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I imagine we're still in the infancy of the "styling" as right now designs mostly are "how do we cram all this stuff inside and make it fit".

The top ten passwords in the in the adobe hack account for 2.8% of all passwords. About 1/35 used one of ten passwords. That's frightening to think about. Thanks for the share.

Notably the study PDF linked is broken, but the link provided to adrianroselli.com provides a good short list for accessibility for dyslexic users which mirror general good rules for typography.

The most important take away comes from one from a presentation linked on adrianroselli.com's page. Some users do prefer the dyslexia fonts and they use a simple font stack overwrite methodology, which makes a global CSS rule. This works fine except when it doesn't. Icon fonts break thus this creates an accessibility issue as suddenly pages can become somewhat vague as all the font icons appear as the missing box icon.

Best thing you can do as web dev is allow users to font replace and not use icon fonts.

As someone who's spent a fair amount of time hiking, it really depends on the maintenance of the trails. There's also often false trails even on maintained ones. Humans tend to be far more confident about their directionality than they are, and factor in weather or a dark mostly moonless night and its easy to hike in circles. Once lost and without easy landmarks, finding your way back is difficult as even if you locate the trail you're looking for, its uncertain if you're actually on it without glaringly obvious geographic markings to match to a paper map. We humans easily overestimate our ability to navigate.

I do agree though, not packing a GPS unit with a charging mechanism was a bad move. The one time when I really needed it was the one time I was hiking in white out conditions on a very remote mountain in Cascades and my buddy had an GPS (mind you in the early 2000s, thus archaic by today's standards), Setting a way point at the trailhead made my night a lot more pleasant rather than shuffling down a mountain in a blizzard, and hoping to end up near where we started. I wasn't unprepared and had a paper map and compass, and knew eventually we'd hit a forest service road but it could have made for a very long night in the cold as we marched back to our vehicle.

Have you used the Application Timing? https://timingapp.com/ It tracks visited sites (on all browsers) + allows you create pools for projects + applications and what directory the file you're working on. Long as you keep your assets in a single folder, you're always tracking to which project. Items can be in multiple pools so you can go by task vs project time. I've been using this for about a year for personal use. While it doesn't look as pretty or divvy up tasks between "neutral", "productive" and "distractive' that's something you can define if you wanted. I'm not trying to be harsh but just based on the product site, I'm not exactly compelled to give up Timing although your application does look nice.

Also, the 4.79 MB CSS should be a giveaway...

Exactly, considering the way language works with different language sentence conjugation, even simple things like adjectives in most romance languages have relative to the noun and article, a translation to a language like English in realtime would sound like someone with a head injury. A phrase like "Did you see you see the big red truck? It was driving very fast would be: ¿Viste el gran camión rojo? Conducía muy rápido.

In real time this would be in English: See the big truck red? Driving very fast.

That's just scratching the surface with the most basic communication. There's simply no way this product can work with any real accuracy.

Thanks, forbes isn't fond of Ghostery.

Maybe this is my Northwestern showing but as a (nearly)lifer of the Pacific Northwest, I can honestly say that if I see someone walking, I assume they're out for a walk even when I lived in a town of 2500. I imagine this is the privilege of living somewhere known for natural beauty because I think "Why wouldn't you want to be outside?"

It's fascinating to read about inherent fear of being questioned. I don't think its ever crossed my mind, and its not uncommon to see cars parked along side random roads all through Oregon and Washington. I guess I'm lucky in this regard.

That seems antithetical to the Apple statement about "This could include sensitive information such as your credit card number or street address." Anyway to confirm the only keystroke that google can access are the ones submitted to its search query?

Some false equivalency in this article: "Francis Collins is an evangelical Christian and famed geneticist who has led the Human Genome Project and the National Institutes of Health. And if you’re saying that conservatives may be tolerable, but evangelical Christians aren’t — well, are you really saying you would have discriminated against the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.? " MLK Jr ≠ Francis Collins. Collins argues that DNA is the language of god which there's no empirical evidence to which. Plus, he's respected despite this, in his field. That seems like acceptance.

Also the article lists: "But that doesn’t explain why there are conservative math professors but not many right-wing anthropologists." I imagine that say, in the extreme cases of say: evangelical young earth creationists or a evangelical mormon believing that humans are 5000 years old or that Native Americans are the lost tribe of Israel is counterproductive.

Its pretty apparent that iTunes does too many things at this point in time: Music (Store / Streaming / Radio / Cloud / subscription ), Movies, Apps, phone management, media player management, and encoder.

