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Not defending the words of the poster you are quoting but African American is a race not a religion/belief system.

Dating app for Mormons or Atheists would be a more appropriate analogy.

Beauty of Logo vs other robot command puzzles like Lightbot is Logo isn't just solving puzzles but a gateway to actually being creative with code.

Kid walking away from lightbot: "I completed all the hard challenges"

Kid walking away from Logo: "I drew this flower using code"

Wish more kids coding tools aimed for the latter.

>Even the main Amazon shopping app is less than 100mb.

109 on my device, not sure why it needs over 100 for a menu/search and checkout function that relies entirely on external data.

Also another commenter said Alexa was 78 when it's 124 for me and does even less than the shopping app.

>I also hate the suggestions and that I can't edit them and ban them. I don't know why it bothers me less on the computer with say YouTube.

This bothers me way more on YouTube because all the thumbnails are just people pulling "The YouTube Face" because its a form of clickbait that works well with kids.

Watch one video about PCs and YT will spam your recommendations with Linus Tech Tips pulling childish faces till the end of time. Same goes for Videogames and PewDiePie, Minecrafters or whatever.

Blocking the users has no effect on the algorithm.

Basic word filtering was added recently https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

I'm hoping one day there is something smarter.

I know RSS still exists but it feels like Google Readers death killed a lot of the blogs I followed off too. The new posts just got less and less and eventually stopped.

Anyone still actually having a good time on this service?

Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I only follow artists, devs and designers.

I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader. But starting to think it really needs a big "Politics" checkbox in settings and an algorithm to filter it all out. I'd rather get my news and politics from elsewhere.

Twitter isn't even good for news because most of the time you enter half way into the conversation and have to dig to figure out what people are upset or gloating over today. Filtered words was a good first step but a lot of politics talk doesn't actually mention the words exactly.

Edit - Mass replying to the careful follow question: I already choose who to follow carefully (Current count is 1000) and unfollow if it's really tiresome. No one I follow is a pure internet personality or journo, they're all people who actually do things outside of comment online.

To me it's a case of I want to read my followers at their best (Posting interesting and creative work), but can't handle them at their worst (Political hot takes).

>I hope that at some points, Adobe will release the Flash source code.

We can hope but there were big-ish campaigns to get them to open source Freehand and then Fireworks and they just don't care and would rather you keep their monthly CC cheques flowing.

Adobe always used to blame OS X for being literally half the performance of the Windows version claiming it wasn't their fault (Mac team was a fraction of the size I heard).

Then Jobs wrote "Thoughts on Flash" and magically a month or so later the Mac version ran a ton better and continued to get better for about a year.

Have little sympathy for such a reactionary approach to user experience when the majority of Flash authoring occurred in ad agencies running Macs.

> A lot went downhill after Adobe bought Macromedia

Still annoyed Fireworks was killed, it was pretty much the feature set of Sketch and more with a decade of work behind it. Then they killed it and are now left scrambling to replicate Sketch not realising they already had it and lost it.

Paint 3D is actually a decent app. I think people are going to hate it by default though.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but this seems to be talking about FruitFly 1 [1] and the article is about FruitFly 2 [2]. Been digging around and still can't find any description of how to tell if you're infected by the new one.

[1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/ce07d208a2d89b4e0134f5282...

[2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/befa9bfe488244c64db096522...

I'm curious to what the ads looked like? I installed it but can't see them and the article only includes it's own ads for razors not pictures of the ads it's talking about.

> Why didn't they just use css as intended

Too many engineers and not enough actual problems.

Being obsessed with metrics is the exact reason something like this would go through.

All companies that design to metrics instead of vision always ship the worst UI/UX crimes. This is the ideology we have to thank for things like the lightbox sign up forms that block or lock out content if you try to browse without an account on FB/Pintrest etc.

You're assuming the metric Google is designing for is still how fast a user gets what they want off site. What if the metric they're designing for is how long someone spends in the Google ecosystem?

