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Delineation and white space are two related but different concepts. One is talking about some way of separating different parts of an interface, through lines or contrast (i.e. different colors). The other is talking about avoiding clutter, avoiding related items from stepping on each other. In a way, white space should be used for closely related elements, while delineation (there may be a better term for this) to allow you to separate larger items. If you look at the page you linked, the yellow/white contrast clearly delineates where the content column starts/ends.
This is why I love bandcamp - pay as little or as much as you like is a great system. I, and others I know, have downloaded something for free, liked it, and gone back an given the artist money (along with a bunch of new sales through recommendations).
I've actually been pleasantly surprised by the recognition in Windows 7 and 8. But it needs to be more flexible - who wants to write in a little field? Note-taking should stay rich, it should transcribe in the background, make the text searchable, and keep the layout and such in a bit of simple hidden html or the like.

But yeah switching is a pain. and the interaction vocabulary has to be rewritten for stylus input.
Agreed, a minimalistic (but fully functional) interface lacking eye-candy is a positive for heavy users. It reduces noise on-screen.
"ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 10. -- Mrs. Eugene Batten, whose first husband, David Rothschild, died in Sing Sing Prison, where he was sent for wrecking the Federal Bank of New York and the Globe Securities Company, to-day told where was to be found $422,000 in currency which her husband secreted just before his two institutions were closed. "

Ah, the good old days, when bankers were sent to Sing Sing for their crimes, and their wives even returned the money. Hey, at least something has changed in 100 years.
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Logitech's ability to develop solid software for other products hasn't been that strong.

They bought Slim Devices, a Valley startup which developed a set of networked audio players. The Slim software and team seemed quite strong, but development of new players and software upgrades have really slowed down since the acquisition. And, there was a botched player release (I forget which unit it was, but it was the same deal as the Revue -- released before ready).
It's just a place to start when trying to come up with ideas for a weekend project.
Thanks for setting me straight! Where did you learn these rules? I went hunting and couldn't find much --- not even agreement on the rhymes for the quatrain (which you imply isn't a quatrain at all?).
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I'm not going to go so far as to say "should", but I will throw in that I use Gmail for personal use (1-5 emails per day) and Outlook at my day job. Outlook 2010 has proven itself stable & valuable when I am getting 100+ emails per day and keeping many of them, as it is pretty good at managing a lot of email.

(If you are big on "Inbox Zero" that's not an important feature, but here email backlogs often serve as another type of reference, complimenting our wikis. It sounds awful, but in practice you wouldn't really want to commit a lot of information to a wiki that is priceless for a week and trash thereafter)
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That is what it boils down to, really. And the thing is that even in an at will state, you still have contract considerations.
I think that netlabels have to start being as selective and driven as real labels.. Look at Jahtari, they have a good, clear "image" and are very consistent.
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Updates over wifi rule! I did my first one today! Worked like a charm and it was incredibly fast. Does the update download in the background and notify you only when it's done? Because it seemed like all it did was instantly install the update, there was no waiting like there usually is for a download. I had it done on my first gen iPad and iphone4
The way it works is that the one legible word is the control string, and the other one is the challenge string -- in cases like this it's obvious which is which, but not always. The challenge string could be comprised of characters from different scans, each of which had failed recognition by OCR software.

The control word is there to prove that you're a human, and the challenge word is there for you to provide a small amount of work. In this case the work could benefit different scans at one time.
I've been using the new design for about a week and overall I think it's an improvement, but I've been griping non-stop about the chat/contact area hogging space even when you drag it down as small as possible.

This comment started out as another one of those gripes, until I decided to make one more attempt to hide the chat area for good. Turns out that clicking on the speech bubble icon closes the contacts list/chat area. Can't believe it took me a week to try that.
There is a wonderful PBS series called Carrier about life aboard an aircraft carrier. You can see full episodes (with ads) here: http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/full_episodes.htm , or you can stream it via Netflix.

It focuses heavily on the people, and their stories. The sheer diversity of the crowd is amazing.
My main problem with the stylus is that it's so easy to lose; who wants to carry around a separate part with their device?

That said, imagine if styluses (styli?) were mass produced and available as ubiquitously and cheaply as pencils. Lose one? No problem, there's another one on the table over there.

In that case, I can see styluses catching on big time, and as noted in the article, their precision would give them huge inherent advantages over fingers.
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I love tea, but I'm in the UK. Stripe is a cool service, bro.

Hope the A/B testing goes well and everything.

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That would simply be poor system design. Why would you run the service and/or the rm's as root?
I wonder why he felt the need to run it for two hours before deciding the login combinations were legit.
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Perhaps, but given that we are discussing water, using Celsius seems a particularly appropriate choice.
On my image sharing site I have a prominent facebook login option and only about 1/10 users use it to login, the rest create an account normally. I'd recommend having both options. Of course, users may be less inclined to login with facebook on a site like mine, where they are sharing content that they may want to keep separate from their facebook identity.
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Newspapers have a lot less than 25 pages of content these days, but a lot more ads.
No Ward Bell. You're wrong.

