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#132Identity - I am sick of having to create accounts on every website in the world, OpenID is an awesome solution but it needs to be implemented ubiquitously, I do not want everything tied to my twitter or facebook account.
Systems like Password1 solve this for me, with the added benefit that if someone manages to hack one of these sites and capture my password for it they'll have a bunch of random characters that wont work for anything else I have. Personally I don't like OpenID for this reason among others.
I recently switched to 1Password. Now I realize that I'm basically unable to use any sites that require login with my phone, since I don't know my own passwords.
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#133Expense reports - eg. receipts collection, sorting them, scanning them (even if some solutions exist) but then accountants always want it in a different format/system that I use. (no standard especially outstide the US)
Agreed, I believe even small businesses could save hours each month if all the relevant receipts related to a month's bank transactions somehow magically got gathered in the same place.
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#134Email - Not a lot has changed in the past 20 years, I think we can do better. Yes, Gmail was pretty innovative but I still think there are plenty of things to improve.
Can you list some of the (possible) improvements you can think of?
Standards for email markup would be really nice for starters.
I think it would be great if email had a sort of simple XML data structure, it would be a lot easier to tie it in with modern day document formats.
I highly doubt both of these will happen in the foreseeable future, The standards for html email alone are still terrible
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#135Non-teaching of explicit rationality annoys me. The most fundamental, elementary, and basic concepts of rationality are not systematically explained anywhere that I know of. It is impossible to engage the average PhD in a dialogue with agreed-upon rules of reasoning because they do not know why you can't prove things about the real world by arguing about the definitions of a word, or why it's a bad idea to pick a con…
or why it's a bad idea to pick a conclusion first and then come up with arguments for it
Unless one had to start one's thesis with null hypotheses (increasingly less common, but still a notable approach.)
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#136People writing "loose", when they really mean "lose".
"your" and "You're" is my pet hate
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#137Non-teaching of explicit rationality annoys me. The most fundamental, elementary, and basic concepts of rationality are not systematically explained anywhere that I know of. It is impossible to engage the average PhD in a dialogue with agreed-upon rules of reasoning because they do not know why you can't prove things about the real world by arguing about the definitions of a word, or why it's a bad idea to pick a con…
I would be interested in reading your book, as well as a summary if you have one somewhere.
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#138Reloading whole pages when an iFrame would be much better.
Ive always had the belief that iFrames are bad news. They are rarely needed in the days of simple AJAX and DOM manipulation. Come to think of it, I haven't used one in about 5 years...
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#139I'd love to see a text editor that let you select text blocks by drawing a box. (ie, you could draw the box selection style and select the last 5 characters of each line)
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to add that if you are/were in the U.S. Military at some point, (or even your parents, I'm pretty sure) then you should check out USAA. They have a fantastic website and awesome customer service. note: I have no affiliation with USAA other than I use them and really like them.
I believe USAA also supports check imaging - no need to physically deposit a check. take a picture / scan it from your home or office and it will be processed.
They do but it doesn't work that well. I have had to scan checks 3 or 4 times before.