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callumlocke

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    Dear downvoters, it’s a joke.

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    Comment #25522163

    > Likewise, wouldn’t you be baffled if you needed to click a “Start Editing” button in Word or Google Docs? Interestingly that’s exactly what Apple Pages does now, on phone/tablet …

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    Comment #25519671

    Ignore the negativity, your comment helped me.

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    Comment #25515826

    I think the commenter was just trying to be helpful.

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    Having a limited supply of empathy is one way to think about this, but another (less immediately appealing) way is as fast moving moral fashions. In your example it seems like the …

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    Maybe it helps them in some way with legal compliance, or just PR (gives them an easy way to fob off people with concerns), the benefits of which would significantly outweigh the l…

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    Comment #25444434

    > for the average user

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    > If a law is bad when enforced, then the law needs to be changed, not the enforcement. Useful as a rule of thumb but it's not always true. Models are never perfect, the map is not…

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    I’m the author of JSON Formatter [1] with 989,000 users. I probably get a couple of offers a year for it. Of those that have offered specific sums, they ranged from from $10-20k. I…

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    Comment #17551447

    Good UX depends on audience and context. Many things are widely shared precisely because they give the user something fun and unexpected. For people who work with computers all day…

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    Comment #17349971

    Doing what? All I see is the Wikipedia article for the TLD.

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    Comment #17247339

    Stopped here also. Bad sign. Different tools for different jobs, no need to get emotional.

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    Comment #17227685

    I think the edge just means CDN edge locations. There’s been a trend towards making edge locations smarter (via Lambda etc), so you can sometimes send dynamic responses straight ba…

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    Comment #17225439

    The only people who will see that ad are those who have already decided to check out GitLab today. It’s a convincer, not a traffic driver.

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    Comment #17196315

    Never seen a live camera feed working in iOS Safari until now. Has something changed recently to allow this?

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    Comment #16911150

    Can you expand on this? How do analytics distort publishers' perspective of what's popular? Not disagreeing, I just want to know what you mean.

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