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ticks commented on Sweden Twitter Experiment Goes Painfully Awry   mashable.com/2012/06/12/s... · Posted by u/Jagat
sciurus · 14 years ago
You don't think the string of tweets starting with

"Whats the fuzz with jews. You can't even see if a person is a jew, unless you see their penises, and even if you do, you can't be sure!?"

is "painfully awry" for a twitter account intended to promote tourism to Sweden? What about the tweet about the "hungry gay with aids"?

I doubt those encourage anyone who's jewish or homosexual to visit Sweden.

ticks · 14 years ago
I guess that's why it's an experiment. Tourist boards are driven by marketing and PR types. It's refreshingly transparent to hear from - apparently - real people... you see the country from their viewpoint.
ticks commented on Sweden Twitter Experiment Goes Painfully Awry   mashable.com/2012/06/12/s... · Posted by u/Jagat
mef · 14 years ago
Wouldn't this mean the experiment has been a success? The experiment is "... based around the idea that no single voice can represent the country, so a slew of guest Swedish curators will do the best job to portray the national character."

Take a cross section of any society and you're going to get people of all kinds, including people like Sonja.

ticks · 14 years ago
The Mashable writer might just be a bit sensitive, I like the Sweden account (and follow other similar ones). Users seem to be free to talk about all sorts of sensitive topics without problem. To me, this week is just an off-week, where I am less interested in the person but will be sticking with it.
ticks commented on Flame is Lame    f-secure.com/weblog/archi... · Posted by u/wglb
ticks · 14 years ago
I'm probably alone on this, but 'lame' is such a lazy word to use. Saying it repeatedly just made me stop reading.
ticks commented on Firefox Heatmap - How People Use Firefox's Interface   heatmap.mozillalabs.com/... · Posted by u/michael_fine
notJim · 14 years ago
I'm a web developer, and I use the back and forward buttons* all the time, especially if I'm being lazy. For example, if I'm shopping for something, rather than opening a whole bunch of tabs, I'll just bounce back and forth using forward and back. I think I do this especially when I'm farther away from what I want, and as I start to zero in more, I start opening more tabs at once so I can compare.

Also, from some usability studies we've done at my job, it seems that most people are almost completely unable to deal with window management. We rolled out functionality for a while that broke the back button (poorly-implemented infinite scroll) and found that our pages performed very poorly, because people would lose their place and just leave. We kind of had assumed that most people would use tabs, but that turned out not to be the case at all.

Anecdotally, watching my mom use the computer recently was enlightening. She's been using computers longer than I have, and is very savvy with certain things (e.g., she still knows how to use Excel to solve problems better than I do, and I know Excel pretty damn well.) She seems to use browser tabs sort of like "processes", rather than "threads". For example, she'll have her "hotel search" tab, her "rental car" tab, and her "flight search" tab, and within those tabs, she'll stick to that topic, using the back buttons to look at different pages. When I switched spots with her, and started spawning a whole bunch of tabs from each tab, she started to lose track of things.

* Edit: actually, I almost never use the buttons themselves, but I use the functionality as I described. I use mouse buttons, gestures or shortcut keys, rather than the buttons.

ticks · 14 years ago
Your mother sounds like she's using tabs like you would in Excel, where you have different spreadsheets for different types of transactions. You see that quite a lot with users who are experts in one area and try to carry over their skills to another area - rather than adapting to new ideas.

As for forward and back, yeah I use them a lot too. Normally via extra mouse buttons or keyboard though.

ticks commented on Germany, Not Greece, Should Exit the Euro   bloomberg.com/news/2012-0... · Posted by u/cs702
ticks · 14 years ago
I don't know where I read this, but I always thought the EC/EU/Euro was an effort by the allied countries to tame a future German economy. If that's true, then Germany distancing themselves would surely defeat the purpose of the union.
ticks commented on Why isn't Java used for modern web application development?   programmers.stackexchange... · Posted by u/neya
taligent · 14 years ago
I don't think that the Oracle lawsuits have made a single bit of difference to anybody.

Oracle isn't the only big fish in the Java space.

ticks · 14 years ago
I've got to say, I'm wary of supporting technologies that are linked to disagreeable behaviour like that - for a time I was considering phasing out MySQL for a similar reason. I saw Sun as one of the good guys.

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ticks commented on Against live-tweeting at conferences   jasonlefkowitz.net/2012/0... · Posted by u/smacktoward
hpaavola · 14 years ago
People should concentrate more on experiencing and less on reporting. Live-tweeting during conferences, taking pictures at concerts, checking in to happenings etc. I feel that people do those just to show of how nice their life is, instead of actually living it.
ticks · 14 years ago
It is especially surprising given that conference tickets are usually really expensive.

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