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by GuiA 7y ago
It’s 2020. We’re starting to develop a pretty solid framework around what is respectful to users and what isn’t, how to disclose things, ask for permission, etc. (All knowledge that has been acquired the hard way - through data breaches, us
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by GuiA 7y ago
Yeah, it’s gotten pretty bad in the Bay Area too. Lack of basic hiking courtesy (saying hello when you pass people, giving right of way to people going uphill on narrow slopes, walking single file when you’re in a group, etc) would be frust
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by GuiA 7y ago
I suspect that any cute statue right outside of a major transit station would quickly become a de facto meeting point...
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by GuiA 7y ago
Would love to see those demos if you can remember where you saw them!
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Graphical User Interface Gallery Guidebook(guidebookgallery.org)
8 points by GuiA 7y ago|0 comments
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by GuiA 7y ago
You say that 1) the framework was encouraged at your work place, 2) you were a terrible salesperson, 3) great salespeople were great at sales (implying that they were helped by the framework). If the framework were even a tiny bit useful, w
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by GuiA 7y ago
I agree with you. That said, my reading of the article is that they do identify themselves as conservatives within a context - that of medical care in the US in 2020. They make their argument on the basis of a utility function, which one ca
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by GuiA 7y ago
The issue is that software products support such “computational primitives” and their manipulation increasingly less. Things that were taken as granted in any computational environment - dragging and dropping pictures, copying text, seeing
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by GuiA 7y ago
“Work or doesn’t work” is as manichean of a binary as “good or evil”.
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by GuiA 7y ago
> On the Raspberry Pi, the GPU starts the processor for crying out loud What does this mean? Where can I read more about this?
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by GuiA 7y ago
It's 2020, any new hardware project should come with a strong burden of responsibility when it comes to the environmental impact of what you're making. Where are you sourcing the various components used in your product? Are they r
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by GuiA 7y ago
The article was modified to include "Editor's note: This is sponsored editorial content." before it was taken down. That likely excludes the "someone hit publish by accident" hypothesis.
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by GuiA 7y ago
People do their best, trying to make do with what people is accessible to them. If this revolts you on a deep level, then you could try putting some of that energy towards building the community places not owned by mega corporations that th
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by GuiA 7y ago
I’d argue that many of these practices and skills are in fact non documentable/teachable (see the oft cited problem of teaching recursion/pointers to CS students, and that’s just one of many fundamental required things that are wa
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by GuiA 7y ago
Excellent comment. The killer feature of software is that it is utterly delocalized. Theoretically, you can capture the whole market whether you are based in SF, Berlin, or Calcutta. That has actually probably been somewhat reduced over tim
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by GuiA 7y ago
I don’t think that argument holds very strongly. My grandma worked on typewriters, and then word processors in the 70s/80s. She had no problem doing her job. She’d been using a Windows laptop since the mid/late 2000’s, and it’s al
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by GuiA 7y ago
We have gained many, many features between 95 and today. Your phone does many things (mapping, notifications, cameras, various permissions/access, etc) that your computer did not in 1995. The degree of complexity that can be adequately
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by GuiA 7y ago
You may have tried this already, and it may not work for you, but - a daily meditation practice, and general interest in Zen Buddhism, has helped me personally bring to my baseline reality some of the enlightenment I have felt during past
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by GuiA 7y ago
So they could identify who plagiarized their catalogs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by GuiA 7y ago
Interesting. Reminds me of a similar example with Jesus, commonly thought to be a carpenter, but who was really a tektōn (At least according to the Gospel of Mark) which could be translated as carpenter or stonemason. Most houses in Israe
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by GuiA 7y ago
We’ve known how terrible North American city planning is since A Pattern Language (70s) and Life and Death of Great American Cities (60s). How do we turn it into concrete, short term action? What’s the 2019 equivalent of smashing curbs for
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by GuiA 7y ago
> Unaddressed in the essay is how the construct SURNAME given_name (e.g. BREL Jaques) is quite common in countries like France -- not used in social conversation but in all official contexts including work and school Pointing that it’s
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by GuiA 7y ago
> Impressively, the Patreon for the project just hit $8k/mo. Costing him $10k/day to run though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739879
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by GuiA 7y ago
> How would you know? You have never used such a system because it doesn't exist I have, it does, it's called Oberon, it was glorious. Copying text from UI elements was also never an issue for me in GTK2 (can't speak for
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by GuiA 7y ago
> a paper written by Mark Weiser (RIP) in 1996, "Designing Calm Technology" (which has unfortunately fallen off the internet) https://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/weiser.pdf ?
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by GuiA 7y ago
> Not every text in a user interface is supposed to be selectable. Can you select the text on your buttons, your tabs, your dropdowns? Of course not, because it doesn't make sense. It would make sense, and all text in a user inter
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Deep Internationalization for Gboard, the Google Keyboard(arxiv.org)
20 points by GuiA 7y ago|2 comments
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by GuiA 7y ago
List seems inaccurate/incomplete. E.g. Courier is on it, but Courier was never more than a design concept video, so considering it a "discontinued" product is off. Similarly, no mention of the original Microsoft Surface - a 3
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by GuiA 7y ago
Valencia St is closed to cars one Sunday a month (I forget which one). It’s always a pleasure to walk through. Then there are also the streets that get blocked off for markets (eg 22nd between Mission and Valencia every Thursday afternoon&#
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by GuiA 7y ago
The light turning to blue at 7am to indicate that sleep time is over is a nice touch. Working in collectivities with young children, we'd have a sheet of paper with a sun/moon on each side, and every morning at 7 one of us would g

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