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by makecheck 4y ago
The overwhelmingly most common one I see is cyclists not stopping at STOP signs (or worse, red lights), and the real crazy ones appear to not even slow down . It is illegal to run a stop sign, and it is certainly possible a car (crossway
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by makecheck 4y ago
And it hasn’t evolved with cloud/sandboxing/magic-paths/whatever. Like today on the Mac I used the popup directory path to try to navigate to the parent directory (since it showed it to me, and it was selectable) and it cou
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by makecheck 4y ago
Unfortunately impossible to read on my mini screen… Seems like the viewport is fixed so zoom is disallowed. (Sites should never do this.)
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by makecheck 4y ago
This is also one of the many cases of Apple not following their own guidelines. They suggested that Touch Bar items should act statically like keyboard keys and not be used to display status, etc. (In reality, plenty were abused for tha
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by makecheck 4y ago
Brings back memories; the Apple Platinum look appeared around the time when 90% of the UI was black-and-white or at least boring so it really seemed to instantly transform the Mac into a professional-looking tool. I can’t wait until they re
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by makecheck 4y ago
A really cool example of good debugging especially without the source. Also a good reminder that the slow thing may not be what you think and if you aren’t profiling you don’t really know what’s going on. And an even better reminder that
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by makecheck 4y ago
Proper up-front never occurred because Apple refuses to implement a simple free-trial-period mechanism. And it is impossible to filter store searches in a way that tells you which apps would behave roughly in that way (therefore anything
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by makecheck 4y ago
The only way to really deter this stuff is to make it cost the sender something per spam . Bonus points if the user can feed back into the system to discourage truly unpopular notifications.
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by makecheck 4y ago
Like any organization, things have to be reliable and some open-source doesn’t really have the support model figured out. And if cost is an issue, that is more an indictment of how schools are funded: if there doesn’t seem to be room in the
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by makecheck 4y ago
“… in that order ” is the full quote, and omitting that from the title really changes the point. Ultimately if you don’t work on the first two, it isn’t enough to have the third. Persuasion is really important because you’re usually not wo
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by makecheck 4y ago
Lots of great and specific points in these threads, many of which I have personally seen. SwiftUI was really promising at first, and even fun to use (nothing like ripping out entire UI files or pages of code). Yet, issues were almost imm
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by makecheck 4y ago
Not limited to games, either; “pre-animation” makes regular software feel sluggish too. Having actions taken immediately is critical.
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by makecheck 4y ago
Their need to develop so many cross-platform apps should have been more than enough justification to do an outstanding job of Catalyst/SwiftUI/whatever-is-recommended. They could have iterated internally to get those really go
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by makecheck 4y ago
Well whether you add “site:.edu” or not, Google still does the thing where they just spit out a pile of extra “matches” that don’t contain your search phrase AT ALL . Just thrown into the list, as if they have any business being there (
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by makecheck 4y ago
What seems to be lost in these “redesigns” is the why : why are you doing it? If there isn’t a list of benefits long enough to justify the cost and possible risk, well, that’s a problem. There’s also a tendency for companies to be super
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by makecheck 4y ago
Hypothetically if you’ve documented how you expect contributions to be, and someone doesn’t follow that, then at least they can’t say that they couldn’t have known what you wanted when you reject it. The thing that is hard for people to get
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by makecheck 4y ago
I tried for a really, really long time to implement backward compatibility (and was even impressed with things I came up with) but Apple makes it incredibly hard. Certain hard boundaries can be crossed, e.g. some point where the compiler&#
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by makecheck 4y ago
The worst part of all of this is that their stores DO have heaping mountains of apps that should be removed : the outright scams, the useless apps full of trackers, etc. Absolutely no effort whatsoever is being placed into removing th
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by makecheck 4y ago
I think it would have been interesting if Netflix had shopped around its tech stack, kind of how companies that make games can also sell game-making engines. Maybe they could have had a huge windfall by offering to be the “AWS” behind every
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by makecheck 4y ago
The upsells on TurboTax are getting a lot more shameless in recent years. I saw the exact same one pop up at least 2-3 times. The one that really aggravated me though was the one at the end : after you FILE your taxes, they present this
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by makecheck 4y ago
There are lots of variants of this kind of unnecessary “friction” and I wish that legislation would be able to ban all of these awful behaviors instead of just specific examples of them. For example, my cable company peppers its web site wi
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by makecheck 4y ago
An app of any size could need: - web hosting - $99/year fee (also to Apple) - having to spend time re-fixing things you already did, that broke because Apple likes to update its APIs or release new devices with unexpected new requireme
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by makecheck 4y ago
It’s like they walled-in the garden, look only at the walls when there’s a problem, and meanwhile the scammers are parachuting in.
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by makecheck 4y ago
It’s absolutely soul-crushing to see the software market warped by broken store models. Legitimate developers can’t seem to convince people to pay anywhere near enough to sustain a business, and meanwhile scammers get millions.
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by makecheck 4y ago
He makes a good point that work computers especially benefit from sane defaults so anything the OS doesn’t do well out of the box (even if fixable 3rd party) is no-go for many users.
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by makecheck 4y ago
I guess I truly don’t understand what most sites are thinking here. If they actually want me to have the slightest clue what their site is about, they have to let me USE it first. How can it possibly help them (it certainly doesn’t he
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by makecheck 4y ago
My main issue with Notes right now is that somewhere along the way we became OK with software having no Undo at all , combined with the power to instantly sync your typo everywhere so it is truly gone forever , combined with UI that basic
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by makecheck 4y ago
Also, how do you reproduce even the demo software from a paper that’s been out for a year (an eternity in software maintenance time?). Git repo might be gone, some dependency broken, or maybe they used some system that isn’t around anymore
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by makecheck 4y ago
I’m sure there are talented recruiters but generally I’m lucky if they connect any dots properly. Things like: “I see you have years of experience on X, here’s an opening in Y”, or “I found your resume <that clearly states objectives, i
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by makecheck 4y ago
One of the things that bugs me about spreadsheets is that they encourage people to set up very fragile unnamed things, like “the value of row X” or whatever. Then the spreadsheets become gigantic and hard to understand but the owners still

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