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Ah this is going to kill my mobile usage of the site, which is the main way I use the Facebook, website version not the app. Theres no way I'm going to incur bandwidth and annoyance of the sound of ad's playing on my phone. Bandwidth would be the key factor since I have a limited mobile trafic cap. But any sites that make noise without me interacting with them annoys the hell outa me.

Other than mobile usage I check the site about 1-2 times a week on my laptop which doesn't have flash installed (I use Chrome for Youtube/flash content sites) so hopefully the ad's aren't html5.

There's actually alot of things they could fix to improve the user experience. Just signed up for an account and it wasn't overly pleasant. List of a few gripes:

  * No ajax on name availabilty

  * very limited secret question options ( min of 5 chars for answers)

  * Wasn't overly obvious which fields were required until you hit submit ( in the end I think they were all required)

  * Initially there was a smug looking guy on the login page(pretty nitty picky) he seems to be gone now but if goto www.outlook.com you get a broken image
On Apple's new ads 14 years ago

I find that American style ad's have an underlining fakeness to them, its hard to put my finger on it. I'm assuming its just a cultural difference being from New Zealand but some ad's from the States just grate me the wrong way. These Apple ad's are particularly bad in this respect.

Live ships map 14 years ago

Yeah after reading the FAQ I came to the same conclusion. But also realized that pirates wouldn't actually need this site and could just get their own AIS receiver's

Live ships map 14 years ago

This is very cool. Great tool for Somalian pirates too?

edit. Ahh never mind they don't seem to have any data on the east coast of Africa

Yeah I noticed that but in what context can I run this other than command line? I assume its C code but how do I get it to work in the browser? or is it something you'd use in node.js? Guess it's just over my head

Not to knock the work that's been done or disparage the author of this code or similar work that's hosted on github.

But these link's to a github repo with minimal documentation and no instructions on how to use the code are frustrating.

Dandelion Labs 15 years ago

The distinct lack of information on the site doesn't instill much confidence