Lewisham

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by Lewisham 16y ago
I don't see how the constraints of one system, whether they are right or wrong, really affects the ability of a UX designer to recognize and work within those constraints.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
On the contrary, what people care about absolutely is the law in the Anglo-American setup. Laws are black and white (sort of), but the world is grey. We have juries not just to ascertain guilt, but to decide whether punishment should be b
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by Lewisham 16y ago
While I like the initiative, I'm a little worried that someone who says she's a UX designer wouldn't have considered that most Mac users do not run their browsers full-screen, so there's a horizontal scroll bar for anything less than a 1024
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I've tried to use it on my Android phone, but it hates my English accent. If I talk to it in a borderline-racist American accent, it does better, but not enough for me to actually get anything done.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
This is a very charitable reading :) I knew people like this. I worked in a database consultancy full of them. They eventually drove me out, because I couldn't connect to them on any level. They had no excitement for computers, or techn
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by Lewisham 16y ago
That most probably means one of two things: 1. Google hasn't got any relevant patents (unlikely) 2. Google has a number of defensive patents in other things, and have threatened to countersue anyone who comes after them (like Sun before Ora
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I think where this could shine is dialing up to 11 the recommendation system. I'd happily pay $5 or $10 for a human "fashion advisor" to actually put together a style for me, based on a photo of myself, plus some description of the occasion
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by Lewisham 16y ago
In the context of Facebook not being LinkedIn, you're correct. But for professional relationships, it is not okay to NOT check in on your contacts and see how their doing. Otherwise what's the point as listing them as someone you know if y
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by Lewisham 16y ago
LinkedIn, at its core, is very simple: its a replacement for the big Rolodex you see in 80s movies. Instead of trying to keep a network together using business cards, you use LinkedIn. You lean on your network when you need something from i
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I had the same feeling. It's not just in the browser, it's throughout the whole experience, so the raster trick for zooming that's mentioned doesn't explain it completely. Google really needs to sort it out. It's a shonky user experience th
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I'm actually going from Haskell to Erlang. I feel OK with Haskell (bar monads), but I wanted to see Erlang's fault-tolerance in particular. I'm a big fan. I just can't seem to get my brain going on it.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
This is great, thanks :)
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Yeah, it's syntax for me. It's not functional programming (I do OK with Haskell), it's just this feeling like everything in the syntax looks like a hack. I can't seem to see the underlying consistency (if there is any). I generally feel com
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Ah, Reia and Elixir both look great, thanks for these. I know that I should stick it out with Erlang, but it's difficult to feel like its anything but something for writing little servers in (partly due to the very small language as mention
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Ask HN: An Acceptable Erlang
28 points by Lewisham 16y ago|31 comments
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by Lewisham 16y ago
AFAIK, these cars are still being manned by the engineers, they're not used in any official capacity. I have seen one on the 101. They are very weird looking things when you look in and see that the "driver" is on a laptop. It's pretty frea
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I used to be a big fan of Gruber, but I'm getting increasingly tired of his "defend Apple at all costs" mentality. When Apple was the underdog, it all seemed to be about not what was possible, but what was fair, and what was right. Now it's
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by Lewisham 16y ago
This is the most aggravating part of it for me (I'm a PhD student who has stuff in the ACM library); I'm paid for by the NSF, but my understanding is that the NSF does not require the papers to be freely available. I think there may be some
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Bank of America does this with their Keep The Change program.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Depends on your idea of fixed, I suppose. You can band-aid it in five minutes: append a message to the Low Space Notification that SMS messages will be queued. Really fixing it would require something more intelligent about the way Android
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Xbox does not have a Java runtime, it's XNA with C# or C++. C# should make a port job fairly easy.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
This blog post blew my mind. I generally thought of GitHub as being in the front-end business, but maybe they're really in the back-end business? Is this sort of complexity common? I'm not saying I think it's bad, as I am sure it's all ther
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by Lewisham 16y ago
The thing to do, is if your health care is paid for by taxes (like the NHS), is for taxes to be levied proportionately on the higher-risk things that will hospitalize you. The UK already has sky-high taxation on tobacco. I rather like the i
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by Lewisham 16y ago
TDD/BDD assumes you know the problem and are coding to create a solution. In startups, however, you do not know the problem. I think this is where these posts on HN always end up talking at cross-purposes. "Startup" can mean many differen
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by Lewisham 16y ago
There's also more payoff for your tests over time. The longer your project lasts, the more those tests pay dividends. Even they seem painful no, they are an investment towards maintainable code in the future. I think this is the most impo
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I wasn't aware of that, no, but I don't really have any intention of returning to the UK. I like it here. I get homesick sometimes, but usually it's a combination of childhood nostalgia and watching too much BBC programming. The Britain I s
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Most Americans aren't seeing this stuff. You mean most foreign-travelling Americans, who are a minority in comparison to the Americans that don't have a passport, as only 37% hold one [1]. Domestic flights are way less of a pain than inte
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by Lewisham 16y ago
My feelings exactly. SF still looks like some cheap JIRA install, not a hacker-friendly user-facing site like GitHub. I get the impression they're undermanned, underfunded and under the weight of their technical debt. You just can't do all
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Well, to be fair, the author only has one paragraph about Apple and the Internet, and you could get multiple readings from it :) When I read control and centralization, I don't just think of iTunes, but I do think of Apple's dogged insisten
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I would disagree. Apple fundamentally doesn't understand the Internet. MobileMe/.Mac has been a decent disaster for a long time, not even able to meet the quality levels of services that Google gives away for free. That's not because Apple

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