SquidLord

Probably not the best terminology to use on a post about people with disabilities.

You've obviously never hung around with people with disabilities. "Political correctness" is not exactly their/our long suit.

One of my favorite experiences was watching a group of people with learning disabilities call each other "retard" and crack up every time.

Don't even get me started about Deaf people and the jokes they make about people that can hear when they think you're not watching.

The backlash that involved the requisite "three days of hate because something changed on the Internet" and then moved on to "everyone is using it and pretending that it was always that way"?

Yeah, I saw that.

This has about as much reasonable intellectual bearing as suggesting that language is an inequality expanding lever just like many other forms of capital and one of the reasons Google and others are so dangerous.

This is just the Luddite fallacy repeated over and over. By this logic, we should never develop new informatic methodologies, we should never develop new forms of analysis, we should never develop new software – because of economies of scale exist.

I'll the state the obvious: that's stupid. There's no way to soften that blow.

online retailers are becoming 'salesmen'

Let me fix that for you.

When you design a service but charge for it as if it were a product, the inevitable result is that in short order you discover that if there is a demand for the service you offer, the demand continues – but your charging does not.

You would think that the consideration of "how will people actually use this application if we're successful?" would come up a little earlier in the design process than four years after implementation and deployment. And yet…

One of these days we will effectively figure out why serious organizations can't seem to do even basic audio leveling on prerecorded videos that they intend for public consumption.

Seriously. It's 10 minutes of work, at the outside. Normalize the audio to an average of -3 dB so that people can actually understand what's being said without having to jack up their volumes beyond all reason, and then write it back down for the next thing that they have to listen to or get the ears blasted by the next notification sound that comes along.

There's just no excuse for it.

That is a significant and incredibly poorly defended assertion that you're making there, sir.

Given that there are dozens if not hundreds (possibly thousands) of open journals, many of which are heavily digitally based, well tied with distributed storage, and willing to work with any significant publication – the claim that "this plan would likely require significant amounts of additional funding" doesn't even pass the first smell test.

You don't just get to assert things without support. That's not only not good science, it's terrible argumentation.

3D selfies, you say?

https://sketchfab.com/models?q=selfie&sort_by=-likeCount

Is there a reason the standard response isn't "I write code for money. Are you giving me money yet?"

"Don't give it away for free" is the rallying cry of photographers and graphic designers. Why is it not for programmers?

If the potential to be rendered to a blacksite or tortured to death somewhere less polite isn't sufficient motivation for people to be careful, I'm not sure "security" is their biggest problem.

Ironically unsaid:

"People like myself for twenty years and nothing to sell."

If you can't do it on desktop, you can't do it at all. Mainly because some of us have real work to do.

If the only "usable" implementation is on a hard-to-physically-secure mobile device that uses a tonne of different uncontrolled network access points a day -- that's not really an option now, is it?

They'll never know if they are, and if they do -- they'll never know by who.

If that's still a problem, I humbly suggest that those people might not be the right audience for a socnet that lets one post only once a day.

I'm just waiting for the inevitable realization when he realizes he can cut out Lua from the architecture and go straight in with Scheme.

You know, "you are too stupid to be allowed to make your own food," is probably not a good selling point for most people. I'm going to go out on limb and suggest that it's not a good selling point for anyone.

"Soylent fans" who are fans before the actual product has been seen or tested in any significant way might self-identify as people who need to be targeted by the first paragraph of this reply, however.

Interesting stuff, but no real sharable content yet, as far as I could tell.

Me, I'm a Google fan so the Galaxy Tab running Froyo (Android 2.2) is always going to be a winner unless you want to get seriously into iPad synthesizer aps (where it has a huge advantage currently). Ultimately, though, it comes down to deciding what you want it FOR. Games and sound aps? You'll need an iPad. eReading, techy geek stuff, reading news / Google integration? Gotta go with the Android.

The "LCD tablet" market has a lot of space to play in, in terms of price point. I picked up a Cruz Reader from Borders at deep discount for Christmas; its been an awesome eReader / micro-tablet / news reader. The iPad's not necessarily king of that form factor any more and becomes less so as more Android devices roll out at much deeper price points.

That space is only going to get tighter in the next few years.

So ... why NOT be a dentist website designer, at least part-time? You know the business needs, you know the lingo of both (you're here, anyway) ... It sounds like a job that fills a needed niche! Better sites == more hits due to easier searching; there's a business case.

I say go for it.

Crazy Chinese birds visiting YCombinator? Brilliant!

Rated A++! Would buy again!

It has to be phrased "wuz robbed," ie. "Damn, man, they stole yo' DVD player! You wuz robbed!"

He has no answer, for he is HEADCRAB ZOMBIE!