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by richardfey 6y ago
I used to be a master at this, then UI changed at least 5 times. I slowly lost grip on it, defeated by wear and tear.
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by richardfey 6y ago
There's three if you count Chrome's one
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by richardfey 6y ago
Someone explained it some years ago. It was about the lack of consistency in shadows and that conveying depth on a virtual sheet of paper does not feel natural
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by richardfey 6y ago
You have just described ossification and risk-averse decision processes.
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by richardfey 6y ago
Would your attitude be different if you were agreeing with what he says? I disagree with him but he's absolutely free and welcome to make such blog posts. If you don't like what you read, don't read more. Unfortunately you ca
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by richardfey 6y ago
I disagree with the author: tucking away our head from the future is not how we deal with the challenges of such future. We need new perspectives and ideas to cope with the unknown.
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by richardfey 6y ago
Yes it does. Are you mentioning in the internal services documentation that they can lose data second unknown conditions? And on your product hunt page that "your content might be randomly lost"? If you do not then you are lying.
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by richardfey 6y ago
Not just for people with mental illnesses, think about our aging population and anybody in general: there are too many signals to regulate a modern functional life, saying that it is stressful by design would be an understatement.
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by richardfey 6y ago
> Databases are engineered for high reliability - data integrity above all else. So should be most of your (micro)services. I have seen more instances of sloppy system design (non-transactional but sold as such) than coherent eventually
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by richardfey 6y ago
Can't get any darker than that!
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by richardfey 6y ago
> Double structure definitions for everything. I wonder if that's because two different teams worked on the two different abstractions. > Nobody came to the 2nd hour after lunch. I guess that the pain of that first hour convinced
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by richardfey 6y ago
Watch the restored version scored by Giorgio Moroder; it is a sublime experience.
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by richardfey 6y ago
Please tell me more! How come the calls to the old code went to nothing? It does not surprise me but I wonder how it happened in this specific instance. Who did the 900 modules rewrite?
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by richardfey 6y ago
From what I remember WMVs were mostly fake so I would never download them
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by richardfey 6y ago
I went the other way around instead, from salt(-ssh) to Ansible. I could not bear the slow speed though, so I suggest everyone who hasn't tried yet to use it with Mitogen. I don't think I will ever go back and in fact I expect ups
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by richardfey 6y ago
Fascinating story! Thanks for sharing it. Where would the ice form in your room?
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by richardfey 6y ago
How does this kind of garbage reach the top of HN?
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by richardfey 6y ago
> That said, I’m pragmatic about the proprietary back-end. DockerHub and GitHub are insanely popular and they are completely proprietary.
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by richardfey 6y ago
The author mentions popularity as a justification and good reason to go with a central snap store. I am baffled.