The firm dispenses with the counter-argument that users were "more engaged" with the page.
"Since this experiment used targeted findability tasks, more time and effort spent looking around the page are not good. These findings don't mean that users were more 'engaged' with the pages. Instead, they suggest that participants struggled to locate the element they wanted, or weren't confident when they first saw it."
So that's for a store, where usability is considered a good thing.
What if this wasn't a store, and just "content" surrounded by ads? Might you still be able to make the case that worse is "better?"
There was a device intended to disable the car. It apparently contained some GPS hardware, for some unstated reason. But the disable capability was not in the GPS.
Somewhere on an aircraft carrier, you might find a tape measure. That doesn't mean tape measures can launch fighter jets. The tape measure is merely part of the aircraft carrier.
GPS obtains coordinates, and then can make them available to something else. That's all it can do. It can't disable a car, show a map, or catapult-launch a fighter. But it might be a useful component for those types of jobs.
The best satire is usually going to be pretty truthy. Satire is a mixture of insight and bullshit. Laugh at it for the bullshit, love it for the truth.
I love how the people who want to be labeled "right" or "left" are now straining to imply that their websites are moderated better (or is it worse?) than the other side's! This is fucking awesome! You don't even need to mention politics anymore; just point out the people with the green or purple bandanas aren't as good at selling ads or soliticiting user-generated content as the people with the purple or green bandanas. Say it a certain way, and you're right-wing. Say it a different way, and you're left-wing.
America finally left politics behind, but we kept the trademarks since they still had commercial entertainment value.
with a computer you have the option to reinstall, not so with a TV
It sounds like these people don't know how to do computers right then, because their TVs are computers. From a hardware perspective, aren't they basically just low-end iMacs (with worse mobos but better screens)? They simply fucked up the software.
No, it just means that Chrome-for-Android is broken. (And it is. Chrome is basically unusable on Android, however much you may like it on your desktop.) It's a big part of the reason that Firefox(!!?!) happens to be best browser (that I've seen so far) on Android.
I'd take that as a reason to not allow it. It doesn't many any sense to have a VPN extension in a web browser.
If they think OS UIs suck too much for people to add VPNs at the correct level, then making it stop working in the browser is a good way to unleash pressure and incentive for the OS' defects to finally get addressed.
Bragging about being the fifth richest nation is not really something to brag about.
Really? Because I read somewhere, that the fifth richest nation has an economy roughly about as big as California's. Fucking California's! That's not something to brag about? WTF planet are you on, where California's economy would be considered smallfry?
Instead of summarizing their computations as being about wind and solar health "health benefits" relative to fossil fuels, they should have stated it as current wind and solar subsidies being less than fossil fuel subsidies.
Here's the most important sentence that cloudfare wrote on this:
The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.
It's one thing to expect Cloudfare to professionally provide a service, but it's a whole other thing for a customer of Cloudfare to try to put bullshit into their mouths. Cloudfare was totally justified in "firing" their customer over that. I would expect anyone I do business with, to cut me off if started talking about them in that way.
Like, if I start telling people "My wireless ISP, T-Mobile, fully endorses what I say" then I'd expect T-Mobile to be very fucking annoyed, should it rise to their attention. OTOH if I said "T-Mobile has remaining reliable even when I used them for things they don't like" then that would really be me endorsing them, rather than shitting on them like the Nazis did.
tl;dnr: don't try to put your words in someone else's mouth. That's how you piss people off, even professionals. Don't. To this ancient advice we can now append the 2017 addendum, "That's what Nazis do!"
I'm not arguing the "he was lecturing" point because you're totally right. And that's a perfectly fine reason to fire someone if they're supposed to be working instead. But then things get weird:
And really, even if he's right, what message is he sending to his female colleagues, that somehow his male brain gives him at least a statistical edge over them?
Here we go again. Instead of accusing you of not reading the memo, I'd like to ask: did you read it? (And I don't mean a story about it or someone's annotations; I mean that actual memo.) And if you did, do you think it says something like that?
(This is regardless of whether he's right or wrong, and I'm even less interested in whether or not Google made the right decision about firing him. I'm just trying to figure out what people who read it think the memo says, or even implies.)
People disagree so wildly about the mere contents of the memo, that most discussions are pointless flamefests because people are talking about different things. But also, when we disagree about the contents of the memo, that makes me think you didn't read it. So it starts us off with some good ol' fashioned mutual disrespect. Damn, this has turned out to be some of the hottest flamebait ever. But is it about sexism, reading comprehension, or sabotage by trolls deliberately misrepresenting it? I can't figure it out.
What is a "VPN seller?" I think of them as service providers, but this article makes it sound like a software provider.
Anyway, I'd think people would just run an VPN client on a computer where you're allowed to do whatever you want, and then just have that computer be a wifi access point for the iPhone. Why wouldn't that work?
Whoa, I might do all of those things. But one thing that would never occur to me, would be to go crying to the government. And I wouldn't ask any third party (especially government) to use force to get my old job back.
