colinprince

I wonder if Mozilla will change their rollout plan now that the UK has dropped their porn-filtering plans[0]

0. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50073102

Reader View worked for me on mobile safari.

In fact, I have it on by default for BI so I didn't notice the promo.

(edit) Interestingly, the video in question is meta; that is, it talks about getting more engagement on YT.

"COI uses an email address ... means it can already connect 3.8 billion users"

followed by

"After checking for server compatibility..."

Does this reduce the target pool? How much?

Also, how many people still use POP?

I think what he's getting at is that Facebook's path became clear as soon as:

1. the reciprocity effect started (photo-tagging) and then;

2. social validation started (the like button)

In the audio clip he says it was photo tagging that started the decline followed by the like button

"Apple tells TechCrunch that yesterday evening it revoked the Enterprise Certificate that allows Facebook to distribute the Research app without going through the App Store."

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/

Offtopic:

Great commentary in the form of a quiz here:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsweeten/do-you-still-have-a-job-at...

This is delightful!

And this phrase kills me (in a good way):

"The process isn’t entirely frictionless, which is why my phone vibrates lightly upon delivery"

For a more gracious treatment of the subject of public shame, try listening to Monica Lewinsky [0]

"[I was required to] listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth; listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worst version of myself"

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/monica_lewinsky_the_price_of_shame

A bookmarklet I adapted from an example I read about NodeIterator in js.

Removes sticky and fixed blocks from the dom. I use it all the time, even on mobile safari.

https://gist.github.com/colincbc/f8d1b8768e1e566d86b6ef4e691...

See also previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395463

Let the developers alone.

This means the tech lead must find something else to do.

Good.

However, all the tech leads I've met think their job is to get up in my hair.

Stop doing it, is what I want to say.

However, we need to show the tech leads what we really need from them.

So they don't displace their activity getting up in my hair.

Half Past Human, T. J. Bass, 1971

>Money, or its lack, doesn’t cause a financial collapse, human folly does; the numbers simply follow

iow, the symptom should not be confused with the cause.

I fear that R chunk will only pass legislation to exempt themselves.

Mass surveillance is too enticing to give up so easily.

See also MixPanel's trend charts

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/iphone_8_X

edited, thanks

Paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL074982/full

PKP makes Open Journal Systems, which is GPL licensed.

A flexible review process is part of the goal of the project, and the developers are responsive.

https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/

Discord is growing like crazy and their voice chat is easy to use and reliable for groups

FTA: "about as useful as a chocolate teapot"

slides:

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/talks/clarkson2015.pdf

paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.00152v1.pdf

Also see previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12304241

See also

http://daringfireballwithcomments.net/

- a chrome extension

I searched for the word "tenure" in the article, but didn't find it.

The drive to get tenure is a big reason that scientists publish so much, funny that was not mentioned.

Apple argues that even they (Apple) are not the rightful custodian of a user's data. The user is and should be the only keeper of their data.

This software takes that right away.

thanks!

See also Michael Geist's TPP presentation at CIGI:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VTrS1GeADQU

I love the Viking missions.

Also, the first images from the surface of Venus:

http://www.unbelievable-facts.com/2013/08/the-soviets-landed...

changed, thanks!