mhomde

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by mhomde 11y ago
There's this really interesting concept of "experience stretching" in Dan Gilbert's book "Stumbling on happiness". That as you refine your taste you demote everything else. When you've been to Hawaii your
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by mhomde 11y ago
That's one of the (few) things that is good about the monopoly in Sweden, awesome wine for cheap price (9-10$). Since they negotiate for whole of Sweden they get good prices. We also have a tier system where only the best selling wines
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by mhomde 11y ago
I agree that those can be issues... but that can be solved by annotating the methods to those constraints. The compiler can even highlight potential problems and ask that you annotate them. The benefit of this approach is that the compiler
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by mhomde 11y ago
as long as you don't need any of the features of WCF you shouldn't of course (though I think webservices become an obsolete technology). As soon as you run into edge-cases with authentication, compression, binary formats etc you&#
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by mhomde 11y ago
that's not necessarily true, in some cases yes. But as I said, control could and should be there for the asking, I don't want a ORM style black box where god knows what happens behind the scenes... but I think you could declarativ
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by mhomde 11y ago
Having used async & await extensively in C# they're pretty great... but I can't help thinking we're explicitly declaring something that mostly could be implicit if the language was designed right. For example: if I'
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by mhomde 11y ago
I really liked Webservices in ASP.net when they were new, really easy to set up and you just had to add an attribute to the methods you wanted to expose. With WCF they went too far in covering all enterprise scenarios. It would have been b
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by mhomde 11y ago
Yeah, but it also says "a safe space", obviously some rules would have to be in place for that
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by mhomde 11y ago
On the surface it seems like a good thing. Taking a stance against the worst "systematic and continuing harassment" should help the most vitrolic cases. Some might argue that Reddit should be an " extreme free speech platfor
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by mhomde 11y ago
Reminds me of the bit Chris Rock used to do about taking credit for stuff you're supposed to do "I take care of my kids, I take them to school!" he says proudly "That's what's you suppose to do you dumb M---F!&
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Here's my jetpack(youtube.com)
4 points by mhomde 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhomde 11y ago
and "hamburger menus" are immediately intuitive? :) Don't people swipe to get to the notification center in most mobile UI's? I think saying gesture based UI's are harder to use is an overstatement. What do would
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by mhomde 11y ago
That depends on what kind of gestures you use and where. The closest edges for instance are more easily accessible. Also gestures doesn't necessarily mean swiping.
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I'm a bit skeptic about the direction of Windows (Phone) 10. It's not that its bad, it's just that it isn't great and they've missed the opportunity to but in substantial UX improvements. Also having the same interf
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by mhomde 11y ago
It's always a balance between "The Blob" and the "Poltergeist" anti-pattern, when in doubt go more towards borderline "The Blob". I just say though it's very seldom that a huge class/method is ju
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by mhomde 11y ago
It's reassuring to see that HN has had ten design articles... ever :)
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by mhomde 11y ago
Yeah I agree, HP had a very engineer centric culture and history so that must have been hard. I guess the dream of a company is always to find those unicorns that are both Engineer/MBA/Leader/Designers etc. In the end busines
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by mhomde 11y ago
Should companies be run or managed by engineers? I'm not sure that's actually a good idea as much as I'm not overly fond of MBA types either. I think it's a faulty generalization either way, companies should be run by co
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It seems many app designers makes the mistake of treating the watch as an phone strapped to your wrist instead of a device with a different use case. Also it seems Apple has missed the mark one some fairly common use cases, like having slee
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My rocky first 24hrs with the Apple Watch(medium.com)
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Everyone is right, sooner or later
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I can't wrap my head around how apps with any kind of advanced animation could work. I mean Windows Phone 8.1 has decent animations, you can do translations, scales, rotates etc but it has no kind of transition effects or bitmap effect
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by mhomde 11y ago
I've learned that there's at least two hard rules when it comes to money for digital services 1) It's almost impossible to start charging for something that was free 2) It's almost impossible to go from one time payment
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by mhomde 11y ago
Yeah, this is like the chapter out of "Drive" where they tried paying people to give blood but ending up decreasing the number of blood givers... they'd rather feel charitable then earn money
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Timehop is pretty limited in its scope, I'd do a fullblown diary & life tracker
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Taking along a friend is good advice in general. It can become a little bit exhausting to constantly have somewhat shallow interactions meeting only meet new people. Sometimes you just want to lay back and enjoy the deeper relation of someo
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by mhomde 11y ago
the smaller the bowl* the more beautiful the code * up to a point
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Interesting article... but maybe the author should have taken a cue from programming and refactored/edited it to be more clear, concise and structured. I found it a bit rambling without clear premise or pay off. He sounds like someone
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by mhomde 11y ago
If I were Foursquare I'd admit defeat, drop Swarm, do a big push to relaunch Foursquare with a new app (if nothing else just to get people interested again) and think really hard about a killer feature to lure people back into the app
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by mhomde 11y ago
You sound like an US patent clerk in the 1901's ;) Look at Rx for example, it isn't needed in as many applications but when it is its as revolutionary as LINQ was. I think reducing friction and increasing productivity is really i

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