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by wolpoli 5y ago
That's one thing I missed about programs from years ago - they don't try to take over the entire computer but stay unintrusive as helper/companion.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Unfortunately, most people don't understand the technical nuance between protective measure X and Y will fall for it. People do seem to get the concept of defense in depth through when explained through the castle analogy.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> What gives people the perception of apple being expensive is that other OEMs play tricks to boost numbers on a spec sheet that the common person checks while cheeping out massively on parts that don’t show on the spec sheet. This is ve
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Something like this would be awesome when paired with a physical keyboard.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I am very glad to see that Zim has gotten their Windows builds working again.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The barrier of entry was actually lower than that. We didn't need to stand up an Apache server. We could just sign up for a Geocities/Xoom/Tripod account and upload HTML or use the built in site editor to create content. Some
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Google search publishes the DMCA letter that takes down search results. It's sad they don't do the same here.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
A benign explaination would be that the feedback feature is really designed as a relief valve for the most frustrated users to feel better. Moderately frustrated users will find it takes too many clicks to provide feedback and just scroll t
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Kids grow out of clothing quickly and would shift the average number of new items up, but even then, I have trouble believing that it would shift it up by that much? Are they counting each socks individually too?
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I guess you are right. It's much easier to just pay up than to migrate. That's what they really want.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I guess that's another Url shortener for Archive Team [1] to backup [1]: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Drive?
14 points by wolpoli 5y ago|18 comments
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> things like the all-white title bars that made it impossible to tell active and inactive windows apart (was that Win10 or Win8? Either way user feedback was so strong that that got reverted in the very next update) Images online show t
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What Is “The Squint Test”?(digitalshiftmedia.com)
1 points by wolpoli 5y ago|0 comments
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by wolpoli 5y ago
“This is frustrating. Labor is being paid first again,” wrote Citi analyst Kevin Crissey in a widely circulated note. “Shareholders get leftovers.” Yes, shareholders get all the money left after paying for expenses, which include labor
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Yes the tools are getting more and more accessible to the public. But profitability will be sucked dry for these studios when they need to compete with the more addictive, more profitable games for app store/social media/youtube a
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> The only saving grace is that the industry is growing so fast, there’s so much diversity, that there are also lots of games that don’t do this. This brings up a very good point. There are alternate options now . We won't after th
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by wolpoli 5y ago
If you hover your cursor over certain commands in the ribbon, you'll see a preview of the action in the editing area. This was one of the major feature of Office 2007.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> Feels like everyone is very disinterested in the cost to the user with most "modern ways" of doing things. The only time a decision maker actually cares about the cost to the user is when they are trying to calculate how much
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> The fact this is turned into a paper like this shows the disconnect between reality and economics research. I am not even sure if this is even an economic paper. After all, Donkor is an assistant professor of marketing at Stanford Gra
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Whether search quality is deteriorating really depends what we expect from a search engine. Many of us on HN use search engine as a way to look for web pages with specific words. Search engines did start out performing word searches, but so
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The web itself is deteriorating. Instant answers (IA) caused a shift in the way contents are written. Content optimized for IA tend to be repetitive and shallow. Viewing content written for IA is a frustrating experience and these tend to d
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IBM Common User Access Samples 1987(toastytech.com)
1 points by wolpoli 5y ago|0 comments
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by wolpoli 5y ago
If search engine could group results by their domain names, it would make the result a lot more readable. Most searchers would learn that pages from developer.mozilla.org are a lot more useful than pages from blog.hubspot.com. I mean why is
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Has anyone noticed that we can't click past page 10 on many search queries? Isn't Google being misleading when it claims it found 2 million results, but it won't show past result 100?
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The Google Chrome team uses a similar strategy to deal with backlashes: They leave a feature they want to removed behind a feature flag to keep the outspoken users happy. A few releases later, they remove the flag, when the casual users hav
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I read it the same way as well, but my reasoning was that vague/generic/neutral headlines tend to be associated with bad news. E.g. Google's "spring cleaning"
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Plus there is a newsletter subscription popup box with no close button, but you have to somehow figure out that you need to click in the grey area outside to close.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The print design people have really taken over web site designs these days. This would have been a very slick and expensive brochure in paper form, and we don't see that many of those in paper form because of the printing cost.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> I have never received a satisfactory answer for why a lot of people from these fields are all about "Everyone should learn to code" initiatives, but not, say "Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist", or &q

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