This must mean that Yahoo and the other search engines that followed the "portal" design pattern which Google was a welcome alternative to are so far in the past that they're about to sleepwalk into the same design mistakes.

Looks like Duckduckgo has an opening, don't waste it.

Probably legal issues with Soundcloud offloading the data.

This way they can skate the rules and save the data.

Plus startups on the way out usually want to use their data as a bargaining chip to sell whatever remains of the service off, if they give it away they lose that chip.

> Photoshop filter

Funnily enough someone correct me if I'm wrong but these are almost entirely ancient single core code.

That part of my comment was obviously in jest...

If it has beaten Snapchat why is my Twitter feed full of memes about a dancing hotdog Snapchat filter?

I have this inkling that tech press and lots of the tech community are super eager for Snapchat to be destroyed because they never understood it in the first place, dismissed it as stupid and still don't understand it and that bothers them.

If Zuck manages to destroy it then it'll confirm to them that Snapchat didn't really have any special sauce and it's fine that they didn't understand it.

Risking dropping a genuinely useful feature for an engineering vanity project just to mark the 10th anniversary of a product feels very Tim Cook's Apple to me.

As Marco Arment put it on the ATP (ep. 229) podcast

>In so many recent Apple product developments, because so much of the low hanging fruit of modern hardware has been picked already. We are so often having to make progress only by making certain things worse or by giving up certain things we're not quite ready to give up yet, and we do this in order to get the new hotness.

Is anyone buying any smartwatch stuff?

Wasn't Apple even lumping their Watch sales figures into the "Other" category along with the Apple TV out of embarrassment.

Think it's worth keeping in mind the state of the smartwatch market in 2017 is a fraction of what people thought it would be when Pebble was going big and the Apple Watch was a rumour. Investors were clearly hoping it was about to explode like smartphones did.

I mean I don't even feel the Apple Watch will still be around in the next few years.

>The only real long-term solution is supporting competitive products.

Not really viable when the only OS that has software parity is OS X and the only OS with hardware parity is Linux.

If we drew a venn diagram it would be a straight line of circles with windows sitting in the middle. To switch away you have to make a choice between less software or less processing/GPU power.

Thanks for the list will definitely check them out.

Think my main worry is the existence of the big players making things like this on a whim or acquiring things like this on a whim then dumping them (Let's be real here no way will google still by supporting tilt brush in 5 years) puts more indie devs off exploring this space.

There is a thin(ish) line between convenience as a service and surrogate mummy as a service to prolong adolescence into adulthood.

>Does anyone actually use Blue Apron?

Podcast hosts.

>Of course I suppose that reflects on authors profession (being a writer for a web publication)

Far too much of this navel gazing when reviewing products from the tech press these days. Like the iPad being championed as a work device just because you can write up a blog post and a tweet on it and a complete disregard for any profession that isn't accomplished only via tweets and blog posts.

Hilarious a tech blog site being held up as a basic challenge for a web browser. IIRC the early WebKit team had extensive hacks and work arounds to make sure the abysmal code of major sites like this and newspapers actually rendered "correctly".

Always feel when a software developer tries to teach coding to kids they seem to more wrapped up in the process and doing things the "correct" way (often over complicating things with typing, language nuance and command line rituals) than actually trying to teach what's really going on and more importantly empowering being able to step off and create something truly of their own which is the path to self sufficient learning.

The self initiated work I've seen kids create out of Scratch is seriously impressive and creative.

> a great alternative to spending money and time at restaurants

You realise that isn't a chore, right? It's supposed to be fun.

> sourceless executable

This doesn't matter, the point is the option to do more was always present. Kids are curious and if the option exists at least a few will find it and try to understand it.

Sure you didn't have the sourcecode to Doom but QBasic was always there and to copy games off your friends and even run them you had to at least understand a few basic commands and intricacies of the OS. Not just tap store > tap install.