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by codinghorror 7y ago
wow the Google Play fee is only $25 one time ever ? That's nuts!
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by codinghorror 7y ago
yeah the Java thing stopped me cold. That's bizarre on a Pi.
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by codinghorror 7y ago
I deleted my Reddit account long ago. Opinion based downvoting is so toxic on small subreddits, and cannot be disabled in any meaningful way.
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by codinghorror 7y ago
Instagram is the future of Facebook. Probably the most important tech acquisition since YouTube.
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by codinghorror 7y ago
Did you see this: a random jury of your online peers https://www.minds.com/minds/blog/power-to-the-people-the-min... I support this kind of stuff in theory but it is incredibly difficult to get to scenarios where
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by codinghorror 7y ago
Ironically Facebook’s original design around “only a list of approved friends see any of your content” may have been more correct in the long term. Randos do not scale, particularly when like Twitter you are not particularly competent at ev
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by codinghorror 7y ago
Ah, the many headed hydra joy of threaded discussions, chop off one head and four more appear!
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by codinghorror 8y ago
you and many, many other venture capitalists
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by codinghorror 8y ago
if it has Qualcomm inside, the answer is definitely "yes"
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by codinghorror 8y ago
It's a problem that is within your power to fix, and in fact within the power of anyone in front of a web browser to fix, because it requires no permissions or even a login. When you see an obsolete answer in need of clarification (suc
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by codinghorror 8y ago
if the information in the answer is incorrect as of a certain version of the library / environment, it's perfectly fine for anyone with a web browser to edit that additional information into the post.
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by codinghorror 8y ago
There's zero evidence that people stop reading at the first answer. Otherwise no other answers would have any upvotes, and you can see that's not the case.
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by codinghorror 8y ago
Editing is not strongly discouraged, and adding a disclaimer is not rare.
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by codinghorror 8y ago
Fair. Thanks for that edit. It is amazing the number of replies in this entire HN thread that have no idea every single question and answer on Stack Overflow is editable, even by an anonymous user. The first item in my list was Stack = wiki
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by codinghorror 8y ago
Print works fine; try it. Find is indeed contingent on what's loaded on the page, same reason you can't "find in page" when you're viewing paginated page 5 of 20. Not really a valid criticism, unless you're jus
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by codinghorror 8y ago
This is covered in the blog post, search for "I didn't do that"
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by codinghorror 8y ago
Entirely possible .. but I desperately hope that the /ask page is reworked from the ground up to be a much more engaging sort of dynamic tutorial. Most of the friction from people colliding with the SO system is on that page, and it ha
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by codinghorror 8y ago
Per the wiki comparison, there's an edit button on every answer and question -- it works even if you're not logged in. Try it! I'm starting to think that calling the edit button "improve this answer" and "impro
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by codinghorror 8y ago
It's not a bad idea, but speculative questions (will anyone really ask this?) lead down the path of the "documentation" effort which was hugely risky and eventually got pulled. https://stackoverflow.com/docu
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by codinghorror 8y ago
> not to read this blog post as a diplomatic pushback to the current efforts of SO leaders to make it more welcoming Not at all, at least, that is not my intent. I do feel like the key items articulated there (SO as wiki, duplicate dange
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by codinghorror 8y ago
> They unleash a task force of moderators on them that kick out the low-quality creators Not following, SO has always had pretty strict rules on quality from 2009 forward. There's no inflection point here.
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by codinghorror 8y ago
> How to handle stale information. I still see no solution to this. Since you're down with "SO as Wikipedia" surely you can find the edit button on every answer and question.. which works even in incognito mode when you ar
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by codinghorror 8y ago
> Personally I would have been much more understanding of the process of using stackoverflow if I knew this, and so would many of the people who get stung expecting an answer to their question. My gut feeling is that this worked better i
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by codinghorror 8y ago
That's mostly a perk for the question asker. Nobody (that I know of) stops reading at the first answer, because there are usually multiple good ways to solve any problem in programming. And if the accepted answer has a fraction of the
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by codinghorror 8y ago
> One challenge not discussed here is when an accepted and highly voted answer _used_ to be a good answer, but no longer is in later versions of whatever software/platform/library is discussed. This is also something that gets
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by codinghorror 8y ago
Try pressing the "improve this answer" aka edit button and editing it, for starters. Works even for anonymous accounts!
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by codinghorror 8y ago
why haven't you, or someone else, edited the answer to indicate this or add a disclaimer?
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by codinghorror 8y ago
> However, infinite scrolls cannot keep the state by its design. Users cannot share their current state. Which also means you cannot track users’ actions using analytics tools. This absolutely isn't true at all; for example in Disco
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by codinghorror 8y ago
Per https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13392/SPEC2006-eff_575px.p... SPECint2006 -- 36.93 --> 44.92 is about 20% better Speedometer2 -- 90 --> 125 is 38% better That is nearly 2x what SPECint would predict. (
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by codinghorror 8y ago
I highly recommend this article in that same vein http://benediktmeurer.de/2016/12/16/the-truth-about-traditio... This is when Chrome on Android finally started to turn a corner, they've done a fantastic

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