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I don't know that the comparison with Spotify is very fair - I would imagine they have a direct contact to employees.

OP's only other HN interaction is a comment on a submission of a Medium article by the same company. The comments on that submission are made by accounts with small & very similar comment histories as well.

My original was Fitt's, which may make grandparent make more sense.

See Fitts'* law [1]. Buttons at the corners you describe can be modelled as having infinite width, making them much easier to aim for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

Medium don't even offer a password version - it's social network OAuth or this.

Tech Dirt seems to have quite a high volume. Do you use any filtering, or just manually scan over?

'Scaling the ladder of abstraction' applies quite strongly to dealing with a new codebase, and is something I think inexperienced people (myself included) initially struggle with.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12153672

> Developers have a moral obligation to not waste their user's resources, dammit.

Where do you draw the line to define 'wasting' on the expansive scale of efficiency? Past a point it doesn't make business (or technological) sense to optimise. How do you define what level of bandwidth is 'necessary'? If you're suggesting that apps should not release with obviously stupid practices then I agree with you. Past that I'd find it difficult.

This isn't an answer to your question, but I have recently thought that a IDE/editor plugin to manually 'tag' lines/sections of code with a comment would be useful when starting with a new codebase, rather than having to remember everything. That said, I don't know how much that would negatively impact the end goal of internalising these things.

> I've heard other people say that Chinese are rude/impolite.

In casual (especially informal) conversation I'd say there's a cultural norm of being more direct than we are in the west. This isn't, I don't think, in an attempt to offend. That swings the other way in business (or so I have heard) where criticism is carefully constructed (at least within a business) to minimise any potential offence given. YMMV.

That wasn't my experience when I was there. While it's true that the average citizen may/will not speak English, it's more common than just in the high end areas that you mentioned.

Is this not a case for developer education? If developers are neglecting corner cases that's a real issue that needs to be addressed directly rather than having it be the job of someone else to clean up after them.

I'm no lawyer, but if Kik's assertion of 'because you have to enforce trademarks or you lose them' is true then I understand their actions - that's just the world we live in.

It was decent of the Kik guys to try and amicably sort it out before calling in the lawyers given the situation, though admittedly it's also cheaper for them this way. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect confusion between Kik's product and Azer's node module - the names are identical. NPM's stance is kind of covered by their policy[0], point 3.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/policies/disputes#description

Funny how there are two sides of a story. Azer's representation of his message 'hahah, you’re actually being a dick. so, fuck you. don’t e-mail me back.' as 'My answer was “no”' is disingenuous.

It's not unreasonable by any means.

This is something that I'm really quite sad that I missed out on. By the time I was interested in programming enough to understand how this would all work it was a couple of years too late.

I'd say Minecraft is the 'new' version of this kind of thing, though certainly in a different sense - it's actually pretty opposite in some ways (making the gameplay rather than beating it). I'd be interested to see what comes along next.

I've always thought that something like this could be really cool; I'll be following with interest.

I will say that your website is fairly hard to read. The high contrast and squashed text (and maybe font?) are quite hard on the eyes, at least for me.

Creative accounting which follows the law to the letter. They're not doing anything illegal (you'd imagine at least - I doubt it would be an easy task to decipher exactly what they're doing to determine legality) but certainly immoral.

It's Christmas Day - I'm sure 99% of their staff are on holiday.

The second paragraph of the Wikipeda[1] article on honorary degrees covers this:

With regard to the use of this honorific, the policies of institutions of higher education generally ask that recipients "refrain from adopting the misleading title" and that a recipient of an honorary doctorate's use of the title "Dr" before their name should be restricted to engagement with the institution of higher education in question and not within the broader community.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree

Except when I see universities here which are poorly ranked giving honorary degrees to famous comedians it just seems ridiculous and doesn't make me think any better of the establishment. If anything it seems needy.

Not a fan of their support, or rather lack thereof.

Companies need to take a new approach to the permissions they request - especially on Android where these are explicitly shown to the user. Often there are innocuous purposes behind them, but it's rarely immediately clear and results in people jumping to conclusions. Companies should be more explicit as to the reasons they request permissions.

I believe this is the case - they have a mode (so I'm told) that will choose music based on your current running pace.

Personal favourite https://github.com/valeriangalliat/dotfiles/blob/b227cf9b252...