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16 years ago
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on: The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing
Jakob Nielsen helped to popularize the myth that web users don't scroll down. It led to an era of website design that crammed as much onto one page, leading to busy, crowded homepages. It wasn't until later that early adopters of CSS made websites simple again, in part to avoid compatibility issues with Internet Explorer.
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: FTC to bloggers: disclose freebies or face $11,000 fine
This'll be a problem for the sort of games review site that mysteriously gave Master of Orion III a score of 97%.
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: Vim is a great text editor - try it
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: YouTube Comes To A 5-Star Realization: Its Ratings Are Useless
The more motivated you are to vote, the more likely you are to vote it a five. A mediocre video is characterized by a lack of votes, not a preponderance of three-star votes.
Back when Youtube rounded the average vote result down to the nearest star, I joked that Youtube videos really only had three ratings:
Five star: New video (eventually it will accrue a vote of other than 'five' and drop to four stars)
Four star: Top notch (mainly fives, a few troll one-star votes)
Three star: Disgusting trash (at least many one-votes as fives)
You don't see anything less than three-star since it will have been deleted by the time you get there.
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: A Really Nasty Ad Slips Past Google
This happened before, when Google Adsense paid $1 for anyone who installed Firefox with Google Toolbar via an affiliate link. A clever chap ran ads linking to a download page with his affiliate link.
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: Should programmers learn machine code?
Opera gives a Fraud Warning on that URL.
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack
Are hacked Wordpress installations usually running old versions, or is the latest Wordpress version usually equally vulnerable?
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How to choose the right language
Use Python.
If Python is too slow, use C.
If you don't know C, use Java.
If you don't know any of these, you ought to learn at least one. Use Python.
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms
It's a serious usability fault, not a clever hack. This test paper fails to comply with the user's expectations, like a webpage that breaks the Back button.
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: Radio Shack rebranded "The Shack"
Next up: Slashdot rebranded "the Dot".
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: Successful officeless game studio tells its secrets
"I hope I am not the first person to tell you this, but nobody reads design documents. In fact, when working at larger studios, I made a habit of inserting the line “I will pay $5 to anyone who reads this sentence” into the center of any document over 50 pages. In 10 years of development nobody ever asked for their money."
I knew it!
JDigital
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16 years ago
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on: Verify email. Wtf?
I was about to post almost exactly this to the link's comments, but they wanted me to sign up first, perhaps to confirm my identity. Irony much?
