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by bonaldi 18y ago
Yep, I agree with moe on this one: you just get more churn. In Get Satisfaction's case, I signed up because I wanted the comment to get there, but I deliberately used a low-grade address, and have forgotten my details already. I won't be go
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Most of these things I can live with, but the Get Satisfaction one drives me nuts: there's hardly any indication that you need to log in for certain features until you're mid-process, and then bang! "Create an account, please". Yes, making
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I'm surprised at the number of Adobe supporters in this thread; it's Stockholm syndrome-esque. For those who like the UI: Sure, it's better than the GiMP. But it's still awful. http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/ has been on HN before. It's a
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by bonaldi 18y ago
unique in the same way So, not unique then.
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Because getting rid of X would be a win?
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I think the point is that the editorial placement of stories is relieving you of a burden, not telling you what to think. It's like the ordering of stories on the HN front page -- to say "I don't CARE what other HN readers think; I want to
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Does HN have an API, or would it have to be scraped?
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Will this only work on ye actual reddit.com, or can you point it at a private install?
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by bonaldi 18y ago
don’t send or distribute documents that depend on external factors to display and print properly. So, no Word documents, no Quark XPress documents, no PageMaker files, no AppleWorks files and so on. Isn't quite right. Sure, that'll be a p
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by bonaldi 18y ago
There's an interesting UK/US divide here -- I'm in the UK, where most papers don't have a subscription, and where the cover price contributes substantially less to a paper's revenue. That said, even at their 1960s best I think it still stan
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Ignoring the silly, uninformed arguments (i.e. newspaper readers "have never paid for the content") I'm in agreement with you about the piece in general, but this specific point isn't silly. Newspapers readers haven't ever paid for the
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I find it interesting that there's no clamour for any sort of back or frontlighting on eReaders. I know paper doesn't have it, but even back in the Newton days I knew that was a killer feature. (Even though the Newton's backlight buzz made
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by bonaldi 18y ago
If Adobe had bothered making a reasonable Flash player for the Mac, Apple would have a much weaker public case for not including it on the iPhone. But Adobe's long neglect of the Mac is now returning to bite them.
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Not a defence, but hey, Adobe started it. With their crock-tastic installers, their updating of updated updaters, everything to do with Acrobat and Reader, app bloat, market segmentation gone nuts, rip-off pricing for Europe, vulnerabilit
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by bonaldi 18y ago
WebObjects. I don't like Java, or Eclipse, which makes it an odd choice, but it was Rails before Rails, and still has a lot of advantages over it. The ORM works hand-in-hand with the framework to do proper persistence, and while I rage agai
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by bonaldi 18y ago
"Hi, we are setting ourselves up to fail, and are looking for people inexperienced in something difficult. Can you help? There's a good chance we won't pay you at all, btw"
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by bonaldi 18y ago
# while [ 1 ]; do echo "All your drives are belong to us!"; sleep 30; done Hee, things I didn't think I'd ever see on ibm.com, #12234 in a series. People with company songbooks and nice ties must be spinning in their graves
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by bonaldi 18y ago
It's completely fine to have fun if you're not getting in people's ways. So you have to go on a scavenger hunt to see if bugbears are fixed, or bother Marco or David? That sounds like getting in the way. And wondering what's going on in t
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Well, hang on, first of all providing accompanying text for the flash-challenged was "redundant" -- despite you yourself doing it here and getting karma accordingly -- and now it's merely something you're not a fan of? I'm not interested in
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Text would not have been redundant: it would have allowed users to see everything that was new instead of having to crawl over the site looking for new stuff. Eg: I have to check three or four possible locations to see if I can now see who
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by bonaldi 18y ago
A launch shouldn't be about alienation. Is there any reason the video couldn't have been accompanied by text?
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I can't see it because I don't have flash on this machine, but am opposed in general to screencasts, videos and co. Unless you actually have a spectacle to show, just tell me wtf is new, please. I can read a paragraph of text before the loa
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Most Metafilter commenters would strongly disagree, and do when the subject arises. Threading is especially frowned upon.
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Schiller wasn't, he was medium-level in marketing; but Ive was fairly senior. His team were churning out great designs -- there's a book called AppleDesign that showcases the work, the majority of which didn't make it into production becaus
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Schiller and Ive were both there during the dark days. Ive designed the Newton and the Performa. The thing about Jobs is he can marshall talent in a way that really drives technical staff nuts at the time, but delights them with the results
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by bonaldi 18y ago
It cheers me endlessly that the majority of HN commenters really grok the news situation -- it's essential for society, has no business model, there aren't yet any valid alternatives. It seems simple spelt out, but it's amazing how many peo
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Games aside, there's hardly anything on the App Store that couldn't be done in webOS. It's not just "local webpages" -- the SMS and phone apps are written in it, after all. I think if the choice was between a third all-new alien SDK and lur
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Don't write usability off as "marketing". AIM presented a usable way to do chat for people who had no idea when IRC was a command-line confus-atron.
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I think it might be just the right amount, in the nick of time. The things this appears to do well are better than the iPhone's -- there appear to be fewer walls between data, and the Synergy stuff is a very nice touch. The OS is built on J
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by bonaldi 18y ago
It took Jobs years to hit his stride -- his early stump speeches are nowhere near as good as his later ones. And when he doesn't have something good to announce, they're pretty damn dull. I thought that all things considered the keynote was

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