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True | [deleted] | null | Here is [Epiphany in Chrome](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO-qca9ddqg&feature=player_embedded&t=2m30s). | null | 0 | 1317096952 | False | 0 | c2mv3av | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mv3av | t1_c2mqtiz | null | 1427651819 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bjartr | null | I don't know, that's why I said 'some kind of'. I'm not really talking about loading specifically, but the idea of unbundling procedures from data that results from pulling apart a class.
Yes, if a `loader` class only has one `load()` function and that's it, it's bad design and should be a function instead. If the article was trying to imply this, I sure didn't see it. If there's a `Loader` class I would certainly hope there's more to it than that. | null | 0 | 1317096966 | False | 0 | c2mv3cq | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mv3cq | t1_c2muwo6 | null | 1427651819 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | qbxk | null | does this run both ways? i mean, does that mean you can specify a gtk app in html. ie, if you're running wayland, could you have a script generating html that drives your app?
is the future of web development skills about to explode? | null | 0 | 1317096985 | False | 0 | c2mv3fa | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mv3fa | t3_krzdn | null | 1427651820 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | preshing | null | The sum doesn't reduce color banding. It performs anti-aliasing, to avoid jaggies, mainly along the edges of the shape and along the thin filaments.
The color curves were the result of a more-or-less artistic process. First I plotted some RGB curves as Beziers using Inkscape. I had a temporary script to show what the resulting image would look like using those curves. Once I had the look I wanted, I searched for analytic expressions to fit those curves. | null | 0 | 1317097055 | False | 0 | c2mv3qv | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mv3qv | t1_c2mt82d | null | 1427651824 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bjartr | null | One of the most useful modules in python, [OptionParser](http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html#optparse.OptionParser), is named like that and I can't really think of anything better. How would it be re-engineered to fit what this article is trying to profess? | null | 0 | 1317097084 | False | 0 | c2mv3w6 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mv3w6 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651826 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RealDeuce | null | Would selecting IMAP vs. POP3 or TLS vs. STARTTLS do so or do you have another qualification on your definition?
However, I'm willing to poke through the settings under the Tools->Options menu in Outlook where I find the Safe Senders list and the ability to enable mobile notification.
Now, I'm going to take a separate example - my manager is colour blind and usually needs to change the colour scheme. Many applications which don't let him or don't have a friendly scheme already created are unusable to him. Adding that scheme is a design choice the developer is making - one which is specifically used as an example in the linked rant.
I'm still curious of a precise and unambiguous definition of "option setting" though. A source of same would be even more awesome. | null | 0 | 1317097187 | False | 0 | c2mv4d4 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mv4d4 | t1_c2mv0gq | null | 1427651831 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | coderanger | null | To be fair to xanatos their software certainly does have the possibility of going there. It wouldn't be as simple as flipping a switch, but if they set their minds to it I have no doubt they could give you a social graph of whatever organization you wanted. The key point is intent. Their is a somewhat spooky quality to a company having that kind of capability at heart, but Palantir has proven through their actions (IMO) that they want to see their tools used for good (and there is no shortage of awesome things you can do with them). | null | 0 | 1317097316 | False | 0 | c2mv4xr | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mv4xr | t1_c2musrx | null | 1427651838 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CoreInversion | null | ...and in the darkness bind them to a memory region. | null | 0 | 1317097383 | False | 0 | c2mv58d | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mv58d | t1_c2mr4qu | null | 1427651843 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rawlyn | null | 27 == ~30 | null | 0 | 1317097506 | False | 0 | c2mv5qe | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mv5qe | t1_c2mufae | null | 1427651849 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hxcobd | null | I'm consistently floored there isn't a better way to do this. Not that I even remotely have a better proposal, but wow. | null | 0 | 1317097509 | False | 0 | c2mv5qu | t3_ksdfr | null | t1_c2mv5qu | t3_ksdfr | null | 1427651849 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | case-o-nuts | null | Sure. Although as far as I remember reading, they're still just shipping across PNGs at the moment. [reference](http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gdk/broadway/broadway.c) | null | 0 | 1317097532 | False | 0 | c2mv5u7 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mv5u7 | t1_c2mv2dd | null | 1427651850 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JamesDelgado | null | The iPhone has ruined their design concepts. Its interface just does not work with a computer. | null | 0 | 1317097642 | False | 0 | c2mv6bo | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mv6bo | t1_c2muqwk | null | 1427651857 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | preshing | null | It's cool to see your curiosity, but after