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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I agree with you. Perhaps Facebook does too - we never know. Facebook's decided over the years that it ought to try out a new feature first, get feedback later. I think this move is a big mistake on their part, but I also think Facebook wil
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The New Yorker would have said more things than could have been fit into a paragraph. Say five pages of use and four of tripe. Here it was a good 95% garbage and another 3% quoting other people saying garbage.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Funny. I thought that the idea behind being a geek wasn't to learn arbitrary and unnecessary skills. My friends and I'd always thought it was about taking advantage of our intelligence to learn things we thought we'd need to know or like
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That all makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to reply!
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Dr. LSD lived to be 102? Wow. I've always been curious about Jobs's relation to LSD. I know his famous "Bill Gates should have dropped acid" line, but I'd like to see how he related hallucinogenic use to his outlook on design.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It looks "weird" because it uses a much better method of anti-aliasing. The Windows system is worse than shit. It is hell for designers because it's impossible to make fonts look anything other than shit without turning them huge, and even
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
If I develop in a single OS, it doesn't matter to me where else my browser's available. So if I design things without using Linux, Safari's sufficient, and there's no disadvantage to my using it. Two browsers can each be good without one re
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Because it's a lot easier to create two separate IDs and log in and out between the two of them, or to bookmark two separate sites in the hopes that the same friends use both of them and that the interface is just as easy to use on both of
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
A quick search reveals many people in my network who post photos of drug use despite having their parents as friends. Methinks some privacy control has been taken advantage of. Those crazy kids are a fickle bunch, and throughout history th
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Many people find Facebook easier to use than email - if you're on a Windows box, Facebook messaging is sexier and sleeker than either Gmail or Outlook. Facebook's also done a brilliant thing with its Phone Book. If I access it from a mobile
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Which is why you restrict access to your tagged photos. Let people see photos you upload but not photos tagged of you, and you maintain absolute control over your profile.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That compartmentalization is what makes Facebook such a neat social site.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Amusing snark aside, this is an erroneous view of how the government functions and of how it provides services.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That's an interesting idea. The problem with it is that it takes a very long time and, depending on the OS being used to develop, would be a pain to work with. I'd have to be in Windows constantly to test the IE pages as I built them, and s
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Safari's available for Windows and the Mac. That means that 99% of computer users can use Safari. Since when was "things are prettier" a bad thing? I do extensive Windows testing using browsers, and Safari's rendering engine is leagues ahea
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Dziuba doesn't have an obsession with TechCrunch, but with snark in general. Once upon a time he wrote balanced articles criticizing things he didn't like. Then he realized that the more negative he was, the more hits he received, and like
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But I guess it is entirely unproblematic that they can track your every activity wherever you are, on whatever device you are and whatever platform you are using. They are the good guys, right? That's smarmy. I'll admit a teensy bit of bi
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
There's no real world impact from an OS where the entire focus is online applications? That's news to me. If not from that, there'll be real world impact from the fact that it's by Google.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
This is my second-favorite rumor ever, because it keeps coming up (Android vs iPhone, Gmail vs MobileMe, AppleSecretSearch vs Google Search) and because the origin of it is: There are two supercool companies, and people would rather see sup
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
All Google has to do is strip down Linux, provide excellent driver support, and make things look pretty. They've got the infrastructure in place with Gears, they control the browsing environment. Users don't need to know anything about Linu
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I don't find much functional difference in the UIs of those operating systems. I understand not having a preference, say, but thinking there's no functional difference is ignoring a decade of user studies and reports and a lot of common s
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Speak for yourself. I know the precious few people I'd give up some of my ambitions for. There's never a soundtrack involved but the quiet confidence remains.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Marco has a tendency to be a snot. He's very bright, writes well, and I usually agree with the basics of what he's saying (in this case, his talk about their overcluttering made me think this was worth a submit), but he frequently sells pas
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Excellent! Playing with it now. EDIT: Dammit, its Gaia theme is a third-party remake that's very glitchy. To its credit, it didn't delete system-crucial files when I removed all the testing themes.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I liked the Ribbon a lot before I got used to the Mac mentality of "reduce buttons at all costs". Ribbons work far better than lots of drop-down menus when you're dealing with something ridiculously complex. OS X used to have an awesome the
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Interesting thoughts on Windows 7 design from a long-time Mac user(marco.org)
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Yep! Check out the beta to see his latest work in action.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
His work for Opera's been fun to watch, certainly. The logo's no different (I'm not really a fan of any of the current browsing logos, TBH), but the latest beta has made the first step towards not being entirely painful to look at on the Ma
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That makes perfect sense. I love that Firefox is and always will be an option. I just don't think it'll stay the top (or #2) browser for long.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Isn't that the case with all opinion-based predictions, though?

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