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by andos 15y ago
For years I used a similar program called KeyNote. It had an absurd amount of text tricks up its sleeve and everything was accessible via keyboard shortcuts. Most people would cringe at its late 90s GUI (it's Borland Delphi!), but after hid
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by andos 15y ago
Yes, ResophNotes. It's not just similar, it's a clone: http://www.resoph.com/ResophNotes
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by andos 15y ago
For all e-gov services with which I had the displeasure of interacting, all around the world, merely approaching the AWS levels of availability and stability would be an immense improvement...
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by andos 15y ago
There was this guy at a TED event that mixed the filthiest, most disgusting glop I've ever seen, pushed it through a filter he invented and drank the resulting water all onstage. He said it could even filter virus-sized particles out. Of co
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by andos 15y ago
Certainly so, but read the title again: Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python The author is not arguing that Python is better than Java. (It's 2011, why would he do that?) He's telling his reasons for switching. We
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by andos 15y ago
4)"Things in the python world seem to "just work"" that's just a self delusion caused by an emotional reaction not a valid argument First, there are objective aspects to that perception. For example, Python affords trying stuff immediatel
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Now, to be put into that category of one of the best books of the century, that’s a little bit embarrassing as they rank me with Einstein and Feynman - I’m not in that league really, I just didn’t have as much competition - they had to hav
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by andos 15y ago
The suggested "bring your own" model of software deployment solves a lot of support problems, too.
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Writing good widgets from scratch is an endless task. It's missing ARIA roles: http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#combobox
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by andos 15y ago
And there's also Emotional Design: http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Design-Love-Everyday-Things/...
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by andos 15y ago
The one about white text on dark background is also quite a good laugh ( http://uxmovement.com/color/when-to-use-white-text-on-a-dark... ).
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Donald Norman wrote a great deal about that subject (psychological and emotional aspects of user experience), albeit not specifically about web dev.
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by andos 15y ago
That's the problem with Google Code, in my opinion. It tries to be both a landing page and a project manager for my software when I'd rather take care of the former myself. It ends up sucking at both, unfortunately.
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by andos 15y ago
Thank you. Like others, I believe Google keeps its infrastructure secret because that is a competitive advantage. Their infrastructure is their business. It makes sense for Facebook to openly publish its datacenter design because that's not
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by andos 15y ago
Can you elaborate? I don't understand why they should open-source their infrastructure.
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by andos 15y ago
I was expecting “iOS users buy more apps and pay more for them than Android users .” but instead this is about “iOS users buy more apps and pay more for them than last year .”
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by andos 15y ago
I have no idea what point you are attempting to make. Do you believe the solutions we have today are decent enough and cannot be improved further? I wish handling files was so simple that even those you call “non power-users” ( i.e. pr
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Save-as also provides the function of being able to save to different media/locations. Yeah, that too. Duplicate, or export, or copy. Power users already have their more powerful alternatives and non-power users are used to what they kno
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by andos 15y ago
to complement save-as (aka, poor-man's branch) Exactly. Today we use save and save-as as crippled forms of versioning. We can do better.
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Yeah, working with code is interesting because a source file is rarely in a “stable” state when it is being edited. The save button in this case serves as a checkpoint marker: “this here is good.” It's like doing mini-commits. If we were to
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by andos 15y ago
Why do we still need to save explicitly?
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Example: the Save button looks like a floppy. WTF? A bit of an off-topic: the real WTF for me is that there is such a thing as a save button. I cannot fathom that most software requires us to perform an ancient ritual lest they throw away
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by andos 15y ago
People are not upright beasts whose only needs are food and shelter. People also might be perfectly well fed and healthy, but live in rural areas, or be elderly, or have learning disabilities. People who were once very poor can start receiv
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by andos 15y ago
As is usual when performing user testing, the OP rewarded Joe in the end. They taught him how to use email and registered his bakery card. Joe volunteered and could have said enough! at any time. The ones to blame for Joe's stress and frust
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My point was that Eclipse and Netbeans (and IntelliJ IDEA) cater to a specific public with specific needs and that public is not the same as Coda’s. To compare the experience of using Eclipse and Coda is questionable and to argue that Eclip
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[W]hile NetBeans and Eclipse feel engineered, Coda feels designed. The comparison between Eclipse/NetBeans to Coda is problematic. The OP downplays the importance of who those apps were created for, when that is a fundamental part of the
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Just as a curiosity: yesterday I watched a talk by Thomas Ptacek at some indie Mac dev conference where he showed, en passant , how some kludges used by Apple produced vulnerabilities in Mac OS X. It’s old, fixed stuff by now, but I was li
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by andos 15y ago
Certainly, yes, and appropriately so. Furthermore, ”code can be beautiful” entices attention and curiosity while ornate language does not. That’s all I meant.
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Nobody is questioning the necessity of aesthetic considerations to solve problems of all kinds. What brought up this discussion was the usage of ornate but empty language to describe typography. Quicksort is an elegant solution but would yo
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I offer you a few gateway drugs: — The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by E. R. Tufte; — The Elements of Typographic Design by R. Bringhurst; — The Design of Everyday Things by D. Norman; — Don't Make Me Think! by S. Krug

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