gremy0

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by gremy0 8y ago
It's not, it's just a pretty standard and well understood UX principle; A couple of simple words is far more likely to be read than a long fluffy sentence. It's just a UX pattern. It's like saying effective contrast is a
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by gremy0 8y ago
This again misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm arguing for background checks that allow employers to make reasonable decisions based on those checks show. and then act within the normal confines of employment law. I've been
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by gremy0 8y ago
You misunderstand, I'm saying there are fair and professional ways to find out if someone is trustworthy. Googling their name, and finding some 5 year old article is not one of these. It presents a incomplete picture that is biased tow
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by gremy0 8y ago
If your criminal record is truly relevant to the job, then the employer should do the responsible thing and get a proper background check done. Which are factual and non-biased. Such things shouldn't be left up to google page ranking a
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by gremy0 8y ago
hmm, I put your "plainest" language answer into XKCD simple writer, and there was some complexity in there. In most simple language, the space truck was thrown up, not tossed forward, and this caused a sound wave that was followed
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by gremy0 9y ago
> Each site is represented in the map as a screenshot, and > The Dark Web Map contains uncensored content from thousands of dark web sites. You thought the (onion) hostnames would be considered uncensored content? and that this requi
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by gremy0 9y ago
* ES6 makes note: not normal programming material
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by gremy0 9y ago
You can do STEM outside and with your friends. There's quite a bit of science outside.
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by gremy0 10y ago
It puts the timer in the favicon so you can see it as a tab or bookmark icon.
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by gremy0 10y ago
I guess if you do the exercise first you actively know what information you need. So you can skip the content that's irrelevant and the stuff you know well enough already.
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by gremy0 10y ago
> For car width, I think that that's also a pretty reasonable width, since it's the perfect width to fit two people side-by-side comfortably, with a bit of room in the middle. How do you know the width of a standard human isn&#
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by gremy0 10y ago
Additionally, if you needed something that did need persisted you would hopefully have the wit to send it on another service (e.g. email) so automatic filtering for all recipients.
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by gremy0 10y ago
You are very probably right the simple solution makes sense. It is an interesting optimization to be able to make though.
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by gremy0 10y ago
Also worth noting that content creators have caught on to this already and are tailoring videos be without sound. There's defiantly a facebook style of video emerging that would look out of place on more traditional video hosts.
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by gremy0 10y ago
2% of a bazillions of dollars is still like nearly a bazillion dollars.
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by gremy0 10y ago
I really don't think the point of the stream is to provide simple way consume T&Cs, more the opposite really.
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by gremy0 10y ago
SharePoint and !important together is like a nuclear standoff of perfect evil in balance.
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by gremy0 10y ago
I don't really get the Ease vs Simple section, what point is he trying to make? This is simple: i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); Where this is just easy: famework.authService.login('user','password')
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by gremy0 10y ago
I don't see why, it would just look silly if it was framed that way for anything else. "Mathematicians make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to count!" "Authors make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to write!&q
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by gremy0 10y ago
Well what's your website then and I'll judge it. Either that or refine your argument.
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by gremy0 10y ago
I'm not picking through all that hyperbole and condemnation of every dev that isn't you to try a maintain a reasonable argument. So I go with a "those in glass houses" approach: The only reason I can't see the terri
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by gremy0 10y ago
So a third of users at least test Bing voice before searching for a different browser?
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by gremy0 10y ago
Apart from greediness there is no reason for data to be so expensive... Sure there's always room for an amount of optimization and good practice but it's insane to rely on that instead of fixing the problem. The growth in page siz
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by gremy0 10y ago
Most of Asia and Europe. The American plans are so expensive and restrictive they don't reflect the current state of the technology at all. That's what's causing all this 'crisis' scaremongering. 1GB is a fairly bas
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by gremy0 10y ago
It's quiet inconsiderate to tell developers to optimize for outdated bandwidth caps (which for some may be extra time, cost etc that they don't have). You should expect to have to increase you dataplan every few years (because tec
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by gremy0 10y ago
Mobile-first is designing for a mobile interface. I quiet clearly stated "economise to the scale of mobile data". That is, supporting users on heavy mobile data restrictions. Users, regardless of device used, are primarily on wifi
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by gremy0 10y ago
Yeah 500 MB could be enough if technology regressed (which it isn't going to). You're going to need a bigger plan regardless as 500 MB is nothing and mobile internet features are become more rich and ubiquitous. The growth of webs
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by gremy0 10y ago
Actual figures on the 'crisis' http://www.httparchive.org/interesting.php?a=All&l=Apr%201%2... Average of 2.3MB with 60% of that being images. 50% of that content can be cached for a least a day.
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by gremy0 10y ago
That's a problem with your phone company not websites, 500MB really isn't enough for using the modern web. Also since when exactly did websites have a mandate to economise to the scale of mobile data? It's always been edge ca
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by gremy0 10y ago
I don't think any 'dedicated sailor' is silly enough to choose their next job based on the name of the boat.

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