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by sambeau 15y ago
Page flipping animations are still valid: a user immediately knows how to turn the page, and, even if they need to be shown how to turn a page initially then they will intuitively know how to turn back a page.
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by sambeau 15y ago
Mimicking another object's behaviour on a known object loses the advantage that a skeuomorph gives you, namely muscle memory. Skeuomorphs are used for very good reasons: they are immediately familiar so a user doesn't have to think before u
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by sambeau 15y ago
I don't get it. He spends most of the article telling us that skeuomorphs are bad giving the example of calendar app that looks like a desk calendar and then finishes by praising an app with a screen that skeuomorphically flips up just like
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by sambeau 15y ago
The latter leads to the former. Everyone starts out young and enthusiastic and thinking that they can build something cool that will make everyone rich. Young, clever guys do what they think is the hard work: designing and building a cool p
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by sambeau 15y ago
I would have answered this question very differently 10 years ago. Since then I have seen every option I have ever own disappear through dilation, redundancy or through the company going down. Sadly, options are generally worthless and shar
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by sambeau 15y ago
Perhaps, they are currently between jobs or unemployed.
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by sambeau 15y ago
I suspect many managers, if they ever see this report, would only take-away: programmers don't care about money and stock options. I know some of my past managers would (and they would use it as an excuse to justify not upgrading dev machin
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by sambeau 15y ago
Webkit is twice as prevalent compared to Opera even when using his linked statistics.
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by sambeau 15y ago
Opera is not the most popular mobile browser. If you look at the graph he links to they compare Opera to Android, iPhone, iPod Touch separately despite all being Webkit based. Add them up and you have around 43% well more than the 18% sho
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by sambeau 15y ago
But they are still not complying. They are allowing people to opt-in on behalf of their friends which strictly speaking is against the rules.
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by sambeau 15y ago
Also, by deleting the data from the servers—are they not now destroying evidence?
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by sambeau 15y ago
It is definitely illegal in the UK (and Path is available in the UK). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 I naively thought that iOS Apps wouldn't do this, in part, because it was illegal.
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by sambeau 15y ago
So now they have admitted what they have done, is someone in the UK going to prosecute them, I wonder? It seems they may have broken the data protection act in more than one way. * First, they collected personal data about UK citizens witho
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by sambeau 15y ago
This behaviour is illegal in the UK.
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by sambeau 15y ago
I'm guilty of using UTF16 when I really mean 16 bit unicode arrays. I see that now. But it does beg the question why would you use UTF-16? Yes if you have more than 512 characters in your common script then OK I can see it might make sense,
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by sambeau 15y ago
Is there no way to do it with less? I just get very twitchy when I see that level of permission. We're getting to the stage where a FB profile is important to life, work, family… well everything. We have parents, grandparents, children, mot
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Judges must educate about contempt — before a tweeter goes to jail(guardian.co.uk)
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by sambeau 15y ago
It looked good until I needed to agree to all this before I could actually see how it worked: * Access my basic information: Includes name, Profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends and any other information I've made publ
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by sambeau 15y ago
Useful Art is taken to mean "invention" so Porn definitely wouldn't fall there (unless something genuinely new was demonstrated).
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by sambeau 15y ago
Where I find Moneyball (and a lot of A/B testing) falls down is in the complexity around the player (or mechanism). Teams often contain players whose value is off-pitch or subtle: leaders, morale-boosters, supporters. The system that Moneyb
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by sambeau 15y ago
True. True. And probably not true. The advantage of moving to one standard, plus the backwards compatibility for most of the internet will outweigh any small size advantage that UTF-16 will have on real file sizes for some countries / cultu
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by sambeau 15y ago
This post makes no sense to me. Are you saying that we should still use character encodings rather than UTF encodings, or are you saying that we shouldn't assume that raw text is ASCII, or are you saying something else? Unicode is, essentia
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by sambeau 15y ago
If have just been writing a lot of C code to support unicode in a new project. It reads UTF-8 converts to UTF-32 does lots of clever stuff and spits UTF-8 out once again. Here's my take: UTF-8 should, rightly, be the only interchangeable te
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by sambeau 15y ago
I disagree with the three main points that this article expounds (and I find all three arrogant and patronising). The first thing I disagree with is the idea that programmers are not all 'programmers'. My Dad is a civil engineer to everyone
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by sambeau 15y ago
It would be up to the Pope to pardon Martin Luther as it was Pope Leo who excommunicated him for Heresy in January 1521… …but lets not get into that—the last thing HN needs is another religious debate alongside those of iOS v Android and No
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by sambeau 15y ago
While they may have called it 'unreserved', the apology remained reserved in an important part: there was no pardon. 'Disregarding of convictions' is not the same thing as a pardon, it is what it says it is: it is, simply, 'we will no lon
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by sambeau 15y ago
This is another step in the road of moving social networking out of the private unregulated space into the public heavily regulated space. In this case I see it as a good direction; when young people in the UK were being given 4 year prison
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by sambeau 15y ago
We tried but at that point in time the company had been taken over by salesmen. They ruled with a swagger, parking large BMWs in the disabled parking bays, spending a weeks wage on lunch, making promises we couldn't keep and barking orders
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by sambeau 15y ago
While I totally agree with your second point, here is a pragmatic solution to your first: http://www.diy.com/nav/fix/handtools-storage-workwear/protec...
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by sambeau 15y ago
You missed: 6. Small team of programmers, sharing an office with salesmen shouting into phones. In one place I worked the sales-guys would walk over to the programmers (where it was quiet) to make noisy calls so they wouldn't disturb the ot

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