wild_preference

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by wild_preference 8y ago
> As for their alternatives, kicking the user out to Safari would significantly reduce the usability of the app. Not at all. When you open a website in Safari from an app, the user gets a first class website-browser experience without yo
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by wild_preference 8y ago
They really are. Does HN not do anything against accounts that so obviously advertise?
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> people were praising the interface, and nobody listened to the few who objected. Or maybe objecting had the same effect it had back then as it does now: absolutely nothing. It's like me saying "the government is corrupt!&quot
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Aside: Is there a reasonable way to get any non-American/non-English news in the news app? I find it a bit mindblowing that "Discover Channels" and the topics list are all in English and for a country I don't live in. Fo
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Unless your site involves something particularly terrible, their abuse form is only good for the fact that it gets forwarded to the underlying web host. Most web hosts are going to be more strict than CloudFlare is, but you'll notice t
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Interestingly, if you can demonstrate that your keyboard has gone to shit and they thus have to do a top-panel replacement, they have to replace the battery, too. At least that's what they did with my new Macbook Pro when a few of the
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Safari 11 or 12 introduced a new extension system where Safari extensions ship as a macOS app with a Safari extension component that can communicate with the native app. And the macOS app has standard Mac Store sandboxing options (by defaul
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Serde offers more out of the box functionality with its annotations, but it's also bit uglier than Swift's Codable when you do need to implement it yourself. If it wasn't for a blog post that gave some simple examples, I coul
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Right, that would be an example of a "different problem." I'd be hard pressed to let stupid things client/managers can do direct how this sort of tool should work. For example, it'd be silly to demand "score in
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Meh, these tests are just good ways to find obvious problems with your site. Fixating on the overall score seems like an indication of a different problem. For example, you can't change the caching behavior of google-analytics.js, and
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Call it a major UI enhancement. Is it still appropriate use of "awful"?
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I think a solution that generalizes and has the possibility of actually working is for the result of compromised hardware to show up in the consumers' bill. We expect to pay a low, fixed, monthly price for unlimited bandwidth, but what
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Well, the forum costs $250-300+/month. Ads on the same forum used to give me $3,000/mo back in the day which bought me time to enrich the forum. Now they only cover $200/mo at best, so I'm left paying $100+/mo out o
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Nonsense is a strong word. I run a collaborative writing forum for mostly a pre-teen and teen demographic. It's the ilk of what got me into writing as a young one. They don't have money to spend, but ads keep the forum alive. It w
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Ranges from language to language. For example, VS Code pulls TypeScript definitions of your JavaScript dependencies and thus has superior intellisense. Also, the plugin ecosystem uses JavaScript, so it tends to be more cutting edge, especia
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The other half of this is correctly using the connection pool in the application layer to begin with. One of the most common performance errors I see in random http applications is grabbing db connections for too long, like in middleware, o
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Also, hard to take someone seriously when they use the word "awful" to describe the lack of some minor UI enhancement.
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Look again. For example, it has a #tag feature.
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I'd wonder more about polished UX. Drag and drop just seems like something that's quirky to get right, especially across mobile devices.
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GoT is a good example of people being irrationally self-entitled. Every time the subject comes up on Reddit, there are people who are genuinely mad at the guy like he wronged them for taking so long to end-cap the series. It reminds me of t
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One problem with simulation is that it's super resource intensive, particularly more than a video. It turns my laptop's fans on quickly which then fights for my attention with the relaxing audio and makes me acutely aware that I&#
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If you're going to bother recording a video of something, why not spend the extra 5 minutes playing through it first so that you're sparing the audience of watching you figure out even the most basic mechanics? I could see them se
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by wild_preference 8y ago
My only experience with H1b was when I worked at Amazon. Lots of pressure to come in on the weekend. I certainly wasn't going to sacrifice my weekends. I'd just tell them no. I could work somewhere else. But the H1b guys I worked
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Why is this so common among people who probably consider themselves pretty intelligent? Blew me away in that Facebook dating thread yesterday how many people were saying that nobody uses Facebook.
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Festivals I've been to will, say, require deposits of 100 peso increments and then the beers cost 80 pesos. And you can't get your money out. Even if you could get your money back, you're still waiting at lines to recharge th
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What kind of cost does society bear because of smoking? Since we share finite resources like insurance pools and the medical system, there's a case for society to restrict the actions of others.
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You're making the case for why people don't want to match with their immediate friends, but there's a lot of value in matching with people just one degree of separation away, through a mutual friendship. After all, that'
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You must've thought you were being contrary, but websites already do. They have a top navbar. They have sidebars. They have "edit/delete" dropdowns. They feed you content in a scrollable column. Facebook is as vanilla-st
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I'm not sure what you're trying to prove. That article even enumerates the trivial ways in which you can detect these scams. Is email "powered by bots" because spam/phishing/scams happen there, too? Seems like
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Sex workers have a screening process that demands your IRL identity for safety. Turns out doxxing/stalking can always happen, but knowing someone's identity still makes you safer. For one, it gives you recourse. In Facebook's

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