passionfruit's comments

passionfruit | 10 years ago | on: Google Posts

This could be even more dangerous than Facebook's walled garden in that it further defines Google as "The Internet."

Why is this necessary if Google Plus already exists? Couldn't they just add the features to Google Plus and include them in the search results?

passionfruit | 10 years ago | on: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

They could start counting hashtags against the character limit after a certain number of them.

passionfruit | 10 years ago | on: No Matter What the FBI Says, Compromising Encryption Is a Technical Issue

That is the same sort of silliness as banning software but applied to hardware instead. Furthermore, many terrorist attacks have been done using knives and machetes such as the May 22, 2013 Woolwich attack.

passionfruit | 11 years ago | on: An Update to End-To-End

Perhaps those of us that prefer encrypted email should begin lobbying companies to encrypt transactional emails.

passionfruit | 12 years ago | on: GNU Denemo 1.1

Denemo has better Lilypond output than Musescore and is not merely a specialized text editor like Frescobaldi.

passionfruit | 12 years ago | on: Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop

True X-Mouse Gizmo provides middle click paste in Windows as well as focus follows mouse.

http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/

passionfruit | 12 years ago | on: No more CSS and HTML, just JS

It reminds me of EnyoJS http://enyojs.com

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: The Onion releases fartscroll.js

I use RequestPolicy[1] to prevent cross-site requests. If only NoScript is used and a user has allowed javascript on a domain, then NoScript allows cross-site requests and javascript from that domain to run on any domain.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: Google Spell goes down and no one notices

I decided to use Yandex Speller since at the time I was researching this issue it was clear that Google Spell was an undocumented and unsupported feature. http://api.yandex.ru/speller/

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: Comcast injecting JS

Here are some other ways.

1. They could email you. 2. They could send you a SMS. 3. They could let you view your bandwidth usage by logging into their site. 4. They could provide an application (desktop or mobile) to keep track of your bandwidth and alert you at certain points.

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: Do bigger images mean improved conversion rates? Three case studies

I have been surprised to observe the number of older people who still click on the up and down arrows in order to scroll. Moving the cursor onto the scroll arrows takes precision and for someone with poor mouse skills is even more difficult.

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: The Oxford Comma and The Internet

Using an em dash would make the sentence clear.

"Through the window she saw George—a policeman—and several onlookers."

Or one could simply specify who George is by inserting "who is" after George.

"Through the window she saw George, who is a policeman, and several onlookers."

If using the Oxford comma does not make the sentence clear then the sentence needs to be rewritten.

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: Don’t Take Medical Advice From the New York Times Magazine

This article makes some bad analogies. Showing the structure of two different molecules and acting aghast that someone would choose one over the other is like saying all digital information is 1's and 0's so it's all the same. Or it's like saying all words are just a bunch of the same letters therefore they have no meaning.

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Eight Books Everyone Should Read

Reading large works like these may stimulate your thinking much more than getting the same information in a shorter format.

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: Man builds life-sized replica of Noah's Ark

The article references the phrase "the cities of the coast shall tremble" as being in the New Testament [1] but the closest verse I could find is Ezekiel 26:18 [2] which is in the Old Testament.

[1] http://www.foxnews.com/science/slideshow/2012/12/12/man-buil...

[2] http://studybible.info/LITV/Ezekiel%2026:18

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

I get 10 spam emails a day that get past Yahoo's spam filter. The common factor in all of them is that my address is not in the "To" field. Marking them all as spam for the past several months has been completely ineffective. My solution was to filter all email without my address in the "To" field into another folder.

I don't think the Yahoo spam filter works on an individual basis like the gmail filter does.

passionfruit | 13 years ago | on: (Week end Hack) Obama vs Romney Find out who your friends prefer on Facebook

I almost allowed this access to my facebook account until I saw that the app name was misspelled "elpehantvsdonkey." It doesn't look trustworthy enough to use with an obvious misspelling like that.

passionfruit | 14 years ago | on: ChurchMint: Communication and Discovery Platform for Churches

I see the church submission form, but will there be a way to submit the churches of entire denominations whose directory of churches is publicly available?

SermonAudio.com, which also has mobile apps, already has similar functionality to this app. Why should churches use ChurchMint instead of SermonAudio? SermonAudio does cost money, so will ChurchMint be providing these services for free?

passionfruit | 14 years ago | on: A Call for Google+ to Enable Posting via its API

This is exactly what happened to Google Buzz.

passionfruit | 14 years ago | on: What's wrong with OKCupid's matching algorithm.

As a person with very strong religious views I've found the matching algorithm to be great at filtering out those with incompatible views. I think matching based on ethical, political, and religious views is the matching system's strength. The true weakness of the algorithm is that it matches poorly for personality. Two people can have very similar beliefs but be a terrible match in terms of personality. I would prefer an entirely separate score for that aspect.