mirzmaster's comments

Perhaps more intuitively, you can also option+click on the green 'maximize' bubble to maximize the window.

This is fantastic! Do you know if there's an open source project/framework powering this site? Seems really valuable for powering inner-source and private developer communities.

#joist60 is trending on Twitter and lots of Toronto startups and software organizations are supporting those laid off. Some of your peers are tweeting that hashtag as well. Head there and take a look at the offers.

I'm not convinced that this is an instance of autopilot "saving the day", as the title of the driver's video would suggest.

The driver states in his video description that he was "watching stopped traffic to my right". Think how you would react were you in full control of a car in that instance. You have a virtually stopped lane of traffic to your right, you see cars braking about 100 ft ahead of you. Wouldn't you start slowing down? I would, as clearly travelling as fast as the driver is where all surrounding traffic is slowing or stopped doesn't make sense, however the driver doesn't appear to slow down at all, by his own admission focused on the cars to his right. Was he legitimately distracted by cars to his right, or was he depending on the car's situational awareness? I'm leaning towards the latter, what I believe is an affordance offered by autopilot systems.

I think we'll start hearing and seeing many such "success" stories of close calls involving autopilot, but I'm not sure how many of these will be incidents of autopilot truly saving an otherwise attentive driver by reacting faster/better than the attentive driver. It seems to me that autopilot is going to be both cause and saviour in far too many cases.

Here's the official Siggraph 2015 submission, linking to both the PDF as well as the demonstration video:

https://sites.google.com/site/obstructionfreephotography/

Would you mind sharing some of your G+ follows? Brian Koberlein (https://plus.google.com/+BrianKoberlein) is definitely one of my favourites.

Design looks great, though I've encountered a bug. When I click "Get Started" the signup modal displays. Clicking the browser's back button after this removes the signup form, but leaves the modal in place. Continuing to hit the back button appears to toggle display of the signup form. Hitting the 'x' in the top right corner will dismiss the modal.

> Originally Phoenix was the Gecko engine in a native UI window without all the XUL overhead

I'm not sure Phoenix was ever a reaction to XUL. Phoenix was more a reaction to the kitchen sink feature-list of Netscape 5 and Mozilla Application Suite, seeking to pare down the feature set to a minimally viable browser.

In XUL (and moreso XBL) Mozilla had a web technology that there was talk of submitting for standardization and which brought with it a level of expression that HTML didn't offer at the time. As HTML, CSS and JavaScript have evolved, XUL/XBL bring less and less to the table.

Still no Nastaliq [1] for Urdu and Persian script. There's a great piece on Medium [2] about the death of the Urdu script at the hands of the more structured Arabic Naskh font.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq_script

[2] https://medium.com/@eteraz/the-death-of-the-urdu-script-9ce9...

> Many Google services employ commenting/voting/rating etc, handling these in different, separate siloed systems makes no sense.

Why doesn't that make sense? Is a YouTube user naturally a Google Drive user? A Gmail user naturally a Blogger user? This seems to only make sense to Google, and not their users.

I don't know how much overlap there was between YouTube users and Google account users, but Google merged the two simply to boost the profile of Google+. People who wanted to comment on YouTube videos with their Google+ pals and their real identities were already doing that -- on Google+. The forcing of Google+ on YouTube offered no discernible benefit to YouTube users that could not have been offered while maintaining YouTube as a distinct social network.

As a Google+ user, the utter disregard towards YouTube and its distinct identity severely annoyed me.

Laptop users don't have a mouse wheel. Others may not have a mouse wheel on their mouse.

Reopening a closed tab via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T has been a longtime feature of Firefox, since at least early 2007.

More Netflix content we Canadians can't watch. <sigh/>

Sure you can connect directly to Elon Musk and Bill Gates, but is what you're getting from them fact? Are there any opposing views? Do you have all the context around what they may be saying? Getting your information from the horse's mouth is most valuable when you are getting all the information, ideally coalesced into a single place.

Augmenting a story with accountability and completeness is arguably the primarily responsibility of newspapers and journalists, especially in the Internet era.

Was it The Daily that struck a deal with Verizon, or Verizon who courted The Daily? The latter is to me the more likely scenario. Purely speculating, Verizon could have offered The Daily distribution to its millions of Android customers at a rate better than Apple's 30% off the top.

With those prices I'm not optimistic about the uptake, but good on Apple for making the unlocked variety available.

Great, now my wife can find all the romantic comedies I don't want to watch in one, convenient, easy-to-browse list.

https://www.google.com/search?q=romantic+comedy+movies

A communications disruption can mean only one thing -- invasion.

I don't think the Unix-Windows analogy is very apt, actually, as both have been revolutionary in different ways (by any measure). *nix has gone on to power much of the software on which the Internet runs. Windows powers much of the software user's directly interact with. By comparison, Apple/iOS and Android are competing more directly.

The author of the article is arguing that more revolutionary than being the first (or even the best) at something is subsequently making that innovation accessible to as many people as possible. This is something both Unix and Windows have achieved, Android is trying to achieve, but I'm not sure Apple is even interested in.

Perhaps a more apt analogy would be the invention of the automobile vs. the assembly line. True, the automobile was a genuine innovation, but the assembly line put the automobile within reach of everyone.

With this view in mind, it's okay that Apple wants to focus on pushing the envelope in what its car can do. Likewise, it's okay that Google wants to focus on making those or similar innovations accessible to as many as possible.

I wonder if you can add a custom sharing link from Google Reader's settings page and leverage the Pinboard API:

http://pinboard.in/api/#posts_add