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I appreciate the sentiment, but in this case, it's not completely "just wood":

http://npic.orst.edu/ingred/ptype/treatwood/gardenuse.html

"Garbage up your interaction with real humans to make talking to our robot a little easier."

I remember it being a mix of tinyness, printer quality, and TextMate's limitations. It had the side effect of lending everything a particularly neutral tone.

I'm probably not the most common user, but this completely breaks Foursquare for me. I use 4sq to keep a list of restaurants I want to check out, keep a diary of where I've been, and look for nearby places.

Back to synced plaintext files, maybe?

For years, before Instapaper and Readability, I used a little script that copied the text out of the current page and pasted it in plaintext, then printed it from TextMate monospaced and 4-up. I'd shove the pages in a pocket or the backseat and read them in my free time.

It's a great way to take notes, circle interesting bits, and compare them later. I haven't been able to replicate that system digitally.

I sense that these posts are written for a specific audience, rebutting a set of arguments familiar to that audience, and that's why they seem so reductive and narrowly-applicable, but I can't quite grasp how much of the argument translates to the rest of the world.

Quotas don't necessarily fix things _now_ -- they create a new normal for the next generation.

If your response is "I hire based on merit alone so this is invalid," a) good for you, but that's demonstrably untrue in aggregate and b) you're basically saying "LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU THERE'S NO PROBLEM HERE."

I could read bug stories/refactoring stories all day. It's the programmer's version of This Old House.

BOOOOOooooooooo. I'm tired of this game of whack-a-mole I have to play on my home screen. If I've learned anything as a modern user it's not to let any app become a part of your routine. It's not worth the hassle when they cash out.

I wasn't dismissing the fact that Branson's an influencer, I was dismissing LinkedIn's marketingey little attempt to bring him under their umbrella with that goofy title.

Bummed that "could" here means "could theoretically", not "might".

"LinkedIn Influencers"

"Minimum Expected Threshold of Due Diligence Fee"

Glass has become uninteresting enough that I didn't realize this wasn't already the case.

They mean "falling out", right?

They're closing. It's nice for them, but bad for users.

This is kinda like saying people with more contacts in their cell phones have more social capital, and the carrier should address that.

Don't surveil your customers. It's creepy.

Bizarre headline rewrite, there.

In this case we're not talking about ARIA or native elements vs. styled ones, though, we're talking about CSS classes.

We need a better word for this than "semantic". We're just passing the complexity back and forth between the HTML and the CSS, and the only "semantics" or meaning that arise are to the author/editor. Users don't care, machines don't care, and I've never, ever seen a large-scale site design that doesn't involve some reworking of both the HTML and the CSS.

Departed from the reality the rest of us share with "Apple attempted to strike a devastating blow to the bitcoin ecosystem"

"and no one seemed to notice or care."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/nyregion/otis-pike-congres...

You are a programmer that just said "adding the feature would be very easy."

Ha! I was going to write almost this exact post -- I can travel from Maplewood to Washington Ave every day by bus in about an hour, or by car in about half an hour.

Wired article from three years back: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia

"MDM vendors are undoubtedly inviting you to webinars and enticing you to switch off your BES."

They're trying to tell me an actual human typed that sentence?

If a bunch of folks pitch in to build a communal well, are they being exploited by perceived "social rewards"?