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Some very common file operations are moving files and copying files. On the finder, you grab the files and drag them to the place you want them to go. Under windows, people are trained to select the files, press the copy key command, go to the new location, and press the paste key command.

Microsoft, seeing that the paste function is the most used, makes the paste button bigger. The problem is, there's a much easier way to do it-- you can drag and drop in windows (at least I hope you can!). Unfortunately, windows users don't know this (by the evidence of them using paste a lot in microsofts stats, and my experiences with average people who are used to windows). By making the cut, copy and paste buttons bigger and more prominent, Microsoft is reinforcing the slower, less intuitive way of doing things.

Finder is not sacrificing usability to look pretty, finder looks pretty because it is more usable. You present users with 100 buttons on every window, and it doesn't matter how big you make them, they're going to have trouble figuring out what they're doing- the whole interface adds a constant cognitive load that slows the user down and increases confusion.

With the finder, there are a lot fewer buttons and its a lot easier to figure out what to do (in fact, most of the arbitrary commands are hidden under one button.) In the finder, they use the desktop metaphor, and you mostly manipulate files directly.
Yes, 90 day guarantee's and all that. But, its true, the incentive is to CLOSE the deal vs closing at the most optimal for the candidate (a % of the fee vs 0% of the fee).
Does the Dutch government have the expertise necessary to run a CA?
0.75 my dad was born in Wisconsin but my mother was born in Germany. Her mother was German and insisted that her children be born there despite the fact she was already married to a GI who was originally stationed there but then returned to the US.
Wow..Last year they were hiring ~200+ engineering types of roles (our firm was trying to "get in" with recruiting for them). They were sort of a "standard" of "do you know Solyndra?" or "where do you see yourself in Solyndra's space?" re: EnPhase, a few manufacturers FOR solar tech, etc.

Solyndra's gig was commercial flat-root tech for solar.

"Solyndra could not achieve full-scale operations rapidly enough to compete in the near term with the resources of larger foreign manufacturers,"

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While I generally agree with what you've written, I still think it's odd that Microsoft has never included many features in Explorer that are the main selling points for 3rd party file explorers, e.g. dual pane view, bulk rename, toolbar customization, and so forth. I understand that Microsoft may not want to undercut ISV's, but easy access to file operations should be intrinsic to an operating system.
If you are going textmate to Vim you should really just go straight to Vico. It's essentially the perfect editor ( for me ): Textmate look/feel/bundles but vim keybinds down to the most esoteric corners.

http://www.vicoapp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epB5Z6ijpk The Player, opening scene. Self referential of the fact that it's all one cut.

A dissection of the Copacabana shot from Goodfellas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBMKyNJvNV8

And one of the most brutal long-takes I've ever seen: the Death of Little Bill, Boogie Nights (NSFW): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znwh41szei4
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The default finder interface has an area on the left with your hard drives, and your common locations, like your home directory, your apps directory, your downloads directory, easily accessible.

I think this can be turned off, and I think that at some point you turned it off... that's the only thing I can think of because getting to the root of a drive just requires going to the left of the window and clicking on the drive... most of the time (with the default finder configuration.)
You could offer them a coupon to share with their followers, reach out to them for feedback, etc.. Once you have the data there are a lot of possibilities.
I really disagree with the use of bad guy in any of those laws. It biases the reader from the get go to only worry about the bad guy, you should worry about every user.
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Eventually settled? I was born in Ireland, moved to Canada at 6, currently in the US. I have lived in 3 other countries. My grandmother, of Irish descent, reverse emigrated from the USA to Ireland. I need a -1 choice.
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True, drag and dropping files to move/copy them is easy. If you're using a keyboard and mouse. How will you do this on a tablet?
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My dad was a refugee coming out of South Africa, had lived in Nigeria and Botswana for a decade, and he and my mom, who he had met in South Africa, moved here in the 80s after having me there. Both of my brothers were born here, and we have all been put through the American school system, and now two of us are working on start-ups.
The articles says this, "If a stranger walked up to you and handed you a sandwich, would you eat it? Probably not. How about if your best friend gave you a sandwich? Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't—it depends on whether she made it or found it lying in the street. Apply the same critical thought to a program that you would to a sandwich, and you'll usually be safe."

Which I thought was pretty good.
Show HN: Search IKEA by item size my weekend project
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As pure CSS buttons, those at http://www.kurat.com/ are real nice.
LOL, yes, WWSJD, but let's not forget, there are thousands of very sucessfuly companies that somehow manage to muddle through with out SJ. In fact, I would argue that SJ approach may not be ideal for certain types of businesses.
How do you algorithmically distinguish between the two?

