Or sometimes 10s, or never, or partial results, or dropped connections, or...

The network is not reliable.

assert() is a macro that is usually disabled in production builds. Input validation is obviously most important in production, so assert() should never be used for validation.

That's not true at all. Lightroom can add photos at their current location, or import them to a location of your choice. There's no "hidden directory".

Lightroom supports sidecar (xml) changes, or syncing metadata to the files. Your choice.

All that dithering! I don't miss that at all.

The smallest EBS snapshot you can create is 1GB

I'm not sure what you mean?

Data is usually replicated across datacenters.

Yeah, me too. I opened up a bunch of tabs from the front page (as is my usual habit here, reddit, etc), and by the time I got to this it had changed to Gmail and I was totally fooled. I've gotta be more careful!

Fascinating article. I also really enjoyed the presentation - the mix of writing, video and images worked well together. This is the first time I've seen the "BBC Magazine", and the experience is great.

on mobile (android), it was absolutely awful, every few scrolls it took over my screen and started automatically playing a video. if i wanted to watch the video in your article, i would press play, don't force it upon me

The software they used (shorthand.com) says it's in private beta - I'm sure they'd appreciate feedback. Otherwise on a laptop it was fantastic.

Are you using the stock Android browser? I found it presented well on Firefox for Android. And I didn't have trouble with the videos playing automatically, something which I also hate.

More than the article, I enjoyed the presentation. The whole design is very intricately woven together with various media elements. I loved the style but at the same time I was slightly annoyed by not being in control (probably the auto changing images with scroll was slightly over the top). I wonder how's the user experience with others.

I had the opposite experience; usually I can't stand when a website tries to do something novel with my scrolling, but here all they did was update to a more relevant map alongside the text, for example. I was a bit too ecstatic to see that.

Agreed: the presentation is excellent. Very much in the tradition of the BBC's radio 'From Our Own Correspondent'.

It says it was built with Shorthand - http://shorthand.com/ . Anyone know of an open-source equivalent?

I found the multimedia presentation to be over-designed, clunky, unusable nonsense.

I found it extremely frustrating myself.

I'm really impressed with the amount of effort that has gone into this study, but those charts are just awful. Those line charts should be bar charts IMHO, I'm immediately scanning the chart left-to-right before I realise that the x-axis are actually categories

Agreed. The last thing you want is to have to debug those weird "it worked on my desktop" issues that come from having a really weirdly configured system