joestr87

I’d love to have overheard his plans and just turn up wearing chrome clothes like “I heard there was a party”

The site looks beautiful and the utility of it reminds me of Adobe’s kuler. Good job

If I had to make one suggestion, for the site - the gradients and effects look really great, but in addition, if the selected colours were also shown as solid colour blocks, it would help so much to visualise how they would work as a palette. (I’m viewing on mobile so if this is already happening on desktop, a mobile version would be great)

I think the main thing you’ve got to ask yourself when abstracting duplicated code is: are these things very similar because they are intrinsically linked or is it slightly coincidental. I.e if we ever have to change B will we always want to change A in the same way?

If the answer is that you’re not sure, it’s probably better to duplicate, and see what the case is when it needs to change again - and then decide whether to abstract or not.

In the one with the two assistants - “What would the other one tell me to click” - they said it was the white button (meaning they’d really want you to press the blue one). But the white button was ‘incorrect’. Surely the assistant would want you to accept the terms no?

If they care about making the whole Internet a safer place to all, why would they patent this?

"You received a hint: someone wants to #breakUp with you"

The thought of that just cracked me up :D Seems like a really good idea though, I like it!

You're right, other mediums employ whatever tactics they can to keep our attention. I think the key differences here are that we have our phones with us all of the time, and the phones have the ability to interrupt whatever we're doing. The point being highlighted in this video, whether you think it's a good thing or a bad thing, is that those two things are being exploited to make us addicted to looking at our phones.

I think everybody is in favour of interesting articles and engaging content - I think what this guy is against is the cheap tactics being used at the moment to make you check your phone regardless of the quality of the content you're checking.

"Harry Huskey, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Is Dead at 101"

Only 5 years old? Yeesh that's young.

"For example, when shown only the eye region ("without brows and cropped to the outer canthi so that not even "crow's-feet" were visible"), perceivers were amazingly still able to accurately identify a man as being gay"

That's pretty mental.

I know right? People look for things that confirm their own biases ("X Y and Z are gay and they sound like this"). Oh, and I wasn't having a go at the study, even if it is a little ropey, just bewildered that people still think in that way. Like people thinking that if you're black you probably talk a certain way, or like certain music.

> Participants were not informed of the sexual orientation of the person but allowed to freely guess from the voice or face of the individual.

> ‘gay- sounding’ voice

Jesus, it's batshit-insane to me that people still think like this.

So the 128Gb iPad Mini 4 has a smaller screen and a slower chip than the new 128Gb, but it's only £10 cheaper?

Tech articles are the absolute worst at being click-baity.

I was like what the hell is Mac Preview?

"By his definition, friends are people you take the time to understand and allow to understand you.”

TIL I literally have no friends.

I think it died.