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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
They were far better because they conveyed the state (and existence) of controls without much-hated skeuomorphism. "Flat" design is dereliction of design.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Apple has long since given up on proper design. Instead of working through the necessity of presenting numerous options to the user and coming up with a proper hierarchical design, Apple punts to disgraceful shit like peek-a-boo UI, undiscl
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Because it syncs bookmarks and passwords through iCloud.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Wireless charging is a dumb gimmick. You still have to put the device on the charger, so what's the point? They could just as well have put flat contacts on the back of the phone and dispensed with the inefficient induction parts that
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Image-manipulation tools should stop trying to build a database of files, and instead operate on directories. Otherwise, the displayed library doesn't reflect new files when you copy them into the directory hierarchy. This always sucke
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
In the '70s, running shoes became fashionable as everyday shoes for some time. It's unfortunate that these relatively pointy shoes became the standard gym shoe worn all day by a generation of grade-school kids who were growing qui
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Amen. I learned enough to start off in C++ from a thin white book from Microsoft about the language. Really excellent. Not to mention that the Windows help system was better in the early '90s than the Mac's is today. Help on the M
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Red Camera ripped off JPEG2000 to create its codec; now they extort every other camera vendor that wants to do compressed raw, thanks to the bullshit patent they were able to acquire on it.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Fun note: Red Camera ripped off JPEG2000 and of course got a patent on it through the USA's derelict patent office. Now they're extorting any company that wants to do compressed raw recording.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Is there one for Kotlin yet? It's pretty pathetic that Google's own protocol lacks native support for its most popular operating system.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
I wanted a PDA, and owned one: the Handspring Visor. And I did want it to be melded with a phone, which did happen. Palm OS solved the handwriting-recognition problem with Graffiti and a dedicated character-entry area, while Apple STILL has
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Just a year before this article, everyone thought smart cards were the wave of the future. All of your credit cards, IDs, and medical records were going to be stored on one card. The rest of the world did move on to smart cards in limited f
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Maybe we would if you'd said what "LSTC" is.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
And how Google degraded their search functionality by removing the + operator (which required that the following word be present in every result) because it allegedly interfered with idiotic "Google Plus." And did they restore it
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
I'm a casual rider of a mountain bike, almost always on streets. So I'm no expert. But this guy's reasoning doesn't make sense. I looked up what a "drop bar" is, and it goes DOWN; this lowers your posture profo
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Some drives (like those for Atari 8-bits) were intelligent, so software didn't have direct control over the recording parameters. So publishers would create custom authoring drives that could write bad sectors on command; the program l
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
I generally oppose anything Chromium, because it's ushering in a return to the shitty days of "this site is best viewed in Microsoft Explorer." But... not sure what an independent developer is to do about that.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
We can only hope! From what I've read, I vote for John Deere.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Yep. Sadly, I'd say that even now you might want to spend your travel dollars elsewhere.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
The bubble is back. Look at the housing market and the valuations of do-nothing bullshit companies. People don't learn.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
So.. it’s not misleading.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Does everyone just talk over everyone else on this thing? How does mass audio work?
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
What is the origin of this "Bad Apple" video, and why is it everywhere all of a sudden?
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by PostThisTooFast 6y ago
"Dark mode" is not an innovation. It's a half-assed reversal of a regression. Computers used to show light characters on a dark background. 8-bit platforms often defaulted to white text on a dark-blue background, which until
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by PostThisTooFast 6y ago
The musical intro to M.U.L.E. was GREAT. I worked at a computer store at the time and I just had it running all day. I had the Atari 400 then 800. After losing days of work to unreliable cassette storage, getting a disk drive (the Trak) was
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by PostThisTooFast 6y ago
Unfortunately it's also littering the sky with a shitload of eventual junk, and immediate astronomical blight.
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by PostThisTooFast 6y ago
I preferred Windows over the Mac by far, and worked as a developer on Windows for over a decade and a half. Then I had to start using Macs. The state of the Windows UI now is a disgrace. Its design defects and lack of organization confound
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by PostThisTooFast 6y ago
Years ago I read many complaints about how the U.S. government handed out hundreds of millions of dollars to telcos (in what form I don't know or remember) to build out their fiber networks, but they just never did it... and kept the m
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by PostThisTooFast 6y ago
ICANN't is a corrupt scam, and everyone who follows Internet issues knows it. They're continually coming up with new rip-offs to get people or organizations to apply for and then keep the astronomical fee after rejecting the appli
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by PostThisTooFast 6y ago
We should be busily building nuclear plants. This isn't going to get better otherwise.

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