Maybe it can't. It doesn't matter you use a linear or binary search if the program isn't fed valid data.

I'm suggesting they are using an algorithm to solve a problem that it shouldn't be used to solve.

And the bots' behavior can change to write more reviews to prevent looking like a bot. Business reputations take time, so when Yelp's algorithm sees "this business has been around since 1975, and 100% of its positive reviews just came in over the past 10 months, where 100% of its reviews were previously negative before that", that should be a red flag.

Interesting that you use the term "red flag" since that usually means a "warning" or "needs attention." There's a world of difference between using an algorithm to raise red flags, and using an algorithm to automatically prune content. In fact, a three-decades old small business with a lone, 1-star review should raise a red flag about the 1-star review.
>Microsoft is reinforcing the slower, less intuitive way of doing things.

You say this like its a bad thing. There is no "right way" to do things. Actually, there is: the most obvious/intuitive way is the right way for a particular user. If people intuitively use Copy/Paste to move files, it makes sense to make that functionality easier to get to. It does not make sense to try to "correct" their behavior in some way.
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I think the use cases you are describing are accomplished as follows:

1. Starting at the "root" directory. You can control what the finder window initially opens with on the General pane of the Finder Preferences. By default it should be your home folder (/Users/name).

2. Tracking your location. It sounds like you're not using the Path Bar. I believe it's disabled by default. Try View -> Show Path Bar. This presents your current location (in all view types) at the bottom. It also allows for navigational "jumps" to parent locations.

If you have OS X Lion you can open your Finder location in Terminal by enabling a Service in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts. It's called "New Terminal at Folder" or "New Terminal Tab at Folder." See this Stack Overflow answer for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420456/open-terminal-here...
Does it particularly matter? All the browsers have de-trusted them already.

Not like they could really do any worse. Under previous management they literally allowed the one thing no CA must ever allow to happen.
please excuse my ignorance: why the choice of "first nations" as a name vs "native americans" ?

I can imagine why other wordings can be considered bad, but as a non-american I'm unaware of negative/imprecise connotations to the latter expression.
419 scammers are extremely common on dating sites.

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/advancefee/nigeria.asp
How does help me use popcnt to find how many bit pairs are used and how many are empty? Edit: whoops, I gotcha.

I'll profile this.

Edit 2: no I won't profile it, because I don't have the instruction. Damn.
This is my first weekend project submitted to HN.

I needed a TV stand for my new house that had to be an exact height. Trying to find items on IKEA's website by height was not possible so I've parsed their web catalogue for all their products and come up with a web page to search my database.

By default it returns the items that will fit the dimensions requested the best, you can then click on the height, width, depth column headers to sort by the one selected.

I'm not the best designer in the world I was just messing around with code for my own personal use.
Sadly, looks significantly different in different browsers, IE most notably looks terrible.
Even though I consider myself an intermediate Rails programmer, I read through every beginner guide I can find to pick up the small nuances that differ from programmer to programmer.

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The Law #1 seems to have been proved wrong. I'm against closed systems but what the iPad/iPhone have done in terms of security is fantastic.

It would be great if other systems worked as smoothly. I'm particularly disturbed by Android's permission system (only tested on stock Nexus S). You are shown a list of permissions but I don't see why I have to allow Twitter access to my contact information and gps location.

I understand it improves the experience but personally I would rather have those turned off and the twitter application should be able to deal with that choice (rather than me having to deal with Twitter having access to my location and full contact list)
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My great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather immigrated to New York from France in 1685 to escape the religious persecutions of King Louis XIV. I think that makes me 10 generations removed from immigration. There's a town in Normandy, France that bears our name (Caudebec was our French name before immigrating): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudebec-en-Caux and a small town in New York that bears our Americanized name (Cuddeback after immigrating): http://g.co/maps/p2qm

Another fairly strong component of my ancestry is Cherokee Indian (native American). I don't know nearly as much about that part of my lineage, but I've read that the first traces of Cherokee are from about 3500 years ago. So anyways, my family has been in the US since before it was a country.
I'm working on a Gtk2 application that basically solves the same problem. It adds a sidebar with things like a file browser to a GVim editor. For getting a feel for a foreign codebase I find it much easier to use something like this than to switch between navigation/file view all the time.

I tried plugins like NERDTree, which are awesome in one way because they work everywhere vim works (like in the terminal). However, I didn't really like their feel in combination with GVim and tabs.
You're right; the red was too loud.

