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by abanana 1y ago
My thought when reading that in the article was (in cases where, as you said, irregular-shaped clickable areas are not a concern): why do we need pixel-based positioning? What's wrong with percentage-based positioning and sizing? I did
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by abanana 1y ago
A line early on in the article caught my eye: > they serve the same functional goal — input numbers Well, yes and no. Same as how, when it comes to data types, it often has to be pointed out to inexperienced developers that a phone &qu
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by abanana 1y ago
The same formula seems to be common to all the "popular X" genres (science, psychology, etc), and has been for years. The Selfish Gene followed it. So do Malcolm Gladwell's books - the last one of his I read, I had to restrai
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by abanana 1y ago
And not only that, but how much vagueness and weasel-wording can he pack into one sentence? " I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software&quo
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by abanana 2y ago
> the problem with startups is that they're ego-driven 100% agree. This looks like another case of nothing more than arrogance - another case of somebody thinking they know it all, can revolutionise an industry, even though their
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by abanana 2y ago
> letters too close-together The CSS has { letter-spacing: -.04rem; } It's across the entire site - no exclusion for this page (or for their .kermit-font class). So it appears they've missed the fact that they're alterin
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by abanana 2y ago
Some of us do! I get fewer problems at home on W7 than at work on W10/11. - Printers: the W7 cohort probably overlaps with users of classic HP Laserjets (I know it's not just me!). - Chrome: Supermium adds W7 support back into the
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by abanana 2y ago
Pud's book, "F'd Companies: spectacular dot-com flameouts", was a good laugh. It's just a simplistic piss-take, but even all these years later, it shows up the sheer ridiculousness of what those dotcoms were trying
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by abanana 2y ago
Also see Yahoo Answers, who got the gamification completely wrong (Stack Overflow later got it right). Users would answer "I don't know" to every question they saw, just to get a point for answering.
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by abanana 2y ago
It came out not long after Windows 95, so it will have supported earlier versions of Windows, which had the 8.3 character all-caps filename limitation.
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by abanana 2y ago
Yes, so did I. My washing machine that died a few weeks ago lied about it all the time. The replacement doesn't display the time at all, which made me think at first I should have paid more for one that does... which just goes to show
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by abanana 2y ago
Yeah, that rough cutout jumped out at me. This reminds me of a conversation I had with the BT engineer who came to connect the phone line, when I was in the latter stages of renovating before moving in. He happened to be renovating a simila
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by abanana 2y ago
Agreed. My 24V DeWalt cordless drill is the best tool I've ever bought, but tough masonry requires the pro-grade Bosch corded, although its price annoyed me when its chuck turned out to be crap. A friend, who worked at the place I boug
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by abanana 2y ago
> in the UK, education is still compulsory until you're 18 I've just looked it up because I hadn't heard this - it was only compulsory until 16 "in my day"! Turns out it still is, here in Wales, and also Scotland
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by abanana 2y ago
Is there a psychological term for the self-centred thinking where a person thinks "I've stopped using X, therefore everyone's stopped using X"?
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by abanana 2y ago
True, but that also sums up one of the junior dev problems often talked about on HN - those who use SO to get a direct answer that they can copy-and-paste, instead of an actual explanation to help them learn (and save them having to look it
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by abanana 2y ago
> Highly precise... requires additional consideration You've just reminded me of watching the family cat when I was a child, wanting to squeeze himself into the gap between the end of a sofa and the wall. He tested the gap with hi
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by abanana 2y ago
It feels like every ad has to end with "NOW!" or "TODAY!". Yes I understand how big research results give the marketing people good reason to insist on it, but it drives me nuts! I do wonder whether its overuse might dim
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by abanana 2y ago
Yes, prices advertised to consumers must include VAT. UK advertising laws mandate that the price must include all non-optional taxes, fees, etc. Prices advertised exclusively to businesses can exclude VAT.
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by abanana 2y ago
The change , not the charge . If the change is 99 cents, the customer gives an extra penny, the change is now 1 dollar, avoiding a handful of coins. It seems to have become the norm for young cashiers to be unable to understand. And if yo
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by abanana 2y ago
Neither can I, but if not it's a hell of a line. Really shows up how pathetic is society's slavery to the concept of "status symbols". Should I buy what does the job best for me personally? No, I'm supposed to follo
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by abanana 2y ago
True. Adding a few 2" screws (into pilot holes) makes an enormous difference to the rigidity of their (e.g.) wardrobes and kitchen units. Even on first assembly, but especially if you have to take apart and rebuild.
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by abanana 2y ago
Especially if you follow the WP's standard to the T. Wordpress coding "standards" came from one person's idiosyncrasies, going against most other coding standards including (especially) the PSR ones. It's a while
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by abanana 2y ago
A few years back I bought a few lengths of pipe insulation from the local Screwfix. The metre-long foam tubes, slit down the length of one side so you can push them over 15mm copper pipes. The girl working there asked, out of interest, what
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by abanana 2y ago
A caption from that article: "Warhol also made a digital Botticelli for the Commodore". So many articles over the last few years have implied he made that Venus picture in its entirety. It was created by Avril Harrison, among many
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by abanana 2y ago
Why has this been voted down? The title is plainly trying to imply that it's a confirmed case where the friction introduced by a popup in the purchase flow has seriously damaged sales. "Led to a significant drop" doesn't
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by abanana 3y ago
Fully agreed, it's an awful choice. I had to click the Reader View icon before I'd finished reading the first screen. The mouse pointers are a prime example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
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by abanana 3y ago
I fully agree with a lot of that. It's the modern Deluxe Paint in a lot of ways. I've had web developers hear "paint.net" and think Microsoft Paint (maybe the ".net" makes them think Microsoft), and why am I us