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Post by baroffoos »

potta_coffee wrote: post #259
gamblor956 wrote: post #219

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Spam killed forums. Facebook took since it wasn't plagued with spam.

Facebook content is now such low-quality that it might as well be spam (my opinion). Also, pointless, toxic conversations. It seems to bring out the worst in people. I know some people like it for keeping in touch. I refuse to use it anymore, not worth it for me.

When I looked at facebook it was virtually all memes. I'm sure someone is about to tell me that I need better friends but these people are fine to talk to and interact with on other platforms but it seems facebook has become a meme graveyard.

No one posts actual quality content because stuff I want to read doesn't have a general appeal, its specialized to the things I am interested in. Facebook only allows for general appeal stuff so you end up with memes that everyone can understand.

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Post by vertex-four »

bogomipz wrote: post #236
tzs wrote: post #189

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I don't understand the level of complaints on HN about that sign up overlay. Are they testing multiple nag screens and I got lucky and always get the minimally intrusive one, and the rest of you getting the terrible ones? Yes, it is slightly annoying, but it is extremely easy to dismiss. Unlike the nag screens at many sites you don't have to find and click an 'x' in some weird location. It goes away if you click anyw…

The "pardon the interruption" modal is the only one that I have ever seen. And it's not immediate, there's time enough for your eyes to adjust to the content of interest before that modal pops up. It's as if it's designed for maximum obtrusiveness. The experience is further degraded by a header and footer that not only take up significant screen real estate but also only seem to exist to also prompt me to sign up. So…

Not quite unique - Reddit’s mobile experience is similarly full of misleading and redundant prompts to sign up.

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Post by daveFNbuck »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #306
daveFNbuck wrote: post #133

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College kids have to search for the answer to what the probability of getting a 5 or higher in a die roll is?

There are still people that think that buying multiple lottery tickets actually lowers your chances of winning. I tried to argue against someone with this. I even tried scaling the problem down to being two balls drawn from a pool of four, and showing how if you buy multiple tickets, your chances of winning greatly increased. And they accepted what I was saying, but just insisted that the math "doesn't scale" and it…

That's really bizarre. I wonder where they got that idea. Why do you say "still"?

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Post by mrhappyunhappy »

baroffoos wrote: post #338
MarsAscendant wrote: post #251

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My solution was to use an extension – Make Medium Readable Again – that, as of its features, removes the intro fullscreen ad. It's available for Chrome and Firefox, as far as I'm aware.

Could also use your browsers reader mode which does an amazing job at making websites usable.

I’ve been using reader mode for months and love it. I set it to auto open all links in reader mode and now hardly ever look at the styles version. It’s amazing how much more readable websites become with the extension. I’m also a UX designer, hows that for irony.

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Post by daveFNbuck »

jamiek88 wrote: post #164
daveFNbuck wrote: post #133

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College kids have to search for the answer to what the probability of getting a 5 or higher in a die roll is?

Liberal arts kids doing the mandatory math classes? Sure. CS major in first year who has been interested in math and science as a kid? Probably not. First year college in the USA is very broad. It’s not like university in Europe / UK where you specialize in one subject only for your bachelors.

I went to college in the USA, and I understand that undergrads are often put into classes far outside of their expertise. Still, I expect college students to be able to count to 6 and understand fractions. Even the remedial algebra students I helped in high school weren't that bad.

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Post by mastazi »

vertex-four wrote: post #342
bogomipz wrote: post #236

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The "pardon the interruption" modal is the only one that I have ever seen. And it's not immediate, there's time enough for your eyes to adjust to the content of interest before that modal pops up. It's as if it's designed for maximum obtrusiveness. The experience is further degraded by a header and footer that not only take up significant screen real estate but also only seem to exist to also prompt me to sign up. So…

Not quite unique - Reddit’s mobile experience is similarly full of misleading and redundant prompts to sign up.

Try old.reddit.com - it was originally created for users who want to revert to the old desktop layout but it has an additional, unintended feature: even on mobile, it maintains the desktop layout without switching to the mobile site (note: it is not responsive so you will have to zoom - but personally I prefer zooming compared to the nagware "features" of the mobile site).

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Post by kjs3 »

briffle wrote: post #150
patrickg_zill wrote: post #107

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Long ago I was a consultant for a large church. One of their IT guys got a call from the pastor, who was worried about being hacked... The IT guy had been working on the desktop and had left up a browser window. The pastor read the URL as ExpertSexChange...

Around 1997 or so, I got called into a meeting with my boss, director, and head of IT security. I worked night shift in a wafer fab, and someone was accessing the computers in the office, and visiting inappropriate sites at night (that their new sophisticated monitor found). I was young, and into computers, I guess they assumed it was me. I pointed out that I didn't have a keycard that gave me access to the office ar…

I once was called in by HR to investigate an 'incident' like this. I had to explain it wasn't PenisLand.net, it was PenIsland.net, a (presumably) fine purveyor of quality pens, and that maybe they could do a little homework before grabbing the torches and pitchforks.

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Post by wyclif »

taurath wrote: post #314
puranjay wrote: post #299

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Google has some strange preferences. Forbes still dominates SERPs despite one of the worst user-experiences of any mainstream site. It's downright unusable without ad block

Forbes probably has an article for eeeeverything. It’s the e-how of news.

That is precisely the reason why.

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Post by wyclif »

Pete_D wrote: post #301
zrobotics wrote: post #274

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The other trouble is, once you have some experience there just aren't very many good tutorials. I was looking through tutorials for node, and most of the ones I found started off with how to open the developer console, and what a for loop is. I'd very much prefer if tutorial authors would just link to one of the many basic CS fundamentals tutorials, and then skip much of the basics. If I'm learning Javascript, I just…

A bit off topic, but in case you were still looking, may I suggest https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/javascript/ ? That site is my first port of call whenever I need to get a quick overview of a new language.

That is good. For books, I like Kyle Simpson's You Don't Know JS series.
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