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by 1attice 3y ago
great! Be careful. If they're paying attention (and you just buried the needle on HN, so assume they are,) you're about to make some very powerful people very nervous. There will be offers, I predict. Not all of them wholesome.
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by 1attice 3y ago
Charming. What I mean is: - there are strong, empirically tested usability reasons why a desktop-style UI is the pits on a mobile device - generally, the move to mobile devices inclines to a different UI paradigm -- something finger-friendl
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by 1attice 3y ago
Yes, it works , but it looks the same. Remember Windows CE? We've been down this road -- a windowing desktop on a phone is... hard to use, actually.
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by 1attice 3y ago
One of the things I find curious here is that there's no mobile story to speak of. Drag the window narrow, and all that happens is that the taskbar icons look squished. Is there a mobile mode coming? This would be dope af if I could ge
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by 1attice 3y ago
Agreed. Also, I just found this. This current, ongoing attack against GitHub is nicely mitigated by signed commits. If everyone signed commits, before cloning a repo, you could check to see if (a) the author of the fork added anything of va
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by 1attice 3y ago
Agreed about the writing quality (lack of focus). I thought the bit about liability was a stretch; I don't think this guy is a lawyer, so I'm not sure why he thinks he's in a good position to assess. Generally, I think signed
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by 1attice 3y ago
By being correct.
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by 1attice 3y ago
Livescience is so funny: >The breakthrough is significant because quantum memory is a foundational technology that will be a precursor to a quantum internet – the next generation of the World Wide Web. Where to begin "Quantum carbur
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by 1attice 3y ago
Hi! I'm in Vancouver (and also originally from AB.) I'm doing ok right now, but I have been through some dark times myself. Sending you an email. Unsure of what help I can be, but I feel called to find out.
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by 1attice 3y ago
Most engineers have more mechanical (or logical) sympathy than user empathy. This is not a bad thing, generally -- attention is a zero-sum system, and a profound awareness of human discomfort is not as important to creating systems that are
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by 1attice 3y ago
I'd do technical writing. Maybe instead of aiming for FT, aim for a few bits of contract work. Then use those to burnish your portfolio (or start one.) Advantages of technical writing: 1. You get to spend your time playing with things,
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by 1attice 3y ago
This feels like a mis-aimed article -- I use Matrix a lot, and Element, while annoying, is only one of many options. Compare "The IRC trashfire" (an article about the infelicities of Mirc)
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by 1attice 3y ago
Well, a shockingly high percentage drop out of their profession, and get stuck somewhere doing something like CSR.
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by 1attice 3y ago
Correct. But my original post is not normative, but rather descriptive. Despite how things should be, this is how they are . I've found that it's extraordinarily valuable to separate these two cognitive modes wherever possible.
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by 1attice 3y ago
Most professions, quietly, are currently like this. Architects and scientists and doctors and surgeons and lawyers all develop strong opinions about each other based on their positions. For instance: ask a lawyer what they think about the o
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by 1attice 3y ago
GD it. [logs back into chat] "Ok, so it turns out, some birds aren't real. I hope you're happy."
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by 1attice 3y ago
I love FF and T-bird hard, but I have this mental image of a huddle full of brilliant, 20-year-plus systems engineers sitting in a room staring at a whiteboard with 'AI?' in the middle of it. "Ok, everybody popcorn up some id
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by 1attice 3y ago
This just saying, "Bob's rent skyrockets, while his grocery purchasing plummets." No sht Bob is having a hard time buying groceries. CEOs are important -- not intrinsically, but to survival. Their actions are important. The
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by 1attice 3y ago
Hot take: Google Calendar. No, really. UX rule: Facility drives frequency. The main barrier to normative polyamory, it turns out, was the sheer logistical challenge of maintaining elaborate, reliable structures of commitments. Google Calend
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by 1attice 3y ago
P.S. I note I only answered your question with regard to browser programming; for other GUI situations, things are similar, if not worse. E.g. GTK+, which is used to make some devastatingly effective and elegant Gnome apps these days, is, i
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by 1attice 3y ago
[context: frontend eng here, with a CS background and lots of experience on the backend] The reason frontend dev sucks so much, essentially, is humans. Have you met humans? They are opinionated, dogmatic, and hidebound; their habits and p
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by 1attice 3y ago
(Context: I'm pretty thick into Nix, and have been for about four years. Most of this post is focussed on the NixOS desktop experience, so DevOps nerds, ymmv.) Unpopular opinion: Nix is not that hard. What's "hard" from
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by 1attice 3y ago
Blind people depend on them. They tend to be used more (by web devs) than ARIA properties, IIRC, so I'm told it helps a lot.
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by 1attice 3y ago
To be clear, not every question requires a question mark :) Punctuation is not a DTD. And to be clear about the earlier thing: even if I didn't know how to do anything with Linux, it is now possible to install and have everything just
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by 1attice 3y ago
Because poor usability just is a vuln. If you make life unlivable, either for yourself or for a group of people, you can expect security to fall by the wayside. Real-world security isn't just about digraphs and compendia of named (know
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by 1attice 3y ago
literally, that is now the case. Did you not read my post.
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by 1attice 3y ago
> I've been "very lucky" with five computers in a row now, for almost a decade. Linux is actually a good, reliable desktop OS these days. This. I've been using Linux as a primary OS across all my devices for about twe
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by 1attice 3y ago
Cool product! How does this compare to (e.g.) dolt, which is pitched as 'git for data'?
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by 1attice 3y ago
This is very cool but it needs a nix package. :) I may try my hand at packaging it for Nix(OS) later this week
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by 1attice 3y ago
I haven't kept up on my Python-flavoured shells. How is this different with xonsh? What similarities does it have with xonsh? Looking for a compare/contrast, not a ranking. Diversity is usually good Kudos to author, this looks rea

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