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DeathRay2K

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    Comment #46198565

    I changed the UX in my mobile app from text only to icon + text by default in menus, buttons, and links. There are several reasons I made the switch, but the primary reason is that…

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    Comment #44407287

    The author doesn’t suggest it, but the implicit solution is public funding for social goods. That could be through a robust grant process, providing funding for social media that i…

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    Comment #44407227

    Building the social media platform you want to see isn’t really the problem though. They are relatively easy to build, the hard part is making it valuable enough to attract users a…

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    Comment #44407200

    Running a social media platform can be very expensive, and it only gets more expensive every day. Media takes a lot of storage and bandwidth, and you basically have unbounded costs…

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    Comment #44175757

    I don’t think there’s a person alive who wouldn’t carefully and accurately count the number of legs on a dog if you ask them how many legs this dog has. The context is that you wou…

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    Comment #43953899

    Isn’t this simply recognizing that people are not fixed points? The same person who is open and happy at one time could certainly be bored at another. It does not seem to me that t…

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    Comment #43293300

    Just today I discovered there’s a Red Alert port to Three.js in the works: https://github.com/chongdashu/CnC_Red_Alert-ThreeJs

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    Comment #43146757

    As a measure of the safety of schools, it seems perfectly reasonable to consider that a school shooting.

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    Comment #43040585

    What makes you think that it’s more likely reporting a software-configured resolution? It is after all a hardware survey, and focused on what user hardware supports.

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    Comment #42770932

    You’re wrong that a so-called “war on hate” doesn’t work. More correctly, it doesn’t work in the US because of the first amendment and the few limitations on it. Many other countri…

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    Comment #27078184

    Let's be honest, even if Facebook started charging for access, they wouldn't shut down their other streams of revenue. That ship has sailed, Facebook is not and never can be a comp…

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    Comment #27057046

    I thought you were talking about the US in the first paragraph. In truth, there haven't been strong enough enforcement measures in Canada, that's why we're having such a bad third …

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    Comment #25499201

    It's similarly easy to make your website slower than it would be with AMP. Absent a performance advocate in the development team, the features that reduce performance are much more…

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    Comment #25499155

    My conversations with Google reps and experience at an agency differ from this. My experience has been and Google reps have confirmed to me that a performant enough site will not b…

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    Comment #25498352

    Every element the light interacts before hitting the sensor degrades the quality in some small way. But losing the mirror doesn't really improve optics significantly. It's more abo…

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    Comment #25054608

    Because intelligence doesn't translate to popularity?

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    Comment #19145745

    Yes it's worth it. I'm usually on Windows, and can say that 95%+ of the programs I use work flawlessly on a 24" 4K monitor with 175% scaling. The crispness of a text editor on a 4K…

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    Comment #19038725

    I found a bug on the PayPal site (I can't associate a new email address). I tried the contact forms in their app and on the website, both resulted in error messages. I tried emaili…

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    Comment #18555632

    This has happened many times to me. I work at an agency that very often gets clients who already have a codebase but don't have anyone to maintain them - the original developers ha…