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by rchaud 1y ago
> is this a concern for many men? It's never crossed my mind or been a problem for anyone I've known. Not for me, I have been to plenty of meetups in my city. If you're not liked or don't get along with the others, th
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by rchaud 1y ago
> Having social space that's limited to a set of people one knows, more or less, and that has rules on behavior seems like a civilizing influence that's missing today. You just described a country club, right down to the innate
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by rchaud 1y ago
I don't know, most recent pics of Zuckerberg has him wearing a hideous pair of Buddy Holly "smart glasses". That's probably what this thing will end up being. Big tech seems hell bent on making these glasses a thing.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Even the iPod would've flopped without Apple blanketing the world with ads, making it Windows-compatible and setting up deals with record labels to buy music for a buck a pop. I'm not sure what chance Humane would have had even in
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by rchaud 1y ago
Maybe it'll be smart glasses. The retina scanning could be built right in. Solve image recognition puzzles in real time, get rewarded with some Worldcoin.
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by rchaud 1y ago
funny that you would cite a Wayne Gretzky quote, considering where his politics are these days.
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by rchaud 1y ago
I started using Google after reading an article about it on Time Magazine sometime in '99.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Sleek and polished? Where? Not Amazon.com, not any newspaper/periodical site loading a bunch of ads shifting the layout, not Substack or Medium.com with its exhortations to log in or become a member.
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by rchaud 1y ago
In the long run, Flash was a blip on the web. 2004-2010 tops. NNGroup "best practices" have been obsolete for at least 15 years, because the purpose of a website is no longer about displaying free information. Websites have become
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by rchaud 1y ago
Most splash screens had a "skip" button though. If you were visiting the website frequently, you as the user could always bookmark the internal page that the intro screen pointed to.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Blue and purple links wouldn't be visible on any website that chose to use those as background colors (or any range of background colors where the contrast would have been too low to be visible). The web at the time was an "anythi
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by rchaud 1y ago
I don't think I did. The homepage is the only thing that's unique about the design. Had you arrived on any page besides that, you would think this is a bog-standard developer's blogsite, one skinny column amid a sea of white
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There's 'ugly yet interesting' and then there's 'ugly and boring'. This is the latter I'm afraid. At its core, the homepage is still showing the output of a CMS looping through a folder of markdown files (
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by rchaud 1y ago
I liked Zeldman's designs and writing style the best of these 3 guys. Imagine my shock a few years ago when I visited his site again and saw a hideous Wordpress default theme on it. The article mentions that there'll be a new desi
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by rchaud 1y ago
Reaganism set the wheels in motion but those wheels didn't actually come off until events like the dotcom boom normalized billion dollar valuations for half baked MVPs, creating a generation of future nutters like Thiel, Bezos, Zuck an
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by rchaud 1y ago
What's not to understand? Enormous amounts of money have accrued to a tiny proportion of humanity in the past 30 or so years. There is no way there wouldn't be tons of waste when spending decisions are made by so few people. Now a
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by rchaud 1y ago
Out of interest, why were you using telegram to begin with, considering that it's known for being a haven of shady content? Not just hate groups and paramilitaries, but also tons of pirated content? All that content browsed gets linked
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by rchaud 1y ago
When was PayPal doing that? I remember having to create an account 20 years ago because they were the only payment processor option on Ebay, that seemed to be their moat. These days, I use Paypal as a "wallet" that's connecte
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by rchaud 1y ago
Phones are a necessity, videogame consoles are not. In any case, most people are not looking to flash alternative firmwares on to devices they rely on daily for work and their personal life. The option is still available for Pixel phones an
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by rchaud 1y ago
Nintendo's focus is on the generation that came after you. Same as Reddit after the whole API and 3rd party app extinction event. The vocal types are the ones that reminisce about the pre-DMCA days and whine about corporate greed and &
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by rchaud 1y ago
It does look like Office 97 clipart, or something from those 5000-piece icon CDs from the '90s.
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by rchaud 1y ago
"Digital Design" has been fully subsumed by the needs of business for a long time now. When smartphones were new, an argument could be made that HCI was just as important as content in onboarding users to a new type of device with
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by rchaud 1y ago
Any A/B study would look at conversion metrics ("did people spend more money?") rather than user enjoyment. People don't go on Airbnb to browse or hang out, they book a room, pay and that's it.
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by rchaud 1y ago
In addition to that, Apple and Google started enforcing style guides for apps, so a lot of the unique UIs that came about in the early days of the app store died out in favour of soulless, boxy designs that would scale well on mobile and ta
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by rchaud 1y ago
> What's with the inherent stinginess? Let me introduce you to the ancient lore of BrandonM, in his epic treatise "rsync v Dropbox": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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But as you yourself admit, you were at a high level already, so you know how to ask the LLM good questions. If you were a beginner with zero knowledge, you wouldn't have that advantage, so the LLM's ability to help you would be fa
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by rchaud 1y ago
A lot people on HN got their early programming chops from Stack Overflow and spotty internet tutorials, and have made the mistake of thinking that everything else can also be learned this way.
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> For me, the problem with Duolingo has always been that the content is just too lowest-common-denominator, and this will just bring it down even lower. Interestingly, this is indirectly mentioned in the Linkedin post: "I've a
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by rchaud 1y ago
Remarkable that after 30 years, and all these changes, the GIF reigns supreme. Works on every browser, supports transparency out of the box.
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The "address" in question here is the location on Google Maps. I managed a few locations for a business and verified them this way. Google would frequently ignore our own posted opening/closing hours and phone numbers in favo

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