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Comment · 11 years ago
I love YouTube. I use it daily. I have some grief with the interface though. It seems like it doesn't want to be a webpage. So much of it feels custom-made as opposed to browser based. Navigation, scrolling, and image loading breaks for me all the time regardless of browser. So for me it feels risky to adopt their interface implementation.

I realize that YouTube is a crazy hard problem to tackle, and that is probably why stuff like this is necessary.

Comment · 11 years ago
I see, is there an equivalent for robots? Like putting part of the algorithm in to hardware or something? Or is my "algorithm" still "there", I'm just not as aware that I'm following it?
Comment · 11 years ago
This reminds me of when i was learning to drive. In the beginning I was only aware of what was immediately in front of the car, and as such, drove very slow and had pay extra attention because a lot of important stuff was coming in to my field of view all the time.

Now, when i drive i look further down the road, i plan out how to follow the road, i see the intersection coming up, and try to anticipate the routes of the other cars/bikes and that requires far less energy, than only processing the immediate surroundings.

Comment · 12 years ago
Another reason for keeping the commented-out-code, could be if reverting to a previous version of the code is more work, than checking in a new version. Or when the old commented-out-code is used as an explanation as to why the current code looks as it does.
Comment · 12 years ago
A great idea. And very well executed! One thing though, for some reason emails from the same list does not group together in my Outlook 2013, like "RE:" and "FW:" mails do. (In other words: The "Show as Conversations"-option doesn't seem to work on emails from Planleaf)
Comment · 12 years ago
I see. Thank you!
Comment · 12 years ago
Is it only on Mac it shows the actual status codes on the network tab? On Windows i have to hover the little icon in the first column, which is really annoying when I'm trying to figure out if my caching is working correctly.
Comment · 12 years ago
That is an excellent idea! Make it cross platform, and able to install missing tools, combine it with speech to text and you would be able to talk to any device regardless of the software installed on the device.

    please open presentation X from my dropbox
Comment · 12 years ago
A way to do this could be to use a kind of proxy address. That way you would not have to convince every postal service to adopt some new system. The problem with that, of cause, is that it most likely would take you mail much longer to arrive, and you have another 3rd party (4th party?) service provider involved to potentially make mistakes and compromise security.
Comment · 12 years ago
Its easy when you are just dealing with "text elements" of equal size. But if you are loading images or injecting content in the list elements, the back-button starts to break.
Comment · 12 years ago
Why is this so hard that even Google can't get it right? If a page has little to no other content than the content in the list, why is it worth the hassle?
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Nice! Another idea would be to use events in stead of keys in the sequence, something like:

"click:#elem1 click:#elem2 keyup:13"

That would enable you to make slightly more advanced easter eggs or "cheets"

Comment · 13 years ago
I use the numpad for every number i type on my keyboard. It's much faster and the time/energy i would save by having to move my hand a shorter distance to the mouse, is no where near the amount of time/energy i save by not having to look at the keyboard and find each individual number.

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