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by jacobtracey 9d ago
A little context on this post - I've been collecting and cleaning the Australian public record (Hansard) for a little while and have been implementing knowledge bases recently and thought it was worth while smashing it all together int
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Open Parliamentary Accountability EXchange(opax.com.au)
3 points by jacobtracey 9d ago|1 comments
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by jacobtracey 6y ago
I did a bit more reading and noticed in the WebAIM stats that Narrator usage is indeed on the rise. Given that it is included in the OS, I would hope that it ends up as the defacto standard in much the same way as VoiceOver is for macOS. Re
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by jacobtracey 6y ago
I completely agree with you. At the very least it could be a feature you opt in to. Would help a ton with the issue of fragmentation as well.
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A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing(jaketracey.com)
70 points by jacobtracey 6y ago|52 comments
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by jacobtracey 7y ago
What exactly are you doing?
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by jacobtracey 7y ago
A lot of high school kids, some in Australia were in the top warez groups back in the day. Very few people with full time jobs had the time to be super active in the 'scene'. It was almost entirely highschool and college students.
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by jacobtracey 8y ago
Free dispatch
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by jacobtracey 10y ago
The drivers are just a stopgap until most Uber rides are self driving cars. They're all screwed in the end anyway.
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by jacobtracey 10y ago
They also have slow.com... speedtest.net might be dead.
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by jacobtracey 11y ago
The entire userbase doesn't matter that much. The majority of reddit users don't contribute any decent content. Keeping the minority of users that are actually producing content happy is what they have failed to do and is the real
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by jacobtracey 11y ago
The outcry was over a female employee being fired. The pattern you're seeing is more likely than not sheer coincidence.
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by jacobtracey 11y ago
I'm not airing anything except I think her article was bitter - you can read into that until the cows come home.
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by jacobtracey 11y ago
Personally I don't feel that airing someones dirty laundry on a huge website is an appropriate venue. Isn't this exactly what support groups like AlAnon and therapy aim to address in a more delicate manner?
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by jacobtracey 11y ago
She claims to be ashamed to admit to a periodontist that her husband died of alcohol related causes... Then proceeds to describe on a hugely trafficked website how he urinated in a basement sink every night and left her with $64,000 of cred
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by jacobtracey 11y ago
I wasn't excusing anything, simply stating that perhaps airing ones dirty laundry - particularly about a dead person - in a newspaper no less, just seems bitter.
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by jacobtracey 11y ago
What a bitter, twisted thing to write about a dead person. It seems her husbands problems have become a large part of her identity, and what greater way to feel better than write an opinion piece about how shitty he was in the NYT?
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by jacobtracey 11y ago
Been working on https://fris.bi for a while - it's a WebRTC group video chat app. Would love anyones feedback!
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by jacobtracey 11y ago
Hey, Jake here from Frisbi. Do you think WebRTC is a good enough selling point to have somewhere on the main page? Regarding open source, we may go down that route quite soon - the code could use some refactoring (this is a pet project for
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Frisbi – Peer to peer group video chat(fris.bi)
11 points by jacobtracey 11y ago|5 comments
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by jacobtracey 13y ago
Yeah, I wasn't saying that at all. I was attempting to show that his response was a strawman. After further reading I'm guessing his entire online personality is an act though so the topic seems to be worthless discussing.
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by jacobtracey 13y ago
redthrowaway's comment: > You can make the same argument without being an ass about it. Your reply: > It's funny how me pointing out the stupidity and bullshit of a group of criminals makes me an asshole... You completely mi
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by jacobtracey 13y ago
It's the condescending way you write that makes you seem like an asshole... i.e saying "Hahahahah" all the time - I don't particularly disagree with your points but the insulting tone is unnecessary, don't you think
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by jacobtracey 13y ago
No one is talking about minimizing it's importance. If anything, you're trying to 'minimize the importance' of the enslavement of people in practically every civilization on earth, for generations before the US was found
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On virtual reality(jacobtracey.com)
1 points by jacobtracey 13y ago|0 comments
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by jacobtracey 13y ago
How can you possibly make this generalisation? On IRC, people can assume whatever they like. Everyone might as well be naked running around doing the tango, if that is how that person chooses to see those users. Why would a person even give
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by jacobtracey 13y ago
Why do you need to tell people your gender on a communications medium that doesn't require you to? I don't consider anyone to be male or female on IRC, they're just users. The thing I always loved about IRC was that even when
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by jacobtracey 13y ago
Saying his personal experience proves anything about IRC as a medium is a stretch. No requirement exists to give your gender or a name that may reveal a gender. That, by any definition, is 'gender neutral'. If someone makes assump
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by jacobtracey 13y ago
> In my entire life, I have only heard "bro" come from the mouths of bullying douche-bag frat-boy sleazes, usually while telling me the assault they just committed against me was "just a joke". My bad. I shouldn'
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by jacobtracey 13y ago
I've got plenty of compassion and understanding, thanks. Using your logic, why don't we just get rid of the word 'frat' while we're at it, since you've had such a bad experience with people associated with them

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