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by bonaldi 13y ago
There's not a problem, but is there a point? It means creating an essentially useless HTML page. There's expense and overhead to doing it, in both initial dev and maintenance. That expense has to be justified, and what is the just
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by bonaldi 13y ago
> Using a bakery as an example, implementing API keys is like making customers fill out ID cards and come to your bakery and present ID every time they want a slice of bread. Your policy is "Sorry we do not provide loaves to custome
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Lazy loading is a good one. Perhaps you're letting someone scroll through a list of items, and as they near the bottom you load another 10. What forever-maintained page with a permanent URI does that map to? Even if the API returns jus
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by bonaldi 13y ago
The comments on this one are worth a read; there are some well thought-out rejections of this. (Like so many of the ranty genre, it's taking a single use-case and insisting it covers all cases. Yes, some APIs could be replaced by a n
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Yes, it's overthinking. It's not so much about multi-monitor, which Apple has had working since the 80s, it's about the interaction with the full-screen mode they introduced in 10.7. At first they blanked non-primary screens
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Someone typed "YouTube" into YouTube and it broke the internet. Then tried to merge their accounts.
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You're being downvoted because based on a single, arguably marginal, use case ("I only ever want to know the exact temperature right this very second and everything else is useless to me") you're a claiming that there&#x
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> A lot of apps are rightly useless without normal connectivity, like checking the weather, or sending e-mails, Except that thinking leads to really shitty behaviour from apps. Like weather apps that refuse to show you the data cached f
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by bonaldi 13y ago
You could tell their heart wasn't in Hypercard Player: putting "set the userLevel to 5" into the message box would essentially turn it into Hypercard.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
I don't even need a 4K monitor at £2000. A 15" or 17" external retina thunderbolt screen would be perfect. They already have the 15" panels, I wonder why they don't sell them as external monitors too.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
What you're saying there is essentially "mailing lists don't scale". One man's gossip is another man's networking. Your off-topic rant might be my eureka moment. That mailing lists discourage participation for
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by bonaldi 13y ago
I think "a good archive for new members" is more important than just the "only" suggests. The reason it's lacking shows the problem with mailing lists: they restrict participation to those who were members at the ti
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Forums are far better. Mailing lists seem like a hack to do forum-type stuff over email. Still using a mailing list nowadays is like using that web-to-email gateway Stallman uses.
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It's less that and more that there is now a significant-enough installed base that can't upgrade to the latest OS. There's now a lot of older iPhones and iPods Touch out there that will never get 7. Knowing that, developers w
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Woman: "Tone policing is destroying communication" Hacker News: "Don't you dare use that tone with us!"
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Sorry, you're not welcome as a customer. If you are a member of the oppressing class (in whichever context: from being friends with a school bully to knowing a slave trader) and an oppressed person tells you they are suffering from the
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by bonaldi 13y ago
That is incredibly great, Rob! Good on her.
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A sole person in the country would do as an example, right? And I'll bet with 300 million there's at least one tech-inclined American with English as the first language that has trouble being understood. Likewise, if foreignness i
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by bonaldi 13y ago
I think the problem really arose because he said foreign accent. So if it was someone American with an incredibly thick and hard-to-understand accent that would be fine? It wouldn't, if what he really cares about is comprehension. &g
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Catch is closing down tomorrow(catch.com)
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by bonaldi 13y ago
The function was already established: it made a beep. The entire discussion was around form. It's not form over function, it's arguably exactly the right balance between the two. I wouldn't say that only those who care sole
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Not sure why "you can just use the DOM inspector" is so often accepted without question. Why does the DOM inspector happily show you a password? Shouldn't the browser be keeping track of those it has autofilled and promptin
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by bonaldi 13y ago
This gives the pointer a blue beachball on Mac Safari. Is that intended? Have never been sure what the blue beachball's supposed to be.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
They're still at it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6217742 just had its title changed, as has https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6217968 (which lost the interesting $12m hook to boot). This is
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"Good design and good markup go hand-in-hand" I don't think this is true any more than "good print design and good postscript go hand-in-hand". I don't think tables are the right way either, but they're to
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Yes, I can't believe people trusted those little gold locks on their diaries when they were teenagers. Didn't they know that someone malicious could just force that with a modicum of strength? Hiding passwords doesn't protect
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You can cast this entire comment in terms of hex/assembler vs C/Fortran and you get the same logical form. We haven't come anywhere close to reaching the limits of expressiveness in assembler either, yet we've mostly giv
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by bonaldi 13y ago
I use it a lot for natural language unit conversion; it's so much better at this than everything else — it's like Fantastical compared to Outlook's New Event dialog.
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We use these at work, and once set up they're a breeze. But that's a big "once". It also makes life needlessly difficult if you want to log in to something from a new/borrowed/etc PC and don't have the key
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by bonaldi 13y ago
The "weird sense" comes directly from Google's pitches, which amount to "use our free service: Trust all your data to it! Nothing will go wrong, we're here forever!". Which is a pitch they continue to make, wit

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