Problem is no other applications have access many of these core features Swinsian is nice but I use iTunes Match so I can access my music on phone and I still use an iPod for my car as I find myself in the back country on weekends where cell services is edge at best or simply non-existent.

I wholly agree with this, often it takes some sacrifice; while others play, you're working or living frugally to fund your dreams but this isn't the same as forgoing basic amenities. Also, I don't know the backstory but anyone looking to do this by choice may want to consider the ramifications of the outside looking in if you're looking for investment. To most looking to invest, I'd imagine going to this extreme raises red flags regardless if they're warranted or not.

To piggy back on this comment, I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds high density displays less fatiguing. That in itself is worth even more than the performance trade offs.

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Does anyone else find a Chinese business ops/comms platform problematic? While it might be a solid competitor (technically), I have an inherent distrust from a country without freedom of expression and a knack for industrial espionage. I can't imagine non-Chinese firms really seeing this as a legitimate competitor for those reasons alone.

And at least it seems like Canonical is dogfooding. These wasn't an in-depth review that struck me as masquerading as an objective write up from a non-bias source.

I quite frequently use Bootstrap but with almost all of it paired down to the absolute minimums. Bootstrap 3 (at least) was comprehensible and easy enough to whittle down by commenting out large swaths of UI. Usually, I simply use the Bootstrap grid since we have contracts who dance in and out of projects or new developers. Everyone can safely assume that they have "col-sm-" classes and know how they work.

I usually mimic bootstrap classes too like btn even if I can't recall the last time in the last 3+ years I've left any of its buttons/forms etc in tact.

I'm not sure if I'm ready to hand over personal details to Privacy, there's not much assurance other than "We'll never sell your data to anyone".

Does privacy.com see where I make all my purchases? Is there a collection of my metadata? What assurances do I have that you take personal privacy seriously?

Exactly my first thought, I immediately bailed at the FaceBook login. Perhaps accounts outside of Facebook?

Not giving into hysteria is the mark of heroism.

No sarcasm meant: I think its biggest problem is there's a market saturation point for the GoPro camera as most of us simply don't live day-to-day GoPro life styles. I discovered quickly that what I need is just a simple steady cam for video captures more than Go Pro. The DJI Osmo is more compelling as in most hands, you'll get more interesting footage than with a bouncing GoPro.

Even for blogging, the iPad is a series of compromises. While there are image editors, none are on the level of photoshop and the audio software, while it exists isn't nearly as powerful or fast. I'm sure anything the author does, I can do faster and more efficiently with OS X. As a front end developer, sometimes contractor for TV Shows, and hobbyist musician who's made the odd dollar, not a single one of these activities are viable on the iPad.

Sure, the author does fine with an iPad and seems to like it but for most people this is simply not a reality.

Agreed, it'd be worth trying with a set-top box of some variety where almost no data of consequence is being shared other than the aforementioned services but I'd be too wary of phishing for anything other than the most minimal of usage.

They already have a FaceBook search engine. I noticed when I start typing a friend's name in the search bar, my friend matches appear below pages that I haven't liked/discussions or if I search an artist I liked, other results appear above it in the quick search drop down. I haven't noticed sponsored search results but I'm sure they're working on it.

Example of a search query URL. Verified pages appear to get more weight. https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=president

VSCO has a rather large following among the prosumer crowd, most of the Apple "Shot on the iPhone 6" ads mention VSCO and a photographer friend of mine uses it on his iPad with his 5D on the go. While I haven't used it myself, its certainly been name checked quite a bit and its success is largely due to it being a more empowered Instagram on the photography side.

Maybe I'm living in a bubble, but since when has SMS been a painful experience for messaging? If I'm texting whoever, whenever, I can send a snap and I have the bonus of not having to take a picture for every text I send. Plus in the days of modern texting, I use Messages from my computer which makes life even more pleasant as at work I'm able to keep in touch with friends/family without even glancing at my phone. I never have to worry if they're on a network with SMS.

The info graphic could at least include more sources

The rating for Android Studio vs Xcode had some arbitrary graphics with numbers attached. It took clicking around to find the original source which still vague. Also the target markets is misleading as more accurate would be income demographics as opposed to regionality.

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Mavericks was tough to give up, stable, fast. No discoveryd. IMHO, its the best release of OS X. Maybe everyone has amnesia but pre 10.3, OS X wasn't really usable full time. Each 10.2.x release was a whirlwind of changes.

Early iOS had wonky reset issues too.

I imagine it has its own appeal as most people in non-tech industries where Slack is unheard of understand Facebook. Plus it has the double whammy of servicing linkedin-like features. The video shows a fabric company if that says anything about who they're targeting. I don't think the HN crowd is who they're after.