Teckla

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by Teckla 8y ago
When it comes to computer based user interfaces, I think the problem might be that they start to "look dated" after a while, even if they are perfectly good. The flat fad is just a new coat of paint to make things look fresh and n
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Hey Google When did I ask you to access my Purchase details?(kanoki.org)
6 points by Teckla 8y ago|1 comments
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by Teckla 8y ago
Apple's high base prices and obscene upgrade prices finally crossed some hard to describe psychological barrier where I'm concerned. Bye, Apple. :(
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by Teckla 8y ago
Having to manually pass context through so many functions in code bases is definitely not ideal.
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by Teckla 8y ago
Microsoft Outlook on Mac: it can teak easily 2000ms to close(!) a window, are you kidding me? On my new 8th gen i7, restoring a Skype for Business window (from the task bar, so it's already running), I've measured at sometimes i
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by Teckla 8y ago
I know a lot of deeply technical people that prefer web-based IRC clients.
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by Teckla 8y ago
Happy iPhone and iPad user here... but I can't help but think Apple is walking down an unfortunate path these days. The recently refreshed MacBook Air and Mac mini really smacked me in the face. Astonishingly, ridiculously high price
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by Teckla 8y ago
I'm astonished Microsoft doesn't have automated tests for something as mundane as testing their built-in zip archive extraction functionality.
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by Teckla 8y ago
Thank you! That was extremely informative.
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by Teckla 8y ago
I read somewhere (lost the source) that 5 mg is far too much, and that closer to 0.5 mg is not only sufficient, but works better. Do you have any experience changing the size of your melatonin dose, and if so, could you share any findings
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by Teckla 8y ago
I have a question for those people that don't like this change in behavior: Doesn't this change in behavior make things far less confusing for non-technical users?
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by Teckla 8y ago
Maui, Hawaii
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by Teckla 8y ago
I was recently on vacation and Apple Maps provided a poor experience, including but not limited to telling me to take a right where there was no road and into the ocean . Google Maps to the rescue; it gave me 100% accurate directions 100
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by Teckla 8y ago
I've never understood why they don't offer all the same sweet drinks, but with something like Splenda instead of sugar. Perhaps it's better this way, otherwise I'd probably be at Starbucks a lot more often.
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by Teckla 8y ago
Midnight Commander (mc) is also a great file management tool.
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by Teckla 8y ago
This is insightful. The author implies that if you have a healthy skepticism when megacorps throw around billions of dollars, you're not "grown up."
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by Teckla 8y ago
Every big company tries to claim they have changed, will change and are currently in a process of change. This is insightful, and in addition to this, culture change can and does happen at companies. Just because they're evil today,
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by Teckla 8y ago
I'm fine with being cautious about Microsoft. I think at this point it's no longer necessary, but sure I can understand that. But the EEE plot-line is a 20 year old joke. It's not funny anymore. It's never time to st
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by Teckla 8y ago
What I'm saying is that telephone number as ID is fine, but non-telephone number as ID should be supported, too. They should be trying to include everyone, telephone and non-telephone users alike.
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by Teckla 8y ago
What if the user is on a WiFi-only tablet, or laptop, or desktop PC? What if the user is at an Internet cafe? What if the phone user has no cellular signal but has WiFi access? Clearly it would be a mistake to limit this to just phone users
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by Teckla 9y ago
As someone that uses his iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard frequently, I'd say the bigger issue is lack of mouse support in iOS. It's terrible to have to keep reaching up and pawing at the screen.
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by Teckla 9y ago
I came here to say the same thing, and I'm so relieved I'm not the only one. Looking at those one- and two-letter variable names constantly leaves me scratching my head and wasting time figuring out what they mean.
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by Teckla 9y ago
Royal Caribbean has become masterful at the nickel-and-diming of passengers. My wife and I used to cruise with them, but no more, precisely because of this.
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by Teckla 9y ago
Why was no one ever so militant against advertising in newspapers? "There are pages of ads, whole sections, just ads!! I didn't look in the newspaper to see ads!" Because newspaper ads didn't track us, didn't boun
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by Teckla 9y ago
Perhaps you use a cloud VPS provider that over-provisions customers. Until recently, I ran a Minecraft server on a $10/month DigitalOcean Linux VPS. (I consider $10/month dirt cheap.) It ran very smooth. No lag or performance hicc
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by Teckla 9y ago
As a software developer, I find the lack of dedicated home/end/page up/page down keys almost impossible to get used to. The new Touch Bar makes things even worse.
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by Teckla 9y ago
For those hunting for those "jewelhead" stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiomatic_(story_collection)
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by Teckla 10y ago
Microsoft still gets unfair criticism when what it is doing is usually less than its competitors (Apple, Google.) This is a subjective opinion (i.e., subject to debate), and also a harmful one. "The other guy is worse" is never
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by Teckla 10y ago
Does anyone else see as problem that web browsers are getting so feature-rich? That means that if anyone wants to write a new web browser he won't be able to. Those who control the web browsers control the Internet. And web browsers
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by Teckla 10y ago
ultimately we aren't paid for technical excellence but for working programs. Some level of technical excellence is required, though, otherwise complex technical debt piles up, and we are then no longer able to deliver working program

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