I changed the background to a light purple and switched to plain black text. Do you find it easier to read?
Same here. I'm 10 generations removed, so you might be about the same.
It has vimscript, but vimscript is at best emacs-lisp's inbred nephew who is just as old but huffs glue and has sex with chickens.
I believe you are right, and I think one key difference at play is Donald Norman's idea of Affordances vs designers emphasis on emotional reaction. One is about making something naturally usable, and the other is about making an emotional connection. They are completely different goals applied to products.

Coke's iconic bottle is not about affordance (though it does have good affordances) it is about signally fun, enjoyment, summer, etc. Coke has literally spent billions over decades to embed that emotional reaction in the American public.

http://www.hnl.bcm.tmc.edu/cache/The%20Pepsi-Coke%20challeng...

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_45/b41070892...

Pour pepsi in a coke bottle and it 'tastes' better ...literally your brain reacts differently when examined with an MRI when you know you are drinking Coke.

Apple's goal is to provoke the same emotional reaction with respect to their design language, and has also spent (billions?) doing so in commercials, actions and design choices over the last decade plus.

No one is immune to this. I have a Mini Cooper. I love it. But it is a direct example of favoring emotion over affordance. As a specific example: There is a bank of identical dip switches just below the radio. They look cool, and fit with Mini's design language. They however have Negative affordance. The switches all feel the same ... "Am I opening a lock? Rolling down a window? Or turning on/off Dynamic Stability Control?" I don't know ... hopefully it isn't they dynamic stability control.

And everything effects emotional connection. Mini's introduction of an SUV!?! My emotional connection to my own Mini is watered down by the company attempting to expand beyond the core idea providing that emotional connection. Is that rational? ... no. But it is real. My Mini still drives like a go kart, I haven't fallen out of love with it, but the existence of a Mini SUV does make me less likely to make excuses for its real failings.

Favoring design language over affordance is the reason for the gut reaction people have when they complain that this has poor design. It is based on an emotional reaction, not on whether it works. Whether it works is entirely besides the point.

If you design for emotional connection people look past actual usability problems. They may even make up fanciful explanations of why it is better (in the face of evidence) because they like it and want it to be better anyway. When you buy something to signal something about yourself there is an emotional need to defend it.

Obviously affordance vs design is not entirely an either or proposition. It is best to have both. Sadly emotional reactions are influenced by extremes. Sacrificing usability to provide the signal of usability can be a successful strategy. Sacrificing the signal of usability to provide usability is a much more difficult proposition.
I know it is part of the documents, but I haven't seen a series a company actually get an expense reimbursement request from a friendly boardmember. I've seen money flow the other way ("let's meet at my house"). I assume this all depends on many factors.
I agree completely. I wrote up a long comparison of the new explorer vs. finder a few days ago that came to the same conclusion.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2937738

When I fire up my MBP I see such attention to detail, such craft put into the OS, but then I'm continuously hit with how bad many of the user interface interactions are. It makes the experience very uneven.
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I'd still much rather use Twitter for iPhone than I would mobile.twitter.com. It's not only a matter of lack of integration with the system as the author pointed out, but responsiveness as well. It may not be as obvious on platforms like webOS that are generally less responsive than other platforms like iPhone (in my experience), but I personally can't imagine using Facebook's sluggish web app when I could use the Facebook app that reacts instantly when I tap a button. Am I alone?
Is there somewhere to suggest comments? The information is quite useful but I think there may be some more idiomatic shortcuts in certain cases. For example, isn't :w FILENAME the equivalent of "Save As"? And perhaps it would be good to show commands that are OS-agnostic like :tabnew for a new tab?

Regardless, I think this is a useful resource and I'd love to have a cheat sheet with it. Thanks!
Curiously enough, the JavaScript Y combinator is in the Firefox source and has been since at least 2007: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/fc78ee766770/js/s...
The Law #1 seems to have been proved wrong.

I can't agree with you more. It seems to me that with interpretation (e.g. a Java virtual machine, for example), exactly what a program can do can be controlled precisely. Build a trusted interpreter, which should be possible (right?), and you're golden.

One question: How does the security in iOS differ from that in Android? I'm only familiar with Android. I would imagine iOS must also have some kind of selective permission system?
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Interesting. I don't really know much about basket ball. But I have noticed something similar. In the last seconds of the game, the loosing team will try riskier moves. (Forcing penalties and throwing from the three point line). It is like playing roulette.
All you have to know is God is just.

