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Jakob Nielsen: Usability testing and the British electoral campaign(useit.com)
4 points by adnam 17y ago|0 comments
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by adnam 17y ago
I'm very interested in the HTC Desire. Unfortunately, in Spain the options are rather limited at the moment.
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by adnam 17y ago
Or "Josef K. buys an iPad"
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by adnam 17y ago
I've noticed the window manager under Lucid is much more responsive. I'm not sure if that's just me though, because I'm unfortunately damned with SiS graphics drivers, and I had to update those manually.
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by adnam 17y ago
I already upgraded, and I'm quite pleased with the changes. Unfortunately, the new default theme is slightly buggy; for example, when you open gvim from a terminal, you get various error messages show up which are to do with the window mana
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by adnam 17y ago
Are you referring to the positioning of the window control icons?
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by adnam 17y ago
Sure, but right now my only two options are a bad apple and an expensive orange.
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by adnam 17y ago
I still get the message "Sorry, the Nexus One phone is not available in your country or region" on google.com/phone. I can buy a Nexus1 for 500€ on eBay, compared to 139€ for an iPhone 3G with a data contract. I'm still holding out for a de
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by adnam 17y ago
Wow, in the UK you just send off a few forms and 20GPB to Companies House. http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/infoAndGuide/companyRegistr... In Spain there are more setup costs, and a minimum capital of ~6000EUR IIRC.
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by adnam 17y ago
Also: .cat is a valid TLD for email validation. I got: "There were problems with the following fields: * Email should look like an email address." Whoops.
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by adnam 17y ago
Yeah, we know it exists...
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by adnam 17y ago
If you're confused like I was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter
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by adnam 17y ago
I liked the comment: "Apple is like Venezuela"
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Horizontal Attention Leans Left - Jakob Nielsen(useit.com)
28 points by adnam 17y ago|5 comments
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by adnam 17y ago
What's incredible is that Americans pay all these taxes, but get few of the benefits. The average UK citizen pays $617 more tax, but gets healthcare, and decent public infrastructure (see ASCE's infrastructurereportcard.org). Also, US healt
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by adnam 17y ago
It seemed ok, up until the point where he said "this has never worked for me when dating"!
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How personal animosity fuels the tech world(economist.com)
3 points by adnam 17y ago|0 comments
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by adnam 17y ago
One of those "holier than thou" topics, isn't it?
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by adnam 17y ago
The bytes on the screen spell out: "BarbieBarbieBarbie" :-)
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by adnam 17y ago
How did you implement the XMPP part? Just wondered, because I have been toying with writing web-hooks for ejabberd http://happy.cat/blog/XMPP-Bots-ejabberd-mod-motion-2010-02-...
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by adnam 17y ago
Yeah, I tend not to post articles I haven't already read. What I meant was, I wonder what was in that particular comment/article that resulted in a disproportionately large amount of user attention. I suspect it wasn't just the recency effe
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by adnam 17y ago
The eye-tracking image for Amazon is intriguing - I wonder what it was that made so many people scroll right down to the bottom.
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Jakob Nielsen: 80-20 rule applies to the page fold(useit.com)
30 points by adnam 17y ago|16 comments
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by adnam 17y ago
FYI: it's possible to use HN without being a member.
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by adnam 17y ago
I had this booking a flight. The system mangled a hyphenated surname, so the "pay now" page was wrong. With no way to go back and modify it, we had to return to the start and try all over again. On the third failed attempt the clever system
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Ask HN: how do you backup your servers?
37 points by adnam 17y ago|36 comments
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by adnam 17y ago
Reads more like a fantasy than an account of actual events
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Rear-view URLs(happy.cat)
1 points by adnam 17y ago|0 comments
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by adnam 17y ago
Soon on Hacker News: How to eat with a knife and fork! How to do "number twos"! How to brush your teeth! Sheesh
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by adnam 17y ago
Speak for yourself.

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