UIZealot

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by UIZealot 7y ago
Both seem to work pretty well, if only I could actually use them. My aging eyes just can't deal with all the gray text on a white background in Fork, or the tiny text in GitUp. Sigh!
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Jony Ive hasn't had a lot of design successes since Steve Jobs died. Some would even say he's had a lot of design failures since then. If Tim Cook made a mistake, it was letting Scott Forstall go instead of Jony Ive back in 2012.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
I think that's the exact scenario they tried to avoid. The lightning cable is actually pretty stiff, it won't take long for it to break if one could use it pluged in like a wired mouse. I dislike most things Apple has done recent
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by UIZealot 7y ago
I just can't get over how dumb this is in Java: List<String> names = new List<String>(); Why not let people write just: List<String> names = new List(); Why did they even need to invent the diamond opera
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by UIZealot 7y ago
There's no need for type inference, nor repeating the type, especially if you're designing a new language anyway. Why not: String string = new ();
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Cook would've been perfect if he had that critical eye, and he would've been the perfect replacement for Steve Jobs then. Alas, he's an operations guy, design is not really his forte. And that, my friend, is the reason
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Jony Ive had been the CDO for years and the results weren't great. It's not that Jony Ive isn't a great designer. It's just that it's difficult to judge your own work, no matter how good you are. What they need, m
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by UIZealot 7y ago
I used to read Gruber religiously. But no longer. He's still every bit the eloquent writer that he used to be. But I no longer respect his integrity. If he "don’t think Ive ever should have been put in control of software desig
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by UIZealot 7y ago
You mean the 2015 MBP? That's widely regarded as the last good MBP.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
I'll concede that skeuomorphism, at its worst, can be heavy and clunky; while flat design, at its best, can also be fun.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Objectively, "bland", "confusing". Subjective, "ugly" comes to mind.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Except it didn't have to be pixel perfect. Mac OS X was skeuomorphic and beautiful, yet it worked on various size displays, you could even resize a window, in real time, imagine that!
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by UIZealot 7y ago
The biggest ding they could come up with against skeuomorphism is "heavy, clunky"? Skeuomorphic UIs maybe "heavy" and "clunky", but they were also beautiful, whimsical, and fun ! They brought me joy each time
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by UIZealot 7y ago
I wandered into an Apple Store with my wife one day to look at the Apple Watches, the first major product designed without Steve Job's involvement. Looking at the thick, rounded rectangles, I laughed out loud and said "Jony Ive ha
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by UIZealot 7y ago
It's slightly better now in terms of usability. Aesthetically it’s as big of a disaster as when it first came out. There’s only so much polishing they could do to a turd.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
I haven’t forgiven him for iOS 7. I absolutely love the classic iOS look and hate the bland, confusing, flat look.
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by UIZealot 8y ago
That's not Force Touch though. It's the Apple Taptic Engine simulating a click with a vibration. Force Touch, or later 3D Touch, refers to the ability to distinguish between various levels of force: https://en.wikipe
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by UIZealot 8y ago
MSG is most likely safe to eat, judging by the copious amount poured into each and every dish ever, in each and every Chinese restaurant that I've been to. It tasted great when I was only eating in restaurants once in a while. I soon
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by UIZealot 8y ago
If you're designing a new programming language anyway, why not go with: var int a function int f() Clear and easy to parse.
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by UIZealot 8y ago
>> Almost all of the last near-decade of work in UIs has been a mistake. > You keep saying this, and it's just not true. You saying it's not true doesn't make it so. > The extreme skeuomorphism in the older iOS ve
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by UIZealot 8y ago
> The ability to warp spacetime to the point of violating causality, time travel, might be a death nail for a civilization. death knell I know you probably know this, and I don't mean any disrespect. I'm writing this for oth
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by UIZealot 9y ago
Sometimes I wonder if making the top level parentheses optional would go some way towards making Lisp more palatable to other programmers. So (def sum (partial reduce +)) (println (+ 1 (sum [1 2 3]))) becomes: def sum (
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by UIZealot 10y ago
With doors you can push to exit, sure. More troublesome are those you have to pull. I basically have to wait impatiently by the door for the next guy to come in so I can get out without touching the door with my hand.
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by UIZealot 10y ago
You are not alone. I also hate flat. And I also think the original Aqua looks best, even today. I'm probably the only person who loves the Aqua pinstripes, which Apple had to tone down gradually and finally completely remove, presum
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by UIZealot 10y ago
Not to me. Flat is ugly. Different for difference's sake. Designers' need to make their mark. Microsoft's desperate attempt to find any competitive edge against the iPhone. When Apple designer got suckered into going fla
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by UIZealot 10y ago
Couldn't agree more. I don't even enable JavaScript for google.com, not since they integrated the pile of crap that is/was Google+ which added 10% usage load on my CPUs.
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by UIZealot 11y ago
Actually, ALL Chinese characters are monosyllabic.
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by UIZealot 11y ago
(Restaurant) Food in China is terrible! The bigger the city you are in, the more so. You probably like it because you're not used to the taste of MSG which is used freely and generously in China to cover up stale ingredients. Having
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by UIZealot 11y ago
iOS supports zooming the entire screen as part of its accessibility feature set. Though you have to turn it on, and the gesture is three-finger-tap and drag instead of pinch.
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by UIZealot 11y ago
This has been my experience as well. I'm sure there're sensible things to tweak on a "regular" web site to make it more mobile friendly. The web development community just went to the extreme with gimmickry and the web

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