RileyKyeden

> He's telling technical people to cater to people who aren't themselves.

> Stop being critical about things that don't matter, and start being useful.

Seems like indubitably's comment met both goals: being useful, catering to people who aren't the author. As someone very different from the author, I appreciated indubitably's comment.

It's not that one thing or another makes it okay. There are more neutral ways to phrase it that don't needlessly exclude vast potential audiences.

> Instead of scratching only your own itches, why not scratch your partner’s itch?

> Instead of scratching only your own itches, why not scratch your lover’s itch?

> Instead of scratching only your own itches, why not scratch your sweetheart’s itch?

> Instead of scratching only your own itches, why not scratch your mate’s itch?

Depending on who you ask, at least a plurality of men are at least a little bi, but a double whammy of homophobia and biphobia keeps them closeted. Why make them twitch a little when a small change in wording solves the problem? Being a good for-public writer is all about maximizing your potential audience without diluting the message. "Girlfriend" rather than any of a slew of more neutral terms needlessly dilutes the message.

Personally, I would cut the question entirely since restricting the message to partnered people doesn't serve any purpose.

I'm not sure about the person you replied to, but it's the presumption that the reader is a straight male implicit in that question that bugs me. Unless the author is known for his bi/lesbian audience...

The goal of better government is non-partisan outside the drown-it-in-the-bathtub fringe. How to go about it is what leads to contention.

Yahoo was default when I installed Firefox on my phone, so it seems likely.

I had an intuitive sense of this. People saying "half the population has a below average IQ!" always elicited a head tilt from me. I just didn't know there was enough to say on the subject to fill a 8k word wikipedia article.

I'll file this next to the formula I whip up when I want to figure out how much a trip costs based on mileage and fuel prices.

I'm glad there are people who know what all this means so I can tap a button, say "navigate to the grocery store" to my phone, and not spend brain cycles learning and maintaining knowledge of the wide range of math/programming/engineering specialties I'd otherwise have to master.

This is how smart meters work. How long before someone hijacks a drone's SIM card?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/02/stolen_sim_woman_jai...

> On top of that, they also attracted people who would never buy a normal console because normal consoles don't appeal to them at all.

Sounds like me. I don't buy a gaming system to play games generally, I buy one to play the kind of games Nintendo makes and attracts to its hardware. That's why I still pull my Gamecube out to play SSBM from time to time, but have never owned a Playstation or X-Box, and have barely touched either of them. I haven't had a new system since GBA and Gamecube, but I think I'd enjoy the newer Nintendo systems more than the systems they were released next to.

Most people, myself included, are not on iOS. It's not solved for most people.

Is this a submarine? None of the music aficionados I know talk about cassette tapes. They're all about FLACs and vinyl.

Same. An AMP link tells me two things:

1: I won't have a page that bounces around for 5 minutes as useless, non-content elements load.

2: I won't have to peer at a few lines of content through a window of toolbars and ads.

It's just a number. It only reflects the fact that the Windows version started long after the original Mac software. They're still mostly the same.

List of differences: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t...

I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.

I use it on Windows. Seems fine to me. What am I not noticing?

Scrivener isn't Mac-only.

I would have called it Credit Crunch. This is why I don't work in marketing.

Helpful! I probably won't do much more than use Inkscape for sketches with that helpful perspective box tool and the ability to work at low resolution and rescale, but it's good to have a reference like this.

Does it have to travel to its homeworld to learn the full range of its shapeshifting abilities?

I see a lot of instances popping up within this instance's community, and they all seem to fit that profile. Might be a biased perspective. :P

Mastodon is packed with LGBTQ+ people and furries. This appeals to me in a way other platforms do not.

I have tooted many a toot on this service and intend to continue doing so.

It's odd that you focus on race when it's not even remotely the focus of the article.

Please find someone who advocated for this and reply to their comment instead of cluttering mine up.

We tried that. Now we have President-elect Donald Trump and a wave of hate crimes.

Here you go (the many linked articles with the variations are helpful): https://medium.com/@CRA1G/the-evolution-of-an-accidental-mem...

There's a reason you have to go out of your way to install it. It's nowhere near a final product.

Most of the people I talk to on Twitter don't have money to spare. They're the kind of people who have to toss up a fundraiser to make rent because they had a surprise medical bill or car repair.

Luke Cage took my attention away (he's dreamy), but I'm a few episodes into the new Longmire season now. It looks like they're trying to get back to the crime drama premise of the show.

> lowbrow sociolect

Is this Pretentious Twaddlese for "stupid"?

Being flexible with my language doesn't keep me from being precise. I said what I meant.