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901.
by gbog 14y ago
Good point. Except for games or kids apps, the ui should get out of the way and have no personality. It should have some identity though, so we can tell apps apart, but a logo and a color scheme is enough usually.
902.
by gbog 14y ago
you seem to take exponential growth from granted, I'm not sure why. this seem to be the exception, not the rule.
903.
by gbog 14y ago
Inoculate yourself against bad design and subscribe to Jakob Nielsen newsletter.
904.
by gbog 14y ago
Resolution and all other superficial realism measures do not add anything to the immersion capacity of movies or games. Just take any black and white Hitchcock, and tell me you are not immersed in the story. But what can be further
905.
by gbog 14y ago
Well I don't think I said I'd purposefully give such a killer switch to an alien race, I just said we don't know. We are all aware of the reasons to be pessimist, because of all the books and movies, but there are reasons to be opti
906.
by gbog 14y ago
You don't know. Alien could be of a different scale, ant or mountain sized, and then most likely wouldn't even notice or mind our presence.
907.
by gbog 14y ago
The strong assumption here is that the is no divide between intelligent and non intelligent life forms. I don't think it is the only view. I'd rather compare alien encounter with something like Marco Polo going to China: he didn't
908.
by gbog 14y ago
I must be lacking some context, this blog post feels like an uninteresting egotrip to me.
909.
by gbog 14y ago
What is nice with alien is that we really don't know. So the sentence above tells much more about your pessimism than about aliens.
910.
by gbog 14y ago
Genuine question: all those comments focusing on Bellard's humble character, do they refer in negative to some hype developers, brogrammers, those who use only the latest fashionable tools, write blogs and rants and books?
911.
by gbog 14y ago
The kids want what we make them want, on tv and elsewhere. There is a general trend toward collectibles away from diy, confirmed by someone working in retail. That's very sad and probably harmful in long term for all the society: co
912.
by gbog 14y ago
Other answers are trying to trick the machine, while the obvious and safe fix is to serve plain html. Just like HN by the way, which is the only bearable site from China on a 3g connection.
913.
by gbog 14y ago
Some of the many mistakes I have made are that of being " lazy" and instead of creating some tables and some schema structure and all the related code I just serialized the stuff and stored it as a string in the database. A few month
914.
by gbog 14y ago
"The trends don't lie" Wah. And you do not even seem to be ironic. Trends always lie, there is always a next thing that will take the opposite direction, in philosophy, in science, and particularly so in computing stuff.
915.
by gbog 14y ago
Not the OP but I'd say giving Postgres a try is a suggestion.
916.
by gbog 14y ago
I'm under the impression that Mongo is merely hiding away some complexities, instead of truly resolving them.
917.
by gbog 14y ago
Does it work and is it fast with ctags?
918.
by gbog 14y ago
Sorry but no. We are used to boxes surrounding actionable fields where we can type in content. Here your pseudo-fields is half editable, half not editable, which is weird. The "delimiting an active field" purpose of the visible box is broke
919.
by gbog 14y ago
So everybody is right, everything is relative, and so on? Sorry but no. In some cases, maybe in most cases, the right thing in not in the middle. For example: having or not ads on Wikipedia, using or not useless animations in websites, allo
920.
by gbog 14y ago
So instead of a very simple and straightforward html tag you propose a full js module and animations and so on? And all this just to remove an important cue from the sight of your users?
921.
by gbog 14y ago
I'd accept placeholders as labels the day I see a reason to remove labels. And, no, fashion is not a reason.
922.
by gbog 14y ago
I am reminded of the discussion we had with colleagues about Markdown versus RestructuredText. On Markdown side, you have sexy but ill-defined grammar, and on RST you have a slightly less nice-looking guy with a much better defined grammar,
923.
by gbog 14y ago
one idea that could change the world: stop causalism. let independent facts be independent. replace "because" for "at the same time". that would kill almost all journalism, which is never tired of telling us the why, when there is n
924.
by gbog 14y ago
"a lot of the type of people who read HN somewhat worship the Steve Jobs keynotes" I don't. I'm not sure why so many people in this readership should love them. Most probably just don't care.
925.
by gbog 14y ago
"Information can cause one of three price reactions: up, down, or flat." Then there is no cause. Prices change somewhat randomly whether there is some information or not. The only correct predictive model is something like " there is 80pc
926.
by gbog 14y ago
I didn't made myself clear enough. I know I can ssh to an iPod, and to my Android phone, but I don't own anything there, I cannot install vim with the few plugins I like, I cannot install and use unison to sync files. In also ssh
927.
by gbog 14y ago
" hundred of commits per month", you mean per week or per day?
928.
by gbog 14y ago
To those always replying to raspberry articles that it can be done with other setups, and that it's nothing new, I think you're missing the point: All those tutorials show that a single very cheap and well designed piece of open hardw
929.
by gbog 14y ago
Works very well for me, I can stream music and cartoons on all my devices.
930.
by gbog 14y ago
1. A static client is an empty page with a big js blob. 2. it is about where the html is generated, either by js on client or by a script on the server.

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