working on this for considerable spare time, I am a little fractal'ed out :) Hopefully you can gain an few insights from the comments in this thread. | null | 0 | 1317097651 | False | 0 | c2mv6d1 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mv6d1 | t1_c2mr1pr | null | 1427651857 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perfectfire | null | I think she married Bill Gates. Was she even a dev though? | null | 0 | 1317097898 | False | 0 | c2mv7fl | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mv7fl | t1_c2mtvvu | null | 1427651872 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oscarreyes | null | -1 for make me download the video wich runs in windows. | null | 0 | 1317097997 | False | 0 | c2mv7vc | t3_ks45m | null | t1_c2mv7vc | t3_ks45m | null | 1427651878 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | preshing | null | Nice breakdown. | null | 0 | 1317098005 | False | 0 | c2mv7w6 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mv7w6 | t1_c2mqruq | null | 1427651878 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Really? Most of the non geeks I've introduced to Ubuntu have been impressed by the visual effects and had little trouble navigating the system. For contrast, the linux machine I use is completely inaccessible to an ordinary user, because most of functionality is only accessible through keyboard shortcuts. | null | 0 | 1317098010 | False | 0 | c2mv7x6 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mv7x6 | t1_c2mtsly | null | 1427651878 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ExistentialEnso | null | I hate this trend that everything should emulate a smartphone experience... and I'm primarily an Android developer. | null | 0 | 1317098127 | False | 0 | c2mv8ew | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mv8ew | t1_c2mv6bo | null | 1427651885 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | computers_in_space | null | I'm curious exactly how it does compared to rolling your own MPI+OpenMP parallelism. | null | 0 | 1317098178 | False | 0 | c2mv8n5 | t3_ksm2f | null | t1_c2mv8n5 | t3_ksm2f | null | 1427651888 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | My head hurts, I would say it uses canvas to draw but I know canvas cannot capture events... maybe svg? | null | 0 | 1317098371 | False | 0 | c2mv9h7 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mv9h7 | t1_c2mstzh | null | 1427651899 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jkff | null | I like the main argument of the Dick in the article and some people in comments. "90% of users do not use this feature, so it's not needed". This has several glaring flaws which I thought to be universally known, but apparently they aren't.
1) Different 90%'s of users do not use different features, so if you kill every feature that 90% don't use, you end up with a featureless application.
2) This obviously kills innovation in the feature space and promotes a culture of avoiding innovation, which is absolutely obviously bad for the company in the long run.
3) The 90% of users are not the decision makers; they're not those to whom the 90% come for advice or whose reviews the 90% read on the internet.
I also like the false dichotomy between having a slick design and having features. | null | 0 | 1317098672 | False | 0 | c2mvaq1 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvaq1 | t3_krv1k | null | 1427651915 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pabloneruda | null | bundler | null | 0 | 1317098953 | False | 0 | c2mvbv1 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mvbv1 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651929 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | preshing | null | Nice work! Since you put it all that effort, here are a few extra tips to save processing time:
+ On line 62, if `abs(1-(1-4*c)**.5)<1` or `abs(c+1)<.25`, you don't need to call `func`. You can assume 0. This trivially rejects the main cardioid and bulb, and saves huge time.
+ The loop on line 56 is for anti-aliasing. At the end of the first iteration, if esc is big enough, the anti-aliasing is not really necessary. I forget the threshold value, but you can find it by trial & error. Above this threshold, you can just assume the next 8 iterations will calculate the same value for esc.
+ The whole image is symmetrical, so with some mirroring tricks, you can get away with doing half the work. | null | 0 | 1317099147 | False | 0 | c2mvcog | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mvcog | t1_c2mt2m1 | null | 1427651940 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidfarkus | null | As an employee of a defense contractor...+1 | null | 0 | 1317099397 | False | 0 | c2mvdr7 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mvdr7 | t1_c2muqcg | null | 1427651954 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | As someone who worked for Google, if you pass their interview process you get hired plain and simple. They don't have much of a quota and they're always hiring.
Some places hire to fill spots, they might have 2-3 spots open and they'll hire the best 2-3 guys they interview. Not really the case for either Google or Microsoft. | null | 0 | 1317099460 | False | 0 | c2mve0z | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mve0z | t1_c2msajj | null | 1427651958 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317099663 | False | 0 | c2mvev7 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mvev7 | t1_c2mtci4 | null | 1427651968 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317099750 | False | 0 | c2mvf7w | t3_ksm23 | null | t1_c2mvf7w | t3_ksm23 | null | 1427651973 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Would selecting IMAP vs. POP3 or TLS vs. STARTTLS do so
In the case of the server, IMAP and POP3 are served by entirely different programs. And TLS vs STARTTLS is normally not an option in either, at least with the POP/IMAP servers I've worked with.
