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by makecheck 5y ago
Back when they had a developer survey, one of my feedbacks was essentially to get rid of App Review completely : not to try to fix it or reduce it but to literally shut the entire thing down. It really is that useless.
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by makecheck 5y ago
One of the worst examples is we (still) have PLANES flying with banners behind them in California. They make noise, pollute the air, and assault your eyes when you could be looking at a beautiful blue sky without them. And I don’t know
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by makecheck 5y ago
We need “dumb” infrastructure again, that you can simply pay for with few strings attached, where the provider cannot fiddle with things at all, leaving enforcement to other authorities. We build roads; yes, those roads might be used to tra
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by makecheck 5y ago
Having been at several companies, I think I was happiest about my career when I didn’t have a fancy title and did not really know anyone else’s either (aside from obvious managers). It was nicer just knowing who’s in charge of what thing
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by makecheck 5y ago
I think it was particularly egregious when macOS Big Sur came out. It was abundantly clear that they no longer cared enough to even apply a basic sense of unified style in their artwork, with a weird mix of 2D-ish and 3D-ish icons, eve
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by makecheck 5y ago
Gift cards are the ultimate anti-consumer scam: - If you buy a gift card that isn’t worth enough for what you actually buy, the store “wins” because you will probably make up the difference with cash and they then sell you something you e
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by makecheck 5y ago
This is what I wish we were doing with Retina displays and such: making truly nice artwork instead of whatever single-colored squares and circles pass for icons these days. :/ Yes, it takes tremendously more work and is difficult to ge
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by makecheck 5y ago
There is a skill not taught in schools that I might describe as “how to conduct code reviews” and it applies in industry as well as HN comments. A reason to be afraid to submit may be that the number of respondents that don’t know how to re
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by makecheck 5y ago
I feel like these are “somebody got a promotion” patterns. Basically, somebody was able to “prove” to Higher-Up Managers that $X number of these videos were “watched” or “engaged with” (or whatever today’s BS lingo is), and therefore the bu
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by makecheck 5y ago
Laws should force an extreme balance in regards to company-customer relationships. Right now companies get most of the benefits: they can sign up new accounts and charge money very, very easily, by the millions , and yet if anything goes
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by makecheck 5y ago
I’ve watched this kind of stuff unfold for several years and this is where I think we went wrong: we allowed software to become “free” or “cheap” when it used to be $300, without acknowledging that this stuff still basically costs $300
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by makecheck 5y ago
True but performance wasn’t the goal (I tend to run it once on smallish files). This is easier to extend if I see something new to exclude (or comment-out some rule).
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by makecheck 5y ago
This is my script to “clean up” a typical macOS zip file. It assumes you’ve started by asking the Finder to “Compress” (which creates a zip file but one riddled with macOS-isms). #!/bin/bash zipfile=$1 if [ &quo
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by makecheck 5y ago
Yep, I write scripts to clean up zip files because the default behavior is so bad for cross-platform.
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by makecheck 5y ago
One of the things I hate about tech is seeing useful things slowly being repurposed into ad-spammers: - A “notification” is not supposed to be for ads but it seems every other app uses it for (almost) only ads . To hell with that. - A
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by makecheck 5y ago
A fingerprint is a user ID that is usually treated like a password, which is the main problem here. They should add at least a 2nd layer (that doesn’t reduce the convenience too much). For example, people could probably remember a simple Mo
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by makecheck 5y ago
…and collectively billions of hours of wasted time are returned to consumers everywhere. Generally though, we really need some efficient mechanism for saying “hell no” to new things that are clearly anti-consumer, instead of letting them
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by makecheck 5y ago
Complex password rules haven’t been shown to improve security in any way. They have been proven to torpedo security, e.g. they make people forget so they do blatantly-insecure things like writing passwords down or relying more frequently
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by makecheck 5y ago
One of my pet peeves with so many services! Their obnoxious pre-ads can play flawlessly (stealing your time/eyeballs and giving them benefit), and they can still fail to give you the content you exchanged your time/eyeballs to
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by makecheck 5y ago
Yeah, and I’m terrified by the “new” UI Outlook keeps prompting me to “try”, knowing that one day the old one will probably just go away. The new UI takes up way more space and completely messes up my preferred split-screen approach (e.g. i
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by makecheck 5y ago
I used to be much more of a curmudgeon about wanting to clean up existing code on sight but a few bits of reality seeped in over time, such as: 0. Existing code is probably working fine, and making changes (for any reason) risks adding a
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by makecheck 5y ago
A very good test of a multi-item interface is to imagine it with exactly TWO items and see if it makes perfect sense that way. Or if it’s a toggle button, look at a single button and see if you know its state. Now in this context, imagin
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by makecheck 5y ago
While this article focused primarily on things being left unmaintained, etc. there is also a huge problem with things being touched for no reason and making them worse . When handed what must be a mountain of bugs and unfinished items, w
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by makecheck 5y ago
I have never really gotten used to wireless buds, and still find myself reaching for wires half the time: - Wireless buds don’t connect 100% reliably; sometimes I get one and not the other, or neither. Sometimes they will randomly discon
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by makecheck 5y ago
I recently turned down a FB recruiter on the spot without even finding out more about the job in question, telling them I just don’t like FB as a company. I’m lucky to have been around long enough, to be able to pick companies for my own re
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by makecheck 5y ago
They may have thought that would happen but I saw just as much stuff end up in C:\Windows or \Users or (always my favorite) those “Documents” that are really just “whatever random crap every app wants to put there”.
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by makecheck 5y ago
I saw this recently primarily with Firefox and (presumably?) Firefox may have been updated to fix the issue because it is thankfully not happening anymore. When it did happen though, it seemed ludicrous: that a single app could in a matte
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by makecheck 5y ago
I would have to assume they could track accesses to the RSS feed if they wanted to. And they could embed text-only ad messages. The problem isn’t that these things became impossible, the “problem” for ad companies is they couldn’t do it in
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by makecheck 5y ago
Confirmations could certainly be a lot faster without being any less thorough. Why does a nation of over 300 million people need to task the same 100 people with this? It could still be 100 people per confirmation but for example there
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by makecheck 5y ago
I mean…if it was anyone else I’d say it’s good that they’re suing, they should be able to easily prove this, etc. But this man has made a lifetime out of screwing people over and ignoring rules. There have already been literally thou

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