You are ruining my business. Paranoia benefits Microsoft. Are you bearing false whitness? Yer fucked.

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ever: but upon David, and upon his seed,
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slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the
host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

2:36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build
thee an house in Jerusalem
Not offended at all. Should I ever get famous enough for Hollywood to want to do a film about my life, I will let them know you think that tidbit belongs in the film. ;-)

Take care.
There are some apps (all requiring root) that allow selective permissions for android apps. I like knowing what the app wants to be able to do and if something strange sticks out, I'll look it up or block it.

>You are shown a list of permissions but I don't see why I have to allow Twitter access to my contact information and gps location.

On your iphone, the twitter app has the same permissions but nobody tells you about it. Only upside is, that you can disable the gps access.
Immigration happened sometime during the Middle Ages from Sweden, so quite a few generations ago.
My guess is that Microsoft's research has uncovered a couple of usability problems for new users with drag and drop.

First, there are two possible new-user intuitions about what drag and drop ought to do, and it won't always do what they expect. First, it could copy the file, and second, it could move the file. The default on Windows (and OS X, IIRC) is to copy when the source and target are two different drives, and move if it's the same drive. This is likely to produce the correct result, but it wiil not always do so. If you want one and get the other, you will be unhappy with the result.

If you have learned cut/copy/paste in an application, then you will know the difference between cut and copy, and this will help you achieve the correct result right away. I presume this is the reason for them traditionally promoting cut/copy/paste over drag and drop.

Second, drag and drop is not discoverable. Items on the a toolbar or ribbon are trivially discoverable, but new and unskilled users may not even realize that drag and drop is an option.

This is the advantage of a ribbon populated with commands. Not only are the commands preferred by infrequent explorer users (cut/copy/paste) easily accessible to them, but new users have the even more easily understood option of choosing "move to" or "copy to". Q: How do I copy this file to my flash drive? A: I select "copy to".
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This is a huge step forward for Netflix and [hopefully] for other tech. companies. The latin american market is huge (especially Brazil, a country that's exploding economically right now).

If this turns out to be a good investment for them (and I'm sure it will, they have first mover's advantage) other companies will start following.
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I'm about 8 generations on my father's side removed from immigration. And about 6 on my mother's side. At least as good as any of us can determine. A few of the records are incomplete on my father's father's father's father's mother's side.
I'm really sorry Al Gore is associated with this. I feel as if it is going to skew the response. I really wish we could have the conversation completely divorced from the politics, which aren't relevant.

The more I think about it, the more it doesn't sit right with me either. Here's the thing: if I'm reading your stuff on a social network I'm doing so because it's you -- it's a real person. Even if the only thing you do is retweet things people tell you to, you are still the one doing it. If I'm annoyed, I'm annoyed at you. I might email or message you and complain; because I know there's a real person I can speak with.

This is exactly like giving people a script and having them call up friends and read it to them, like one of those telephone marketers. Would you volunteer to be a telephone marketer to all your friends for a cause? And even if you would, would you then automate the process so that whatever their feedback is, it wouldn't matter?

I have friends that post things I find annoying. I know I post things other folks find annoying. But that's the way it's supposed to be -- having a friend is having some weird assortment of styles, opinions, and foibles that you enjoy.

This isn't illegal, immoral, or any of that. It's just sad. I wonder if the people doing this have thought it through -- would they be happy with dozens of organizations all doing this continuously? Could social systems even function in such an environment?
Well, that's about as competent a response as you can realistically expect in a situation like this. Kudos to the Dutch Government?
I decided to put my money where my mouth was. Here's an attempt at a modified active state that, at least in my eyes, looks more like what I would expect out of an active state:

http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/a-modified-active-state-for-s...
This strikes to the heart of the article. Mentoning finder is a poor example? Finder should only be a fall back most of the files should be automatically connected to an app. It seems such an alien concept that many windows users can not grasp it even after they switch. I think the the windows mobile OS is moving in the same direction but I expect a lot of resistance to implementing it platform wide. The ultimate concern is that windows will spend all their time on marginal improvements to how things are done where they could skip all that hassle entirely like you can with the iPhone and some of the latest Mac apps.

Lion isn't there yet there is a strong argument for just using a tablet. The explorer finder and all the other expectations for what is in an OS just get in the way. Most people just want a gadget that gets things done not sometihingnthey need to root and (re)program.

Windows 3.1 had a pretty awesome file acess system for the time win 2000 nt was the best though clean search with predictable results. That is an aside if you need to extensively use search or curate your files something is suboptimal in tour apps.