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Nadge commented on A Guide to Minimalist Web Design (2017) ismailelazizi.com/blog/a-... · Posted by u/smail

tomxor · 6 years ago

Unfortunately, everyone else is not reading this... and for those bastards that make you click through 3 popups and then scroll jack you in the middle of reading etc: I really frickin love FireFox's "reader view" (top right in your address bar), it's also beautifully minimal text.

Now my first reaction to a popup opening as soon as I navigate to an article or a terribly illegible and busy design is to reach for the reader - guarantees one click, minimal, legible text.

In other words, if you can't trust the designers, remove the design.

Nadge · 6 years ago

Turn on reader view with either F9, or Ctrl+Shift+R, depending on your version of FF :)

Nadge commented on The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development americanaffairsjournal.or... · Posted by u/boh

chime · 6 years ago

> we do in fact have worse memories than scholars during the Middle Ages.

I wouldn't be so sure. People can regurgitate from memory dialogs for entire movie series, TV shows, and countless songs. We also remember deeply nested folder structure on numerous computer systems, variety of software interfaces (e.g. click Menu > Tools > Options...), and innumerable memes/facts/lists. Sure we forget a ton (is it needle/haystack or haystack/needle?) but we know and remember a lot more than medieval epic poems.

Navigating the modern world requires an insane amount of memorization but since we no longer need to remember road signs or phone numbers, we feel we remember less today than decades or centuries ago.

Nadge · 6 years ago

That sounds right. Anecdotally, some things I have memorised:

- Several phone numbers

- My National Insurance number (UK version of Social Security)

- 16 digit card number for 2 cards, as well as all the other numbers on the cards.

- 10 or so passwords (less important ones are randomly generated and handled by password managers.

So as you say, we may not be able to recite a 50-page poem, but one could argue that it's a lot easier to live in the modern world with many abstract strings memorised, in addition to all the knowledge that's considered crystallised intelligence.

Nadge commented on Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level drive.google.com/file/d/1... · Posted by u/zuhayeer

th-miracle-257 · 6 years ago

It is worse in Europe, but try getting a FANG job in Europe and they still pay extremely well.

My base pay is 150K pounds and not in London! Definitely I have a very niche skill in demand and I had to work really hard and be luck at the same time, to land at this role, but I will any day pick Europe with all the other benefits that a European country gives me.

Nadge · 6 years ago

What do you do and what is your skillset, if I may ask?

Nadge commented on uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking github.com/uBlockOrigin/u... · Posted by u/hokkos

disintegore · 6 years ago

> What exactly is the problem with first-party ads?

The problem is that they're ads.

> At some point, you have to admit that you just want the content for free.

I understand it's a bit of an ethical conundrum. Quality content and/or service requires compensation. At the same time, advertisement is a form of harassment and intellectual terrorism and they make content undemocratic by nature. Altering your own software in order to see NO ads of any kind under any circumstances is perfectly justifiable.

With that said, I don't buy the myth of the struggling internet entrepreneur being unable to make ends meet because of the selfish adblock users. I think that's as ridiculous a notion as the idea that Napster could kill independent musicians. Fact of the matter is that ads are a form of revenue and there are healthy alternatives out there.

For instance, instead of giving away an infinitesimal fraction of our mental health to every single internet business, we can instead enter a social contract in which everything is free, and consumers are expected to pay into the channels and services that they like best. This is, for instance, how many Podcasts and non-advertiser-friendly Youtube channels work.

Nadge · 6 years ago

I agree with what you said in this comment and the conversation below. Everyone already pays for access to the internet, either to their ISP or via a mobile data plan (with the majority probably paying for both).

In the early days of the internet, there was no expectation to be paid for creating content - people simply created it out of their own goodwill or because it's their passion.

If I set up a personal website, I expect that to be a sunk cost; people pay for my content with their attention. Obviously, attention doesn't put food on the table, but it's saddening to see the contrast between what the Internet could be, and what it is currently.

Nadge commented on TSB board lacked common sense before IT meltdown, says report bbc.co.uk/news/business-5... · Posted by u/Nadge

Nadge · 6 years ago

In the UK, Lloyds TSB split into 2 banks (Lloyds and TSB) in 2013.

tl;dr

In April 2018 1.9 million TSB customers were left unable to bank online, some for several weeks; this was caused by customers being moved to a new system, which was only tested offline.

"Other failings by TSB that it identified included setting "unnecessary" time constraints, which did not understand the complexity of the project, and being dishonest about the reasons for delays."

The outage has cost TSB £370m.

Nadge commented on The Creepy Corridors of Video Games eurogamer.net/articles/20... · Posted by u/objections

narag · 6 years ago

Interesting. Talking about metaphoric memes, you might have noticed that pretty much every police and action show spends a lot of their time showing people with guns, and often flashlights too, exploring gloomy places.

There must be some academy for actors to learn how to dance from corner to corner holding the gun in the most sexy way.

Edit: is there some place with explanations of the signs patrols use? Like raising the fist in an angle to mean "stop".

Nadge · 6 years ago

Yes, here is the

1. British version https://www.contactleft.co.uk/british-military-section-and-p...

2. American version https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/tc3-21-60.pdf

Nadge commented on Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode sarunw.com/posts/dark-col... · Posted by u/sarunw

pmoriarty · 6 years ago

Take a look at the Stylish extension, which has hundreds of styles for various websites that users created for it:

https://userstyles.org/

Using such pre-created styles is a lot faster, easier, and more convenient than manually customizing each and every element by hand yourself.

Knowing how to do that is, of course, a good skill to have when you actually do want to do something custom for which a pre-rolled style does not exist or when existing styles do something you don't like.

Nadge · 6 years ago

Oh wow, I like that, thank you. I'll get it installed once I'm home and look at contributing in the future :)

Nadge commented on Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019? · Posted by u/throwaway_yc

ImpressiveWebs · 6 years ago

My primary frontend blog/website (https://www.impressivewebs.com/) is mostly passive, I post maybe one article per month, usually not even that much. The blog has been active for about 10 years, so I get lots of SEO traffic, which brings in about $400-500 per month.

I also sell ebooks that are compilations of articles and tips from my newsletter (see below) on Leanpub and Amazon. (https://leanpub.com/b/javascriptdombundle)

My main newsletter (https://webtoolsweekly.com/) is now also a regular income stream (about $400-700 per month and growing), but not exactly passive. Takes regular research, writing, etc. But it’s fun to do and leads to all sorts of paid tech writing projects.

Finally, my newest newsletter (https://techproductivity.co/) is not yet making money but that’s starting to change as the subscription number has started to rise to a decent number and it’s very easy to write that one, maybe 2 hours of work per week.

Nadge · 6 years ago

Spent an hour on impressivewebs.com before I realised! Great blog, thanks for sharing.