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The web is much bigger now but in many ways feels much smaller. Everything is so samey, and there's so much consolidation that you don't really need to leave the top few sites.
I actually love this, and I bookmarked it. Why? Not just because of nostalgia. Web 1.0 sites had a different set of UI idioms, which seem unintuitive to us, as we're too set in our new ways now. If you get past the fact they're ugly by modern standards, you'll see these sites accomplishing amazing results through startlingly simple means. It's an excellent source of inspiration, and if you combine those ideas with mo…
I still don't believe modern we design is actually preferred by the masses. Ofen times it isn't even a balance between aesthetics an clarity, because the modern pages are broken or otherwise unusable. It has gotten to the point where I wonder if maybe I'm not neurotypical. I'll take sites formatted like Craigslist 100% of the time. Now I'm just waiting for windows OS to fully replace file navigation text with iconogr…
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Wow, sometimes all it takes is just… 9 reposts. Probably a lesson about startups in here somewhere
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import flask import random app=flask.Flask() @app.route('/') def random_redir(): with open('urls.txt') as of: return flask.redirect(random.choice(of.readlines()))
Prolly don't want to read the file on every request though
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Prolly don't want to read the file on every request though
congratulations, you've optimised a snippet that never ran – it was typed into the post form from memory
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The iPads with buttons: too complicated for a whole swath of our population, or just for a small specific age range? I wouldn’t want the take-away point from your experience there to be over-generalised.
What do you think "a whole swath of our population" means?
I replied carefully, not wanting to nitpick. But I think the distinction is important.
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No. Web 3.0 is only defined in terms of marketing buzz tied to crypto. It has zero use outside of that.
Not true. The semantic web people were using it to describe their ambitions.
I don't believe that their version of the term web 3.0 really took off the way that the web 2.0 buzzword did, but I vaguely understand the term having a meaning independent of the meaning given to it by crypto enthusiasts.