In the case of a client, those aren't settings, they're part of the program's basic functionality; retrieving email from email servers. Also, any decent client will auto-detect what your server supports if you stick in your email address, rendering your point moot. | null | 0 | 1317099980 | False | 0 | c2mvg68 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvg68 | t1_c2mv4d4 | null | 1427651985 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmeredit | null | > Would selecting IMAP vs. POP3 or TLS vs. STARTTLS do so
Yep.
> Adding that scheme is a design choice the developer is making - one which is specifically used as an example in the linked rant.
Adding the scheme is certainly a design choice by the developer. Selecting the specific scheme is a design choice being made by the user. So what? I'm not sure of your point.
> I'm still curious of a precise and unambiguous definition of "option setting" though. A source of same would be even more awesome.
I didn't realise this was a formal debate requiring peer-reviewed definitions of terms. I'm using what seems to me to be a common sense meaning of the concept of 'option setting' which is a choice made by an end-user with regard to the way in which the tool will function. Seems fairly reasonable and intuitive to me.
The tone of your post also seems to attribute a particular stance on my part with regard to design choices, which is that users should have no choice at all. That's not the case.
A good designer knows when to make a choice for the user, and when not to. A bad designer is either too restrictive, or as is often the case with engineers trying to do design, too liberal, backing away from making design decisions that they should be making because it's hard to do, and choice is cool, right? | null | 0 | 1317099995 | False | 0 | c2mvg8p | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvg8p | t1_c2mv4d4 | null | 1427651987 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LucasMembrane | null | Ditto for me. It streams about 2% of the required speed. | null | 0 | 1317100021 | False | 0 | c2mvgcp | t3_ks71i | null | t1_c2mvgcp | t3_ks71i | null | 1427651989 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | helm | null | Yep, didn't catch that one. | null | 0 | 1317100132 | False | 0 | c2mvgrt | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvgrt | t1_c2ms73b | null | 1427651994 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xTRUMANx | null | Sounds like [Readme Driven Development](http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html). | null | 0 | 1317100173 | False | 0 | c2mvgwq | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvgwq | t1_c2mpz0g | null | 1427651996 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | preshing | null | Works OK for me on OS X. Preview works just fine and everything. Did you wait for the script to finish running? | null | 0 | 1317100227 | False | 0 | c2mvh44 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mvh44 | t1_c2momgt | null | 1427651998 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dyydvujbxs | null | 400k is a lot for a web page... but Gmail does a heck of a lot in a web page, including however much of the UI widget toolkit is credited to Gmail. I guess someone who Reddits from a PC (not me on this account) could just look at the served JS and apply a scale factor to account for minification.
| null | 0 | 1317100234 | False | 0 | c2mvh54 | t3_kq27q | null | t1_c2mvh54 | t1_c2mgi2n | null | 1427651998 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abdullin | null | I was forwarded a link to your question, which is a good one. Thanks! I've updated the downsides section with the concerns about fragility, storage costs and performance. | null | 0 | 1317100436 | False | 0 | c2mvhxe | t3_ks4su | null | t1_c2mvhxe | t1_c2mtuhl | null | 1427652009 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | egypturnash | null | Oh, really? That might be worth updating for, I've been holding off because I jailbroke my iPad but I've never actually used the emulators I installed... | null | 0 | 1317100497 | False | 0 | c2mvi5u | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvi5u | t1_c2mv14f | null | 1427652011 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Iggyhopper | null | even `rock()`? | null | 0 | 1317100622 | False | 0 | c2mvimg | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mvimg | t1_c2msg76 | null | 1427652017 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | > Now, I'm going to take a separate example - my manager is colour blind and usually needs to change the colour scheme. Many applications which don't let him or don't have a friendly scheme already created are unusable to him. Adding that scheme is a design choice the developer is making - one which is specifically used as an example in the linked rant.
Sure. And that may or may not be a foolish choice. In the case of Mac OS X, there is a 'Use grayscale' option in Universal Access, and I think it would behoove a developer to make sure that his or her interface works and looks reasonable in grayscale. And then they can suggest that colorblind people can use that. It's a bit overkill for red-green colorblindness, but it works, and handles other, rarer forms of colorblindness as well. AND it doesn't require that I make an options screen for my app with checkboxes for color-blindness, hearing-impaired, blind, and so forth. The OS already has those, all collected in one convenient place.
Let's say I instead have a color-blind option, which rearranges a few of the controls, and changes the color scheme so that red/green color-blind people can see all the colors. What's the problem with that? Well, first off, it leaves me open to criticism from people who have rarer forms of color blindness. If I'm going to cater to the 8.5% of people who are red-green color-blind, why not the 8.5% who have other color-blindness? But more importantly, and this is vital, it *should* mean twice as much testing of my app's interface, but since almost nobody actually tests properly, it never actually does. So what it does mean is more bugs in my released app, and quite possibly an option for color-blind people that *doesn't work*.
