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by alanh 14y ago
As the submitter of this article, I should stay on-topic, but as an aside — I find it fascinating that this article shows screen shots of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome’s new-tab pages with a “grid of favorite sites” interface, and not Opera
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Designing for the Ideal(subtraction.com)
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by alanh 14y ago
Previously discussed on HN, including: Most comments, over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3691113 4 years previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=595419
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by alanh 14y ago
My own notes on URL as user interface include a number of ways you can improve your URLs and allow users to guess them: http://alanhogan.com/url-as-ui I also list a number of positive and negative examples from the wild.
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by alanh 14y ago
Right! The whole “shelf” analogy is silly and unnecessary. It doesn’t make the interface familiar and obvious. Real people don’t actually have a shelf for books they want to read, are reading, and have read. We do get those concepts by t
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by alanh 14y ago
Disagree! While eBook typography is a gimme — can’t disagree there — Amazon.com is one of the most usable sites out there. Sure, Krug’s book Don’t Make Me Think is a bit old, but there’s a reason he kept using Amazon as an example of whom
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by alanh 14y ago
I have significant issues with the UI (just like the grandparent post). I have frequently (well, as frequently as I use the app, which is slightly less than monthly) found myself wondering: “Wait, how do I mark this book as read? How do I a
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by alanh 14y ago
For those who don’t recognize this, it is a quote from the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxay [1]. The context is: Ford is an (intelligent) hitch-hiker and CHAIRMAN and MARKETING GIRL are parts of the "useless third" of the population of Go
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by alanh 14y ago
(semi-serious) Title should be “Meet another scientific accident that could change the world”
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by alanh 14y ago
Denying more people disability is not a fix. Solving the question of what to do in our partially-post-scarcity economy is the fix.
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by alanh 14y ago
> it will simply assume that "linksys" is trustworthy anywhere … just because … on a farm, wifi security wasn't worth the hassle. Amusing anecdote and yet another argument for much more intelligent defaults (I’m thinking of network na
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by alanh 14y ago
Downvoted your guess because you didn’t even cite the recent trend (which is mentioned in the article) of reported Chinese hackings, and you contribute nothing.
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by alanh 14y ago
Sounds like a coincidence, to me
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by alanh 14y ago
OXO’s post was much more convincing.
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by alanh 14y ago
It made me think of Sarte’s infinite library, but the reality of these books looks nothing like either.
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by alanh 14y ago
Perhaps more relevantly, the limiting factor is the upload bandwidth in the circuit. Faster consumer speeds would seem to have a very relevant effect there.
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by alanh 14y ago
What a wonderful rabbit hole your link provides. Cheers.
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by alanh 14y ago
There’s no need to mock people.
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by alanh 14y ago
I had the pleasure of meeting the Wishery folks a year ago. Absolutely great guys. Congrats, Sean & Cooper.
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by alanh 14y ago
I voted in that. I know I didn’t like Stack Overflow because it is a negative thing, and I thought it’d be better to choose a name with a positive association; but obviously it’s not been a problem. I don’t remember what I did vote for. I
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by alanh 14y ago
Hmm, case-in-point, then. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by alanh 14y ago
You’re flat-out wrong. The biggest deployments of Markdown — StackOverflow & GitHub — do not squash line breaks. They made this decision because authors did not assume their line breaks would be discarded. The change is not geek arrogan
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by alanh 14y ago
The problem is not that Gruber doesn’t want to maintain Markdown. If that were it, perhaps it would be easier to move on without him. It’s that he thinks the best option is to do nothing. He claims the title of BDFL without playing the role
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by alanh 14y ago
It should be “if I were your cloud provider.” It’s a possibility and a wish of theirs, so it should be expressed in the subjunctive. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/subjunctive-verbs-was-i...
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by alanh 14y ago
Somehow, I knew I’d be called-out for this :) I’m not sure either quite applies, strictly; but my dictionary defines “commutative” thusly: > adj. Mathematics: involving the condition that a group of quantities connected by operators gi
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by alanh 14y ago
Flagged. Link-baiting, inaccurate title. Sure, it’s the source’s title, but linkbaitiness is commutative.
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by alanh 14y ago
Ah, that does make a lot of sense, and jives with what I've gathered of developing markets, as well. One imagines some sort of tethering to be feasible, if not universally applicable, for those who want a computer form factor and already ha
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by alanh 14y ago
I’m concerned that there does not seem to be any sort of warranty. My family tried one of the original Chromebooks, and it lasted merely a year before physically breaking from normal usage.
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by alanh 14y ago
I think you are somewhat confused. (Edit: I had misunderstood the parent; see below.) The $250 model does not appear to be bundled with Verizon. In fact, I don’t think it has 3G capabilities, just Wi-Fi. The higher-cost Chromebook 550 (
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by alanh 14y ago
Sarcasm? I’m an iTunes Match user, and while I love the dream, the reality isn’t quite there yet. The experience is pretty choppy, even confusing. (No, I’m not talking about buffering streams.)

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