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Comment on Google Reader alternatives by djsumdog

djsumdog — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:41:22 +0000

I’ve started manually moving everything over to NewBlur (I wanted to clean out old/dead feeds) and honestly, I’m really glad Google is killing reader. I didn’t realize just how horrible a platform it was. It’s horrible about indicating if feeds are dead. There are several sites that changed their publishing software, and hence their RSS endpoint, and I had no idea they had updates until several months later.

I do hate that so many sites still use Feedburner, which is already somewhat crippled and will mostly likely go away. At least with Newsblur, it will tell me when it gets a 404 or DNS error on a feed.

Comment on RedPill by meta

meta — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:48:11 +0000

Nope, you’ll need to change the code radically to do that.

Comment on RedPill by cary.laurenson

cary.laurenson — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:41:08 +0000

Doubling the Glyphs.png worked! Is there a way in the code on GitHub to remove the randomizing of the letters so that words created in the image file (Glyphs.png) might/would remain readable?

I just wanted to have words versus random characters appear.

Thanks!

Great work!

Comment on RPN by google.com/accounts/o8…

google.com/accounts/o8… — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:06:36 +0000

Love this app. Unfortunately about half of my back of the napkin calculations are microfarads and picoseconds. A scientific notation display option would be great (so I could say “display everything as e-9 or *10^-12 ” or similar. Otherwise there’s just to many zeros and it’s easy to lose count and it’s easy to misread 0.00000010000 as 0.00000100000

Also a single level of undo would be great, too. Especially for us RPN novii who might press the operators in the wrong order occasionally and ruin something stored on the stack earlier in the day.

I think both of these features should just live in the menu with copy/ paste.

Comment on RedPill by profiles.google.com/11074530307…

profiles.google.com/11074530307… — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:00:24 +0000

There’s no need to disable these security settings: You can run any unsigned app via its context menu (control-click, right-click) and select open in that popup.

Comment on CD bronzing by gerald-duck.dreamwidth.org/

gerald-duck.dreamwidth.org/ — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:37:05 +0000

That plant also made a lot of laserdiscs, which were noticed many years ago to be affected quite severely.

Back then, you could get defective discs replaced. In an ideal world they’d have the same scheme for defective CDs now…

Comment on Microsoft Surface by garethrees.org/

garethrees.org/ — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:20:03 +0000

Discoverability is something that is very hard to scale. You can make it work when there are half a dozen commands, but not when there are hundreds or thousands. Consider a mature user interface like Blender, or Photoshop. It’s hopeless to imagine that the user interface could present all the commands in some discoverable way.

Compare with Classic Mac’s spatial file layout (putting files at particular screen positions within a folder). This worked well when you had dozens of files, but it’s hopeless now that you have millions.

Comment on The “Oh really?” factor by profiles.google.com/10191876880…

profiles.google.com/10191876880… — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:58:33 +0000

How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?

Comment on The “Oh really?” factor by meta

meta — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:51:31 +0000

Well, first of all, do you know of any actual evidence that people get more right wing as they get older? It isn’t happening to me. Quite the opposite. I suspect it’s more like the technology gap — people who are 40 or so aren’t getting technophobic as much as 40-year-olds were 20 years ago, because they’ve grown up with technological change. Similarly, if you’ve grown up with diversity and gay rights, you’ll ossify into that position—not a Republican position.

Secondly, you miss the detail that many Republicans would like to dramatically cut old people’s healthcare entitlements and privatize their pensions. So there are good reasons why older people should not want to vote Republican.

Comment on The “Oh really?” factor by http://gerald-duck.livejournal.com/

http://gerald-duck.livejournal.com/ — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:22:31 +0000

I'm not so certain the Republican demographic is dying out. Sure, you can look at graphs of how twenty-year-olds are overwhelmingly likely to vote Democrat and seventy-year-olds to vote Republican. However, those graphs haven't changed over the years: each individual is more likely to vote Republican as they get older. Today's Republicans were twenty-year-old Democrats in the Swinging Sixties. Looked at very simplistically, the Democrats are about looking after those who don't have enough and the Republicans are about looking after those who want to protect what they have. It's fairly easy to see why individuals shift in the Republican direction by 3-4% per decade. What you say about Romney expecting to win right up until he didn't surprises me. From the UK and British coverage, it looked as though the fight had gone out of him after Sandy, that he was looking far more muted and low-key as though he knew he'd lost. And the podium they rigged up for him on election day was conspicuously smaller than Obama's, as though they knew where the real action would be. Also, the British media drew attention to what actual experts with the ability to perform dispassionate number crunching were saying. The result came as no surprise to me; I certainly didn't wait up. Surely someone in the Romney camp was sufficiently in touch with reality to gently tug his sleeve and whisper him some words of caution?