Or let's say there's a more comprehensive way to set the color scheme of everything in the app. What happens when someone sets the text and the background to the same color. "Why would they do that?" Because they're a user, and they don't know any better, and they like that color. Do I need to put in failsafes so that they don't do that? But then, how close is too close between the two colors? Remember, I, as a small app developer, am the one that they will be contacting when all of the text in their app disappears. And one contact email from a customer probably eats up the entire profit I would make off of the sale to that customer, and it can take a dozen and/or a phone call before I get to the bottom of some of the weirder problems. So if 10% of my customers are color-blind and only 1% of them do incredibly stupid things if given the opportunity, then I may well make less money by putting in those options than I do without them.
And trust me when I say that it's more than just 1% who do stupid things. | null | 0 | 1317100673 | False | 0 | c2mvith | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvith | t1_c2mv4d4 | null | 1427652020 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lingnoi | null | Minor quip, it's not writing the applications specifically for this. It's just a way of displaying them, same as how displaying them on your desktop is another way. | null | 0 | 1317100683 | False | 0 | c2mviuw | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mviuw | t1_c2ms1w9 | null | 1427652020 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CoolMoD | null | Well, that's disappointing. I had no idea how they could possibly do it, but I figured they'd have a more efficient method than images... | null | 0 | 1317100856 | False | 0 | c2mvjhe | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mvjhe | t1_c2mv5u7 | null | 1427652029 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atomic1fire | null | I had a crazy idea once, Put chrome frame in internet explorer, and use ietab with firefox, can't remember if it worked or even if I bothered to do it. | null | 0 | 1317100954 | False | 0 | c2mvjv3 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mvjv3 | t1_c2mr7y0 | null | 1427652033 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | preshing | null | We have thus thoroughly established that I should have used a different choice of words :) | null | 0 | 1317101012 | False | 0 | c2mvk1o | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mvk1o | t1_c2mravk | null | 1427652037 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abdullin | null | Re perf: Please, check LMAX, which handles millions of Tx on a single JVM thread. I'd be interested to know, how you can achieve same performance with SQL
Re reliability: events can be multiplexed to avoid any issues | null | 0 | 1317101039 | False | 0 | c2mvk5z | t3_ks4su | null | t1_c2mvk5z | t1_c2mt9b1 | null | 1427652037 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dotrob | null | > Dick is a strawman and a crap designer.
He's also someone's attempt to explain, from the evidence of the end product, what the design process must have been like for a horrid piece of software design: the OS X Lion Address Book. | null | 0 | 1317101077 | False | 0 | c2mvkb9 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvkb9 | t1_c2mt0a5 | null | 1427652040 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rawlyn | null | Also, what every spammer needs to know about sending email. | null | 0 | 1317101242 | False | 0 | c2mvkvz | t3_ksnfm | null | t1_c2mvkvz | t3_ksnfm | null | 1427652047 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | >Things like user input and look and feel should be preferential to the user. Software that doesn't allow me to do basic things like rebind keys or change colors is really irritating.
Good. Don't use it.
The big mistake 95% of developers, including you, make, is that you assume that software should be built according to the way you use it. That's perfectly understandable, but unless the software is in some very specific categories, it's also wrong. (The categories: development software, and expensive software that is largely used by experts (photoshop, video editing suites, *some* scientific software packages, etc).
For everything else, giving your (naive, not-computer-centric) users lots of choices amounts to a death sentence as far as small independent developers are concerned. If someone contacts me and sucks up an hour of my time as I try to figure out how they have hosed themselves with a mis-set config option, that's an hour of my time, which is worth (very conservatively speaking) about 5x more than I got for selling that person my app. If five percent of my potential users don't buy it because they can't customize it the way they want it, and that prevents 2% of my users from contacting me because they checked the 'send my uncle pictures of my ass' checkbox, then I am getting rid of the option of sending out photographs of the user's donkey to family members, no matter how small, cute, and fluffy it is.
And if you don't like the default settings on my app, there are a dozen similar ones that make different choices and that you might like more. I don't really know if you can preview those without buying them, but you can preview mine, so your options (or lack thereof) with respect to theirs is not my problem.
