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Was this written recently? Exclusive use of jQuery, not using browser drag and drop (manually edits element position), using JS to animate and fade/transition instead of CSS, etc. …

There are many things possible that no one has written software to do yet. I think it mostly comes down to money, market, and difficulty.

I was thinking about why Wingdings, a popular phenomenon in Word docs, didn’t translate into the web, chat, and mobile SMS until the iPhone let us add the Japanese emoji keyboard. …

Screenshot from someone with 40 GB usage: https://imgur.com/gallery/yq7ceSq

Whether the app name will be changed or not, I’m glad that this sort of thing doesn’t happen in silence or under NDA.

Sanitizer is always first choice in hospital settings. It’s MUCH faster, and MUCH easier on the skin over repeated use than soap and water.

That’s a very nit-picky thing to critique, while ignoring everything the post is writing about.

I think he wants to spread awareness that people in power can use technology and medicine to widen the class divide, and biotechnology shows signs of going that direction. I think …

iOS has always used the same kernel as macOS.

Usually a graphic is called a logo because it is used to represent a thing. Since these geometric designs don’t represent anything yet, it seems premature to call them “logos”.

> Actually, generating power with their muscles provides a valuable lesson for kids, whether or not the power goes out. The article ends on this point about parenting philosophy, b…

I'm thinking that arbitrary domains should not have access to any resource on '127.0.0.1', for the same reason that browsers restrict access to resources at 'file://' without user …

What is the backstory behind why the company stopped selling this software? Has anyone asked the author or company about it? Would it be worth asking them to release the source sin…

If the author and others haven't seen "BetterTouchTool" for Mac, there might be some useful code or inspiration to come from it. It has a "multitouch live view" debug window that d…

I'm confused that Windows XP is the "Modern OS", and I want to know why there is no mention of any kind of linux.

I don't understand how the elevator story is an example of a dark pattern. I see that the sign did not effectively accomplish its goal, but that doesn't fit the definition given: t…

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>> Q: What connection might there be between drug-maker payments to physicians and the current opioid use epidemic? The article is pure speculation. They did not correlate the paym…

Is this a joke? Cut your nails with mini scissors? These suggestions are just replacing dedicated tools with poor substitutes. You shouldn't use a less efficient tool, just because…

AI minds shouldn't be any different from our own consciousness. An AI mind will be able to work out that killing humans results in humans killing that AI. So the AI would choose ag…

Be aware of your own human nature: you will want it to work, more than you will want to accept the signs that it won't (confirmation bias). You will say to yourself that "little th…

There's data, and then there's metadata. Consider how you want to shift information between your files of data (variables), and the tree-like structure in a version control timelin…

The linked discussion has a lot of speculation and "that's a dumb idea" posts, but no actual debunking.