Also, why does everyone seem to be emphasizing this fantastic new technology, HTML5? HTML5 is just good ole fashioned HTML with a few new tags. I assume they're not calling out the header tag, or the nav tag, or the wbr tag...

When people say HTML5 do they really mean canvas? or CSS3 styles? And what does Ward here mean "nobody is skilled in HTML _5_"?
With their cash piles, I think Apple, MS and Google should buy 1 of each.
What's with the zero pixel left margin? Lots of websites seem to be doing that these days.
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I like the cleanliness of the new design and the use of whitespace to separate things.

There are two general problems I have. One is the fact that the UI controls tend to blend in with the rest of the page, and the fact they're just icons isn't much help either. The other is inconsistency or otherwise controverting user expectation.

The first problem means to mark something as spam I have to first remember where to look for the button that doesn't stand out. I then have to hover over it until the tooltip shows to make sure I've got the right one.

The second one manifests itself in the behaviour of the toolbar, some of the UI element positions, and what I would call some rather basic principles:

On the actual mail screen, the toolbar has a fixed position, so it always sticks to the top of the page when you scroll. On the inbox, it doesn't. Why not?

The star icon is on the left on the inbox page. Why is it on the right when you view the email? (This has persisted from the old design, to be fair.)

Why have they taken an Android design cue and put the form submission elements at the top of the page? When you fill in any form, you expect the submit/cancel buttons to be below the form you're filling in, not above. I have been caught out several times trying to scroll the compose page (that no longer scrolls at all), only to realise the button I'm looking for is actually at the opposite end.

While Google may be getting a better eye for aesthetic design and simplicity, I think they're still quite a way from mastering intuition.
Stylus adds a lot of accuracy both in where your pointing and how hard your pointing at something. This is great for artists, but unless your creating art getting withing 5 pixels of what you mean is plenty for most interface tasks. So, when job's said how poor styluses are his context was cellphones which nobody uses to create art and using a stylus is painful. In those rare cases where someone actually wants to sketch something out on a cellphone you can zoom in a lot which is not efficient but hey your using a cellphone get over yourself.

As to iPad's the same issues shows up, using a Stylus on top of a screen is less accurate than using a separate tablet, not to mention it's resolution is terrible for creating real art. Sure, it's better than a cellphone, but fingerprinting is plenty for most people's level of artistic talent.

PS: My sister is a graphics artist and she get's sub-pixel accuracy with a cheap qualcom tablet. Covering up part of the immage your working on is reasonable, but when using pen on paper she often rotates the paper to minimize the effect which slows things down with clunky computer controls.
I get that the agreements give the company all the power here. What I am saying is that it is fundamentally immoral for the company to exercise that power when the very basic meeting of the minds is something along these lines:

"Take a risk working for me. I can't pay as much as you could otherwise earn, but I can give you equity instead. Some day, if we do well, it will be worth a lot of money and we'll all be rich".

That lawyers and tax men have screwed up these agreements to the point of absurdity does not change the fact that this is basically the promise that is made. It should be kept.
Sounds like a good deal, I agree. But, not unlimited. My issue is not with how you treated your customers, which sounds fine, but with your strange complaining that your customers should have somehow known about your not-quite-unlimited definition of the word "unlimited", and that they were the ones using unusual definitions of the word, rather than you.

All other advertisers manage to find room for caveats when they make overarching claims, even if it's in weaselly fine print or fast speech. I don't see why we should treat ISPs any differently. If it's unlimited*, where the asterisk means "not quite", that asterisk and explanation need to be present, and people who don't see it and assume that "unlimited" takes on its common meaning aren't in the wrong.
As a former poker player, the problem here is very clear. Let's say there is $100 in the pot, and it's going to cost $50 for me to call and be all-in. I'm paying $50 to win a total of $150. That means that I need to have a 1/3 chance of winning to make this a financially-breakeven call. I estimate that my hand has 35% equity, so I go ahead and call.

I'm going to lose 65% of the time, I'm going to be ridiculed by poor players without knowledge of equity and pot odds, and I'll question whether I actually made the right decision. The other 35% of the time, I'll win that $150, feel good that I made the right decision, and those same people will call me a lucky moron.

The average result is that I gain $100 * 0.35 - $50 * 0.65 = $2.50[0] every time I make this decision. My decision was good, even if the outcome is highly volatile (nearly 2/3 of the time, I lose).

Now the player I was up against says that because I got lucky and won with a worse hand, I don't deserve the full $150 that's in the pot. How about if I give him 10% of that as consolation, since he "should have won"? Everyone else at the table agrees that's reasonable (after all, I'm just an idiot who got lucky), and now the equity of my decision works out to 85 * 0.35 - 50 * 0.65 = -$2.75[1], and I'm actually losing money on my original decision.