Most people are not you. Most people don't care about the options. Hell, the options in 75% of my apps are the defaults, and I'm a developer. They just want a program that does approximately what they want it to do, approximately when they want it done. And they're the ones I'm writing for. *They* don't have the option of writing their own. | null | 0 | 1317101330 | False | 0 | c2mvl65 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvl65 | t1_c2mqllk | null | 1427652051 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_redditor | null | Is this the one where some dude just translated (poorly) all the code samples to ruby and left most of the rest of the book as is? And Zed was all pissed and threatened to take legal action if the dude didn't take it down? And the dude refused to recognize that he did anything wrong, and tried to make it out like Zed was bullying him or something? | null | 0 | 1317101348 | False | 0 | c2mvl87 | t3_ksm23 | null | t1_c2mvl87 | t3_ksm23 | null | 1427652052 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddit_clone | null | My question still stands.
If I wanted to write a web application with a complex UI, would this be a viable option?
| null | 0 | 1317101350 | False | 0 | c2mvl8i | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mvl8i | t1_c2mviuw | null | 1427652052 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roopeshv | null | this is rob sober's version, and zed approved it.
actual link: http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/book/ | null | 0 | 1317101641 | False | 0 | c2mvm8u | t3_ksm23 | null | t1_c2mvm8u | t3_ksm23 | null | 1427652065 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | >Or you could have a very configurable program that makes it easy to navigate the options or search for them.
Recipe for incredibly high support costs. People given easy-to-change options will change them. And then they will not understand why the program is acting differently, and they will call you, or email you, or whatever. And even with larger companies, it only takes two or three email exchanges with a given user to wipe out all the profit made from that user. With a small operation, if it takes me an hour to figure out what the user did wrong and fix it, then I've eaten through all the profit from five or six sales. (Unless you count my time as being worth zero, of course. Oddly, I do not.)
For most areas of software, you can choose from a dozen if not dozens of different software packages. Perhaps you can find one that will do what you want. If not, maybe one will have all those bajillion (untested, because who has time to test every combination of options?) options that you're hoping for. But the way to design software is to make a *good* user interface, and then let people use it. | null | 0 | 1317101680 | False | 0 | c2mvmdv | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvmdv | t1_c2ms492 | null | 1427652067 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gbchaosmaster | null | I actu.ally like to toss one right in the middle of a word. | null | 0 | 1317101735 | False | 0 | c2mvmlb | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvmlb | t1_c2ms73b | null | 1427652070 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rubygeek | null | It is. But the source is not.
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True | ghjm | null | Strangely, it actually seems *less* disruptive that way. | null | 0 | 1317101878 | False | 0 | c2mvn3g | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvn3g | t1_c2mvmlb | null | 1427652076 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | i-make-robots | null | Maybe there are exceptions because your rule is based on the wrong analogy? I don't happen to know what is the right one. I'm just saying "maybe". | null | 0 | 1317101926 | False | 0 | c2mvn98 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mvn98 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427652078 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atomic1fire | null | Or just use html5 offline storage plus chrome's extension architecture and download everything as an extension for offline use.
Unless I'm missing something, but I'm pretty sure you can use chrome's extension system to download all the app files onto the computer for offline use. | null | 0 | 1317101927 | False | 0 | c2mvn9o | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mvn9o | t1_c2msomu | null | 1427652078 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smeezy | null | That's why I think the advice in this article is lame. Apple's UIViewController is the best thing to happen to a UI application framework in a long time. Sure beats the Case of the Over-Smart View in MFC, and the Case of the Disorganized Responders in AppKit. | null | 0 | 1317101960 | False | 0 | c2mvne8 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mvne8 | t1_c2ms9el | null | 1427652080 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317102002 | False | 0 | c2mvnjr | t3_krzys | null | t1_c2mvnjr | t1_c2mpukq | null | 1427652082 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | > Note, not incidentally, that there's no (imaginary) user within 500 yards of that (imaginary) discussion.
That was the first thing I thought, too.
Engineers want lots of options in their code. That's how their minds work. (Well, most of them. Us. I guess.) They cannot grasp the idea that an interface is, if not a work of art, at least a work of craft. People do not want furniture that can be skinned: although they will buy tablecloths and throws, that's not a *feature of the furniture*. They do not want silverware where the handles come off and you can make the forks and spoons into knives, in case you suddenly need 24 knives instead of eight of each. And they certainly don't want a car where you can decide where the speedometer goes and where the RPM gauge goes, and the few cars that had that kind of customizability and weren't sold entirely to auto enthusiasts (i.e. *engineers*) stayed in the default setting, good or not.
