God forbid we should actually interact with our fellow humans.
I guess the next step down this path is to replace waiters etc with robots - again reducing the amount you have to interact with other humans.
When I get in a taxi, I actually enjoy talking to the driver, asking about the local area, the news, and making both our days a tiny bit more interesting.
As the world population increases, and cities grow and grow I can only see this getting worse - millions of humans bunched together, and all of them scared to talk to each other.
(In case you hadn't guessed I'm not a city person)
I find that it depends quite heavily on the city in question. I live in Boston, where a lot of folks do generally keep to themselves, and it does suck sometimes (if I could get a good gig in a city that wasn't worse--hello, New York, hello, San Francisco--I would), but there are plenty of cities that emphatically don't feel this way. Portland, Oregon comes to mind. Both Dublin and Galway, in Ireland, too.
Another example of doing it wrong is when the form splits the cc number into 4 separate boxes, and automatically skips along merrily to the next box as you type it in. This might look nice and everything, but usually breaks if you try to backspace your entry, or paste etc
Don't forget the group of users who can move stories around adding or removing votes from them at will. I'm sure there's been a lot of "Put this on the front page please" favors done for friends.
If you're going to put adverts on your site, always put them within an iframe, pointed at a separate "adverts" only domain. This will ensure they can't execute javascript within your own website context.
> Is it violating program policy if I place ads on iframe webpages in my software?
> Yes, it does violate our policies. Firstly, you’re not allowed to place ads in a frame within another page. Exceptions to our policies are permitted only with authorization from Google for the valid use of iframes. Secondly, you’re not allowed to put ads in your software, e.g., if you control both a website with ads and an app that loads that website, we will take action against it.
Does it have to have a different domain or would a `src`-less iframe also work? You'd have to write the ad code into the iframe from the outer page, but that's not hard.
I guess the next step down this path is to replace waiters etc with robots - again reducing the amount you have to interact with other humans.
When I get in a taxi, I actually enjoy talking to the driver, asking about the local area, the news, and making both our days a tiny bit more interesting.
As the world population increases, and cities grow and grow I can only see this getting worse - millions of humans bunched together, and all of them scared to talk to each other.
(In case you hadn't guessed I'm not a city person)