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by chavesn 13y ago
Ubuntu? Where's the hardware? Where's the full experience? Regardless, innovative isn't just trying it first. It's making it work first. Microsoft has made a good try but there's something missing if it's just
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by chavesn 13y ago
Good points, a lot to think about. And I do agree it seems like there is a long way to go before we are seeing many great apps in iOS 7 design language. Original iOS may feel bland now, but I feel like the design language that it created b
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by chavesn 13y ago
Most of these, especially without colorful, professional photography adorning them (which is unlikely to be the case in real use), just look like wireframes to me.
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In Defense of the Humble “Local Maximum”(medium.com)
1 points by chavesn 13y ago|0 comments
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by chavesn 13y ago
With a sample of that size there is no way 2% is significant. You're talking about 1 or 2 seconds right? Mine was 50% or more. Maybe I'm extremely distractable.
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by chavesn 13y ago
So much more makes sense now, like why I feel like their use of Tumblr for the corporate blog is purely perfunctory.
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by chavesn 13y ago
Unfortunately, to me her post says different things: * " I work on weekends." (With a hint of "Just saying..."). * Designed in only two days. * This was personal. Talking about her love for design and "most of all
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by chavesn 13y ago
I think the problem was that SWFs so frequently needed load indicators. Sure, progress bars make the time seem to go by quicker, but what's better is actually being quicker. Progress bars were a crutch, but the pages were still dramati
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by chavesn 13y ago
I'll take my teleportation without serialization, thank you. I am ridiculously unqualified to comment on this topic, but the article seemed to start out on the wrong hypothesis from the beginning. It seems to me that if teleportation i
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by chavesn 13y ago
I scanned your comment and read it wrong the first time. I thought you were saying that the NSA is a sign of things becoming fucked up again. That I can agree with. The thought that what the NSA is doing (especially if we limit the discus
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by chavesn 13y ago
(Hasty, possibly unfounded criticism follows) I'm a software engineer myself, and I already believe that great advice can come from unexpected sources, so I visited your website willing to be convinced that you really do know what you
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by chavesn 13y ago
Can there be a "one more thing" where Ballmer retires, please?
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by chavesn 13y ago
It might be just because the OP linked to "launchsky.com/#" but if I follow that link, then click your logo ("launchsky.com"), then I can no longer come back to Hacker News via the back button -- it just endlessly c
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by chavesn 14y ago
I'm just saying it's a sign, or a smell. Just as you say older/pre-modern -- bad code or not, the same caveat applies about upgrading core language platforms. Even a strictly typed language with a much more standardized API like Java can b
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by chavesn 14y ago
I agree with Steve. "No apples" actually is "0 apples". Your analogy is a misunderstanding of null. Null is like you asking me how many apples Joe has. I say I don't know. If you write down 0, I'm going to stop you and say, "I didn't sa
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by chavesn 14y ago
Having number_format in so many thousands of places across so many products is indicative of pretty poor code. If you have bad code, you can hardly expect to be able to upgrade to new versions of the language seamlessly. Speaking of whic
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by chavesn 14y ago
One possible explanation: People here, generally speaking, like a community that is about the people . Aside from meta.stackoverflow, Stack Overflow's model makes that difficult. That's ok, because Stack Overflow is not a social networ
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by chavesn 14y ago
Being brief in the quote you've replied to meant that I poorly communicated what I actually meant. The analogy was meant to communicate the harm of hanging on to methods of the past longer than necessary. Consumer hacking in terms of compu