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by hbn 6mo ago
Blip definitely has a better UX and it's nice that it can transfer between networks through their servers (obviously don't be sending sensitive stuff cause who knows how much they can be trusted) But I consider my usage of it to b
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by hbn 6mo ago
Should have been called PearDrop
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by hbn 6mo ago
I don't see the issue with making a social network that's more focused on real-time, current irl connections. Snapchat has already used a similar model with decaying content to great success. I think you're likely of a genera
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by hbn 6mo ago
GPT-5.5 shatters benchmarks for amount of faith it puts in the user.
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by hbn 6mo ago
I don't think I've ever heard of Demon's Souls being categorized as a puzzle game. I suppose some of the bosses have a trick to figure out? But I'd still think it falls into the action RPG genre by a wide margin.
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by hbn 6mo ago
I miss the live presentations too, there's no tension or humanity watching a polished prerecorded video compared to someone having to demo live. It would also discourage them from pulling another Apple Intelligence fiasco and announcin
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by hbn 6mo ago
I'm curious how you ended up creating an account on Hacker News if you don't see why people would be interested in major news regarding the biggest computer maker on the planet.
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by hbn 6mo ago
I haven't touched Android dev in the better part of a decade. Is Android Studio notably worse than IntelliJ? Cause I use that every day for work and I love it.
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by hbn 6mo ago
The author had to decide between making something excellent for some people or mediocre for everyone, and chose the former
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by hbn 6mo ago
Now if only they'd open up iOS development so we can get AppCode back. The primary thing keeping me away from trying it again is I have to use Xcode instead of my beloved JetBrains IDEs where I know all the keyboard shortcuts.
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by hbn 6mo ago
One of the best developers I work with commits everything with the message "changes" (This is not an endorsement to do that, he's a good developer in spite of his shitty commit messages)
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by hbn 6mo ago
Looks like a Switch 2 actually.
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by hbn 6mo ago
> They abandoned their mobile phone, tablet, and wearable strategy They were way too late to make a dent. Ballmer made the mistake when the iPhone came out to not get their ass in gear to compete. Microsoft's first potential real co
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by hbn 6mo ago
Or better yet, Settings > Apps > Default apps > select a different browser
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by hbn 6mo ago
Android and Chrome worked like this for a hot minute too. I assumed the idea was to promote webapps to look like they're first-class citizens, but in practice it's just bizarre and confusing UX.
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by hbn 7mo ago
Not to mention the iPad was only on the market for a year and a half before Jobs passed, in which there was no time for real educational software with traction to make it into schools. He was talking about a future he was aiming for. I know
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by hbn 7mo ago
I released an Android app to the Play Store ~10 years ago and the most important advice people were always sounding alarms about online in Android dev communities was to not publish under your real Google account you care about, because it&
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by hbn 7mo ago
What's the point of posting statistics if they're not fact-checked and come from no verifiable source? At best they're right but we don't know until someone else fact-checked it for you, and at worst you're just spr
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by hbn 7mo ago
There exists free tools that fix that behaviour too (Apple hasn't seemed to care because if you buy a mouse from them, it scrolls with a touch sensor so natural scrolling feels correct. And I do happen to be one of the few people who l
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by hbn 7mo ago
Microsoft's products do not occasionally fail, they're constantly going out of their way to block users from doing basic tasks through ads and dark patterns. It makes some KPI go up so some asshat product manager can get a promoti
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by hbn 7mo ago
Well I'll admit I had no idea it was intentional but it doesn't make me any less horrified that it is
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by hbn 7mo ago
You can use this logic to say all products are perfect and any criticisms of them by users are moot because their creator knows them best.
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by hbn 7mo ago
If I saw a helicopter crashed into a tree, I don't have to be a helicopter pilot to know it's not an ideal state of a helicopter and something/some people failed. When I'm using MS Word and it takes 20 seconds to cold la
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by hbn 7mo ago
> UI/UX conventions that help users get what they’re trying to accomplish in fewer steps If we can expect the past 15 years of software UI/UX history to continue, it's more likely they'll spend the money on making the
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by hbn 7mo ago
I'd be curious to see hardware failure rates of Framework vs MacBooks. Sure you can replace the keyboard on a Framework fairly easily but I'd bet MacBook users run into the need for it less (comparing modern models; we all know th
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by hbn 7mo ago
I'm not sure where you got that idea. The inconsistency is from a few years ago when they pushed for rounding the windows more than they have been for years, and then a further rounding in Tahoe, but not all developers following suit.
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by hbn 7mo ago
That's... exactly the feature I explained in the comment you replied to
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by hbn 7mo ago
You're not alone, I was calling out how ugly Safari is in Tahoe a few weeks ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282085#47310011 Probably my least favorite redesign in the whole update. Why is everything an oval
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by hbn 7mo ago
You can double click the grab handle area of a window (which is less obvious than ever in Tahoe) and it'll fill the window to the display. Except Safari, which just fills out the window's height vertically. Kinda weird to make an
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by hbn 7mo ago
If there was a single service with everything on it then I'd agree with you. Hell, even cable was better where you could just choose packages of stuff you wanted to watch. But as it is, no. It's more painful for the reasons I high

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