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by dmitriid 4y ago
Apple's HIGs were carefully researched and validated. The original HIGs from the 80s even had an extensive bibliography linking to and citing extensive user research. What are the current changes except "we don't understand h
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Or simply: - Stop mandated yearly releases - Stop mandated "release must have new features or else" - Stop superfluous changes that take away time and focus. Examples: all the recent redesigns (attempt to butcher Safari, and Syste
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> NFT's for domain ownership makes a lot more sense than paying monthly. How do handle domain squatters and legal disputes? > whole trustless thing means users can provide compute for each other rather than tolerating an ad-riddl
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It's a very high barrier. Because you can't interpolate animation, or move bones around, or slap a different texture if you don't like something. Every motion in every direction has to be animated. It's akin to creatin
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It's the great unanswered question: what works in game design? It turns out wand building and extensive end-game/meta progression is far more engaging than most other things. IIRC there was more chemistry early on (I think there w
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I nitpick for the README: consider converting examples from images to code blocks (you can even directly copy-paste them into the code blocks and they should retain their formatting) Otherwise: yes, please. I love the idea.
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> Apple updated a billion live iPhones to APFS in 10.3 and there was nary a peep. This was an insane engineering feat. Oh to be a fly in the room when the go ahead decision was made. And the stories from teams who tracked the rollout.
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> This is nostalgic bias. > Early OS X was a mess. The OS was steadily and visibly improving. However, once it reached maturity, Apple decided to throw all care (and its own HIGs) out of the window. And now the OS has moved from stagn
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Telegram runs on multiple OSes and mobile devices. Each app is separate. Each app is maintained by just a handful of people. Meanwhile the richest company in the world apparently needs to spend two years re-writing the extremely basic app t
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After Federighi claimed that they needed to re-write Messages in Catalyst because otherwise they wouldn't have the resources to implement such complex functionality as message editing [1] I've lost all my remaining faith in Apple
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> Have any journalists and/or leakers exposed exactly what these tech companies are sharing? I think that the answer to this is "yes, multiple times, often multiple times on the same companies up and down every level of the sta
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> a good mastodon server has Yes. The problem is finding such a server. And then finding content outside that server.
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> You don't If you don't, then you you have no idea if your units fit together properly :) I've been bitten by this when developing microservices. And as I said in an edit above, it becomes less clear what to test in more
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So.. Not so different from twitter then. I see hack projects and experimental things quite often because of the people I follow.
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> where is still possible to discover How?
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> I really learned what a firm grip Apple has on its users, and it is proven here yet again that it is by design. > The Android phone I gave her and we use is GrapheneOS, and we have a Nextcloud server for most all our needed services
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> If you were to test the behavior of unit one _through_ units 2 and 3, you'd need 2*N tests. There are only two possible responses to that: 1. No, there are not 2*N tests because unit 3 does not cover, or need, all of the behavior
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And most of those servers stopped registrations when the exodus from Twitter began. One reason, so that communities wouldn't get diluted. The other, it's expensive to run this.
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> I watched it with my dad however and he wouldn’t shut up about “wokeness” I thought it was leaning a bit too heavily on what we consider modern issues. But then it turns out that some of the characters in the story where real and lived
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There are multiple videos where LockPickingLawyer opens electronic locks from various companies using a simple magnet. Even "real lock companies" are not immune from selling shiny gadgetry with misleading marketing
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> If I had to test all the use cases for each function, all combined together, there number of tests would grow by the multiplication of the partitions of each one Why would they? Do these edge cases not appear when the caller is invoked
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And the only actual useful tests are functional (depending on how you write them) and above. If those fail, it means that neither your design nor your code works. The absolute vast majority of unit tests are meaningless because you just rep
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> this is the smallest thing I _can_ test usefully Then you're testing useless things. Usefulness is when different parts of a program work together as a coherent whole. Testing DB access layer and service layer separately (as units
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When all you have is plain text, sure, you can get creative with that text. Space Jam website it won't be https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
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From the video intro this looks like Kai's Power Tools, but for 3D
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> How about highway signage showing which businesses are available on an exit You don't need that signage. Standard "food, lodging, gas station at next exit" signs exist. In Sweden sides of the road (10 meters or so) belon
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It feels like the mid-90's web. mid-90's web embraced weirdness and creativity. Primarily recognizing that we get so much info visually. Gemini says: no, it's only text, no creativity or weirdness allowed. While I sort o
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by dmitriid 4y ago
In the case when there's a staging environment, it would be nice to easily run the microservice you're working on locally. And/or mock some of the external stuff like BigQueries, Dataflows etc. You can't even test server
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Google don't need to resort to such tricks when they can just bludgeon everyone to death. Se how they forced support of VP9 and AV1: https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues
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No. No. No. No. Solve local development first and then maybe cloud dev. Reasons, just off the top of my head: - always-on internet connection is not always viable - intermittent and bad connections are a thing - which local environment do

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