callum85
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Comment · 11 years ago
That article is bullshit. You can't judge gov.uk by its homepage, because that's almost never where you land.
Now that we have gov.uk, whenever I google something about doing my tax, or registering to vote at a new address, or any other arduous governmental admin shit, I usually end up on a beautifully simple and focused gov.uk page, and I'm in and out in 2 minutes. That's what a government website is about.
I agree the homepage looks like a parked domain but whatever. Take a random page like this: https://www.gov.uk/alter-a-will-after-a-death
Look at how brief and clear the writing is. Look at how straightforward its URL is. Have a look at some more pages, look how consistent the design language is. This is exactly what a government website should be like.
Comment · 11 years ago
"I guess I need to apologize to my parents, friends, and the staff at Chuck E. Cheese's for all the times I called the cops on them."
— title text from today's XCKD http://xkcd.com/1581/
Comment · 11 years ago
Not a lawyer, but here's how I see it:
Lawsuit: "You approached me and gave me false information that has cost me money. Pay me to cover all my losses resulting from this false information."
How (or even whether) the defendent benefited from the losses doesn't even need to come into it, as far as I can tell.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's a bit self conscious, but it's good natured and sincere, certainly not pretentious.
Comment · 11 years ago
Getting slightly off topic, but I'm confused about an aspect of server push (maybe you can help). Even on HTTP/1, the client typically only downloads assets on the first page load for a given website, then it caches them. Subsequent requests for other pages are much quicker because the assets don't need to be downloaded again. With server push, would the server typically send all linked assets on every request? Or can it somehow keep track of which clients have cached which assets, and avoid wasting bandwidth?
Comment · 11 years ago
I thought the above comment was funny and harmless. Why so harsh?