
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by voyou 13y ago
Only one of these emails is even conceivably "relevant emails about how to improve your usage of a service," the one from the customer support lead offering help in using the service. The rest are just spam.
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by voyou 13y ago
No, the best UX is to show you the fucking website. It may well make sense to include links to a mobile app and to the desktop version, but those links are clearly of less interest to the user than the website they want to look at, so they
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by voyou 13y ago
It's cool that "Alex Knapp, a science writer at Forbes" has solved one of the major issues in the philosophy of mathematics by, erm, just asserting that Platonism is false. Of course, maths is a tool, but that doesn't mean that it is just

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