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I think this also applies to problematic projects like this toxic one. The mess seems too big to clean up. But it isn't. You just have to start somewhere and clean up little by little.

In the past I had to implement a feature in a toxic software project. While implementing the feature I also refactored some messy code and even deleted some functionality nobody every used (thousands of lines). By doing this I broke some parts on purpose and added some functionality to fix what was broken. Now others who were also working on the project had to deal with the stuff I broke. Ofcourse nobody liked it, but when they knew I provided better functionality to fix the problems everybody was happy because they knew this had to be done.

Broken gets fixed, shitty lasts forever. That's why sometimes you need to break shitty things on purpose.

Death of a celebrity? 50000 people feel sad, 2000 people feel happy. I think that would be much more appropriate than 52000 likes.

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Knowing why and which solution is best will get you the job.

Men looking down on women, managers looking down on developers, white looking down on black, black looking down on white, men only seeing women as object, whatever...

As long as you treat people unequal they will never feel safe and home.

It feels like Opera is having a very hard time to keep its head above the water.

Edit: more about the author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ventrella

So humans can see more than 1 million colors.

Edit: maybe this image will make it clear: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/HSL...

Somehow animals can sense it. I've seen animals flee seconds before lightning struck.

His speech was about how you develop something and people start using it completely different from what you imagined or even wanted. His tip: learn and take use of it.

Probably people like to have 1TB of free storage.

I also think in this case the hack is a little useless. But I've seen examples where they use it to transfer a lot of 3D data for use in WebGL. And the author of this script is also linking to a nice usecase where is is used for game data: http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/compression-using-canvas-an...

Maybe the author has the feeling it is dying because other platforms are in the news more often?

"The homeless here are people mostly people with mental health issues that reject or don't respond to treatment." Well in most cases it's the other way around. They become mentally ill because of being homeless (and lonely, and drugs all around to 'ease' the pain).

Did you know there are homeless people in the Netherlands that have a job? Divorced, have to pay child alimony so they don't have enough money to pay the rent. There are children that have a home but can't call it home, so they prefer to live in the streets.

And there are a lot of people with a home but without gas and/or electricity because they can't afford it. They aren't homeless but imagine living in a house when it's -7 degrees outside (most of the time they can add like 3 degrees to the outside temperature).

What I'm trying to say is that a lot of the failure of civilized society is hidden.

With the proposed app you don't need to remember a face. Could it be that in the future a lot of people just don't remember you because they can always look you up?

I can understand some fun of this gadget but I don't understand why people think this is "to enhance the world around us". In my mind these gadgets are anti-social. They are there to "share" but forget that "listen to" is as equal important.

There have never been so much lonely people in this age of "social".

Disclaimer: I love what you can do with a computer/device but I don't own a nav system, smartphone or whatever.

I just try to enjoy life. So I don't feel the need to worry about data or memories.

There is a trend in thinking that Twitter, Facebook and other social users are representing the world population.

Hedonometer gives some explanations here: http://hedonometer.org/about.html

"Tweets represent a non-uniform subsampling of all utterances made by a non-representative subpopulation of all people. However, there are hundreds of millions of people presently using the website to express their activities and interests, and as such it is an important social signal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designer

I don't know if you understand Dutch but since text is part of the interface maybe this is why you are having issues with the design?

"My problem with the manchester site is the poor use of vertical space, not the basic design style." Well I was talking about exactly this. The Manchester site may look nice but it is lacking overview. Design is more than looks. It is also about text, interaction and so on.