marklindhout

Riding? Yes.

Poor attempt at philosophy? No. This merely describes the daily situation here, and I find myself agreeing with most all of what he says. He is very well-spoken, and I believe it resonates with many people from the Netherlands.

If this guy isn't Dutch, I'm the pope.

These are quite literally exactly the reasons why I'm emigrating.

Myspace.

Now does EVERYTHING.

>> OSS is very good at innovation and infrastructure, but is very, very, VERY poor at user experience.

I agree with you here. As a designer, I have helped out FLOSS projects with UX design and usability. However, the environment is such that if you would suggest UX could be improved, the response often is that devs feel insulted because you are dissing their code (which is not the case, but they don't see that).

On the other hand, taking a look at WordPress, they invested quite some time in user testing and improving UX by professionals, and that makes it one of the most usable web publishing platforms out there.

So, it would be too easy to say all FLOSS is bad at UX, but most developers don't even see it as an actual discipline, and hence do not see a problem.

Nicer devs, that's the key :)

Then until this app is ready, I would like to reccommend to you: http://thenounproject.com/

Does anybody else see why such patents are curbing innovation? I mean, the whole difference is a moot point.

Free software allows for freedom.

Most (if not all) frustration in tech comes from the lack of it.

I believe it has value because it puts a question to the nature of the Internet as we now use it. As it is being more and more regulated, where do we draw the line on who we can exclude? How far does that exclusion go?

Ideally everybody should always be allowed access. The Internet is a machine for sharing information, after all, and that is a liberty. Yet current intellectual property-oriented lawmakers implement all kinds of weird half-functional rule to it, changing it.

That, and also taking a look at the Internet as a religion is quite entertaining. He is echoing the splits such as those of the catholic church, early christianity, zoroastrian religions, etcetera.

I found it very good to read about something I never question and love through the eyes of an outsider.

Love this comment: “Or they blew all their money on bitches and dope, and now need to extort money from a band that actually mattered in the course of history.”

Still... What sad state this world is in...

This blog post is misleading. The non-support was specifically aimed at older versions of IE.

And besides, IE has not proven the most reliable of partners, I totally get their move. You never know when your phone's gonna be red hot with IE9 customers because Microsoft decided to update some obscure DLL which breaks CSS line-height in em's or something...

Your health and your life are infinitely more important than any job in the universe.

Try naught, get naught.

Pfew... 230 megabytes for a running browser. Not long ago that was all my workstation had!

True that. Losing money hurts, and will always be connected psychologically to that 'failure'.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com) in his book “The Black Swan” talks about one of his friends, a stock trader, with a very specific strategy. This strategy involves losing lots of small amounts over time, and once every 6 years or so, one enormous win. He explained that his trader friend needed to check his track record continuously to remind him of the actual benefit of this strategy, because even the small losses were eating away at him. Up to a point where he wanted to give up.

Agreed.

It seems the usernames are quite random as well. So far, not much lost then :)

I feel this needs to be stressed again: FastCGI implementations are NOT vulnerable to this bug.

I myself run LigHTTPD and PHP through FastCGI, and this was worrying me a lot, until someone pointed me to the Eindbazen site which stated this.

(BTW: Eindbazen is Dutch for "Final boss" in a video game context.)

Absolutely not. Lighttpd and Nginx both use it, and have recently picked up a lot of popularity because of it.

It maybe an old mechanism, but it is fast, which is worth something these days :)

God dammit, this is so stupid. Fuck Apple. Fuck closed source know-it-all fascist companies. RAAAAAGH!

His wording is quite accurate if you ask me. At least, I can completely agree with it.

Life is about living, not about working, after all.

All the glory of closed source development back in action!

> "But it works"

No it does not. It fails on the following points:

1. Readability: Both headings and excertp text have the same colour. This creates uncertainty about what is what. Same applies to the various other page elements like the tag cloud.

2. Readability: Contrast ratios. This is for many a subjective matter, but displays are very capable of displaying black text on a white background. If you want to decrease glare, you should make the text lighter (#333 is popular) but not the background darker. Tis decreases readability on many devices, especially with LCD displays.

3. Readability: White space and liune height. On the left, there's a overly generous amount of white space. This is not bad, but it fails horribly when in the right column the white space is not considered at all. This gives the page a messy, chaotic look.

4. Readbility: CAPITALS. This has already been discussed above, but I'd like to recap. Captials are considered shouting in online written text. Capitals decrease readability by making all characters similar in size, therefor creating less visual anchors for the reader to attach to. This leads to losing the thread of the sentence. This, by the way, is also why there are special titling and/or all-capital fonts included in typefaces.

5. Readability: Dots in titles. That's not how you write 'READ. POSTS'.

6. Visual consistency: Page elements seem to have no, or very little relationship to each other. Normally this is conveyed through colour, contrast, size and shape. Many parts of this page fail in at least 3 of these, severly degrading the usability of the site as an interactive application.

7. Usability: There is almost no visual feedback for the interactivity besides the hand-cursor. This is bad for usability.

8. Usability: Aggresive social media sahring pop-up. The very sensitive pop-up menu makes using the other links hard.

My conclusion must be that this page was designed by either a programmer or a print designer. I lean towards programmer because of the colour scheme.

So, no, it does not 'work'. It's quite possibly the worst newslisting I've seen, and I thought Reddit was bad.

Email encryption is too much of a hassle, yet has enormous potential. I sure hope you succeed!

Then I can finally send encrypted emails to my mom. Yay!

SEEKING WORK - Remote or The Netherlands, Randstad area.

Senior Front-end developer: Responsive design, mobile sites, HTML5, CSS3, JS, jQuery, PHP, Linux admin, Bash, Lighttpd, Apache, etc.

I'm a front-end developer with both technical and design skills. Specialized in building Drupal and WordPress themes. Over a decade of experience in building the web.

To get an impression, check out my LinkedIn profile, where you'll also find links to recent projects and contact info: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mplindhout

>Smarter people than you have thought about this.

That is very rude.

So, how do we get in touch with you?