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by jalfresi 11y ago
I think I paid £12 for X-COM when it came out on iOS. It was great and totally worth every penny. I don't really see the problem here; nobody is preventing games companies (or app makers in general) from charging more. The problem is t
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by jalfresi 11y ago
Even with a scrolly-heely mouse it sucks. My OS has a perfectly good scrolling mechanism, stop messing with it! Especially when the result is worse!
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by jalfresi 11y ago
The internet IS free. You want to charge me for something else entirely - reading your web page. And how I render the content on MY computer using MY bandwidth is none of your concern. I am not responsible for your flawed business model.
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by jalfresi 11y ago
Plenty more websites in the sea
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by jalfresi 11y ago
Might I ask what sort of dataset size, servers etc you are using? I'm looking for an graph database and Cayley seems the best fit, though I'm not sure what sort of limits on the data there would be in the real world.
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Control?
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Ooo I love the idea of using those nefarious techniques to build positive habits! As soon as I saw the buildfocus my brain went "I want a massive city" :)
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by jalfresi 11y ago
Just as a heads up for those migrating from Evernote - Quiver imports evernote .enex files out of the box! Yay!
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by jalfresi 11y ago
What with the recent issues with Evernote, which I use heavily and the wonderful data format, I just bought this and am going to write a small program to export all my evernotes into it. Excellent stuff!
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by jalfresi 11y ago
"If we decide that arbitrary UI representations should stay just because they were historically common, then we will never improve our user interfaces." Putting aside the assumption that hyperlinks require improvement, you've
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by jalfresi 11y ago
"..You could replace underlines, with hover with a transition effect or animate on appearance (as going back or forwards), etc." No, that misses the point. An underline has a very specific meaning. It is not just aesthetics. If pu
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by jalfresi 11y ago
Absolutely disagree with number 2; if the numbers are hyperlinks to other pages they should be underlined. The underline on links informs the user that it is a link to another page (i.e. they will be navigating away from the current page),
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by jalfresi 11y ago
"...the emotional experience trumps the direct navigability of the site itself" The above statement is everything that is wrong with modern visual styling of software. After everything is said and done, software is a tool which pe
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Really? You really need studies and trends to decide if the bleedin' obvious is necessary? If your users can't use it, it doesn't matter how pretty it is.
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Because it's dull you idiot, it hurts more.
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Whilst I can't provide you an example for cloud storage, I can for syndicated feeds. ATOM is an example of multiple clients interacting with separate syndicated feed servers. The individual implementations can all differ. The way a cli
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by jalfresi 11y ago
REST is one of those things were if you don't implement all of it, you won't really reap the benefits of all those architectural constraints combined. In your Dropbox example, any client will be bound to the Dropbox API. Consequen
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by jalfresi 11y ago
For me personally, the two most important constraints for a legitimate ReST application are: - HATEOAS - registered mime-types In particular, the use of registered mime-types. An example: Say we are building a restful music service similar
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by jalfresi 11y ago
Ah well that may be an area I've yet to encounter - I've used a third-party set of qml widgets styled to adhere to googles material visual vocab, so it has been trivial to style up applications that look and act fantastic. Though
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by jalfresi 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. I've used QML for a Go app and the sanity prevalent in QML vs. web standards is like night and day. I actually don't want anything more to do with web front end development - leave all the react/flux
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Ahhh... so its the classic "Design is Art" argument :) I look forward to your next blog post then, if only to make my blood boil! Haha!
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"Great, let's use the screen to do nothing but show that it is a bunch of pixels" But it does that. I'm not sure you follow my point - I would rather things on my screen did not waste those pixels pretending to be someth
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by jalfresi 11y ago
Apologies if my comment was overly critical; I am genuinely interested in your opinion; I am just unable to dig into the meat of your argument. For example, this recent post doesn't provide any depth besides "all modern western an
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by jalfresi 11y ago
I must say, this blog pops up on HN every couple of months and after subscribing for the first few articles I'm STILL not sure as to main crux of his argument. I understand that he hates the "flat" design trend. I know he loa
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by jalfresi 11y ago
I'm not sure I follow. The client would receive those errors because they are errors on the clients side; the client should ensure that they are not flooding a service other wise the server will cut them off. Your simple middleware log
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by jalfresi 11y ago
The more up to date version of this diagram is here: https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram
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I seem to recall that this flow chart covered all the bases pretty thoroughly: https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram
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Yes but the expectation is that people around you aren't pumping poisonous fumes into the AC.
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by jalfresi 11y ago
The cry of "its nothing personal. its just business" is the last refuge of the morally bankrupt. You tell me if you think all those developers who lost their living when Twitter switched off their access if they thought it was per
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by jalfresi 11y ago
Absolutely! If any dev falls for this trap again then they need their head examined. Fool me once...

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