Nagyman

Ditto, CMD+Click is borked (OSX, Firefox nightly)

While the rest functions very well, this is case-in-point ... it's difficult to re-invent app use cases that browser vendors generally take care of.

Edit: Printing is also borked it seems, whether or not that's a use case for your audience is another question.

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We're hiring engineers passionate about travel, technology, and making an impact on the world. Multiple roles are available: iOS, Android, backend, front-end and full-stack developers (Python, Django, Go, Javascript, React.js, AWS, Ansible).

G Adventures is a founder-led company, running group adventure tours around the world for 26 years. The Technology department's mission is to enable life changing travel experiences through customer focused technology solutions. We're a team of ~30 developers writing software for our websites (B2B & B2C), reservation system, operation systems, mobile apps, and API (see: https://developers.gadventures.com for a preview of the data we're managing). Many existing challenges for real-time data delivery, scalable architecture design, improving user experience, ML and data analysis.

Competitive salary offered, in an environment that supports growth, engagement, and opportunity.

I bought the BLU R1 HD-16GB [1] as basically a throwaway for travelling. I was surprised at the value for $80-150 CDN of the Blu line. It wasn't a horrible experience at all and even has dual-sims. I would definitely recommend as a basic device that's unlocked and near stock Android (albeit, the OS is out of date, so security might be a concern).

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01H2E0KVA/

Did you try it? Yes, getting good data is a challenge but that's not one they can solve in Sheets. Making a graph is also not always one button, unless you have very simple data.

I found it immediately useful. They've solved some UX and discovery issues around creating charts. And it's not _just_ charts... they're answering questions and identifying trends within the data. e.g. I threw some pretty basic data at this and it told me “Flights” contains a yearly cycle: “Flights” increases until May 1, decreases until October 1, and increases until December 1.

That's pretty handy. YMMV, but this is awesome.

Are you trolling?

Many people do not want a family. We have a sizeable population problem and many unwanted children are already born into poor conditions.

Safe sex is important, but "self-control", implying denying oneself sex, is a choice you can make, but certainly most would not. The "tradition" in the past was (still is in many places) patriarchal oppression and to expect or TAKE sex, forcefully if necessary. Colour me unimpressed by tradition.

Smoking will continue, but I suspect that many people will choose to consume via edibles/oils/etc which won't have a smell, or vaporizers which also have minimal odour.

When the dispensaries popped up all over Toronto (pre-raid) there were MANY edibles, so I assume they were popular. Sadly, after the raids the dispensaries switched to /just/ flower and concentrates. One can still order concentrates and edibles online however.

The trend has been to offer single-sign-on and user provisioning as the carrot to upgrade to enterprise (e.g. Slack), which nearly doubles the cost. For a 200 employee business that's $3K USD/month. Even smaller startups should be using SSO and automated deprovisioning for security. And Slack isn't going to be the only service that wants to double prices for enterprise features while still charging per user.

For those prices, we can hire a full time employee just to be the admin for your service and get them doing more productive things on top of that. Charging per user is not sustainable when you get into the higher numbers, so we'll look at alternatives, host our own services long term, and/or hire a dedicated admin.

It provides global statistics too.

Hm, I think it's the opposite. VR big in the short term; AR big in the long term. I do agree that when talking about smartphone applications, as in the blog post, those will need to be AR not VR.

Google Glass was squashed right? And Hololens is focused on business use cases first. I don't see it becoming consumer focused for some time. VR is amazing _today_ and has a massive gaming audience. The business applications of AR, while high impact/potential, are a much smaller audience.

Why start with snarky sarcasm if you admit there might be more to it than the video? There's also a bunch of copy on the page if you scroll past the video.

* The tabs are represented by little screenshots; nice for navigating. Yet to determine how this scales with MANY tabs (I see, it scrolls vertically... hrm)

* The split screen is pretty cool; many times I need to work between two tabs and alternating between them in Chrome is generally a pain

* Videos can be played outside of the tab; cool if you want to continue browsing while having a video visible (think tutorial while visiting documentation pages)

* All the dev tools are seemingly available – sweet

* The page URL and title are big and nicely visible

* It looks awesome for touch. I don't have a touch laptop though :(

* Screenshots ... meh. I use OSXs built-in tools.

> "scroll to top" by tapping the title bar is completely broken

This is because the scrolling is in a container rather than the body. It's a tough problem on many mobile pages using sliding drawers for example, which rely on overflow based scrolling. There's no event, that I'm aware of, for a web app to listen for for tapping that UI element on iOS.

Ultimately, it's a non-standard convenience introduced on iOS only. Maybe someone else here has solved this :)

This has absolutely picked up recently! It doesn't help their brand in my case, as I put them into the "Overly Aggressive Vendor" folder for future reference when I'm actually looking at purchasing services.

Those reply.io emails that look like they're from a real person are a grey area of marketing. I think it's deceptive and places undue social pressure to reply. Sometimes I do reply, but only when I get annoyed. In such cases, I turn the tables and start trying to sell them adventure travel (G Adventures). Sadly, we also use Criteo; thankfully adblockers block Tealium tag manager by default anyway.