Why does he even want the job back? He knows he's going to be unhappy there. He knows there's at least one person above who wants him gone. He's not going to be able to work there, even if he's employed. Enjoy sitting in your cube doing nothing all day.
Inside Out was made by Pixar, a Disney subsidiary. Inside Out is one of the coolest movies I've seen in the last few years.
Hate 'em, but there are some brains over there, somewhere. They just need to get more serious about trying to sell to customers instead of making piracy be everyone's best solution. This current story, alas, does not sound like a step in that direction.
Just sell the fucking files. Future analysts are going to be asking, "Why did they wait so long? Why did they get everyone habituated to piracy first? Surely they knew it would be harder to win people back, than to keep them!"
If you're trusting the client, you're hacked, period.
I think you've just explained how this guy does it. For every game, this guy gets on the dev team. He spends months, tirelessly persuading them to do it wrong. He doesn't shut up. Eventually, the other devs give in, often with the rationalization, "well, at least this'll fix the performance and scaling problems." H4XX K0MPL337!
no, scripts can log in. with sites having millions of users you can make as many logins as you need, it's a whack-a-mole the site can't win
There's no rule that says getting login credentials needs to be trivial. Can you make a throw-away account at your bank?
LinkedIn can authenticate people if they want, assuming they don't mind having a barrier to entry that keeps people from using their site. But keeping people from using their site does seem to be the agenda item here...
That's exactly the point, I last had an mp3 player a decade ago before I had a phone that could play music. Why carry a second device to do the same thing?
One big problem with phones (and tablets) is that at least none of the ones I have found so far, have a hard disk. SD Cards are just now getting to where they're nearly big enough (for not too much money) so phones will probably become viable pretty soon. (But I realize this kind of depends on the size of your collection; we all have our own spots and maybe 200 GB is plenty enough for some people, whereas others won't be happy until they can carry 4 TB.)
BTW, if anyone knows of a phone or tablet sized Android device which actually has (roughly) terabyte-magnitude storage, or better yet, can take an internal 2.5" SATA drive, please share. I realize there are external drive options available, which should be ok in the car, but that's always going to be a little awkward and hackish. (And if you've got a battery-operated computer anyway, then it's silly to not have your hard disk on the same UPS. Whoops, I turned off the car before I shut down, we'll need to fsck before music's available again...)
But it's just a matter of time. 256 GB SD cards are pretty widely available and cheap, so in just a couple more years, what I want should be around. Hmm.. anyone know of a current-day tablet that will take 2-4 SD cards?;-)
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Credit freezes are hilarious when you think about what they mean.
When I have frozen credit, that means that you can't loan me money without first authenticating me and getting my authorization.
So.. what does unfrozen credit mean?
So that's for a store, where usability is considered a good thing.
What if this wasn't a store, and just "content" surrounded by ads? Might you still be able to make the case that worse is "better?"
Sounds like 3D printers, except less "geeky."
There was a device intended to disable the car. It apparently contained some GPS hardware, for some unstated reason. But the disable capability was not in the GPS.
Somewhere on an aircraft carrier, you might find a tape measure. That doesn't mean tape measures can launch fighter jets. The tape measure is merely part of the aircraft carrier.
GPS obtains coordinates, and then can make them available to something else. That's all it can do. It can't disable a car, show a map, or catapult-launch a fighter. But it might be a useful component for those types of jobs.
The best satire is usually going to be pretty truthy. Satire is a mixture of insight and bullshit. Laugh at it for the bullshit, love it for the truth.
I love how the people who want to be labeled "right" or "left" are now straining to imply that their websites are moderated better (or is it worse?) than the other side's! This is fucking awesome! You don't even need to mention politics anymore; just point out the people with the green or purple bandanas aren't as good at selling ads or soliticiting user-generated content as the people with the purple or green bandanas. Say it a certain way, and you're right-wing. Say it a different way, and you're left-wing.
America finally left politics behind, but we kept the trademarks since they still had commercial entertainment value.
It sounds like these people don't know how to do computers right then, because their TVs are computers. From a hardware perspective, aren't they basically just low-end iMacs (with worse mobos but better screens)? They simply fucked up the software.
No, it just means that Chrome-for-Android is broken. (And it is. Chrome is basically unusable on Android, however much you may like it on your desktop.) It's a big part of the reason that Firefox(!!?!) happens to be best browser (that I've seen so far) on Android.
I'd take that as a reason to not allow it. It doesn't many any sense to have a VPN extension in a web browser.
If they think OS UIs suck too much for people to add VPNs at the correct level, then making it stop working in the browser is a good way to unleash pressure and incentive for the OS' defects to finally get addressed.
Really? Because I read somewhere, that the fifth richest nation has an economy roughly about as big as California's. Fucking California's! That's not something to brag about? WTF planet are you on, where California's economy would be considered smallfry?
They're the ones who would best know, aren't they?
Show me a polluter and I'll show you a subsidy.
