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> The border between Panama and Columbia is where the dream faltered.
Spelling Colombia as Columbia is a very infuriating error to many (not all, but many) people who speak Spanish, particularly Colombians, obviously. It's as jarring to read as "Englend" or "Onited States". I urge the author, if around, to fix it, and any readers who are around to be very mindful of not making it as it can be disrespectful.
My best experiences with pair programming have been with people that I trust a great deal, enough to know that we'll definitely still be cool after arguing code. I don't think it'd be of any use at all unless we were both comfortable enough with each other to be intellectually honest, and able to both criticize our opinions and agree with them when appropriate.
Some people are afraid of conflict and would rather agree when they really don't, some other people are just looking to "win" or always poke holes at everything but their own takes, both types aren't very useful in the end.
In my experience, when you find that sweet spot with someone who complements you, pairing up is just the best, definitely more than the sum of our parts.
Don't worry, from experience I can assure you people will have the same reaction to the latter as well. The typical argument is that "the poors" will have tons children just to cash out and we can't have that can we.
I believe (anecdotally) that the rate of unwanted pregnancies are not impacted significantly by economic measures, only by ease of access to free birth control measures and widespread sex education, but it's an unpopular opinion. Welfare from the state is always a hard sell unless it benefits a vocal, influential segment.
Yes! I'd rather not use it because it doesn't support uBlock but it's a feature I can't browse without. I try every other browser at least once every year and they're all massively uncomfortable.
> Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile “Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What’s the problem?”
These people must have never used a phone. This article hits 100%, there's quite a lot of these micro-issues on things we use constantly that could be major differentiators and extremely easy sells, but no one implements.
My very personal pet peeve is text reflow on mobile browsers. Just zooming into a long paragraph and having it wrap so you only have to scroll vertically and never horizontally to read it. It's a killer feature and almost no browsers have it!
Yeah, I dislike comments on format but on mobile the site was just unusable for me. I couldn't figure out which slide was the "correct one" to move forward, and even the zooming gesture would move me to another slide. I think the video presentation would be a better link than the slides.
According to the article, their contract still stands as it's legally binding, so DC specifically still needs to abide by it as it can't be unilaterally revoked. But the rest of the world doesn't, so there's loopholes if they do it not as DC but another entity.
The worst part is the perversion of justice of the author being provably right yet unable to enforce his legally binding contracts as an individual against a well resourced company. Hopefully this sparks a copyleft movement of public freedom.
This is it, I distinctly recall a reading a paper defining Waterfall as a thought exercise, with the author coming back years later to clarify that there can never be such a thing in software development. The Wikipedia article for "Waterfall model" mentions something like that as well. As an old teacher used to say, "There's no such thing as a Waterfall model, it was your parents all along. All software development is iterative."
This is most definitely a step I the right direction but as I'll always say, the one and only killer feature on mobile is Text Reflow. Being able to zoom into a long text and knowing you'll be able to read it without scrolling sideways is a must have feature for mobile browsers, yet nearly none of them have it on Android save Opera and at least at one point Samsung Browser.
This happened to me just a few days ago. I tried to open a link in an app, which then tried to open it with an in-app WebView. Thus, the Cloudflare captcha loop of death. I could even see a "human verification failed" string appearing after clicking on an "I am human" checkbox. Alongside the annoyance of not being able to browse, this kind of language is awful! Literally being told to my face I am not a human.
That's a loaded title that the site doesn't really address at all! What does it mean for a dialect to be correct? It may sound weird and we've wrong to Americans and such but Indian English is as valid as any other English dialect, there are so many people speaking it for such a long time that it's evolved in a fascinating way, keeping some expressions that have falling out of use elsewhere and making up entirely new ones as well. I hoped for an analysis on that aspect of Language.
I feel that programmers are the main audience that knows life can be better in software. A typical programmer might be so offended by Pinterest's awfulness that they'll look for any way to prevent it, knowing it can be done. Some might go for an extension like uBlacklist, others might be so furious that they want to pay money to stop this somehow.
But seriously, I do think that unless you work with software, it's hard to even imagine alternatives to the big players could exist.
Title says [fixed] but that's only for DDG - which despite all the flaming it's getting, somehow did fix it while Bing has not (will it?). My unfounded theory is that Techdirt is effectively banned on some country and that leaked to the global Bing index.
I did not know this author before, and read about a quarter of the piece before realizing both that it was way longer than I expected, and that I was hooked on every word.
> Captain Nico explains that the Nadir subscribes to something called GPS: "This Global Positioning System is using the satellites above to know the position at all times, which gives this data to the computer." It emerges that when we're not negotiating ports and piers, a kind of computerized Autocaptain pilots the ship.
Unrelated, but lately I find that I have a much harder time learning with metaphors than if educators and explainers would just speak directly about things. I had very terrible experiences learning physics because teachers would always resort to weird metaphors, about music, about electricity being like a river, and more.
Something as simple as getting caught in rain and needing an emergency change of wet socks meant these convienence stores were lifesaving. Truly something worth emulating in other countries.
Absolutely not, dang's work is nothing short of miraculous and I don't know of any other forumlike place that's this civil at this scale. Hope he keeps at it in this way for a long time.
Soon as they do, I'm out. I actually like a lot of Reddit but it's literally unusable for me without a clean UI, just like Twitter. Every time I get a Twitter link I brace for a million requests before even getting to the short Tweet. It's enough to not even bother most of the time, I can't even imagine being a user.
The only app I use to browse Reddit is old.reddit.com. It's still great on mobile if you have a browser with proper text reflow (ie. Opera on Android, since all others can't be bothered). But everytime I end up seeing the "new" design it's instantly repelling, I can't browse it even once. This is Digg all over again!
Apparently, she spent some days with Vice journalists and showed them around for an article, believing due to some documents they'd sent that they would not inquire or publish anything about her personal relationships, and when they were back they started asking about some Reddit theories about her marriage status. She implies that kind of publicity into her private affairs is incredibly dangerous to her life and can't even specify why without exposing herself to that danger, so she immediately attempted to find out and stop what Vice was going to publish without any luck. This snowballed into a long online fight where major name journalists would tweet at her but not reply to her, making her feel desperate and leading to the Medium posts compiling a bit of her story during all this.
Just chiming in to say I've been using this for what feels like years and it's never failed me. Controlling a phone on a second monitor just because it's convenient, sharing a phone during meetings to showcase stuff, automating a couple apps, you can do it all!
Nowadays I've just taken a hard stance against all of this crap. Any game I see where the previews let you immediately understand there's going to be a bunch of these dark patterns to hide the fact they're just gambling aimed at kids, I don't ever look at again. Luckily, beyond mobile apps there's still a thriving market of Just Games, particularly indies, and they're better than ever.