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I'm considering actually using the Tangle controls for the interactivity. They do a really good job of being accessible and unobtrusive. Right now the controls are just vanilla jQu…

Given that the technology in that film was designed by actual interface researchers, based on their research, it's no surprise that it continues to resonate so well. Also, sci-fi d…

The idea that small font sizes are acceptable because “users can zoom” is fucking ridiculous , and I am extremely disappointed to see it suggested here. That is absolutely the wron…

Same. A hint that appears after a wrong attempt at the "before you move on" steps and a full explanation that appears after two would be very helpful, especially with steps 7+. Wit…

That's a condition of selling on the Amazon platform. Doctorow also makes his most of his books available on his site, for free even, under a Creative Commons license in basically …

It's a running joke that Sheldon and others look down on Leonard as a scientist. The claim is often that his work is very "derivative". Even Leonard's own mother criticized the ori…

A analogy even more accurate to this case would be: "Let's suppose you let someone store their stuff at your house, and they have previously pointed out a problem with the lock . Y…

There are "stories" to the right that are really pro-Scientology ads, but not marked as "advertisement". The whole thing feels slimy, not even considering the subject.

I'm afraid you ask too much of the Internet.

The criticism of drones isn't of the technology, but the attitude of those operating them. The article mentions that it doesn't put the operator's own people at risk, and is trying…

Odd. It looks perfectly fine to me, in both mobile Safari and mobile Chrome. The text is completely visible, with a little padding on either side, and videos all slide nicely into …

I like to take this one step further and return referenced objects with both their ID and their URL as actual objects instead of strings. This is incredibly helpful for working wit…

> If I had to run a monolingual web stack, I would choose Objective-C for the sole language. This article is severely undermined by its conflating internet and web. Objective-C doe…

It's less about ensuring that students are at school, but ensuring that they are counted . The school district receives funding from the state dependent on attendance. That's what …

The catch in this is that having proof of voting a particular way makes a voter susceptible to bullying, or gives them the ability to sell their vote. The Wombat Voting system atte…