alxlaz

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by alxlaz 4y ago
Yep. This is the uncomfortable truth: back in the heyday of Aqua, if you wanted a good icon, you had to pay a skilled artist about 40% of the sum that, today, gets you a full app design sketch. Folks look at the cool designs from that era
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by alxlaz 4y ago
The modern-day equivalent is yes, regular user, just do <Windows>, then write "calc", press <Return>, and you'll be ready to use the calculator. That R really killed it...
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> What metric are you measuring this individual against? Because Revenues went from $441M (2020), to $527M (2021), that's a 20% YoY increase in topline revenue growth. That's huge for a company of this size. That annual report
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by alxlaz 4y ago
The salary is definitely typical. What's less typical is an under-performing employee getting a 93% raise.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
The screenshot in the article is with torrents in seeding state, yours is with a torrent in downloading state. I think the problem is specific to the seeding state.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
"Designing for print" includes a lot of illustration, mixed media (text & image) DTP, photo editing, color management -- not just largely image-less typesetting. 100% WYSIWYG is absolutely necessary for most professional work.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Windows XP Tabled Edition was to tablets as Windows 8 was to desktops and laptops: a solid (for its age) OS, but with an interface that was not adequate for that form factor. Using it on a tablet was just as annoying as using Windows 8 on a
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> The vintage Flash UI is great. Buttons have edges. Icons look like things. Space is well-used. It's amazing! Using old UIs makes me feel like an archaeologist discovering some sort of forgotten Roman technology. The lost art of UI
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by alxlaz 4y ago
One good side effect of the GDPR pop-up is that I can now use it as a proxy measurement for ownership shadiness and information usefulness. If the pop-up makes it reasonably easy to opt out and start reading, it's usually a good indica
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> UNIX workstations hardware was always miles and miles better[0], although it could no longer compete with the commodity PC hardware due to being exorbitantly priced This was true early on, as in, early 90s-ish. But in the second half o
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Yeah, tell me about it. My personal pet peeve is "crowded interfaces". Lots of modern facelifts attempt to solve the "clutter" problem by making the widgets larger and improving widget space and padding. Which does actua
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by alxlaz 4y ago
That's what I'm doing at the moment. However, that means a) maintaining a custom GTK theme which, given upstream's commitment to theming, is about as fun as chewing nails and about as reliable as a teapot made of chocolate a
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by alxlaz 4y ago
It's not the compositor, sadly, this is a GTK "feature". GTK allows you to define colors for various elements separately, depending on whether the window has focus or not. This is a good idea on paper, but in practice it seem
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by alxlaz 4y ago
That is not what I'm asking about. I don't mean the opacity of inactive window. What I want to disable is GTK's setting of the color of various elements depending on whether the window has focus or not. Even with compositor
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Does anyone know of a good way to disable that braindead window fading "feature" in GTK? If you look at the changelog, the text in the inactive window is barely readable. I have to squint to read it on most monitors. Fading it is
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by alxlaz 4y ago
What you're describing is basically copyright, which is exactly what artists are demanding: the legal protection to which they are entitled to. Edit: Silicon Valley exceptionalism seems to preclude some thought leaders in the field to
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by alxlaz 4y ago
IIRC the eventual fix was to have it respect the global compositor settings, so if you have animation speed set to instant, while it does actually smooth scroll, it does so instantly. However, when it was introduced, it did not; for similar
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Eek, Okular. The one time I resorted to downgrading a package in 20+ years of using Linux. A few years back, someone drank too much design Kool-Aid and introduced smooth scrolling without making it optional. That did not get a very good rec
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by alxlaz 4y ago
If it's a scam, it's a damn clever one, because a whois query reveals a domain registered to Microsoft, with azure-dns name servers and a Microsoft contact email. Also one that's, erm, been flying under the radar for a long t
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Yes -- among other reasons, none of them related to quality. WITCH companies are notorious for this. Accenture, for example, boasted similarly ginormous numbers for a contract with the NHS (11 bn GBP), which never produced any working softw
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Alternatively: don't hire internationally if your hiring process can't do it correctly. Personal responsibility is indeed a thing, but it shouldn't be used as an excuse for management incompetence.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> While this is true, it is utterly infeasible for a company with tens of thousands of employees to consider the individual employee in their decisions. This isn't collectively decided by a company with tens of thousands of employee
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Seeing someone who served in the Navy being told that their peacetime service is very different from the war that Twitter is currently experiencing is... I'm not even sure how to react to that. Lots of execs like to stretch those milit
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> Pretty sure it's within their contractual rights to deny people access to the office for any reason or no reason at all? Of course it is. The point I am making is that it's extremely bad management to handle layoffs and firin
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by alxlaz 4y ago
I mean whoever decided that the proper way to handle a layoff is to tell someone who has not yet been fired that they can no longer access company premises while they're on their way to work, or possibly wondering why their badge doesn
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Did you read the article, or at least the quote that the parent offered? This isn't about Twitter changing work site expectations/status. It's about blocking physical access for employees who were expected to show up at the o
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Based on my experience with shady plug-ins for e.g. Photoshop back in the late 90s/early 00s, all that a reputation/"verified user" solution is going to achieve is a very lucrative black market of high-reputation/ve
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Oh, no, this was super common. When the Arduino (and, soon afterwards, the Pi) were launched, for several years, about 20% of my time was spent explaining higher-ups why there's a very wide gap to cross between a junior's "I
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by alxlaz 4y ago
It's worth remembering that much of the churn was caused not by having to rewrite configuration, but by the multitude of bugs that plagued systemd early on, and the way they were treated did not help. systemd upstream was extremely dif
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by alxlaz 4y ago
It used to be better but the front fell off.

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