callumlocke

Dear downvoters, it’s a joke.

Likewise, wouldn’t you be baffled if you needed to click a “Start Editing” button in Word or Google Docs?

Interestingly that’s exactly what Apple Pages does now, on phone/tablet at least. I like the way it forces a moment of consideration of what’s there before I dive in. And iterative edit–review–edit cycles help me to keep making macro progress instead of fiddling with irrelevant details. (I’ve not tried Notion though.)

Ignore the negativity, your comment helped me.

I think the commenter was just trying to be helpful.

Having a limited supply of empathy is one way to think about this, but another (less immediately appealing) way is as fast moving moral fashions. In your example it seems like the empathy got ‘used up’, because of the order of those two events, but I think that sort of thing often happens the other way round too, in which cases it’s harder to tell ourselves stories about why. Maybe the best explanation is it’s mostly arbitrary. That’s the problem with relying on public charity and the feel-good factor as a mechanism for helping the worst off. Moral fashions are like weather – somewhat predictable, but not definitely not reliable or consistent.

Maybe it helps them in some way with legal compliance, or just PR (gives them an easy way to fob off people with concerns), the benefits of which would significantly outweigh the lost revenue from the miniscule percentage of Chrome users who will install this.

for the average user

If a law is bad when enforced, then the law needs to be changed, not the enforcement.

Useful as a rule of thumb but it's not always true. Models are never perfect, the map is not the territory. We are constantly figuring out what our shared values are, and it's a moving target. And the body of law itself is a complex beast with its own surprising dynamics. It's part of an ecosystem. You can't wave away its complexity with such a simplistic ideal.

A given law may be 'bad' (regrettable, even draconian/immoral) when enforced in certain cases, and yet it may also be unfeasible to change that law to add those cases as exceptions. This is why the law gives judges flexibility on sentencing, for example.

I’m the author of JSON Formatter [1] with 989,000 users.

I probably get a couple of offers a year for it. Of those that have offered specific sums, they ranged from from $10-20k. I always reject them, because it’s pretty obvious they want to turn it into malware.

I’ve had a couple of cases where I felt they went to some effort to schmooze me first, presenting themselves as having benign intentions, almost like a carefully crafted con. But as far as I can tell, there is no legitimate, ethical reason to want to acquire it, and I won’t sell out my users like that.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-formatter/bcj...

Good UX depends on audience and context. Many things are widely shared precisely because they give the user something fun and unexpected.

For people who work with computers all day, being online is more perfunctory, and the pleasure of seeing something fun/different rarely outweighs the annoyance of the interruption or of having to figure out an unconventional UI. But that's not everyone.

Doing what? All I see is the Wikipedia article for the TLD.

Stopped here also. Bad sign. Different tools for different jobs, no need to get emotional.

I think the edge just means CDN edge locations. There’s been a trend towards making edge locations smarter (via Lambda etc), so you can sometimes send dynamic responses straight back from the edge, ie quicker than always deferring to the big data centre for dynamic stuff. Previously computing on the edge was restricted to fairly simple caching of static responses.

The only people who will see that ad are those who have already decided to check out GitLab today. It’s a convincer, not a traffic driver.

Never seen a live camera feed working in iOS Safari until now. Has something changed recently to allow this?

Can you expand on this? How do analytics distort publishers' perspective of what's popular? Not disagreeing, I just want to know what you mean.

There is a reason the Microsoft Store and Google Play are absolutely filled with trash

So is the iOS App Store. If you dig past the first few search results you find tons of trash. But I'm not sure it matters how many low quality apps there are overall, as long as the store does its job of showing me the good ones first.

You are right

With both pie charts and donut charts, the size of a segment is based on its arc length. With a pie, that's the same thing as area, but for donuts it's not. So I guess that's one argument against donut charts. Neither chart is great for comparing sizes imo.

Check out https://github.com/ft-interactive/chart-doctor/tree/master/v...

This kind of extension is available for every browser.

Shouldn't it be "while overcoming so much"?

Well, he is frequently met with outright ridicule. But to be fair, he does address those points. I haven’t read his stuff for a while, but I think he argued that, even with the two world wars and all the other atrocities of the 20th century, there were still fewer violent deaths per capita than in the previous century.

I don’t agree with everything Pinker says but there does appear to be a statistical fact that fewer people die from violence each century. He looks for for explanations for this general trend.

A major version bump is for introducing breaking API changes. That’s all it means.

Because the market-proven reality is most end users don’t care about 100MB download sizes, and they do care about simplicity.

The author does emphasise how complete and well-built the official Elm tools are, which kind of mitigates this concern. But I agree, the article doesn’t really spell out its reasoning.

No one is surprised that non-encrypted channels are being surveilled. What's interesting is how offhand it's becoming, that a police officer can casually peruse someone's private messages and apparently doesn't take much care to conceal this fact, even from a journalist.

We completely agree about what a blacklist is.

I am saying the function should not be called isVeganIngredient if it returns true for ham. It’s misleading. It’s bad design.

Two possible solutions:

1. Invert the return value, and change the function name to isKnownNonVeganIngredient (and take similar steps for the other functions).

2. Even better, scrap the functions entirely, and just release the data (e.g. publish a dumb JSON package on npm called non-vegan-ingredients), so people can use everyday array methods to consume it however they want.

I’m not the one downvoting you btw.

I know what a blacklist is. Nothing wrong with a blacklist. The problem is that the function is called "isVeganIngredient", and it returns true for "ham".

The HN post says uses the word blacklist, but the library itself works like this:

    isVegan.isVeganIngredient('ham'); // true

It says "true" for any ingredient it doesn't have in its list (I tried lamb, goats milk, and sausage – all are reported to be vegan).

It would make more sense to just release the JSON list of known non-vegan ingredients. People can use Array#filter and Array#some themselves.

EDIT: it says these are all vegan too: steak, bacon, ham, pheasant, venison, cheddar, mozzarella, ghee, lactic acid, sour cream.