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by abanana 8mo ago
The BBC continually tries to convince the government that their problems are due to illegal action that must be stopped. They do everything in their power to distract from the real issue - that the landscape of television has changed beyond
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by abanana 8mo ago
The Windows 3.1 UI example screenshots are a reminder of how primitive 3.1 felt compared to other OSes of the time. The need for instructions in that Search dialog is appalling from a usability perspective. When Win95 was released, it was w
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by abanana 8mo ago
Those numbers are UI only. 12 just to design it, another 12 to build it. That's not counting the vastly larger number of developers who built all the various elements of the underlying codebase. Team bloat is a real issue but I don&#x2
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by abanana 8mo ago
> UI taste that is stuck in the 2000s > UIs that are barely usable... like Windows 2000 Words fail me. Perhaps it's that well-known psychological effect where people self-report higher productivity when using an interface they fi
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by abanana 8mo ago
Yeah, that's exactly it - there were all those history blogposts, full of very interesting stuff, but all about before the ribbon was in active use. (Pity about the image rot.) No usability studies of the ribbon itself. Parts of thos
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by abanana 8mo ago
No, they did not (or if they did, they didn't publish it). If I'm wrong, please give me some links because I'd genuinely love to see it. Microsoft did those usability studies on the versions of Office that were current bef
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by abanana 8mo ago
Indeed, the basic point is fine - just 2 competitors standing up for their own choice - but the use of the words " and most open format" ruins the GP's point and perhaps is the reason for the downvotes. There's no way o
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by abanana 8mo ago
It's Lego Masters USA (Fox), rather than the Lego company itself, so I imagine they're being extra-careful with licensing. I'm in the UK and it's geoblocked for me.
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by abanana 8mo ago
Not always , if we go back to the 1980s. But in very modern times, they've lost all the learnings from back then.
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by abanana 8mo ago
To me (I'm Welsh)⁯ the Indian twang sounds clear, but there are some odd similarities between Welsh and Indian accents. Upset Girl isn't "natural sounding". It's a voice I feel I've heard in AI demos before.
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by abanana 8mo ago
> How many of them are there? Indeed, this reads as a case of somebody forgetting that the news doesn't report what's absolutely normal to everybody. It reports what's unusual . (Plus all the articles that misrepresent pe
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by abanana 9mo ago
But at least the bunny eating a cookie is cute.
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by abanana 9mo ago
Same sort of problem we have in modern cars? Speed, lane assistance, blind spot, etc, sometimes apparently beeping for the hell of it. For some it's distracting and frustrating, even increasing aggression and thereby increasing the ris
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by abanana 9mo ago
Yes, but the books generally take their ideas from the academic publications. And the replication problems, and general incentives around academic publishing, show that all too often, the academic publications in the social sciences are unf
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by abanana 9mo ago
That's why I like HN, it seems to happen a lot here! Mention a piece of hardware or software, even something obscure from years ago, and half an hour later you've had an answer to your question from the designer or the CEO.
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by abanana 9mo ago
SMS is text only. If you're sending an image, you're not using SMS, you're using MMS. There are phone deals that include unlimited SMS messages, but not MMS.
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by abanana 9mo ago
People are afraid to sound too critical. It's very noticeable how every article that points out a mistake anywhere in a subject that's even slightly politically charged, has to emphasize "of course I believe X, I absolutely a
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by abanana 9mo ago
That's a very good point. Some of what's called "science" today, in popular media and coming from governments, is religion. "We know all, do not question us." It's the common problem of headlines along the
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by abanana 9mo ago
Yes, that's the problem, many do, and they swear by these oversimplified ideas and one-liners that litter the field of popular management books, fully believing it's all "scientific" and they'll laugh at you for que
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by abanana 9mo ago
Indeed, this was taught to me in the late-90s in A-level Economics as absolute undisputed fact. The path forward had become clear whereas it hadn't been understood previously. It annoys me now, looking back and knowing it's such a
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by abanana 9mo ago
Yes, the author's assertion here is nonsense. A case of someone with a very small window of experience being certain that what he's seen couldn't possibly be an outlier - must instead be normal for everyone. The article also
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by abanana 9mo ago
> subtle UX behaviors I'd wager it's more likely to be the opposite. Older UIs were built on solid research. They had a ton of subtle UX behaviors that users didn't notice were there, but helped in minor ways. Modern UIs
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by abanana 9mo ago
VW's head of design announced this months ago, and spun it as listening to customer feedback, choosing to return to features people "love". I remember at the time being a bit annoyed by the level of spin. In reality, for Euro
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by abanana 9mo ago
Indeed, the ellipsis means some kind of dialog box will open. Regarding the wording "the user must provide more information", that's what that dialog box is for, while also providing a "cancel" option so that as you
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by abanana 9mo ago
Hah, that's a blast from the past! You've reminded me of "Ameko", which added a little cat to the Amiga Workbench, walking around over the windows. I think I had it from a magazine coverdisk.
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by abanana 9mo ago
Without knowing the meaning of that level of mathematical jargon, it feels like a "reticulating splines" sort of line. Makes me want to copy it and use it somewhere.
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by abanana 10mo ago
You seem to have filled this thread with a huge number of posts that try to justify SO's actions. Over and over, these justifications are along the lines of "this is our mission", "read our policy", "understand
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by abanana 10mo ago
Yes exactly. The fact that the "XY problem" exists, and that users sometimes ask the wrong question, isn't being argued. The problem is that SO appears to operate at the extreme, taking the default assumption that the asker i
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by abanana 10mo ago
> uniquely American Every so often, local news websites in the UK publish articles highlighting behaviours that are supposedly uniquely characteristic of the area they're writing about, with headlines such as "Only in $city!&
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by abanana 10mo ago
Yes, absolutely. The top answer on that Reddit link starts with: "MPV is the ultimate video player on planet earth, all the others are junk in comparison" and doesn't mention VLC at all. That's not a helpful answer, it&#

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