When I saw OPs article screenshots, I actually suspected that Criteo had harvested the email address from the Forgot Your Password screen. This isn't uncommon – VE Interactive (I've mentioned them before), reads forms for email address fields and onBlur, they capture it and send marketing emails later. I _think_ this type of behaviour is supposed to be limited to cart abandonment situations, but I'll bet an incorrectly configured tag would target all forms.

> What I believe we need is a revival of the forum sites. Give people place beyond Reddit

Isn't reddit a forum site? Confused.

The current spat of cheap Android boxes preloaded with Kodi (which itself isn't an issue) and all of the third-party stream-torrenting plugins (the real issue), are posing enough of a threat for big Canadian telcoms to go after them here. They're too easy to use, not to mention stream a lot of sports which is the last bastion for many cable companies to hold onto subscribers.

Yeah, there are shady techniques from companies offering cart abandonment solutions that do exactly that (e.g. VEInteractive). If you type in an email address and don't submit the form, they'll still send you chaser emails.

I think there are valid reasons to store incomplete form data, but I don't think it should be used for reasons the customer did not intend (e.g. receiving emails).

csv-table[1] is an available directive in rST for doing the same thing. It optionally supports an external file.

[1] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html...

Good protection laws likely have stipulations that they cannot be overridden by other agreements. Some laws don't even hold if such conditions aren't included, such as unreasonable anti-compete clauses. Best to always talk to a lawyer :)

It certainly makes it more difficult to compare products. These third-party sellers aren't doing themselves any favours. I recently wanted to purchase a simple phone case (Samsung S7 Edge, so relatively new). ALL of the cases had 4-5 stars, which makes reviews useless during research mode. It was pretty easy to spot patterns in reviews that were essentially paid-for but very annoying.

In the end, I ordered a case (after checking YouTube video reviews) and was contacted by the seller to review their product on Amazon in exchange for 10% off my next purchase with the same seller. BUT not if I was going to give them less than 5 stars; in _that_ case they wanted me to contact them directly.

/end anecdote

A bit harsh to make a blanket statement about intelligence; people just need information which isn't being readily provided or is being drowned out with too much information. The collective actions seem counterintuitive to people paying attention, but paying attention requires time - which doesn't come easily if a swath of the population is busy with two part-time jobs and recovering with reality TV in the meantime.

ZipCar requires a phone call too. Despite being a subscription service, if your credit card expires, they will send it to debt collections until you call to officially cancel. Shady.

I agree with your theory to an extent, however:

> As even the least-tech-savvy becomes more aware of faster ways of accessing the websites

I'm not sure that happens. From observation, people tend to stick to the first way they figured out how to do something on their computer. Searching for "Facebook" from Google is very standard practice. Further, browsers _encourage_ search over direct address input. I've tried to show people many times how to visit sites directly... it doesn't help them so they understandably ignore the advice.

Doesn't sound like cbhl is missing anything. You think it should be cheaper, others think tech this new should be even better and cost more. You just don't fit the early adopter group; wanting it doesn't make you an early adopter. You need to be willing to pay a lot more to be in that group.

Search is also a major feature.

For integrations, Github tells us when there's a PR. Yes, there's a clickable hyperlink, but I also get to know a bit more inline. It's additional context you don't get with only a hyperlink. There's less switching contexts when things are inlined ... it's a UX feature. I'd call it a feed of things happening across all of my apps, mixed with the ability to discuss those things in a standard place.

The integrations also give you shortcuts to actions without switching from your "command" line. Sure there are _some_ tools you can install on your local machine, but none make it this easy. Butterfield had the same success with Flickr (which yahoo subsequently destroyed) in making a killer user experience. That was for photos, Slack is for communication.

91% of paid clicks are on the top three ads. The side ads are not worth it. I'm not sure how the fourth top ad will perform.

(source: Google's AdWords account team)

Is this why Hangouts recently started advertising the Google Messaging app instead of the opposite? For the longest time, I was using Messaging but Google kept pushing me to Hangouts.

Bullshit :)

You can have no crime and still know that which is crime. I understand what you're saying though. The meaningless can become meaningful with chance, the right connection, or by repetition. Some view video games as wasted time, but how many gamers met their significant other or became a programmer in such situations?

I never thought the "flying" part was the core technology... it seemed to be the invention some non-traditional, low-noise, propulsion & power source that could levitate heavy objects. I don't think we have that ... if we did, the expensive and practical part might be solved and we'd have them everywhere :)

It's really something all businesses building apps (native or otherwise) should be concerned with. Until we have one global network provider (haha), I don't see them cooperating with each other any time soon in any way that doesn't line their pockets. There are some EU roaming laws progressing in that direction, but I don't expect that for North Americans in the near future.

Latest example I had while I was travelling - the AirBnb "app" couldn't show me my accommodation details without internet access. Really, what's the point of the app then if you can't cache the data locally?

Browser caches should also be less aggressive about getting fresh data too. Caching is hard, but not everybody stays in one place with access to the internet until later. Do I have to continue printing on paper? Most web apps and pages don't pay enough attention to those cache headers.

I used Maps.me while in Europe and it worked well except for the occasional crash, and the offline routing was very welcome for navigating the cities.

That's nuts. You're more proficient and efficient with that experience, which should compensate for the wage difference between you and a less experienced colleague.

That's downandout's point. Don't use that method...use a proxy so it appears that the content (ads) come from the company's website.