xjay

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by xjay 11y ago
If software could reliably know when the setting was changed-- --It could warn the user: Hey, isn't it convenient that this check was disabled just before this addon was about to be installed? Perhaps a three strikes approach, where, i
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by xjay 11y ago
I assumed the timer was there to prevent clicking Install by accident. Popup dialogs may appear right "above" something else you were clicking on, or while you're typing; hitting Enter, or Escape, which then causes the dialog
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by xjay 11y ago
Brave seems to acknowledge a smaller part of Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" [1], where you're paying to access content. From the Project Xanadu Wikipedia article: "9. Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at
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by xjay 11y ago
Like many people, I think about this now and then, but I haven't done any work in that area. Ultimately, I picture a live environment, but not like Blueprint in UE4. I expect we'll end up with a predominantly interactive approach
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by xjay 11y ago
Sure. The AI decides it's cheaper, and more efficient to cause the sun to go nova. As long as there are resources, I expect someone will always want more, or to control access to it. Imperialists by nature.
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by xjay 11y ago
Life is short if your ego is high. Life is long if your ego is low.
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by xjay 11y ago
I'd rather want a user agent biased towards me controlling how articles look, attributing the source, but a lot of bad decisions prevented that from being the natural way to use the web. Back on topic: People often talk about flow char
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by xjay 11y ago
Twitter has some dual personality when it comes to UX. Recently, Twitter quietly started relying on the HTTP Referrer field. That's OK, I guess, except they did nothing to inform their users about it, which is easy for them to check a
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by xjay 11y ago
OneDrive for Business permits 20 000 items, which can be files or folders. There's a maximum file size. (What is it now? 10 GB?) 20 000 * 10 GB = Microsoft ∞ Maybe there are limits to how many items you can store in a folder as well.
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by xjay 11y ago
Truncation: The browser could have warned users for years already. Pasting something that gets cut off is data loss. Relying on a JavaScript implementation to do this is a hack that only covers some sites (yes, you could have an add-on, but