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by nothis 9y ago
>what Microsoft did was a major change with many, many thousands of man-hours invested into it; and many of those hours were UI/UX research, usability studies, analysis for the data phoned home by Office; does any of this sound like
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by nothis 9y ago
With all open/free software updates I care about one thing and one thing only: UI. Not talking "features" or anything, just reworking what's there based on concrete user studies. Never happens. The only example I know of
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by nothis 9y ago
I like the headline...
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by nothis 9y ago
> I only use them to add tone or express my feelings or attitude so I use maybe five to ten most common emoticons. Everyone does. The rest are jokes, mostly.
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by nothis 9y ago
There's a few things glossed over that I don't think AI can solve. For example, if I want to deliver flowers, I kinda want to chose what they look like and how do you do that without, essentially displaying a website with images w
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by nothis 9y ago
It's like an episode of HBO's "Silicon Valley". I honestly laughed out loud when I read "Kik pivoted to blockchain technology".
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by nothis 9y ago
I mean, Mr Robot probably wouldn't use Microsoft Edge. Probably some hacky shit I never heard of, but Firefox seems like an appropriate choice to drive an anti-billion-dollar-corp-controlled-internet message. I don't have a proble
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by nothis 9y ago
Basically, the timing is just how a human being does exhausting work, isn't it? The exact minutes aside, you work for a bit, then you need a break (5 minutes is nothing, really). After a while, you need a bigger break. It's how I
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by nothis 9y ago
Haha, that's hilarious. In order to fight one quasi-monopoly in one field, we're combining two of another. What could possibly go wrong?
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by nothis 9y ago
The more I think of this, the more the only counter-argument seems to be natural language not being precise enough. But all coding tasks start with a natural language description at one point. Hmmm.
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by nothis 9y ago
Yea, Xcode is so annoying with this. What magical features does it use under the hood to not allow basic functionality and iOS support that seems completely unrelated to the macOS version? I have zero incentive to update macOS except Xcod
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by nothis 9y ago
Pfff, but he's not qualified!
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by nothis 9y ago
Programmers are so bad with this, this needs to be a more respected aspect of writing software in general. "Well, I comment everything" isn't enough. If you spent hundreds or thousands of hours on your API, but skimp on the p
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by nothis 9y ago
I miss Tab Mix Plus (pleeeease make a web extension version!) but Firefox is one of the few open software projects which actually puts a ton of effort into interface design and I can appreciate that. I clicked on the wrong side maybe twice
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by nothis 9y ago
Yea, IMO Firefox 57 is about Firefox finally being able to compete with Chrome in terms of speed. This is easily the main reason Chrome ever took over (that, and Google aggressively advertising it and borderline malware-installing it in b
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by nothis 9y ago
>This is of course ignoring political principles of fair taxation. Of course.
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by nothis 9y ago
IMO this is easily fixable by making any display output its exact pixel size as some sort of universal standard. For example, 1 pixel = 0.0147 cm. And vice versa. Together with the screen diagonal size (and maybe some flag whether it's
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by nothis 9y ago
I'd argue that "learning how" to write good texts or understanding a person psychologically, for example, is a rather valid example of a soft science having a real impact on the world that can easily compete with engineering
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by nothis 9y ago
Not sure if I'm missing something but... Instagram?
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by nothis 9y ago
I used to dismiss these rumors as paranoia/conspiracy theories in a maybe naive application of Occam's razor. But concrete leaks and tech news of recent years made me a believer. I sure believe Facebook is capable of this, nowaday
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by nothis 9y ago
Not sure if it's standard now (I remember enabling it as a gmail labs thing) but the "undo" button that lets you abort sending a mail a few seconds after you clicked the send button is really handy. It captures so many times
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by nothis 9y ago
>5. Yesterday I was trying to take a picture and opened the camera. And YES, I mean the native camera app that ships with iOS. I saw the camera UI launch, but there was no "camera". It was just a black screen. I've become
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by nothis 9y ago
One of the more interesting things the success of "starting with zero" suggests is that the idea that some mystical "human consciousness" is the end goal for AI might be laughable in the long term. AI might just casually
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by nothis 9y ago
I'm sure it's naive to jump to sci-fi conclusions just yet, but I admit it's equal parts fascinating and terrifying. The general message of the posts is that human knowledge is cute but not required to find new insights. Defi
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by nothis 9y ago
I believe we're in a small golden age for science fiction. There were completely wack aspects to Interstellar but it's still the most "science-y" science-fiction movie to make a mainstream impact since... 2001: A Space O
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by nothis 9y ago
Any reason not to simplify that measure and make it 280 chars for all? They might not use it in Japan but what's the point of limiting them if they apparently don't use the space anyway?
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by nothis 9y ago
It's not about "realism" or even style, it's more about preserving detail in extreme contrast. All pixels brighter than a certain threshold become white and since there's nothing whiter than white, they're all
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by nothis 9y ago
That's honestly one of those big differences between Mozilla and the tons of other idealistic free/open source projects out there. They care about presentation. They care about clarity. They care about layout. They care about styl
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by nothis 9y ago
His trick is to have characters who sound SUPER sure of what they're doing. Winking at the camera, looking determined, talking total bullshit but it doesn't matter. You want to believe it makes sense because it all feels so cool!
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by nothis 9y ago
Same.

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