I’d love to have overheard his plans and just turn up wearing chrome clothes like “I heard there was a party”

The site looks beautiful and the utility of it reminds me of Adobe’s kuler. Good job

If I had to make one suggestion, for the site - the gradients and effects look really great, but in addition, if the selected colours were also shown as solid colour blocks, it would help so much to visualise how they would work as a palette. (I’m viewing on mobile so if this is already happening on desktop, a mobile version would be great)

I think the main thing you’ve got to ask yourself when abstracting duplicated code is: are these things very similar because they are intrinsically linked or is it slightly coincidental. I.e if we ever have to change B will we always want to change A in the same way?

If the answer is that you’re not sure, it’s probably better to duplicate, and see what the case is when it needs to change again - and then decide whether to abstract or not.

The main thing you have to ask yourself, will these duplicates ever need to be special-cased, and how hard will it be? Will someone have to write monolithic handling for that case from scratch, or are there ways of hooking or overriding individual behavioral choices?

In the one with the two assistants - “What would the other one tell me to click” - they said it was the white button (meaning they’d really want you to press the blue one). But the white button was ‘incorrect’. Surely the assistant would want you to accept the terms no?

If they care about making the whole Internet a safer place to all, why would they patent this?

"You received a hint: someone wants to #breakUp with you"

The thought of that just cracked me up :D Seems like a really good idea though, I like it!

Lol in that case the initial sender could be more subtle and send a hint that they specifically are thinking something about the other person, but not what. Then it would be up to the other person to try to match the thought without direct knowledge of what the hashtag is.

You're right, other mediums employ whatever tactics they can to keep our attention. I think the key differences here are that we have our phones with us all of the time, and the phones have the ability to interrupt whatever we're doing. The point being highlighted in this video, whether you think it's a good thing or a bad thing, is that those two things are being exploited to make us addicted to looking at our phones.

I think everybody is in favour of interesting articles and engaging content - I think what this guy is against is the cheap tactics being used at the moment to make you check your phone regardless of the quality of the content you're checking.

"Harry Huskey, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Is Dead at 101"

Only 5 years old? Yeesh that's young.

> Participants were not informed of the sexual orientation of the person but allowed to freely guess from the voice or face of the individual.

> ‘gay- sounding’ voice

Jesus, it's batshit-insane to me that people still think like this.

It's awful. I know plenty of straight guys who have a "gay-sounding" voice, and I'm gay but people tell me I sound "straight", which at least in my experience means this is all complete nonsense.

What they really mean is that if someone thinks you're gay or lesbian then you're likely to suffer from homophobic discrimination.

While a reminder of that is probably useful for the world at large, it's not new to anybody who identifies outside the straight cisgender categories. Or actually, anybody who is straight and cis who somebody has decided "looks gay".

> What they really mean is that if someone thinks you're gay or lesbian then you're likely to suffer from homophobic discrimination.

Discrimination is always based on characteristics as percieved by the one doing the discrimination.

I know right? People look for things that confirm their own biases ("X Y and Z are gay and they sound like this"). Oh, and I wasn't having a go at the study, even if it is a little ropey, just bewildered that people still think in that way. Like people thinking that if you're black you probably talk a certain way, or like certain music.

People are pretty accurate at judging 'gay faces': https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/somethin...

I'm sure voices are similar. I expect an AI would be able to distinguish without too many problems.

"For example, when shown only the eye region ("without brows and cropped to the outer canthi so that not even "crow's-feet" were visible"), perceivers were amazingly still able to accurately identify a man as being gay"

That's pretty mental.

So the 128Gb iPad Mini 4 has a smaller screen and a slower chip than the new 128Gb, but it's only £10 cheaper?

It is hard to see Apple keeping the mini around for much longer. I assume they are simply running down stock and will remove it soon, before end of the year.

Why do you say that? It's still mid-life, same as the Pros.

The mini is still the iPad form factor I prefer, so that would be a shame.

The mini makes a great point-of-sale terminal. It's large enough to display the order and sign on, but small enough that you don't have to clear the counter in order to be able to swivel it around.

If the cheap mini goes away will there be some Android OEM that steps into that market? Or will business owners just suck it up and buy the 128GB version?

I doubt it. The Mini is a great tablet for little kids. It's just the right size for toddlers and they can still hold it even when you put an Otterbox Defender on it.

It works great for me too. I'm 38 and three quarters

You're a cute little munchkin!

They're so adorable at 464 months.

I think people are finding that hand-me-down iPads and cheap trash tablets from Amazon are the best tablets for little kids.

That's too bad. I really like my Mini 2.

Damn. It was the best digital equivalent of book ever created.

I hope not. It's the best form factor. I think all the other iPads are too big.

What's missing (for me) is an iPad Mini Pro. I absolutely prefer the small form factor, but I want the more advanced features.