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by wgx 15y ago
The onosecond : http://www.unwords.com/unword/onosecond.html
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by wgx 15y ago
Only just checked 'threads' and saw this - Yes, exactly - those tweaks address the main concerns. Some upvotes for you.
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by wgx 15y ago
I agree with you totally, however this isn't unique to Google at all - it represents a much wider lack of thought and care by UI designers across all kinds of software. If UI designers thought about the points you make above as routine, the
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Internet-controlled robot arm(rustynailworkshop.com)
2 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 15y ago
Creator of "Dogcow"! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow
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by wgx 15y ago
If only we could all get our Google woes fixed in such a manner.
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by wgx 15y ago
Fourth update to the pages where I 'open source' some ideas...
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Idea dump #4 | willgrant.org(willgrant.org)
5 points by wgx 15y ago|1 comments
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Chris Dixon on social network structure resilience (cdixon.posterous.com)
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by wgx 15y ago
Certainly. This was user testing with groups of young people in Tower Hamlets, London in 2010. Aside from testing the UX spec we talked more widely around discovery and every group indicated that they began most tasks with a search on YouTu
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by wgx 15y ago
Just to corroborate, I've done user testing with young people (13-15) and Facebook is definitely seen as 'the internet' - along with YouTube.
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by wgx 15y ago
Good point, plus the kerning on '10' is way too tight. Great idea though.
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UK-based web/finance startup seeks web developer(thngo.com)
2 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
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"The elusive technological future" - John Naughton at ALT-C 2011(youtube.com)
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by wgx 15y ago
The Stypi link crashes my Safari, iOS 5 on iPhone 4.
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by wgx 15y ago
Example.com is an IANA domain, reserved for testing and documentation purposes. So, you're not spamming them. http://www.iana.org/domains/example/
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ScientificallyDriven.org goes to a Google 404(scientificallydriven.org)
1 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 15y ago
Really like this. Just checked the 'urban' and 'auto' boxes and took in a nice gallery of random places.
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by wgx 15y ago
US readers might be interested to know that, while very offensive, the 'c word' is much, much less taboo in the UK. In fact, there's a well-established feminist movement to 'reclaim' the word.
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by wgx 15y ago
Platform: the modern web browser.
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by wgx 15y ago
JavaScript please!
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by wgx 15y ago
Heh. Strangest description of 4chan yet.
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by wgx 15y ago
Amusing indictment of the UK's longest-established [1] directory service that they look "seemingly bootstrapped" at a glance. [1] Yellow Pages started 1954 in the UK
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by wgx 15y ago
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Sir Winston Churchill.
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AWS $50 Service Credit Red Hat on-demand instances running on EC2(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 15y ago
"Gabe Newell thinks Apple is going to launch a console." He could be right - but rather than a console, just an 'iOS device' that plugs into your TV and runs app store stuff. Music, movies, games, etc. If they nail the control surface then
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by wgx 15y ago
I was equally shocked to discover that over half the world population is younger than me.
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by wgx 15y ago
You'd need to import certificates every time you booted the VM (I assume) which would get old pretty quickly. Edit - looks like there is persistent on-VM storage, from the homepage: "In additional to local hard drive space..."
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by wgx 15y ago
Is DropBox particularly insecure?
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by wgx 15y ago
>"these days?" This is hindsight bias - when Apple invented the 'swipe to unlock' it was a novel invention, exactly the idea the patent system is designed to protect. It's quite right that novel inventions be protected under patent law.

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