Writing your end-user software *for engineers* is as dumb as designing your dog rawhide chew to taste good to chemists. Chemists, by and large, are not the ones chewing on it. Perhaps 5% of your ~~user~~ chewer population will be deviant chemists, sure. Do you design your chew-bones for them, or for the dogs? | null | 0 | 1317102275 | False | 0 | c2mvoi5 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvoi5 | t1_c2mpdjv | null | 1427652094 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmeredit | null | It's someone's attempt to speculate, through stereotype and personal prejudice, why a piece of software looks like it does, even though he himself thinks it's a dumb idea. It's a myopic rant is what it is. | null | 0 | 1317102280 | False | 0 | c2mvoj6 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvoj6 | t1_c2mvkb9 | null | 1427652095 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317102289 | False | 0 | c2mvok5 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvok5 | t1_c2muqwg | null | 1427652095 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | internetinsomniac | null | I agree on feeling the pain, it would be nice if browsers could say effectively: hey, your connection is encrypted, but we don't know who to.
This would prevent eavesdropping on your network from occuring, however, man in the middle attacks would still be possible (with dns spoofing) and your browser wouldn't know it's not the encrypted response isn't actually from the server you requested. There are free SSL cert providers though, and the risks involved in enabling such a thing really do outweigh the benefits. | null | 0 | 1317102335 | False | 0 | c2mvops | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2mvops | t1_c2mkcvl | null | 1427652097 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | filipf | null | Really awesome! Great tutorial!
Very similar to the goodies that come with C#. Can't wait till we're allowed to use this at work... | null | 0 | 1317102437 | False | 0 | c2mvp0m | t3_krzd8 | null | t1_c2mvp0m | t3_krzd8 | null | 1427652102 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | Having worked at a number of mid-sized software companies, I can tell you that most of them didn't even have a UI designer, and not a single one of them had (nor hired) a usability analyst. Most of them had the product manager and the engineer playing ping-pong with the UI decisions. With predictable results. | null | 0 | 1317102440 | False | 0 | c2mvp18 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvp18 | t1_c2mpk0d | null | 1427652102 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317102469 | False | 0 | c2mvp4t | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvp4t | t1_c2mrxu0 | null | 1427652103 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Smallpaul | null | It still reads like cheerleading. Do all of your apps in this style for a while and you'll have a more balanced view. | null | 0 | 1317102495 | False | 0 | c2mvp7s | t3_ks4su | null | t1_c2mvp7s | t1_c2mvhxe | null | 1427652105 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | There are a few software engineers that are good UI designers.
I'm not one (well, I'm not even a full-time software engineer, but I play one in my free time), but I am working on becoming one. | null | 0 | 1317102522 | False | 0 | c2mvpb2 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvpb2 | t1_c2mt0a5 | null | 1427652106 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smeezy | null | This is pretty bad advice. There are some classes that are best described as a manager, i.e. it manages all the data for a particular domain. A class that manages the installation of apps into an operating system may be called AppInstaller or AppInstallationManager without losing any focus, encapsulation, or clarity. The class is clearly responsible for managing all the data and operations related to installing applications.
What is a good alternative to this name, if we follow the spirit of this essay? AppInstallationState? That's wrong; the state of the app's installation may lie beyond the data encapsulated within the class. AppInstallation? What the hell does that mean? App? Nope.
Another instance where an "er" class is justified is when implementing the [Visitor pattern](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern). An instance of a ColorSpaceTransformer class may iterate over a nonuniform collection of images to apply a transform on them. What name would you give these classes instead?
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317102822 | False | 0 | c2mvqcf | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvqcf | t1_c2mttfp | null | 1427652119 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zBard | null | Dr Rosen = Kenneth Rosen ? | null | 0 | 1317102823 | False | 0 | c2mvqcn | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mvqcn | t1_c2mrgtz | null | 1427652119 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317102900 | False | 0 | c2mvqm1 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mvqm1 | t1_c2mswe3 | null | 1427652190 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | I would disagree with that, but only because I don't think it's directly comparable.
It's like saying, "I think singing the Mozart Requiem, including all of the tenor solos, is harder than most programming work," or "I think rappelling 80 feet down the side of an old, crumbling dam is harder than most programming work." What does that even mean? I've done a bunch of programming work, I've sung the tenor solos in the Mozart Requiem, and I've rappelled down the side of an old crumbling dam. Which was hardest? Fuck if I know!
I think visual design and UI work is suspended between craft and art, and programming is suspended between craft and science, and comparing the difficulty of the two is like measuring the weight of a thought. | null | 0 | 1317102953 | False | 0 | c2mvqrv | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvqrv | t1_c2mtfn5 | null | 1427652192 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | > They, however, have trouble producing something as large as say... Windows or Office.
