ctbeiser

If you turn the data off on say, an iPhone, it's as good as say, an iPod touch with calling capabilities, which is really all a lot of people want.

"The idea of changing behaviour, conditioning living creatures, to obey rules enforced my machines feels very disturbing to me."

I've made use of this technique on myself; I've got a concentration app that, when turned on, will make an abhorrent piercing noise if I go on Facebook/Twitter/Hackernews/ read RSS feeds / etc. It's helped me train myself to focus when I'm working.

I will grant that using this on someone else without their knowledge is more questionable, but I wanted to say that it's sometimes legitimate.

It's an interesting concept, but how does it differ (not technically, but practically) from, say, OS X's built-in document version control, "Versions"?

Perhaps I'm not being clear enough; I'm aware that wasn't what was being argued,but it did very little to dispel that narrative, which it plays into. Still, looking back, it seems to be a somewhat overblown critique.

I didn't feel that it explicitly addressed how an individual should be running their promotion process, but I could have missed something.

I'm no expert, but this hasn't convinced me yet:

1. The author shows one anecdotal example of the effect being claimed, and then claims that it's a large factor based again, on wholly anecdotal factors. 2. The author uses as evidence that two CEOs that they can think of are attractive. I don't need to go into the statistics to point out how ridiculous this is. 3. Of CEOs who are women, there aren't any exceptional levels of beauty present, v everywhere else in the world. 4. There are several more likely explanations for this effect than this one. 5. That attractiveness is correlated with pay doesn't mean that attractiveness is being selected for. It can also imply that self-confident people are more likely to be successful, which I believe studies have shown in the past. 6. While claiming not to, this article feeds into the narrative of 'attractive women must be stupid,' by implying that attractive women, having clearly been selected for their attractiveness, will tend to be less intelligent.

I'm not saying this isn't something that happens. I'm stating that I'm not convinced attractive women getting hired is a primary problem, rather than, perhaps, sexism in hiring and promoting practices, which has been demonstrated at just about every level of employment.

And yet, height isn't as tightly correlated with future earnings as height at the age of 16. Source: http://www.economist.com/node/1099333

Anonymous needs to get a better understanding of the effects of their actions. I'm all for taking illegal but morally acceptable actions on a calculated and reasonable basis. Using vigilante website-takeovers as a way to call for a more fair justice system is not reasonable. A pseudo-criminal, intellectually unsophisticated hacking collective's endorsement does not do justice to the reality that Aaron was hounded despite lacking any substantial wrongdoing, as acknowledged by JSTOR's lawyers.

I'd say DemandProgress, stopping SOPA, and codirecting the Progressive Change Campaign Committee are all pretty notable as well. If you read the things people who associated with him wrote, there seems to be a rather long tail to the things he's done that are a bit less prominent than, say, Reddit.

I'd say "bunch of fonts that are widely used." Some designers have obscure favorites that they use regularly.

If you're really looking for a good grounding in HCI fundamentals, The Design of Everyday Things, The Humane Interface, and, oddly enough, the OS X Human Interface Guidelines are among the best. For type, try "The Elements of Typographic Style," and for a basic, general overview of some concepts you should understand, "The Universal Principles of Design" is, well, not bad.

A few things that should be noted:

"There are only a bunch of fonts that designers use." This really isn't true. There are about a hundred or so that are particularly common that any good designer should be able to recognize on sight, but there's an enormous long tail, many of which are perfectly servicable for specific uses.

"Corrections at this stage will generally be minor" Your interface's visual corrections may be minor, but in terms of usability, information architecture, and so forth, if you haven't incorporated results of real testing by this point, you're in for a real suprise. Especially if you're not versed in design and usability literature, you're likely in for either a lot of frustrated users or a lot of reworking.

I'll also just point out, while I'm at it, that on your screenshots page, your Facebook icon is next to the word "Twitter," and proximity implies association.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't it just be that people are seeing improvements because running this every second makes more memory heavy apps in the background leave ram? It seems, just looking at the comments here, that symlinkers have had no good effects, while those installing the app have.

I don't buy it. Snapchat's advantage is that you have friends who use snapchat. Poke isn't catching on simply because nobody uses it; Snapchat is the fourth most downloaded free app on the App Store, whereas Poke is at 145. Any of the things suggested completely break the very concept of Snapchat as transient. It's like Facebook: the lockin isn't your data, it's the people. Poke is basically Google+.

This is one of the most nonsensical posts I've seen in a while. Microsoft has no substantial commercial interest in getting people to use IE. I'd guess it's most important to make IE relevant so that people don't run away from Windows Phone because of it's presence, but other than that, there's not much in it for them. Sure, some ecosystem control, some ability to add proprietary extensions to the web, but on the whole, saying Microsoft's software being on only Microsoft's platform being like a dictatorship that puts it's leader's status above it's civilians having food? I'm not sure I understand.

Some of the ones it's suggesting look less than "100% pronounceable" to me. like... dyzyc.com or mmdyw.com?

Chocolat, on the mac, switches to comic sans when the trial runs out. Using it for a couple weeks before jumping to the full version, I can vouch for that it's actually surprisingly good for writing code. Much better than most proportional fonts.

I can't tell you how to unsubscribe, but I can give you the link to the FTC to complain about violations of the CAN-SPAM act: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov

I complained about Facebook for requiring me to sign in to unsubscribe from group-emails (which I had already turned off twice).