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by iamben 4y ago
It's amazing how much this works though. I remember getting a call from my mum saying "the website is telling me London is already 78% booked for these dates!" It felt ridiculous having to say "Mum, it's March. You&
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by iamben 4y ago
I spent months complaining to them about this laptop. I had an Air for 5 years(!) before this and it was a wonderful machine. For 2k I'd expected a decent machine - but I hate everything about it. Obviously Apple didn't care in th
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> Most of these are pure common sense if you are apt with CSS. I see SO many designers/devs that absolutely do not think of these things. The minute the design is being used 'for real' it becomes messy real quick.
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Ugh, I forgot about the battery. I'm lucky if I get a couple of hours out of it. Horrible thing.
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by iamben 4y ago
The last Intel Air (early 2020) is the worst Mac I've ever owned by an absolute mile. The fan is permanently on - it's like working on a hairdryer.
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Breast cancer drug trial: Woman given months to live told she is cancer free(bbc.co.uk)
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by iamben 4y ago
Well yeah. But at no point did I infer that everything over http was the same as the projects I'm working on. I literally started the comment with: "In the 'real world' of my own little bubble, The average SPA is worse
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by iamben 4y ago
I mean - if your website is selling a million widgets a year, the marketing team are going to pretty involved (especially if you want to keep selling a million widgets a year)... So getting them involved in the spec is probably pretty prude
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by iamben 4y ago
Great article. In the 'real world' of my own little bubble, The average SPA is worse than the average MPA seems to come up pretty regularly, particularly in the ecom world. I'm seeing more new sites being built as single pa
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Discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877772
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On Android, but this hadn't occurred to me to do! Thank you so much (although still frustrated I have to take the nuclear approach)!
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by iamben 4y ago
I literally cannot find a way to have the app installed and not get pushes 2/3 times a day. This started a few months back - I tweeted them about it and got no response. Painful.
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by iamben 4y ago
13.5%? Jeez. No wonder so many 'signed' artists have a problem with streaming. And no wonder so many young artists are choosing to self release. We really are getting to a point where labels need to properly prove their worth.
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by iamben 4y ago
I very much look forward to the HN post titled "I released a popular real-time office game, now people work for me for free..."
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I think we're in a 'perfect storm' of fraud right now. Firstly, 'Reality TV' has become influencer culture. A lot of social media is you being bombarded with "look how great my life is" pictures. The newes
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by iamben 4y ago
Completely agree, but I think this case is a bit more subtle than that. £250 is a gambler's punt - "I don't understand this, but I can afford to lose £250 to see what happens." When that seems to be going well and people
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by iamben 4y ago
Agree 100%. It's also about a thousand times easier for people with a very basic HTML understanding to parse (if you open something, with pretty much the exception of an image, you gotta close it). Periodically I have to send code to
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by iamben 4y ago
Maybe my answer is entirely UK based, but I'm pretty sure if I asked in my circle of non tech friends, I don't think any of them would have a concern about buying anything legal on a credit or debit card. You might not want your
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by iamben 4y ago
I'll bite! Why does it have to be crypto currency? Why couldn't I load ten dollars credit into YouTube, in exchange for 1000 credits - one of which I'd use for every video I watch? Google has my card on file already, I'd
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by iamben 4y ago
Ask for money. It's really hard, I've been there. You want to help people, it's nice helping them, you feel validated doing it. But in the longer term you end up feeling like you do now. It's harder when you have a produ
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by iamben 4y ago
My mother is very pragmatic about this. She took me and my brother aside and (to paraphrase) said "You don't need sentimental a attachment to these things. Keep a few bits if you want, get rid of everything else. But this, this an
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by iamben 4y ago
Stop worrying about inbox zero. Stop trying to read everything. Admit to yourself you neither care about reading every tab you have open, or will get round to dealing with them -- periodically go through them and close them. Stop making the
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by iamben 4y ago
More importantly, I think ads should have a separate tab. If your post is an #ad, 'ad', paid partnership (or anything other way that influencers use to just fit in with the rules), the photo/video should be put in there. It
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by iamben 4y ago
Music is a big part of my life and I get this a lot. I've seen particular shows where this has been such a thing I remember it years later. Jeff Buckley's Grace is an album that does this for me - I recently got the chance to li
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by iamben 4y ago
I think inherently we're all pretty selfish (for better or worse). I'd guess that saying "we can see the from the past that the brand is damaged enough to cause XX% layoffs/go under" - as in an implicit 'this k
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by iamben 4y ago
Love Coffeezilla. Found his channel after someone posted his Tether exposé on HN a while back - subscribed and have been watching ever since. He's genuinely entertaining, smart and fair. Very much recommended if you haven't seen a
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Than it was 100 years ago? I am by no means suggesting we have it right, but widening the gap between have an have not and then saying "we have, we're ok - you look after yourself" isn't exactly a recipe for stability.
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Counterpoint - in the UK, I can turn up at a hospital anytime and they'll look after me. The place is generally tidy, amenities are good, emergency services efficient, roads good etc. (I appreciate there's always exceptions to thi
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by iamben 4y ago
> This is because they, one, don't listen to anyone ever; and two, never use the products they design. Oh, sure, there might be a user study or two. But they never actually have to live with or work with the damn things. I wonder th
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by iamben 4y ago
Well replying to this comment put me in a real Catch-22 like situation, doesn't it?!

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