CoryAlexMartin

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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
I don't find these anti-capitalist arguments very compelling, because the downsides of capitalism aren't nearly as bad as the downsides of other economic systems. However, mobile apps are generally trying to occupy as much of your
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
Yes, that's my point. Tools are tools, and there's benefit in making them good whether they're used by 1 person or 100 million people.
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
The idea of polishing dev tools used to seem counter-intuitive to me, but I’ve come around on that. The last thing you want is to dread doing your job, and if you can make parts of your job joyful, then I think you’re likely to be more prod
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
Maybe you're not sensitive to choppy UI rendering and high input lag, or you simply don't value responsiveness. In which case, perhaps the devices that came in the iPhone's wake were adequate to you.
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
> That may be because Apple's implementation was absolutely lacking. The first iPhone was a vibrant, shiny feature phone disguised as a smartphone. They put their bet towards marketing and fashion, not tech and revolution - which pa
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
A problem that I've come to notice with a lot of tech people is they either don't notice or don't value good implementation, even if that implementation is leagues ahead of everything else. It's important to develop tast
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
> “I guarantee that every single person who liked and shared that post about bringing Instagram back to what it was, would spend way less time on Instagram if it reverted back to how it used to be” I'm likely not in the majority her
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
An established social media platform's most valuable asset is the size of its userbase. Even with the reach of Musk, I think it would be hard to attract a large enough userbase to make the product more compelling than Twitter.
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
I also find his writing very unnatural and hard to read. It makes me seriously doubt his method, which he claims he's been using for twenty years. The first thing that stood out to me was the robotic nature of his writing. It seems lik
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
I'm running a copy of iTunes 8 right now, and I disagree. I also disagree that the old style of design is less suited towards complicated software. Apple's iWork software feels like it's suffered the most in terms of usabilit
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
Why do you prefer the new UI? I can make a list of reasons why it's bad. The only reason I can see why anyone would prefer it is because it looks "cleaner", but that cleanness is artificial and gets in the way when trying to
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
Regardless of how bad it is, it's a step up from touchscreen interfaces, which means it actually is acceptable by modern vehicle standards. But I agree that by objective standards, it's unacceptable.
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
I'm thinking some manufacturers might be catching on to the downsides of touchscreen controls. I did a test drive of the previous generation Honda Civic, and it had touchscreen climate controls. I wound up getting a 2022 Honda Civic wh
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
Some degree of caution is warranted on the part of the individual when unwelcome side effects manifest following a drug or vaccine. Doubly so when you can find cases where others have reported the same side effects. https://www.r
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
I may have misspoke when I said "bad" flu-like symptoms: they were on par with symptoms from the flu, not relatively worse (although, unpleasant), and they were all expected side effects and began the night I got the vaccine. The
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
I was 28 when I got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine last April. I had bad flu-like symptoms for a week, which was followed by 3 months of lethargy, among other things. I can't even begin to imagine how much time I lost from that. Needl
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
Right, if time to solve were included in the shared results, you’d be able to pick up on skill variation a lot easier, and players would start to regard speed as something to improve at. I think it would make the game more interesting (not
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
Games with less complexity are generally easier to balance, so one shouldn't be too surprised. I'd consider Tetris to be far more impressive design-wise in that it's a easy to learn but difficult to master, despite its simpli
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
Building a website without JS is not hard.
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
If you think cat videos are the most impactful videos on Youtube, you must have stopped paying attention to the website 15 years ago.
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
All I ask is that my web browser's appearance fit in well among the other applications in my operating system. Unfortunately, Firefox stopped caring about this a long time ago, along with pretty much everyone else. Australis was the la
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
I disagree. Candid photographs are way more natural and interesting than ones in which everyone is posing. I would much prefer people not to ask permission before they take my photo. In fact, the photo I use as my profile picture on social
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
A few years ago I had decided that I was going to deactivate my Facebook account. In the process, there was a page that displayed the names and profile pictures of a few of my friends, and told me, explicitly, that each of them would miss m
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
> With all that, why don’t we simply remove borderline content? Misinformation tends to shift and evolve rapidly, and unlike areas like terrorism or child safety, often lacks a clear consensus. Also, misinformation can vary depending on
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
One thing that worked for me was to have a friend hold me accountable if I didn't work a certain number of hours per day. My punishment for not working enough was that I'd owe him money. Ideally you want to get to a point where yo
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
You may enjoy Ripcord if you're not happy with Discord's UI. I've been using it for a few months, and it's made Discord enjoyable to use. I do have to open the official client whenever I do voice calls though, because th
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
If I take a photo or a video on my iPhone, it's uploaded to iCloud automatically, and afaik there is no way to remove it from iCloud while still keeping it in the photo library on the device without opting out of iCloud Photos entirely
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
I use Notational Velocity on my Mac, FSNotes on iOS, and have them both use .rtf and sync via iCloud.
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
This is a very common mistake. Lots of people are unaware that they're supposed to change acronyms depending on whether or not daylight savings time is in effect.
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by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
It's far easier to make something worse than make it better. There are few good solutions to problems, but infinite bad ones. Sometimes change is called for, but it needs to be done carefully and only when necessary. Fundamentally, you

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