Guyag

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by Guyag 10y ago
I think this is pretty pedantic. I count that shuffling as rewriting history - that's not what happens in the background but that's what appears to happen, and that is what matters. What would you term it instead?
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by Guyag 10y ago
I'd be interested to see how UberEATS turns out. Deliveroo has had a year on them, and at least where I am I think the latter is still the favourite.
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by Guyag 10y ago
I don't know that the comparison with Spotify is very fair - I would imagine they have a direct contact to employees.
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by Guyag 10y ago
OP's only other HN interaction is a comment on a submission of a Medium article by the same company. The comments on that submission are made by accounts with small & very similar comment histories as well.
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by Guyag 10y ago
My original was Fitt's, which may make grandparent make more sense.
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by Guyag 10y ago
See Fitts'* law [1]. Buttons at the corners you describe can be modelled as having infinite width, making them much easier to aim for. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
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by Guyag 10y ago
Medium don't even offer a password version - it's social network OAuth or this.
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by Guyag 10y ago
Tech Dirt seems to have quite a high volume. Do you use any filtering, or just manually scan over?
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Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?
148 points by Guyag 10y ago|72 comments
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by Guyag 10y ago
'Scaling the ladder of abstraction' applies quite strongly to dealing with a new codebase, and is something I think inexperienced people (myself included) initially struggle with.
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by Guyag 10y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12153672
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by Guyag 10y ago
> Developers have a moral obligation to not waste their user's resources, dammit. Where do you draw the line to define 'wasting' on the expansive scale of efficiency? Past a point it doesn't make business (or technolo
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by Guyag 10y ago
This isn't an answer to your question, but I have recently thought that a IDE/editor plugin to manually 'tag' lines/sections of code with a comment would be useful when starting with a new codebase, rather than havi
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by Guyag 10y ago
> I've heard other people say that Chinese are rude/impolite. In casual (especially informal) conversation I'd say there's a cultural norm of being more direct than we are in the west. This isn't, I don't th
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by Guyag 10y ago
That wasn't my experience when I was there. While it's true that the average citizen may/will not speak English, it's more common than just in the high end areas that you mentioned.
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by Guyag 10y ago
Is this not a case for developer education? If developers are neglecting corner cases that's a real issue that needs to be addressed directly rather than having it be the job of someone else to clean up after them.
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by Guyag 11y ago
I'm no lawyer, but if Kik's assertion of 'because you have to enforce trademarks or you lose them' is true then I understand their actions - that's just the world we live in. It was decent of the Kik guys to try and
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by Guyag 11y ago
Funny how there are two sides of a story. Azer's representation of his message 'hahah, you’re actually being a dick. so, fuck you. don’t e-mail me back.' as 'My answer was “no”' is disingenuous.
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by Guyag 11y ago
It's not unreasonable by any means.
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by Guyag 11y ago
This is something that I'm really quite sad that I missed out on. By the time I was interested in programming enough to understand how this would all work it was a couple of years too late. I'd say Minecraft is the 'new'
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by Guyag 11y ago
I've always thought that something like this could be really cool; I'll be following with interest. I will say that your website is fairly hard to read. The high contrast and squashed text (and maybe font?) are quite hard on the e
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by Guyag 11y ago
Creative accounting which follows the law to the letter. They're not doing anything illegal (you'd imagine at least - I doubt it would be an easy task to decipher exactly what they're doing to determine legality) but certainl
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by Guyag 11y ago
It's Christmas Day - I'm sure 99% of their staff are on holiday.
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by Guyag 11y ago
The second paragraph of the Wikipeda[1] article on honorary degrees covers this: With regard to the use of this honorific, the policies of institutions of higher education generally ask that recipients "refrain from adopting the mislea
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by Guyag 11y ago
Except when I see universities here which are poorly ranked giving honorary degrees to famous comedians it just seems ridiculous and doesn't make me think any better of the establishment. If anything it seems needy.
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by Guyag 11y ago
Not a fan of their support, or rather lack thereof.
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by Guyag 11y ago
Companies need to take a new approach to the permissions they request - especially on Android where these are explicitly shown to the user. Often there are innocuous purposes behind them, but it's rarely immediately clear and results i
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by Guyag 11y ago
I believe this is the case - they have a mode (so I'm told) that will choose music based on your current running pace.
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by Guyag 11y ago
Personal favourite https://github.com/valeriangalliat/dotfiles/blob/b227cf9b252...