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by playpause 4y ago
I agree, autofocusing a search field that's in the header of every page is not generally appropriate, but that's not specifically about accessibility. It would be annoying for anyone on a mobile device (keyboard pops up on every p
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This looks like a great resource. Human checklists are not perfect but they tend to be better than automated checks for this sort of thing. But there is a common form of accessibility guideline that I have a problem with, and this one illus
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For the last 2 years I’ve been using an iPod touch as my “downtime” device. I usually put my iPhone away in a drawer from early evening until I’m ready to start work the next day. I found this impossible to stick to until I got an iPod touc
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I imagine your comment was meant with a bit of humour, so don't read too much into the following! But it got me thinking about optimism and pessimism. The HN post title (at time of writing): > Nature has enormous emotional and cogni
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> spending a bit more to get good quality paper straws I am yet to see one of these
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Your implied plan (doing less of what made the problem in the first place) seems like more of a stretch to me. It would be nice, but I can’t see many countries giving up plastic. It’s too useful. I think focusing international collaboration
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He’s the chief engineer and product designer at Tesla, and the chief engineer at SpaceX, as well as CEO of both. He led the design and engineering of rockets that land, cutting the cost of space travel by one order of magnitude. Meanwhile h
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My feeling is that the 'undermining' the author refers to is not a conscious attempt to keep the lower classes down. It's just middle/upper class people spouting fashionable political views, going along with the 'ri
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> Is this because such visualizations are useless clutter or because film makers have better tools for creating them than actual programmers do? Another reason is that real visualisations are hard. You have to faithfully represent some a
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I never said you violated anyone's free speech. I shouldn't have called you a dick though, I just got frustrated. I was trying to make a nuanced point, maybe it was a dumb one, but if so, it would be nice to be put right rather th
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You call people assholes, dismiss people's arguments out of hand, and quote people saying things they didn't even say (in quote marks, too). I think you're just a dick. I'm glad you consider yourself a free speech absolu
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Coming to this late, but I am interested to know if your view is still the same as when you wrote this 13 hours ago. I don't think you have really answered the question about the logical incoherence put to you in another comment [1], w
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Most of my non-tech friends believe that nuclear apocalypse would entail at least the end of all human life. I think this only makes them more complacent in a strange way. They can shrug it off with gallows humour - if it happens, well, tha
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I’ve always felt the DK effect is cynical pseudoscience for midwit egos. It’s a sophistic statement of the obvious dressed up as an insight. But worse, it serves to obvert something interesting and beautiful about humans - that even very in
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They could simply offer a “move to trash” approach to get around any legal restrictions of the kind you are imagining. This would also be much nicer UX. Just click a button to delete something, and it says something like “This has has been
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by playpause 4y ago
I said falsely yelling fire
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by playpause 4y ago
Free speech absolutism doesn't mean you can get away with any crime just because it involved you saying something. Even free speech absolutists agree that falsely yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre in order to cause a fat
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by playpause 4y ago
One thing I do (and am curious if anyone else does anything like this) is I dynamically generate PDFs, generally to print out planning sheets and stuff. I like using templated printouts for planning my day/week, because I can scribble
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Can you expand on this? Can you give an example of a kind of image it might work well with? I’ve always assumed the apparent detail of mental images was a kind of illusion, a bit like the illusion of detail outside the centre of the visual
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by playpause 4y ago
> The comment I replied to clearly stated… No it didn’t. You’ve just quoted a few words out of context and prefixed it with “missing”, adding an accusative tone that was not present.
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by playpause 4y ago
Good lord. Have you ever made anything that explored "the potential of the medium" as much as this? What makes you feel equipped to call its creators "stupid"?
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by playpause 4y ago
> I actually don't think this is about personal preference. The person who made this website apparently prefers something different to you and me.
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by playpause 4y ago
The OP literally says this: > I think it boiled down to a realization that no one really gave a damn about me, my writing/work/creations/etc. So then, what's the point? Is it entirely ego driven? Chasing dopamine hits
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I also prefer websites that keep it simple. But I downvoted you for conflating “what I prefer” with “what everyone in the world must always do”.
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The UI could have been better, but it worked and it was something I’d never seen before and it made my day. Rich web experiences like this are difficult to pull off at all. I’m glad they made it. People who write empty, sneering comments ab
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I used to think exactly this - whatever Twitter has that makes it so popular, it can’t be its dumpster fire UI. But in the last year I finally got into it and it became a go-to place for me at certain times of day to get a kind of social&#x
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Adding to clarify: I agree the snobbish attitude you describe does exist. I just think it’s exactly what this article addresses. He gives an honest report of what it’s like from his perspective, in good humour. And sums it all up with this:
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I don’t think they're logically equivalent at all. “Are you being a baby?” - Are you temporarily being a bit of a baby, like, at the moment? Could you maybe be a teeny bit braver to get through this current bit of anxiety you're f
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I couldn't disagree more about the tone of this article. Is it possible you are projecting your past experience of that snobbish attitude onto this article? To me it seems to be an article about a real, practical attempt to bridge the
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What I’m not getting is how you get from “making damn sure screwups won’t reoccur” to “you don’t need more than a simple apology” when a screwup occurs. These seem like opposing sentiments.

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