Instead of summarizing their computations as being about wind and solar health "health benefits" relative to fossil fuels, they should have stated it as current wind and solar subsidies being less than fossil fuel subsidies.
It's one thing to expect Cloudfare to professionally provide a service, but it's a whole other thing for a customer of Cloudfare to try to put bullshit into their mouths. Cloudfare was totally justified in "firing" their customer over that. I would expect anyone I do business with, to cut me off if started talking about them in that way.
Like, if I start telling people "My wireless ISP, T-Mobile, fully endorses what I say" then I'd expect T-Mobile to be very fucking annoyed, should it rise to their attention. OTOH if I said "T-Mobile has remaining reliable even when I used them for things they don't like" then that would really be me endorsing them, rather than shitting on them like the Nazis did.
tl;dnr: don't try to put your words in someone else's mouth. That's how you piss people off, even professionals. Don't. To this ancient advice we can now append the 2017 addendum, "That's what Nazis do!"
Who says they don't see it? Maybe everyone who advocates for minimum wage just happens to be in the robot manufacturing business.
Bummer. You survived, but did you LIVE?
I'm not arguing the "he was lecturing" point because you're totally right. And that's a perfectly fine reason to fire someone if they're supposed to be working instead. But then things get weird:
Here we go again. Instead of accusing you of not reading the memo, I'd like to ask: did you read it? (And I don't mean a story about it or someone's annotations; I mean that actual memo.) And if you did, do you think it says something like that?
(This is regardless of whether he's right or wrong, and I'm even less interested in whether or not Google made the right decision about firing him. I'm just trying to figure out what people who read it think the memo says, or even implies.)
People disagree so wildly about the mere contents of the memo, that most discussions are pointless flamefests because people are talking about different things. But also, when we disagree about the contents of the memo, that makes me think you didn't read it. So it starts us off with some good ol' fashioned mutual disrespect. Damn, this has turned out to be some of the hottest flamebait ever. But is it about sexism, reading comprehension, or sabotage by trolls deliberately misrepresenting it? I can't figure it out.
What is a "VPN seller?" I think of them as service providers, but this article makes it sound like a software provider.
Anyway, I'd think people would just run an VPN client on a computer where you're allowed to do whatever you want, and then just have that computer be a wifi access point for the iPhone. Why wouldn't that work?
Whoa, I might do all of those things. But one thing that would never occur to me, would be to go crying to the government. And I wouldn't ask any third party (especially government) to use force to get my old job back.
Why does he even want the job back? He knows he's going to be unhappy there. He knows there's at least one person above who wants him gone. He's not going to be able to work there, even if he's employed. Enjoy sitting in your cube doing nothing all day.
Inside Out was made by Pixar, a Disney subsidiary. Inside Out is one of the coolest movies I've seen in the last few years.
Hate 'em, but there are some brains over there, somewhere. They just need to get more serious about trying to sell to customers instead of making piracy be everyone's best solution. This current story, alas, does not sound like a step in that direction.
Just sell the fucking files. Future analysts are going to be asking, "Why did they wait so long? Why did they get everyone habituated to piracy first? Surely they knew it would be harder to win people back, than to keep them!"
I think you've just explained how this guy does it. For every game, this guy gets on the dev team. He spends months, tirelessly persuading them to do it wrong. He doesn't shut up. Eventually, the other devs give in, often with the rationalization, "well, at least this'll fix the performance and scaling problems." H4XX K0MPL337!
No, vim is better than Emacs, and anyone who disagrees must have a small penis.
Facebook and LinkedIn are websites. Why are you installing their ads? Oops, I mean, why are you installing their apps?
The only storage those companies should be using on your computers are cookies, at the most.
There's no rule that says getting login credentials needs to be trivial. Can you make a throw-away account at your bank?
LinkedIn can authenticate people if they want, assuming they don't mind having a barrier to entry that keeps people from using their site. But keeping people from using their site does seem to be the agenda item here...
One big problem with phones (and tablets) is that at least none of the ones I have found so far, have a hard disk. SD Cards are just now getting to where they're nearly big enough (for not too much money) so phones will probably become viable pretty soon. (But I realize this kind of depends on the size of your collection; we all have our own spots and maybe 200 GB is plenty enough for some people, whereas others won't be happy until they can carry 4 TB.)
BTW, if anyone knows of a phone or tablet sized Android device which actually has (roughly) terabyte-magnitude storage, or better yet, can take an internal 2.5" SATA drive, please share. I realize there are external drive options available, which should be ok in the car, but that's always going to be a little awkward and hackish. (And if you've got a battery-operated computer anyway, then it's silly to not have your hard disk on the same UPS. Whoops, I turned off the car before I shut down, we'll need to fsck before music's available again...)
But it's just a matter of time. 256 GB SD cards are pretty widely available and cheap, so in just a couple more years, what I want should be around. Hmm.. anyone know of a current-day tablet that will take 2-4 SD cards? ;-)
How are those players' brains holding up? Is it working out for them, relative to American Football?