callumlocke

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by callumlocke 4y ago
Dear downvoters, it’s a joke.
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by callumlocke 6y ago
> Likewise, wouldn’t you be baffled if you needed to click a “Start Editing” button in Word or Google Docs? Interestingly that’s exactly what Apple Pages does now, on phone/tablet at least. I like the way it forces a moment of consi
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by callumlocke 6y ago
Ignore the negativity, your comment helped me.
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by callumlocke 6y ago
I think the commenter was just trying to be helpful.
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by callumlocke 6y ago
Having a limited supply of empathy is one way to think about this, but another (less immediately appealing) way is as fast moving moral fashions. In your example it seems like the empathy got ‘used up’, because of the order of those two eve
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by callumlocke 6y ago
Maybe it helps them in some way with legal compliance, or just PR (gives them an easy way to fob off people with concerns), the benefits of which would significantly outweigh the lost revenue from the miniscule percentage of Chrome users wh
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by callumlocke 6y ago
> for the average user
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by callumlocke 6y ago
> If a law is bad when enforced, then the law needs to be changed, not the enforcement. Useful as a rule of thumb but it's not always true. Models are never perfect, the map is not the territory. We are constantly figuring out what
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by callumlocke 7y ago
I’m the author of JSON Formatter [1] with 989,000 users. I probably get a couple of offers a year for it. Of those that have offered specific sums, they ranged from from $10-20k. I always reject them, because it’s pretty obvious they want t
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What interactives can do that articles can’t (2018)(ejb.github.io)
61 points by callumlocke 7y ago|4 comments
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Apple is removing Alex Jones and InfoWars’ podcasts from iTunes(buzzfeednews.com)
57 points by callumlocke 8y ago|140 comments
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by callumlocke 8y ago
Good UX depends on audience and context. Many things are widely shared precisely because they give the user something fun and unexpected. For people who work with computers all day, being online is more perfunctory, and the pleasure of seei
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by callumlocke 8y ago
Doing what? All I see is the Wikipedia article for the TLD.
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Apple has no idea what’s next, so it’s just banging on the same old drum(medium.com)
2 points by callumlocke 8y ago|0 comments
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by callumlocke 8y ago
Stopped here also. Bad sign. Different tools for different jobs, no need to get emotional.
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What interactives can do that articles can’t (2018)(ejb.github.io)
1 points by callumlocke 8y ago|0 comments
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by callumlocke 8y ago
I think the edge just means CDN edge locations. There’s been a trend towards making edge locations smarter (via Lambda etc), so you can sometimes send dynamic responses straight back from the edge, ie quicker than always deferring to the bi
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by callumlocke 8y ago
The only people who will see that ad are those who have already decided to check out GitLab today. It’s a convincer, not a traffic driver.
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by callumlocke 8y ago
Never seen a live camera feed working in iOS Safari until now. Has something changed recently to allow this?
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React store built on top of the new context API: react-waterfall(github.com)
1 points by callumlocke 8y ago|0 comments
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“last 2 versions” considered harmful(jamie.build)
2 points by callumlocke 8y ago|0 comments
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The five types of Nicolas Cage movies(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by callumlocke 8y ago|0 comments
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by callumlocke 8y ago
Can you expand on this? How do analytics distort publishers' perspective of what's popular? Not disagreeing, I just want to know what you mean.
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In defense of the HomePod(techcrunch.com)
1 points by callumlocke 8y ago|0 comments
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by callumlocke 8y ago
> There is a reason the Microsoft Store and Google Play are absolutely filled with trash So is the iOS App Store. If you dig past the first few search results you find tons of trash. But I'm not sure it matters how many low quality
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by callumlocke 8y ago
You are right
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by callumlocke 8y ago
With both pie charts and donut charts, the size of a segment is based on its arc length. With a pie, that's the same thing as area, but for donuts it's not. So I guess that's one argument against donut charts. Neither chart i
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For $15,000, GrayKey promises to crack iPhone passcodes for police(zdnet.com)
1 points by callumlocke 9y ago|0 comments
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China will ban people with poor ‘social credit’ from planes and trains(theverge.com)
4 points by callumlocke 9y ago|0 comments
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by callumlocke 9y ago
This kind of extension is available for every browser.

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