Hong Kong activists use 'Pokémon Go' and Tinder to organise as police crack downbusinessinsider.com3 points·by jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·0 comments
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussYeah this is gorgeousI wonder how much it costs them compared to a regular article
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussIs it unusual or unheard of for a senate hearing to be held into an unreleased product?
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussFor me, Slack is good because it adds fun to the workplace, especially in one too big to chat to all these far flung peopleYou get to know people you work with before you even met them in personAnd you swap gifs and jokes. It just helps built a positive culture I think
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussAn article I read claimed exactly that, saying that the real money sitting in a bank would also be used for generating interest to pay back initial investorsCan't find the source but it was reliable, Techcrunch or the New York Times I think
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussYeah this is not the same at all.That one phone exchange operator couldn't make hundreds of billions of dollars by selling access to the information for advertising for example.When I think about the privacy I value, it's more like I don't want to be manipulated and have a soulless corporation benefiting from my private life.Small town gossip and eavesdropping is human and harmless, but I'd be pissed off at phone lady too.Maybe the townsfolk weren't because they knew her and she was harmless or not creepy or something.
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussI hope privacy becomes a core thing people care about, as much as having a right to free speech.It already is a bit but it isn't quite mainstream enough.It's more like a nerds concern, but it should be everyone's.Maybe because free speech is guaranteed by the Constitution but not privacy.
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussI've gotten nothing out of my Smart TV that I couldn't have gotten from a Chromecast, or preferably, a laptop hooked up to a TV.And I've lost a lot. My TV is slow. When I try to control the volume, sometimes I have to wait multiple seconds.And things stop working all the time and require a reboot.I hate the damn thing. It even comes with bloatware for some reason, games I'll never play that it insists on updating forever.And with the privacy concerns on top of all that, I wish I had a dumb TV.My shit cube TV from the 90s was better!
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussConcerned about his this will impact their sales. We are easily seduced by pretty screens, and overestimate our driving ability with gadgets on hand
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussI believe it's Portugal that has very successfully triaged decriminalisation of many or all drugs
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussLovely story. My parents' approach to learning and what was acceptable and not had a very big effect on my choices in life
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussI think UX issues, without data backing them up, are just opinions for the most part. I don't feel very comfortable putting them in a bug tracker.I wonder if they have UX trained people doing research and so on.
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussLooks amazing!!I wonder how well it will cope with non-basic games, as in non-platformers, non-shooters.I've noticed that many frameworks are great for basic tutorial project usage but don't do well once you start on a real project
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussIs it ironic that this is on medium, which is a great example of how not to design for the web?
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussApps do a huge amount of tracking too, and they have their own dark patterns, like making things really addictingWhat's more is apps exist in their walled gardens far more than websites, even if the web has been getting worse in that regard
jmalkin·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discussI love gimp, love that it's free, but I really wish they paid a little more attention to the usabilityThere's all these minor issues that get on your nervesIf it was just a bit more user friendly, I would not need Photoshop
I wonder how much it costs them compared to a regular article