tomgg

Scientists rely on faith too; hypothesis testing being the most obvious example. New beliefs are always conditioned on faith(:= prior beliefs).

What if you've resolved to only use free software? That means _Google Music_ is not an option.

> So half the planet is incapable of learning what clickbait is and only you can resist it?

Are you suggesting that this was my contention?!---I fall for click bait all the time.

> Are we all so psychologically weak that we cant figure it out?

No, but I don't think ``we" are actively trying to figure it out. People design these traps _for a living_; ``we" get trapped by them _in ``our" spare time_.

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> The reason why people continue to visit all those sites and click all those links?---Because they like it.

This is disingenuous; there are people who dedicate their working life to causing other people to do things they (other people) don't want to do (e.g., following a psychologically-designed bespoke(!) anchor that belongs to a class of things colloquially known as ``link bait". )

Does this ``gap" reduce as the employees considered get younger?---the data source doesn't include age demographics.

I thought they went after her (Gillian Triggs) because she delayed releasing the report until 1) after a government-changing election result, and 2) the majority of children had been removed from detention as a result of new policy from the new government. The (alleged) intent behind her delay was to paint the new government as child detainers when they are (allegedly) the child liberators.

P.S. Australian politics is dumb.

1. The readability and typography are (to me) stellar. Would that more websites present information that clearly.

2. The author doesn't dislike systemd.

So many Google sites have 1/3-of-a-page fixed headers; fixed headers suck.

This[1] bug from 2012 is the reason I switched; 30 months (still incrementing) to fix a massive usability break seems slow to me.

1. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143619

Any plans for an option to switch off all those avatars?

An excerpt from the excerpt:

> Schmidt arrived first, accompanied by his then partner, Lisa Shields. When he introduced her as a vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations—a U.S. foreign-policy think tank with close ties to the State Department—I thought little more of it

The effort you spent writing all those words should perhaps have been better spent objectively reading and understanding the piece.

I throw these eye-candy Google websites into a text-only browser and start /'ing; it is _way_ easier to find the info you're looking for.

I've been playing around with julia[1] this week and discovered the inclusion of a pipe-like operator that removes a lot of the parentheses from functional programming; you can write,

    x |> a|> b |> c|>s->d(s,y)|>e|>...

in julia instead of

    e(d(c(b(a(x))),y)) or (e (d (c (b (a x)) y)) 

...or whatever is your flavour. I reckon it is impossible to make a serious case against that readability gain.

[1] julialang.org

On mobile I dislike all of the kinematics. If you're composing a message and scroll up to quickly reread something, the keyboard will fly off the screen; getting it back requires tapping on a text box ...but now the keyboard is _covering_ part of the message you need to read; got to scroll back up---damn lost that keyboard again.

There's also no way to 1) hide people's avatars: I really don't need 20 visual reminders (one for each message they've sent) of who I'm chatting to; I don't even need 1! 2) hide the emoticon selector: who uses this rubbish? 3) adjust the "people you hangout with": there are 6 tiles of faces (most of them rigmarole-distributing frequent emailers who suck) and the 6 same people are repeated in a list of 10 "people you hangout with"---the 6 same people are repeated in a list of 10 "people you hangout with".

Google...

I can't speak for the others, but w3m definitely has graphics support.