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by nothis 8y ago
People always complain about younger people not getting it, but to me this sounds like a new generation of internet users actively self-regulating their social media use.
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by nothis 8y ago
>They are just going from FB to Instagram It's easy to get cynical about this but what I like about Instagram as opposed to facebook is that it's superficial by design. That makes it way less of a "thing". It doesn&#x
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by nothis 8y ago
Here's what I'm thinking when companies remove votes or scores or whatever: They're just hiding the problem. Like, people still like the stuff, it's just no longer tracked. They sure as hell won't stop tracking
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by nothis 8y ago
>“This is happening without us!” That's quite a statement, wow. I wonder if it's moments like this that distinguish really, really successful people from the rest.
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by nothis 8y ago
I'm with you in principle but at some point it becomes ridiculous. On a smartphone, you have at least half a dozen different input and output options, probably more. Where would you even fit physical switches for them all? And, for tha
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by nothis 8y ago
When you'd load the page, you'd see blank, gray bars where the text should go while a "now loading" icon spins for a good 5 seconds, slowly feeding in the text. On mobile, text would be so big it only fits 7 lines on scr
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by nothis 8y ago
Something I noticed is that exams are what we're always coming back to in terms of education. Employers want a confirmation that you learned something. That's a university degree. Even with respected websites offering confirmation
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by nothis 8y ago
Genuine question: In what way does Microsoft benefit from people using Edge? It's a web browser. It's a rather neutral piece of technology. How can they make money out of it?
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by nothis 8y ago
Member states can be even stupider. I get scared thinking of what a "reasonable interpretation" by some right-wing local government with poor understanding of digital markets would look like.
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by nothis 8y ago
This is the real bummer, IMO. It's not even like they're reaching the sites that truly, genuinely don't give a fuck about copyright. The big sites have long implemented all of this, anyway. It's basically just more burea
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by nothis 8y ago
Holy fuck no...
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by nothis 8y ago
When your website has a "loading screen", you fucked something up.
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by nothis 8y ago
3 months of a professional UI designer could easily quadruple the usefulness of GIMP for me. The UI, in its current state (I always use this disclaimer and it never changed in like 10 years), is a horrible mess and makes GIMP unusable for m
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by nothis 8y ago
I don't know where you work but there's plenty of places in Europe where you can hire a decent engineer for $100k a year.
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by nothis 8y ago
I definitely agree about the team size/cost. I have to say, it baffles me how much time programmers are willing to put into open source works but apparently it's impossible to find UI designers who are willing to do the same. I do
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by nothis 8y ago
I'd say a professional UI designer is capable of producing objectively good results. He'd first sit experienced photographers and graphic designers in front of GIMP and identify their biggest gripes with the UI and then would deve
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by nothis 8y ago
I'm sorry but I believe this a mistake in priorities. This is an image editing program. The UI is the core functionality. They could cut half their features and focus on a better UI and it would make it a better program. There are we
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by nothis 8y ago
I know it's well-meaning but this is not the issue. It's not about "customization" or singular problems with a simple fix. It's about having a well-ordered, uncluttered, snappy GUI that never gets in the way. As a d
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by nothis 8y ago
I want to support GIMP but, especially for fast, professional use, the UI makes it impossible. Their raw features are on par with anything I'd want to do in Photoshop, it's 100% a UI issue at this point. And I don't get why i
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by nothis 8y ago
Quake was nice tech, but Goldeneye blew it out of the water in terms of gameplay and content. I always thought Quake felt like a very long tech demo more so than a game.
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by nothis 8y ago
Traditionally, with computer generated stuff, you could clearly see the math in the algorithms (the sine waves and fractals and whatnot). With AI generated stuff it looks... natural. Like someone actually drew this for abstract art class. I
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by nothis 8y ago
There's just too many vital services that can't function with just ad financing. It's so obvious, that I have a slight hope we'll see new business models to accommodate for that. The problem is that I don't read a h
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by nothis 8y ago
Whenever I read an article on a random website and it says "google.com" in the url instead of the actual website url, I want to scream at the screen. How on earth can that be a good idea?
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by nothis 8y ago
That assumes neither side is in a disadvantage when it remains unmentioned. Which isn't the case.
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by nothis 8y ago
These guides pop up left and right, lately. I can't comment on their quality (I assume it's somewhat decent) but it's kinda ridiculous to try compressing a college degree's worth of knowledge into a bunch of sleek online
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by nothis 8y ago
I hate the way Medium articles load images. They always stop loading with these ugly, blurry placeholder images everywhere. I bet the JavaScript bloat even undoes the savings in loading time.
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by nothis 8y ago
For what it’s worth, the final paragraph says so, I believe. No links, though.
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by nothis 8y ago
I would have dropped every Stephen King book by that measure. Actually, maybe I should have.
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by nothis 8y ago
They should have kept the "Pro" line as the sturdier, thicker model for people who do not want compromises. It's a real design failure.
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by nothis 8y ago
Is the "Universe is a Simulation" more than a dreamy internet theory, though? Like, are astronomers and physicists taking it seriously? I don't know either way, I just assumed the headline was basically saying "no, this

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