Well, your first line doesn't make sense, since the first two comparisons are using type coercion but the third isn't, so it's like saying `0 == false` but `0 !== false` how can this be? (" " != "" is the same as " " !== "")
The second line at least uses type coercion, but still you are making the wrong assumptions. true could be coerced to many strings 't', '1', 'true', 'yes', 'on', but they chose to use '1' (You may not like it but I think it's a good choice). Infinity on the other hand has not many choices when coercing it to a string I can think of '∞' (which is difficult to type), 'Infinity', and maybe 'Inf.' so I think they made a good choice here.
I'm not saying type coercion in js has no problems, but you said that it's a mess and I just think you chose the wrong examples.
I only see a lot of lines stretching up and down, left and right and sometimes some images and some text appears randomly here and there.
It's difficult to know where do I need to stop scrolling in order to continue reading.
I understand if some images take some time to load, I would wait for them to load if I had something to read. Having to wait a couple of seconds looking at an empty page while the text is loading? Come on, 14400 modems were faster than this page.
Do you know 5xman. It's a lot of fun. It's a flash game you can play in armor games and kongregate (I don't know for how long this link will be valid, but anyway: http://armorgames.com/play/6819/5xman)
A bit offtopic, but i think it's worth mentioning.
This would make a great captcha. Show users images of people wearing that makeup and hair style mixed with other similar images and tell them to select people from ramdom images.
I always thought a good way to build a captcha would be to use the "Uncanny valley" and the great ability humans have for detecting artifacts to create captchas. For instance, show photographs and very realistic paintings of people and make the user to tell them apart. Another example would be to use a photograph and insert somthing drawn by hand in it.
Is this already done?
These things are trivial for humans but I doubt computers can do that.
In my opinion, this is key to all of this.
I don't have those bad experiences and can't understand where all these problems come from.
In my experience, from a country which is not usa, kids and teenagers are perfectly capable of making new friends constantly, sometimes they slowly stop hanging around with some of them, occasionally they get into a fight about some specific situation but they forget the day after, maybe they don't get along with somebody or whatever, some friendships last for less than a year and some last forever. But all of this without the drama and the suffering everybody is mentioning here.
So I can't understand when some say "that's life", because that's not life and saying so stops everybody from looking for an alternative.
When I was a kid and later a teenager everybody used to tell me "enjoy your time in school (and later in college), cause once you are out of college your happiest days are behind". That was, in essence, wrong. But it was true in many senses. And that's how it should be everywhere. We should put every effort needed to make it so.
In fact, not even that, they discovered that something bad might be tied to not chewing. They didn't test Soylent, they tested some powdered food vs pellet food.
Soylent should start delivering their packs with some chewing gum, just to make fun of these morons (the article's authors, not the scientists).
Indeed, the Fyuse "image" seems to be "simple" javascript to swipe between 67 frames (jpg images). It claims to fill in the gaps between pictures, but it would be interesting to see how the pictures were taken.
If you could use both axes at the same time, that would be something cool, but it seems to work only in one axis.
Except that the huge header covers the settings and only a few are available to me, and I can't see the tabs.
My ideal defaults: Header should be shorter. Contrast should be higher. The O-click box should be hidden and only its tabs should be visible. It should use as much horizontal space as possible (wonder if they plan to add something on the right side). A little bit less spacing between results would be great.
Even though they seem to be nice people, I don't trust them, and I don't believe that the url they are showing is the location where I will go if I click on the link (I don't trust the status bar either), so they should remove that last line from the result and add the icon and the domain (that's ok) to the main title.
The second line at least uses type coercion, but still you are making the wrong assumptions. true could be coerced to many strings 't', '1', 'true', 'yes', 'on', but they chose to use '1' (You may not like it but I think it's a good choice). Infinity on the other hand has not many choices when coercing it to a string I can think of '∞' (which is difficult to type), 'Infinity', and maybe 'Inf.' so I think they made a good choice here.
I'm not saying type coercion in js has no problems, but you said that it's a mess and I just think you chose the wrong examples.