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   by alanh 7y ago

   The Apple Maps 'street view' equivalent (coming in iOS 13) has a transition animation (for moving down the street) that absolutely knocks the socks off Google's. It was surprising to see just how strikingly better it is. I do
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   by alanh 7y ago

   Is this a joke or reference, perhaps?
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   by alanh 7y ago

   I think you have some confusing typos here, perhaps some missing negations?
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   by alanh 7y ago

   I'm no FB apologist, but I take issue with this: > fake account problem … Google Trends shows worldwide "Facebook" queries down 80% from their November 2012 peak. Except that much of this downturn in people googling &quo
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   by alanh 7y ago

   when i see an interesting article, i just send it to Pocket (or Instapaper). I do this partially for time-shifting and/or text-to-speech purposes, but avoiding crap like this is a major benefit.
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   by alanh 7y ago

   If computers were still ENIAC-sized, then… well, you see where I am going
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   by alanh 7y ago

   not to be that guy, but… username checks out! (inb4 hn is turning into reddit)
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   by alanh 7y ago

   dan, please set max-width: 40em; on your content. It's unreadable as-is. I will read this later on Pocket.
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   by alanh 7y ago

   Same here.
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    by alanh 7y ago

    Gmail ignores (or ignored?) dots on the left of the @, so some.person@gmail.com and someperson@gmail.com and s.om.e.person@gmail.com all went to the same inbox. That is gmail-specific.
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    by alanh 7y ago

    this is the same problem you get from any identity provider — what happens when you finally delete your facebook? — it's just more obvious with Apple. With a 97% satisfaction rate, most iPhone users don’t want to go anywhere else… but
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    by alanh 7y ago

    Wow, is it just me or is this a mountain-out-of-a-molehill situation? This is not fundamentally any different than “report spam” for email, or a user posting “is 800-xxx-xxxx a legit number?” online, or sending a contact card to a few milli
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    by alanh 7y ago

    i think the implication is that a platform need not police its content if it is truly p2p and not actually storing or responsible for the content on it. with mastodon, the company is not running the servers people connect to in order to use
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    by alanh 7y ago

    well… clearly employees Should Not do this. Here's what you aren’t seeing, if I may: Consumers see the end product. They intuit rules based on what they see. I only see pictures and videos sent to me, and then they are gone. From thi
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    by alanh 7y ago

    Don’t use blockquotes instead of section headings… please. This makes my skin crawl, but more importantly, it messes up assistive technology such as rotor and text-to-speech.
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    by alanh 7y ago

    Psst: Night Eye is a browser extension that has really, deeply impressed me by managing to give almost every website and web app a good-enough 'night mode,' surpassing all the quick-hack filter() solutions and more common extensio
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    by alanh 7y ago

    the best reason for Edge/Mac to exist is simple: developers, developers, developers.
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    by alanh 7y ago

    This is more or less exactly the scenario explored in this classic sketch comedy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3pJudQi7A
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    by alanh 7y ago

    When I saw this had 400+ upvotes, I kind of rolled my eyes and thought, Wow, HN will upvote the absolute worst idea if it’s an implausible-enough hack. But having actually read your explanation and FAQ, I have to admit every upvote is wel
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    by alanh 7y ago

    IE7 did have tabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_7
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    by alanh 7y ago

    did you really just paste a viral tweet here without attribution? :/
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    by alanh 8y ago

    I wrote this 10 years ago, and it’s as true as ever: Google signals every day that they don’t care about people, just money. https://alanhogan.com/arrogance-of-google
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    by alanh 8y ago

    I agree Buzz was probably the best example https://alanhogan.com/buzz-is-already-dead (About the UI/UX nobody wanted) https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/technology/internet/13go
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    by alanh 8y ago

    Taking a look at the table in that Wikipedia page, you can notice that while Oakland has more violent crime per capital than SF, SF has more property crime per capita than Oakland. No wonder it can seem that the streets are paved with sha
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    by alanh 8y ago

    To be clear, I am saying that personally I see crime daily, whether I am in San Francisco or Oakland, and my co-workers have been sent to the hospital via attacks right in front of our offices on Market Street in San Francisco. I will also
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    by alanh 8y ago

    Working in San Francisco and living in Oakland, I have to imagine that to a significant degree, it is not (just) that there is less crime, but that there are fewer arrests. I see crime every day — literally every day. My co-workers have bee
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    by alanh 8y ago

    My car and I are stupid in different ways. It has perfect attention and will always brake in time to avoid a fender-bender in traffic. It’s also a lot worse than I am about reading and communicating intent with other drivers or simply recog
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    by alanh 8y ago

    My Model 3 suddenly changed lanes today for no discernible reason. I think it considered my lane to jump over into the next lane, for some reason. I should have hit 'Record' to save the footage from TeslaCam. (Notably, AutoPilot i
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    Four Myths Web Developers Believe About HTML(alanhogan.com)

    2 points by alanh 8y ago|0 comments
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    by alanh 8y ago

    i thought the domain was webtv.com for a second. (WebTV was how my paternal grandparents used the Internet.)