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I agree, autofocusing a search field that's in the header of every page is not generally appropriate, but that's not specifically about accessibility. It would be annoying for anyo…

This looks like a great resource. Human checklists are not perfect but they tend to be better than automated checks for this sort of thing. But there is a common form of accessibil…

For the last 2 years I’ve been using an iPod touch as my “downtime” device. I usually put my iPhone away in a drawer from early evening until I’m ready to start work the next day. …

I imagine your comment was meant with a bit of humour, so don't read too much into the following! But it got me thinking about optimism and pessimism. The HN post title (at time of…

> spending a bit more to get good quality paper straws I am yet to see one of these

Your implied plan (doing less of what made the problem in the first place) seems like more of a stretch to me. It would be nice, but I can’t see many countries giving up plastic. I…

He’s the chief engineer and product designer at Tesla, and the chief engineer at SpaceX, as well as CEO of both. He led the design and engineering of rockets that land, cutting the…

My feeling is that the 'undermining' the author refers to is not a conscious attempt to keep the lower classes down. It's just middle/upper class people spouting fashionable politi…

> Is this because such visualizations are useless clutter or because film makers have better tools for creating them than actual programmers do? Another reason is that real visuali…

I never said you violated anyone's free speech. I shouldn't have called you a dick though, I just got frustrated. I was trying to make a nuanced point, maybe it was a dumb one, but…

You call people assholes, dismiss people's arguments out of hand, and quote people saying things they didn't even say (in quote marks, too). I think you're just a dick. I'm glad yo…

Coming to this late, but I am interested to know if your view is still the same as when you wrote this 13 hours ago. I don't think you have really answered the question about the l…

Most of my non-tech friends believe that nuclear apocalypse would entail at least the end of all human life. I think this only makes them more complacent in a strange way. They can…

I’ve always felt the DK effect is cynical pseudoscience for midwit egos. It’s a sophistic statement of the obvious dressed up as an insight. But worse, it serves to obvert somethin…

They could simply offer a “move to trash” approach to get around any legal restrictions of the kind you are imagining. This would also be much nicer UX. Just click a button to dele…

I said falsely yelling fire

Free speech absolutism doesn't mean you can get away with any crime just because it involved you saying something. Even free speech absolutists agree that falsely yelling "Fire!" i…

One thing I do (and am curious if anyone else does anything like this) is I dynamically generate PDFs, generally to print out planning sheets and stuff. I like using templated prin…

Can you expand on this? Can you give an example of a kind of image it might work well with? I’ve always assumed the apparent detail of mental images was a kind of illusion, a bit l…

> The comment I replied to clearly stated… No it didn’t. You’ve just quoted a few words out of context and prefixed it with “missing”, adding an accusative tone that was not presen…

Good lord. Have you ever made anything that explored "the potential of the medium" as much as this? What makes you feel equipped to call its creators "stupid"?

> I actually don't think this is about personal preference. The person who made this website apparently prefers something different to you and me.

The OP literally says this: > I think it boiled down to a realization that no one really gave a damn about me, my writing/work/creations/etc. So then, what's the point? Is it entir…

I also prefer websites that keep it simple. But I downvoted you for conflating “what I prefer” with “what everyone in the world must always do”.