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killwhiteyon How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East

They would almost definitely choose working internet for themselves and nothing for the general population.

killwhiteyon Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages

Actually even zero character ones exist http://uz/

killwhiteyon Quantifying the Effects of Firefox’s Tracking Protection (2014)

Worth mentioning that this setting is in Firefox for Android, which makes it much easier compared to rooting the phone.

killwhiteyon Anger Management: Why the Genius Founders Turned to Couples Therapy

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9398237

killwhiteyon Design is losing its seat at the table

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677031

killwhiteyon Design is losing its seat at the table

He also posted it on his tumblr and medium, if you'd prefer to read it there.

http://metaismurder.com/post/84199748362/designer-duds-losin...

https://medium.com/@millsbaker/designer-duds-f59c964513ef

killwhiteyon Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed

A good illustration of how difficult it can be to download software if you're not well trained to spot ads: https://i.imgur.com/0vPdDYU.png

killwhiteyon Meerkat is dying

One thing I find curious is none of the articles about meerkat (that I've read) have mentioned that Color did the same idea in 2011 [1] as one of it's many pivots. I'm curious as to what's different between the two and why one might succeed where another failed.

[1] http://www.androidstatic.com/color-for-facebook-streams-your...

killwhiteyon Data is at the heart of search, but who has access to it?

Fresh install of Chrome. https://i.imgur.com/4ZyuSNN.png Notice how little "No thanks" and "Choose what to sync are". Nice anti-pattern.

And if you simply sign in and don't choose anything, this is what you get https://i.imgur.com/XQSxwu5.png

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As noted in my previous postings (first; second), it was hard to explain why the partners of Kleiner Perkins wanted to make themselves poorer by promoting an unqualified man in favor of a qualified woman. Discrimination of any kind might make sense for a manager at a government agency. [...] But almost anyone should be able to understand that for a VC partnership, indulging in discrimination will personally cost the partners.

I understand being skeptical of the idea that managers in private companies might make irrational decisions that jeopardize their long term profits, but it does happen.

killwhiteyon Google moves WebRTC code samples to GitHub

This project was previously at googlechrome.github.io/webrtc

It may have also existed at Google Code, I don't know. But this was the repo I was directed to after Google I/O last year.

killwhiteyon 404. PAGE Not FOUND

Also see

* http://www.bloomberg.com/404

* http://www.bloomberg.com/500

* http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404

* http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500

killwhiteyon One Week of Harassment on Twitter

There was a woman video game reviewer who messaged the mothers of boys who sent her hateful messages on Facebook, which was entertaining.

https://twitter.com/Charalanahzard/status/538144080534847489

killwhiteyon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

Global Rule #4

>You will not post or request personal information ("dox") or calls to invasion ("raids"). Inciting or participating in cross-board (intra-4chan) raids is also not permitted.

killwhiteyon King of Clickbait

There was a Vice podcast episode with the founders of Upworthy. It's not exactly an in-depth investigation, but interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMbn4awPF1o

killwhiteyon Square Raises $150M at a $6B Valuation

But that definition would include Amazon. I don't think a company founded in 1994 and went public in 1997 can be considered a startup.

killwhiteyon Show HN: Play music by typing

Someone made a native version of this a few years back. Had a lot of fun playing with it for a week in 2009.

http://keybored.wikidot.com/

killwhiteyon Crafting link underlines on Medium

Ah, right. http://jsfiddle.net/41s1wqhs/19/

I should note that this means links that span multiple words wont break. That can easily be fixed with a little more effort though. My point is this is concept is very easy to do with css, especially when you have control of the exact font and size it's rendering in, like Medium does.

killwhiteyon Crafting link underlines on Medium

This works for me http://jsfiddle.net/41s1wqhs/7/

killwhiteyon Crafting link underlines on Medium

My quick attempt: http://jsfiddle.net/41s1wqhs/

Only tested on OSX.

killwhiteyon Josh Topolsky of The Verge Is Joining Bloomberg

I believe Nilay moved to Vox.com some months ago.

killwhiteyon How the Asians Became White

>How can we be a supposedly post-racial society

Where did you get the impression that we are?

killwhiteyon WebM support on 4chan

Are you going to be using this tumblr blog instead of /news from now on?

killwhiteyon Open for everyone

>If you pick software based on your opinion of the attitude of the authors, rather than its actual qualities, you're going to make a lot of mistakes.

Isn't this what you do for a living?

killwhiteyon MacStadium: Dedicated Mac Pro Hosting and Colocation

Like this? http://i.imgur.com/GXpLIYm.jpg

killwhiteyon Unprofessionalism

>For example, "Australians are upside-down". Lazy, and makes many people upset. Are they upset because it is lazy?

Are you saying there is no joke so bland, overused, and by the books that it would make people groan and say "that joke is so bad I feel offended you would think I would find that funny"

People don't dislike fart jokes because they're offended by farts. They dislike fart jokes because they're usually bad.

killwhiteyon Unprofessionalism

For me, it's not that the joke is offensive, it's that it's offensively lazy. Nickelback is a band that gets regularly shit on and putting that option in your app just says you wanted to make a joke but weren't creative enough to think of one. I'm surprised they didn't throw a mother-in-law joke in there for good measure.

Relevantly lazy xkcd: http://xkcd.com/528/

killwhiteyon Facebook

RMS is an atheist

killwhiteyon Facebook Messenger 3.0

If you're talking about Poke, no one uses it. It hasn't been updated for iOS7, and most likely never will.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-poke/id588594730?mt...