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New comment by gocard in "Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees"

gocard — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 04:10:21 +0000

Is the driver charging the passenger? Or is Uber charging the passenger, and putting forth a contract at a set rate which individual drivers can accept or decline?

New comment by gocard in "MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy"

gocard — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:09:04 +0000

Not to mention the arrow keys produce a lot of errors and the touch to click fails to register about 10% of the time. I end up typing in the wrong window multiple times per day.

New comment by gocard in "TANX: online multiplayer tank battle using WebGL and Node.js"

gocard — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:41:41 +0000

omg, i just owned a bunch of you guys. l2p noobs

New comment by gocard in "Wayback machine gets a facelift, new features"

gocard — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:58:25 +0000

Why didn't this cause an infinite loop?

New comment by gocard in "Dropbox opening my docs?"

gocard — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:44:30 +0000

In case you were wondering, I descrambled the blanked out "png" files and the filenames were "jennymccarthy[01-04].png"

New comment by gocard in "Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer"

gocard — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:50:36 +0000

Or maybe she was wearing a t-shirt brandishing the company she works for.

New comment by gocard in "Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer"

gocard — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:30:43 +0000

On Courier New? Mmmm, a lot of the characters have serifs.

New comment by gocard in "Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer"

gocard — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:02:42 +0000

Compare the fonts on this page. Courier gets muddied when it's bolded, and feels a tad thin when not, in my opinion:

http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts

The last 3 fonts listed on the page are really strong for programming.

New comment by gocard in "Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer"

gocard — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:53:35 +0000

It's a serif font, which makes it noisier in my opinion. It's also a relatively thin font, making it more difficult to read.

New comment by gocard in "Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer"

gocard — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:09:57 +0000

WTF is wrong with Courier New? Haha, just kidding.

New comment by gocard in "Solar panels help keep buildings cool, reducing A/C needs"

gocard — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:51:53 +0000

Would just installing propped up reflective (or something painted white) panels above a roof have the same effect? Prop them up so that air can efficiently flow underneath to further reduce the heat your actual roof absorbs. The cost seems like it could be very minimal (as opposed to costly solar panels). The benefit over trees is that you don't get leaves stuck in your gutters or branches falling and damaging your home.

New comment by gocard in "What Readers Found in Facebook’s ‘Other’ Folder"

gocard — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:51:07 +0000

If you're using a service every day, and a lot of people don't understand how it works, I'd suggest that's a flaw with the design of the product or its features.

New comment by gocard in "Revising MailChimp's logo"

gocard — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:45:04 +0000

I actually didn't see it like that. But now that you pointed it out, I can't unsee it.

New comment by gocard in "Rogue employee fired for turning game into Bitcoin mining colony"

gocard — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:26:21 +0000

He must have put the decimal point in the wrong place or something.

New comment by gocard in "Why do users click randomly and rapidly when an application hangs?"

gocard — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:45:33 +0000

If someone was standing in front of you, and you asked him a question, and after a 30 seconds didn't get a response, would you just stand there, or would you prompt him again to figure out why he didn't answer? Maybe say it louder, because he didn't hear the first time. Or perhaps he's confused, and you can clear that up by asking your question in a different manner. You wouldn't just stand there waiting forever, however.

People begin clicking, typing for the very same reason. You're trying to figure out why a response wasn't given. You click again to make sure that your click registered the first time. If it wasn't the application will now respond. If it was, now you're trying to decipher whether the application is hung or not, or perhaps something did grab focus, like a pop behind, as a commenter suggested.

I guess I don't find this a particularly interesting investigation of human behavior. What's the alternative for the person? Sit there and wait forever?

New comment by gocard in "The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173"

gocard — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:05:57 +0000

Han does shoot first!

New comment by gocard in "VLC has been downloaded over a billion times"

gocard — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:12:19 +0000

I couldn't find an easy way to disable subtitles completely for all videos I watched. After searching through the forums, the way to do that is to set the default subtitle track in the advanced Input/Codecs settings to a really high number, or you have to go to the advanced Video section and disable "sub pictures". WTF. It's those kind of things that drive me crazy. They do a lot of great things to make their system flexible, and then stop just short of making it usable. Instead of calling it "sub pictures", just call it "sub titles", and it'd be obvious to me how to disable sub titles. Or in the codecs section, have a checkbox to disable subtitles (which would set the default track to some high number for me). I would consider that "unfriendly".