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by shaan7 6y ago
> I do not understand people with allergy to non OSS. Maybe this will help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24047877 `I don't think it says "Software not open-source is bad". But more something like &
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by shaan7 6y ago
It is possible it was a paid article. Jio's attraction is about its low price point, not quality (speed/latency). Again, that itself is not a problem per se, some people don't need the fastest and the lowest latency as long a
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by shaan7 6y ago
But "focusing on users" != "focus on delighting their users". The former is the process of discovering what delights their users, the latter is the actual "delighting" process. Also, +1 to the parent comment. I
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by shaan7 6y ago
Again, please do not compare oranges and apples. This is not about the uncle in question creating a professional product for others , it is about him arranging UI elements in the way he deems fit. A better (although still imperfect) compar
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by shaan7 6y ago
Sorry but there's a difference between personal UI choice and public health.
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by shaan7 6y ago
> And the only possible conclusion is that Apple and Linux are measured on widely different scales.) +1 They are simply designed for different end users - and that is fine. I used macOS for ~5 years before getting fed up with the limited
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by shaan7 6y ago
> You think my uncle is going to do better? Yes he will, because he has to only care about what he needs, and he is the best judge of that.
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by shaan7 6y ago
> It's not the only factor, but it is certainly _a_ factor: "Clever code" is typically meant as derogatory Yep, but here's the thing - if the problem is misuse of the tool, then the solution should be to not misuse th
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by shaan7 6y ago
The fact that online maps didn't even exist back then is not relevant. The point the author is making is that he feels that if it did exist then it would've had better UX (again, whether or not that is true is a different question
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by shaan7 6y ago
> How on earth did this not take off ? Monies. Microsoft's offer to Nokia was way too lucrative.
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by shaan7 6y ago
Now we has. We're all doomed.
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by shaan7 6y ago
This guy did it justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4iNau8AWM
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by shaan7 6y ago
I hope you don't really believe that people use the terminal because it is "the hard way". That simply isn't true. There are things where the shell makes it _easier_ to do things - the most common being batch operations.
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by shaan7 6y ago
Depends on what "not worth it" means really. Even though gestures minus interactivity is far from how "proper" gestures feel, I'd rather have something rather than nothing (for example, it is still more convenient t
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by shaan7 6y ago
Depends on how you define "allowed". EA was "allowed" to charge extra money for unlocking key Star Wars characters even after you paid in full for Battlefront II. So, the idea is less about what is "allowed", b
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by shaan7 6y ago
> If you are shocked that companies take a fee for distribution then wait until you see how things work in the real world. That is not a good analogy. Supermarkets, retailers etc charge a fee from the vendor because that is their primary
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by shaan7 6y ago
> then you probably need reading glasses Maybe, just maybe, one could talk about how crisp text appears on 4k _without_ being rude.
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by shaan7 6y ago
> Discord and VSCode keep occasionally prompting me to manually download and install .deb files. I'd really prefer if they just updated automatically I installed VSCode from the .deb package on the VSCode website and it automaticall
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by shaan7 6y ago
> Maybe I'm in the minority but I like Snaps. I wish all software would auto-update silently in the background -- when's the last time you even thought about upgrading Chrome? FWIW Snap isn't a requirement to do that. You
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by shaan7 7y ago
Anyone knows a non-technical version which conveys the same point as this article?
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by shaan7 7y ago
I see what you did there ;)
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by shaan7 7y ago
You do realize that one thing can be more popular but still have competition, right?
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by shaan7 7y ago
His point is that this bare bones get/post app in Electron will be much, much "larger".
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by shaan7 7y ago
F
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by shaan7 7y ago
> Aside from the lack of screen tearing, what can we all agree are big wins for the user? From what I remember, Wayland makes it easier to mix 4K and HD displays without pain.
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by shaan7 7y ago
> making web apps look exactly the way they want is easy Its easy peasy with Qt as well. I am the only dev for https://www.sostronk.com/app and it looks (and behaves) _exactly_ as our designer wants it to. (Oh, and this
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by shaan7 7y ago
Even better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gI_HGDgG7c
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by shaan7 7y ago
vim xD And don't blame me, you didn't say anything about closing it :P
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by shaan7 7y ago
If I were able to not see that line, my life will be a lot easier, maybe you can help me with it. Can you try to define, in your head, what do you call a "document"? (Doesn't have to be a mathematical definition) P.S. Just in
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by shaan7 7y ago
Well there is this in the post- "Please try out the Qt Design Viewer, but keep in mind that this is a technical preview. Bugs and issues can be reported here. The viewer application is fully open source." So bugs are expected.

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