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by kolektiv 15y ago
That's interesting though, because you seem to be implying (forgive me if I'm wrong) that we shouldn't have typewriter fonts, yellow highlights, etc. Or at least that it somehow isn't worth the trade off. But as you say, they do work. Don't
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by kolektiv 15y ago
I think from the designers I know and from my distant former life as a designer before I ended up as a CS guy, it only really comes down to one thing: What's in it for a designer? * It's not scratching an itch that they have. * It's not gre
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Well, hosted payment is not a new thing at all - so you iframe or link to a page you don't host which the customer uses - thus ensuring that card details don't hit your servers and don't give you a PCI surface. This is a fairly logical exte
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by kolektiv 15y ago
I had a similar thing - just seems to have not really done anything (and there wasn't really any messaging to say "no, that's not good enough" or the like). What is it looking at on Github. A lot of my work on there is either in private rep
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by kolektiv 15y ago
I could be wrong, and I certainly don't want to speak for anyone else really, but I think he's talking more in general principle. That you can't assume that more improvement isn't possible, that sometimes it takes a radical change of direct
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by kolektiv 15y ago
You can, although it's not particularly optimal right now (library sizes, load times, etc. are not ideal). I believe it is a priority for some in the Clojure community to improve this though. But if you're not too worried about the commerci
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by kolektiv 15y ago
There are software systems which do get updated while running though, but perhaps it requires a change in software architecture more than just (very clever) diff tools. Erlang systems, for instance, can have the concept of hot code swapping
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by kolektiv 15y ago
"HTML5, rumored as Flash killer, is a brand new web technology that raises a revolution lead by Apple in web application development." Sorry, I can't really take this seriously after that. And as there's no definition of "an HTML5 powered a
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by kolektiv 15y ago
It's an interesting take on it, but there's a lot of assumption here - not least of which is that Oracle somehow did this because it was the "right thing" or a "good" thing to do. Indeed that's founded on the assumption that Open Office is/
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Sigh... I wish Linux (and Ubuntu in this case) were better at UI/UX. But still, it's so clearly designed by programmers (not always a bad thing, but sadly more often than not). So what's called out here as being good? Well. Subcategories. A
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Contrary to some of the other comments appearing, for me this kind of thing is excellent. The biggest mental hurdle I find myself facing when learning new languages and having got beyond the "hello world" stage is "how do I go from here to
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by kolektiv 16y ago
More than simply filtering as well, I'm willing to pay for e-books by writers I like, so they'll carry on being able to write - and write more things that I'll like. Think of it as distributed patronage. There are many more reasons people p
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Sorry, this might be too pedantic, but I can't listen to someone saying that something "solves the scaling problem" when it doesn't. Both of those examples solve the "having more machines when you need them" problem, but scaling is a) domai
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Windows (certainly 7) handles this perfectly well - try and type a character that isn't allowed in a file name and it pops up a tool tip saying it isn't allowed, along with a quick list of other characters that are disallowed. It also throw
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Excellent points in here. If you're planning on working until late tonight because you think you have to (not for some specific item), don't. Go home early. Start work tomorrow and try and analyse what went horribly wrong. Chances are, noth
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by kolektiv 16y ago
NameCheap are an ex-client (obvious disclaimer) back when they were a lot smaller than they are these days. They were a decent bunch and while always on the ball with marketing, I can imagine there being some genuine feeling behind this - t
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Beware confirmation bias. History may be written by the winner, but we could probably learn as much if not more by listening to the loser. Because you were lucky in this instance does not make that good advice for others to follow. (I'm not
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by kolektiv 16y ago
In our local HN echo-chamber terminology maybe not, but it definitely does count as one in the world that the original government backed site is targeting. In that case, "startup" is synonymous with "new business" and I personally don't dis
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Hmmm. If by "rule" we mean use/consume, then this seems accurate. However, in terms of creating/leading/shaping the internet that seems to be ignored here. I don't have particularly strong feelings one way or the other, but it seems like it
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by kolektiv 16y ago
This is one of those suggestions which I usually decide to file under the sub-heading "hey, all we need to do is write some software which understands English!". Right now this matches a definition of "hard" which is very close to "can't be
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Hmmm, thanks for the information on that, it makes sense :) It still seems like some of the authoritative aspects of Twitter which provide value would be lost, but I am grateful for the clarification on that.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I don't know about this. I presume you mean she's using something like Google Talk, built on XMPP? While that's true, I'm not sure it has the same requirements. Twitter works because there's no fragmentation - everyone you care about is in
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I thought it was interesting. Made it through to the end and pretty much agree with the points you're making. More people should consider the long term effects of building on platforms where they have no control of direction. Everyone knows
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by kolektiv 16y ago
That's a fair point, I will concede that it's difficult. But a lot of the core things like the file manager (and certainly Unity) is within their control, and could be a lot better. I think that much more could also be done from a technical
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by kolektiv 16y ago
At the risk of being horribly down-voted, I'm going to say that I'd like it to "not look like crap". Unfair with no information, so here's some (of opinion form). If I look at the screenshots for 10.10 (let's take a tiny example, I could pi
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by kolektiv 16y ago
We have a sales/marketing guy that does this. It's clearly a learned/trained pattern of behaviour (maybe you can hide it better!). Nobody ever mentions it, and acts in a friendly manner. However, when he's not there pretty much everyone com
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by kolektiv 16y ago
But the difference is they're not dependent on the Microsoft presence. If Microsoft ceased to exist tomorrow (localised meteor strike, let's say), the code running on .NET, Windows, etc. will still work. If Facebook is down, so are you.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Haha, yes I am. The point was, as I admitted, pedantic! It perhaps seems rather more amusing to a Brit, where 400 year old houses, though not common, nevertheless are around. A house here described as Tudor is, more likely than not, actuall
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by kolektiv 16y ago
My point was nothing to do with size or value! Oh dear, my pedantry has been misconstrued. My point was the conflation of hundred year old and "Tudor". I am not one to sneer at anybody for their scale of home, and indeed wish this chap luck
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I can't resist it. I know pedantry is to be discouraged here, and I apologise in advance. But... "a century old 6 bedroom 3 bath Tudor home" grates against the part of my mammalian hind-brain responsible for breathing, basic motor control

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