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> All you need to do some very impressive tricks is a single move — the double lift. As someone who has had a casual interest in card magic and sleight of hand, here’s an observation about how so m…

Trying to understand what happened to this thread. It was detached from its original location and hidden under a “more” link? Never seen that before, would @dang care to explain?

Yes, I want to turn it off as a user of Google search.

There’s a simple thing Google could do to convince me that their intentions with AMP are honorable: make it possible to turn it off. EDIT, to be clear: for Google search results.

Your quote is a straw man, but what does it matter if jealousy is involved or not? You can disregard any animosity stemming from social injustices with that logic. Women are just straight up jealous b…

> Are you suggesting that the simple fact that one has more money than you is sufficient to justify animus? Not if the difference is trivial, but absolutely when it is as enormous and as unmotivate…

Looks fairly interesting. Two questions the documentation ought to answer: 1. How mature is it? My assumption is that it’s not mature, in which case it’s more credible if the README says so. 2. Wha…

Today I searched for a phrase including the word “Swedish”. First result was an article that contained the word “German”, which Google had helpfully bolded in the excerpt, as Swedish and German are ba…

Never seen that logo before. For some reason they set the numbers in Roboto but “TC” in something Avenir like. [EDIT: It’s probably Neutra Text, which the JS logo uses] It looks bonkers, and not in a …

Of course! But that is one technology of many. The power dynamics that technology amplifies can be a net positive force, and often is. In other cases it’s a net negative, like new technologies to kill…

> First Law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” In recent years I feel like I've gone from being a technology optimist – believing that technology in itself is somehow a …

> Tumblr was acquired over five years ago. And then again, less than two years ago. Which acquisition do you think GP referred to?

Sorry! Looks like I can’t delete it, but it doesn’t appear to be getting any upvotes anyway. Congrats on a great looking product btw!

This is a cool hack, but it makes me wonder if it’s really necessary or a good idea that systems like these are Turing complete?

This seems rather similar to “Functional Core, Imperative Shell”[1]. As much as possible of your program should be stateless logic, and then you have a smaller part that handles messy side effects and…

By definition, since it's owned by Google. You can apply the same logic to any proposed split.

What do you mean, you just have to click the right nondescript links in the right order, then manually uncheck sharing data with each of their 200+ partners.

Let’s try an analogy: most small loudspeakers are unable to get good volume without distorting the sound. You have a choice between playing music that sounds as intended but at a very soft volume, or …

That comparison is very enlightening. The Windows version is very sharp, but the letter forms are completely distorted and it looks like it’s switching typeface as the point size changes, or even with…