1. Sep 11th, 2011

    Rounded Corners 285 — Metropolitan Etiquette Authority

    Log out Logged out users are users too, or how Twitter caters to both actives and the logged out.

    Moar data The three secrets of business analytics:

    Try to spend an hour a day consuming new data – just reading it in, absorbing it, maybe making some notes. It doesn’t need to be for any specific investigation of the moment, but it will pay dividends down the line. This is very similar to the “Rule of 10,000 hours” and other notions of “Just do, a lot”

    Comb over The secret to Java’s receding hair-line:

    But if you make all your decisions according to their urgency, one day you wake up with a receding hairline and a million lines of Java code running on a compiler that simply can’t accommodate new language features without three years of finangling. It’s entirely up to you how to proceed.

    Keyword I use MDN a lot, but never though of just adding it to the search term. From  Thomas Fuchs:

    Protip: looking for JavaScript documentation? Just add “mdn” to your Google search. Mozilla’s docs are the best.

    Legendary A History of Bayes’ Theorem. Interesting that it was contentious in so many circles.

    Seriously. Seriously, stop with the booth babes. Why this practice needs to die.

    Choice quote Lea Verou:

    Yesterday, I saw that a non-techie friend had IE8. I explained to her how we developers struggle with IE, especially < 9. I showed her examples of CSS3 websites and how they display on Chrome, Firefox and IE8. She was very surprised and said she thought they were all the same and will always update ASAP from now on. The moral is: Developers, don’t think that people don’t care. People naturally don’t want to cause trouble to others. Explain to them what we go through. One person at a time. We can do it

    Image from the Metropolitan Etiquette Authority series.

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    1. Sep 12th, 2011

      Crosbie Fitch

      Re Twitter.

      Note that logged out users can see tweets from users that are withheld from them when logged in, i.e. by those that ‘block’ them. This is rather perverse.

      There is also the unintended consequence, that hiding tweets from someone creates an incentive for that person to seek out the tweets hidden from them, presumably the opposite intention of the user instigating the ‘block’.

      I can’t see a good reason to give a logged-in user less of a service than a logged-out user.

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