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by gffrd 4y ago
It does take two to tango, but this response is frustrating to me because it illustrates the lack of ethics/expectations in the design profession/community. (I am also a designer) Companies create the problems the features purport
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by gffrd 4y ago
Wonder who bought it … I worked a block away in 2017-8, when the street-level floors housed retailer Totokaelo (RIP). I'd go window shopping just to be able to explore it a bit. The basement held a giant vault, converted to shoe mercha
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by gffrd 4y ago
It’s annoying that this is something you even have to worry about. Gyms are kind of a sacred/vulnerable space, in that they are somewhere you go to better yourself … so someone filming in them and capturing people feels especially perv
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by gffrd 4y ago
Interesting! For each source, they must develop a "grain profile" (or, likely multiple profiles) so they're applying the right grain ""effect" when re-graining? And on the re-graining: is this being done on the
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by gffrd 4y ago
I think they just mean reproduction?
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by gffrd 4y ago
If there’s enlightenment to be had, don’t withhold it.
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by gffrd 4y ago
What happens if your culture is assimilated and co-opted?
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by gffrd 4y ago
Yikes, really? And what do they fear the impact of this to be? (Honest question)
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by gffrd 4y ago
> even the most unassuming building […] will influence the lives of thousands of people (if only because they see it and seeing it makes their day a bit better or worse) This bears repeating. The amount of people who have to contend with
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by gffrd 4y ago
Just like the original!
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by gffrd 4y ago
If someone needed your attention, wouldn't they just call you? Or walk in to the kitchen?
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by gffrd 4y ago
Honeycrisp as #2? Nahhhh …
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by gffrd 4y ago
As a: CONCERTGOER I want to: USE THE TICKETMASTER™ APP FOR MY TICKET, AND NOT HAVE ANY OTHER WAY TO HAVE IT—DEFINITELY NOT PDF. So that: I CAN HAVE THE CONCERT EXPERIENCE OF THE FUTURE© <Product Owner puts leans back from keyboard and br
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by gffrd 4y ago
What other approaches do you propose?
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by gffrd 4y ago
“You people” never got anyone worked up, right?
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by gffrd 4y ago
Hate anywhere has real world impact. There’s a lot of hate in the history books, 99% of it predating the internet. Are those that engage in hate online more or less likely to act on it than those who engage in person? Are these interactions
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by gffrd 4y ago
> amazon head count is 1.5M employees world wide In 2012, they had 88,000 … if scaling were linear—which it's not—that averages out to 141,000 people to hire a year. In a single year, 2019 to 2020, they grew their workforce ~63%, fr
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by gffrd 4y ago
How it's pronounced by Jony Ive.
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by gffrd 4y ago
What are you driving that has Tesla drivers wanting to tangle with you so often?? Muscle or German? (Wondering whether the motivator is performance or ideology)
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by gffrd 4y ago
What about the music industry allowed Spotify to happen? Is licensing set up in a way that made it possible whereas Movie/TV makes it impossible/unlikely? (I remember Classic Netflix, where I could get 99% of what I wanted … or, i
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by gffrd 4y ago
Unless, of course, the one remote is garbage, and the hassle of working the system with one remote is greater than with two.
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by gffrd 4y ago
EXCELLENT!! Thank you! Please tell me you had some experience with this stuff before busting out a dissertation on of lift-to-drag calculations … So, if we're constraining ourselves to go the same distance as a cruise missile with the
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by gffrd 4y ago
I've been pondering about the range thing, because my immediate kneejerk was "two balls rolling, one's 2x faster than the other, that one will go further" … but I had that "trick question" flag go off as soon a
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by gffrd 4y ago
I'm in the US. Interesting to see such a discrepancy in app sizes … here's what I've got: Home banking 1: App 382MB | Docs 10MB Home banking 2: App 346MB | Docs 5MB Home banking 3: App 302MB | Docs 38MB Finance 1: App 265MB |
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by gffrd 4y ago
Per the manifest, 450MB of the Robinhood app's weight comes from "needless animations"
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by gffrd 4y ago
I was thinking earlier: I wonder how different the landscape would look if customers had the freedom to choose their banking "front-end," linked up to their brick-and-mortar. Insurance is a great example of the same thing: horribl
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by gffrd 4y ago
Good analogy! And that makes logical sense … My first thought was "I wonder if lockmakers are really protective of their methods / manufacturing process," but realized this information would matter little: the point is that i
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by gffrd 4y ago
They may also be dealing with old / proprietary tech stacks—due to regulatory, industry, or security realities—that make using modern standards very cumbersome / impossible.
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Ask HN: Why are banking/finance apps so heavy?
45 points by gffrd 4y ago|51 comments
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by gffrd 4y ago
> it was always the only piece of software that was designed from the ground up as a UI design tool You sure about this? What about UXPin? XD? Axure?

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