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by stakhanov 3y ago
Thanks for the great summary! I was an IBM-afficionado in the pre-2006 era, and had completely missed these last developments.
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> As a German, I have to fiercely object here (: As a German, I have to fiercely object to people fiercely objecting here. I would enjoy German highways way more, if there was a sensible speed limit just like there is in the rest of the
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Couldn't agree more. Knocking on contractors seems random, out of place, factually inaccurate, and it doesn't really add anything to the substance of this article, so also completely unnecessary to sustain the actual point the ar
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by stakhanov 3y ago
If they're about warmth, then maybe keeping the air volume to a minimum is part of the function, so maybe curling up was a part of it. The other part was probably that people were statistically shorter in the middle ages.
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by stakhanov 3y ago
...because I happened to come across it in my bookmarks just now, there's an article by Don Norman [1] that made the HN frontpage somewhat recently [2] sharing my pessimistic view about usability today. Admittedly, he has a conflict o
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> > Just pick any set of [...] > [...] Now, where's the studies, reports, etc. [...] "stop the world, I want to get off." This argument is getting a bit tediuos. It started with you offering an opinion. I offered a
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> By what metric? On the user's side: Just pick any set of well-established best practices such as Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules or Nielsen & Molich's 10 Usability Heuristics, an then pick a typical 2024 electron ap
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by stakhanov 3y ago
I think there was a kind of "golden period" that goes in between. In the 90s, the economics around software had already heated up to the point where there was an insatiable appetite for software engineering manpower, but the unive
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Lack of toolchain is one problem, although I think that there are alternative toolchains out there that are quite feature-rich and could definitely achieve feature-parity with the web ecosystem, if only there was enough interest in using th
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Maybe the Ineos Grenadier? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineos_Grenadier
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by stakhanov 3y ago
I have a blackboard in my home office. I was quite surprised to find that a lot of them are available on e-bay and that they are quite cheap: I think, what happens is that, when schools get rid of them, teachers will sometimes take one hom
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Are they also removing cupholders from their cars then? I'd imagine that, in the name of safety, you wouldn't want a driver faffing around with a hot drink while driving the vehicle either.
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by stakhanov 3y ago
I actually use linuxbrew and don't use macs at all. Specifically, the way I like to set up my dev environments is to use Gentoo for the root filesystem, but also throw in linuxbrew to balance compile-from-source purism with binary-pac
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by stakhanov 3y ago
You seem to be throwing in some thoughts while simultaneously attributing them to an unidentified third party and distancing yourself from them, which is a bit confusing. My two cents' worth: Just because a technology has reached buzzw
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by stakhanov 3y ago
XMPP fills the very important "simple, and gets the job done" niche in this space. I was looking into options for a self-hosted chat service for team development about a year ago, and landed on XMPP. -- I'm happy to enterta
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> ...isn't very empowered. ...as long as we're meeting our metrics. "Empowered to meet metrics" still doesn't sound like a very enlightened philosophy to me.
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by stakhanov 3y ago
I hate JavaScript with a passion and wish there were better/more options for writing UIs these days, without getting sucked into it.
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> App developers are being told to use React Native as an application framework I was really excited. Until reading this.
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by stakhanov 3y ago
There are a lot more controls, and with JavaFX (the next generation of Java UI technology that JetBrains' own IDEs are also based on), you have even more controls (and more powerful ones). Also, those controls are actually the kinds of
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Java Swing Desktop applications solved that problem 20 years ago. Windows 11 has compatibility that enables it to run applications written 15 years ago using, say, .NET framework 3.5 and Windows Forms. Those even work on Linux with Wine, p
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by stakhanov 3y ago
What would really be interesting to me would be something with a featureset similar to JavaFX, but with a more up-to-date tech stack. But it doesn't look like they're trying to take on that particular task. The compose multiplatf
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by stakhanov 3y ago
This is a bit off-topic, but how do you actually browse a Wikipedia snapshot? I tried turning a dump [1] into a browseable website hosted locally a few years back, and it seemed anything but trivial. Has any progress been made here? [1]
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by stakhanov 3y ago
This is pretty chilling to hear. One of my big quarrels in my professional life is how clients/bosses want exposure to creative process but can't really handle it, if it's anything but linear, which, in actual reality, it nev
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by stakhanov 3y ago
The problem is that it takes a really long time until technology is so good and so reliable that you really don't need to understand it to be able to operate it. Take, for instance, the "Yes, let's all go back to coding in as
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Thanks for the pointer!
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by stakhanov 3y ago
I'm a heavy user of Firefox profiles, but I have two major feature requests: - Allow better visual distinction of profiles, e.g. giving them different colors. When you have multiple browsers open on multiple profiles, it's easy t
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by stakhanov 3y ago
It's hard for me to relate this accounting category that the article is talking about to actual Amazon products. I mean, of course you can rebrand the "marketplace" concept as "advertising", but which of Amazon&#x2
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Well, if the current choice is between Gmail and Outlook, it seems like bad mojo that all the operators of e-mail are also operators of advertising networks; they are the "attention brokers" of the world. Amazon has people pay the
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> there were tons of people operating 100k to 1m user email systems on a few servers with a single digit number of staff Doing that kind of thing is getting increasingly hard because of how hard reputation management has become and how m
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Equating federalism with "fiefdom" seems like a stretch. Switzerland, and, to a lesser extent, Germany, have federalism and are doing just fine.

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