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by abanana 2mo ago
I took a quick look because that sounds odd. They've made a mess of the article's image sizing - only 270px wide if the viewport is <768px. (That top image is 1024px wide on desktop.) There's so much wrong with that decisi
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by abanana 2mo ago
That was my thought exactly on reading that line: that is not a backup . (Ok, the word isn't strictly defined, but you know what I mean.) They have said there's a "real" (offline) backup as well, luckily, but that just
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by abanana 2mo ago
I'd give this article multiple upvotes if I could. The first section did a great job of grabbing my attention. It feels like these days, all creative works are lumped together as "content", anything not brand-new and bleeding
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by abanana 2mo ago
> one of the more distinguishing features of a venue It depends a lot on whether your customer base is made up mainly of one-off walk-in casuals, or regulars. Getting to know the regulars, and having a chat with them, can improve the f
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by abanana 2mo ago
> closer to something like ice skates for ice skating That's a good way to put it. Bowling is very rare for me these days, but because they used to require you to wear bowling shoes, I've become used to the slide and can&#x27
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by abanana 2mo ago
It's because the way the sole slides is an integral part of bowling the ball. You can't play "properly" without a proper sliding bowling shoe. I was a little surprised when the local bowling centres stopped bothering to
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by abanana 2mo ago
The focus of the most commercial sets changed. They used to be toys, aimed at children's imagination, meant to be dismantled and rebuilt into other things. Now they're display models, aimed at adults. They're sculptured art p
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by abanana 2mo ago
> hammering in the metal dowel pins (that interlock with the rotating cams) Are there many hammer-in versions around then? I've assembled a fair amount of IKEA bookcases, wardrobes, kitchen cupboards etc (in the UK), and those cam
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by abanana 2mo ago
Hear hear. This was why I could never quite understand why there was so much love for MUI in some of the monthly Amiga magazines at the time (although I agree it looked pretty). Even on my beefed-up hardware, that general lethargic feel to
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by abanana 2mo ago
Yep, seems they pretty much all do! I couldn't find a sensible case last year when putting together a new PC for my brother, who wanted it to include a CD/DVD drive. (He regularly buys CDs at 10 for £1, listens for a bit then sell
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by abanana 2mo ago
> I thought I lost the ability to read longform on the internet Same here. It's great to read a well-written piece that keeps my interest. I'm sick of reading the overused AI cliches and all the long-form articles that spend
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by abanana 2mo ago
The link I gave there explains the problem. The picker is perfectly usable if you know how it's meant to be used - like most things really. The problem is the flat design, controls looking like headings rather than controls, leading to
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by abanana 2mo ago
I don't agree with your thesis that users hated websites on mobile. It's not so much a question of being "honest about root causes" if consensus on the root cause doesn't really exist. Apps initially looked like the
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by abanana 2mo ago
I'd understand a developer in e.g. America not being aware of it, but to one in Switzerland, France is right next door. A developer working on something as important as their government login system should be well aware of different ke
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by abanana 2mo ago
We had a discussion about this one not too long ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887957 Unfortunately, with the mobile OS's datepickers being so bad from a usability perspective, it's a long way from be
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by abanana 2mo ago
Santander's banking website uses both in some places, e.g. confirming a new payment. "Enter your 5-digit PIN and the 6-digit 2FA code we've just sent you", with 5 little input fields for the former, and a single standard
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by abanana 2mo ago
That sounds quite likely. Not the stopping bots part, just the idea that someone chose to do it for some reason, and everybody copied them without knowing the reason. Happens all too often.
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by abanana 2mo ago
Yes, "marketing". Ability to market your business, not marketing the concept of an app. Businesses have an app developed because they feel the market demands it. Their marketing departments feel they have to be able to tell prospe
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by abanana 2mo ago
That's the theory. Others in this thread are reporting the reality. In practice, any profit-making enterprise will not want to miss out on the income they were previously getting, so will find other times and charges to load it onto. A
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by abanana 3mo ago
(Context: similar to you) I suppose it's similar to how people used to buy things like Directory Opus. The point isn't so much that the default one doesn't work. A bunch of functions like those listed here, e.g. batch rename
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by abanana 3mo ago
This article seems to be worse than most, as if someone's deliberately overused the LLM tropes as much as possible. This is not good. It's bad. This is not human. It's AI. This is not nice to read. It's awful.
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by abanana 3mo ago
This is betraying a way of thinking that suggests what's normal now is the way it's always been. Given "there was a time that subscriptions for software were virtually unheard of", it's safe to assume we're tal
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by abanana 3mo ago
Hah, that makes sense then. Thanks for the followup.
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by abanana 3mo ago
Indeed, unreadable typography (and the need for Reader View) is one of my most common annoyances with sites posted to HN - but I don't see how it's applicable to this site in any way?
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by abanana 3mo ago
"Beyond bizarre"? Why? "3:59pm" (and 7:30pm, regarding the post above) is exactly what's usually written in the UK. Technical use (24-hour) is different from the standard use used by the general population.
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by abanana 3mo ago
It probably does a better job of getting the point across to a general readership than if they'd used overly technical domain-specific jargon about quantity of cases and speed of its spread.
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by abanana 3mo ago
> social engineering was a small part of his work, and it's OK that you don't know that... totally blatant ignorance... Kev was a good person. Full stop. I understand you're defending your friend, but that's a littl
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by abanana 3mo ago
Indeed, no relevance at all. Sorry rob74, that's a misunderstanding of how large applications most often tended to work on the Amiga. They didn't generally open a window on the Workbench screen, they opened their own screen. The k
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by abanana 4mo ago
Wow, yes, those are a pisstake. I hadn't seen them when reading the article because I used reader mode.
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by abanana 4mo ago
I opened this comments page wondering if anyone would point this out. The idea that all sales have moved to online is always trotted out as the main excuse, but the reality is that most of the big well-known UK retail failures were caused b

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