A compelling argument for small teams. | null | 0 | 1317103029 | False | 0 | c2mvr17 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvr17 | t1_c2mrzwt | null | 1427652194 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | http://paste.lisp.org/display/98221 | null | 0 | 1317103063 | False | 0 | c2mvr5f | t3_krklz | null | t1_c2mvr5f | t1_c2mtv9j | null | 1427652196 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | antonrodin | null | http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/codeigniter-from-scratch-day-7-pagination/ | null | 0 | 1317103107 | False | 0 | c2mvrbb | t3_ks7cm | null | t1_c2mvrbb | t1_c2ms612 | null | 1427652198 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lurker12321490 | null | FYI, it never hurts to contact a company and ask what your status is. | null | 0 | 1317103189 | False | 0 | c2mvrkg | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mvrkg | t1_c2muqku | null | 1427652201 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | That may not be the best example.
I think every single control panel that Microsoft has designed has utterly sucked. They just all suck in different ways.
The one from Windows 7 is the best, because they took a page from Apple and made it search well enough that you never have to look at it. But if you do look at it, it's still awful. | null | 0 | 1317103225 | False | 0 | c2mvroj | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvroj | t1_c2mrtyo | null | 1427652202 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Lighthouse_Isolation | null | someones should make this multi-threaded. | null | 0 | 1317103331 | False | 0 | c2mvs19 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mvs19 | t3_krpem | null | 1427652208 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | And the approach from the OP's article would have been to add the option of removing pits, add the option of an undo command, and add scaling to the speed of movement from key presses. | null | 0 | 1317103420 | False | 0 | c2mvsby | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvsby | t1_c2mr3bd | null | 1427652211 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | valleyman86 | null | I would instantly think that FooManager is a manager that manages foo. What else could it be? | null | 0 | 1317103675 | False | 0 | c2mvt4y | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mvt4y | t1_c2mrrfi | null | 1427652222 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cobryis | null | Did anyone else read that in the Professor's voice? (from futurama?) | null | 0 | 1317103774 | False | 0 | c2mvtgf | t3_ksdfr | null | t1_c2mvtgf | t3_ksdfr | null | 1427652226 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | laoong | null | VC11 developer preview (working till ca. june 2012) has full support of C++11 concurrency (AFAIK). | null | 0 | 1317103927 | False | 0 | c2mvtxb | t3_krzd8 | null | t1_c2mvtxb | t3_krzd8 | null | 1427652233 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | > So let us say that only 10% use email groups and the rest just send mail one at a time. "Well only 10% of users actually use groups, lets just ax that functionality."
So where's your cutoff point? 5% 1% 0.1%? (I suspect it's closer to 5% to 1% that use email groups).
At some point, supporting users who accidentally fuck with the settings that aren't needed by more than 1% of users costs more than the additional revenue that you get from that 1%. I take it they should support users like you because obviously you're, well, *important*, but should they really increase their support costs for all those other 1%ers? Just so that there are *options*?
Especially when there are three dozen address books, all of which integrate with the OS perfectly, just waiting to be downloaded for $5 from other developers who might be more targeted to your usage patterns.
If 10% of your users use a feature/customization, it's probably worth including, if it's not too hard, and it doesn't cause increased support costs for the rest of your users. If it's only 5%, then it's probably not, although there are certainly exceptions. If it's only 1%, then you are simply engaging in masturbation while writing the code, and should find your own time to masturbate. | null | 0 | 1317103970 | False | 0 | c2mvu2f | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvu2f | t1_c2mrit4 | null | 1427652234 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dougrathbone | null | spammer....? but i just want to delivery good lottery news to the kind folk of internet land | null | 0 | 1317104276 | False | 0 | c2mvv0e | t3_ksnfm | null | t1_c2mvv0e | t1_c2mvkvz | null | 1427652247 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OopsLostPassword | null | The general discussion about the comparative advantages of closures and objects sounds interesting (said by a guy who's going from java to go). But this article speaks about the impact **in javascript** on privacy.
I don't get this privacy concern. Suppose you have rogue code executed in the same context as your code, how can you suppose your code is protected just because some values are private because inside closures ? And, more important, in what real case can it be a concern ? | null | 0 | 1317104345 | False | 0 | c2mvv8f | t3_kroia | null | t1_c2mvv8f | t3_kroia | null | 1427652250 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | > If I go to the store and want to buy beer, tomato sauce or anything other common item, there will be 50 different kinds. Stores have learned that not everyone likes the same kind of tomato sauce.
To extend your metaphor, I just moved into a new house. The walls are a pleasant neutral gold-and-white wallpaper. The person building the house did not include dozens of cans of paint in different colors and a choice of 20 wallpapers with the house, in case I want the walls a different color. They figure that if I am a person who does not like what is there, I can go out and buy things to replace it.
And if power users do not like the Mac address book, there are at least three or four alternatives that I know of (e.g. Bento), and I am not even looking for a replacement. If the one that comes with the computer is too simple for you, *get another one*.
Go out and buy a six-pack of beer. Don't complain that the beer that the previous owners left in the fridge of your new house is Pabst. For that is silly. | null | 0 | 1317104392 | False | 0 | c2mvve6 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvve6 | t1_c2muvhl | null | 1427652252 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Author heard about Informartion Theory and Shannon, ergo he's smart. | null | 0 | 1317104399 | False | 0 | c2mvvew | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvvew | t1_c2mtu0u | null | 1427652252 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rawlyn | null | Sorry, my mistake. I didn't realise you were a Nigerian king looking to invest. I apologise. | null | 0 | 1317104432 | False | 0 | c2mvvib | t3_ksnfm | null | t1_c2mvvib | t1_c2mvv0e | null | 1427652252 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zumpiez | null | DataShepherd | null | 0 | 1317104529 | False | 0 | c2mvvt5 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mvvt5 | t1_c2mtfyo | null | 1427652256 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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True | bonch | null | You can't make that kind of determination based solely on the post you're replying to.
Every "SomethingController" object ever written is not object oriented programming, apparently. | null | 0 | 1317104545 | False | 0 | c2mvvv0 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mvvv0 | t1_c2mrzwu | null | 1427652257 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anacrolix | null | It is common to measure the size of the compressed source code, such as by gzip. | null | 0 | 1317104556 | False | 0 | c2mvvwo | t3_krklz | null | t1_c2mvvwo | t1_c2mmtvy | null | 1427652257 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | Seriously. And also obviously has issues with, well, San Francisco, since that kind of live-and-let-live alternative lifestyle stuff is one of the main arguments for living here. (And it's pretty clear he is, since that's certainly the 'North Beach' he's talking about.)
"How do I make him sound unsympathetic? Oh, I know, I'll make him *different from other people*, that'll do it!"
The author has some issues, right enough. | null | 0 | 1317104710 | False | 0 | c2mvwez | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvwez | t1_c2mt4tn | null | 1427652265 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arulprasad | null | >How far are we from implementing web apps in GTK and putting them online for anyone to use?
Just curious, why would you want to do that? I can see how 'porting' existing GTK+ applications to run on the web might be useful, but why would you want to write web apps in GTK? Wouldn't that be, like, the hardest way to write a web app? | null | 0 | 1317104721 | False | 0 | c2mvwgh | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mvwgh | t1_c2mq95e | null | 1427652265 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonch | null | Who to trust, the guy with a blog post on Reddit or the company with a hugely successful platform SDK. | null | 0 | 1317104805 | False | 0 | c2mvwpd | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mvwpd | t1_c2ms9el | null | 1427652269 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Platz | null | I was looking for this comment and was glad I found it. | null | 0 | 1317104827 | False | 0 | c2mvws7 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvws7 | t1_c2mu2ke | null | 1427652270 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | No, you're hardly the only one. The author is infatuated with his own ideas about how things should work, and as is usual with such people, he occasionally has some good points about the people he things are wrong. | null | 0 | 1317104832 | False | 0 | c2mvwsp | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mvwsp | t1_c2mt024 | null | 1427652270 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | > Single Responsibility Principle
Very good point. If you end things in "er", you often end up with nouns that represent a role or an office. At work, a manager is a person who does a crap ton of different things: project management, career mentoring, team building, interacting with HR, etc. This is not a single responsibility.
If you name things as broad roles, it tempts you to lump a bunch of things together into a catchall class (or it reflects your impulse to do that). If you name things very specifically, it feels more incongruous when you lump in unrelated things. | null | 0 | 1317104918 | False | 0 | c2mvx1p | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mvx1p | t1_c2msffp | null | 1427652273 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonch | null | > A better example would be changing from "FooLoader" to "FooInputStream".
The author's position is that this name change somehow inherently creates better code, but that position was never adequately justified.
> Also, I think the name "FooManager" tells you nothing about the object other than "it has something to do with Foo". "FooRegistry" tells you that the object keeps a collection of "Foo" objects.
FooManager manages foo objects. It seems rather obvious. | null | 0 | 1317105114 | False | 0 | c2mvxme | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mvxme | t1_c2mrrfi | null | 1427652281 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fnmatrix | null | You can really hear your GPU fan | null | 0 | 1317105165 | False | 0 | c2mvxsa | t3_ks62g | null | t1_c2mvxsa | t1_c2mr8in | null | 1427652284 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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