Changing the terms after I've made an informed decision is more than shady: it makes my original decision (based on the overall expected value) incorrect in retrospect. That is what people have a problem with. If early employees now have to account for some nonzero chance of getting fucked on their equity, it's going to make it that much harder for an early startup to afford anyone. Limiting the upside of an investment drastically lowers the risk an investor (and an early employee is effectively an investor) can rationally bear.

[0] At the time of my decision, there was $100 in the pot for me to win. I win it 35% of time, and the other 65% of the time I lose the $50 that I'm paying now.

[1] 150 - 10% = 135 - 50 (the amount that I put into the pot to call) = 85.
>On the other hand, China's deposit requirements for houses are draconian. Think 40% down.

Think about that, it's even worse. In the US if your mortgage goes bust your bank takes more loss than in China where it's the home owner. And the home owners were regular middle class people trying to save their money from inflation AFAIK. Now it's likely to lose >30% value overnight because of the bubble. They had real-estate prices comparable to Europe and US with income nowhere near that so the IMO bottom is very deep. You don't think that's going to cause unrest ? There are already protests about this. Add to that protests about inflation and other social problems China faces.

I don't think it's going to end well, and that's going to have huge implications for the world economy. And potential unrest are just going to accelerate flight of capital caused by increasing production costs.
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I actually opened this article expecting to see well founded criticism of the new Gmail interface...what I was presented with, instead, was quasi-humorous distaste for the new design, which the author admits is partly due to "people not wanting to change". That said, I'm sure there is well founded criticism of the new GUI, and I'm not criticizing the author's style. I'm making a point that a lot of the "Facebook rage" we see going on in different platforms is more like pouting and humorous discontent. It blows over quickly when people adjust, and rarely impacts the true practicality of a service. For example, how many people (and this is an honest question) would sort their mail by subject and use the other features the author mentioned aren't supported in Gmail?

Personally (and I can't justify it, it's entirely personal), I use Gmail, I love it, and I don't notice much of a difference. I also love to use Thunderbird, but not for a dislike of Gmail, but because it's right on my desktop. It's that simple. I feel that if something bigger were going on in the web, this wouldn't get as much blog attention.
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As hugh3 mentioned, it's not (necessarily) about hiring smart people, nor about people who arrive well-trained. The majority of entrants into the military system have no training (i.e. are 18y.o. kids), and I suspect that the mean intelligence is a tiny fraction south of that of the general population (because of the incentive structure).

From the FA, the military system is not "just trust everyone to get a job done, no matter what the job is".

From the FA, the system is: first you train people hard, then once they've passed testing you trust them to make autonomous decisions within the areas that they're trained to be competent on, and then you assess performance and as necessary retrain. AND REPEAT. (And, I suspect, on an ongoing basis you add training for new capabilities.)

I think it's a _serious_ mistake to simplify that very capable feedback cycle down to "hire clever people and get out of the way". Giving people feedback (and training as necessary) will beat leaving them hanging, hands down, every day.

(note: IANA soldier)

As for whether or not this is ideal for a tech company, it seems to me that one requisite of the train-trust-feedback cycle is that you have to be able to train and give feedback. That's incompatible when you hire people smarter or more skilled than you. And if you're trying to innovate on the bleeding edge, that complicates things hugely. So I humbly (IANA founder either) suggest that perhaps a good strategy for a tech company is to pursue this technique as far as possible, but no further.
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On rdio too, and they won't try to sleaze you into sharing every mouseclick on Facebook.
"There is also a chance that the AP could adopt it (if they are smart)"

It's a temptation to think of your application as an IQ test: "they will adopt it if they are smart. But if they don't adopt it I would revisit your presentation and demo before chalking it up to their lack of intelligence.
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You're right, I don't believe there is much you can do with a jail-broken WP7 phone yet.

Tangentially, you can also accomplish a similar "jailbreaking" by registering with App Hub and making your phone a developer phone. If you are a student you can get a year free of App Hub through DreamSpark too
Apple filed a patent a while back for a ballpoint stylus for the iPad. I think we'll be seeing the stylus make a big comeback.
Another idea: combine it with a file recovery or computer forensic program to stitch jpeg file fragments together.
In the past month I have heard from the founders of two startups who both had late-stage acquisition talks sour when technical due-diligence raised that they had all or large amounts of their stack in .NET.

Even Enterprise companies that run .NET are mostly trying to get off of it, and so unlikely to want to acquire more .NET code.

If that's a good reason NOT to build in .NET, I don't know what is
The title is grossly inaccurate. I agree in principle with the author that Gmail has some legitimate criticisms which can be levied against it, but the title construes a much more serious tone than the article delivers. The first paragraph or so of the article, the opening, doesn't give a real criticism. It gives a short dissemination of why Gmail's theme isn't really fashionable. And while it makes a good segue into claiming Gmail is sacrificing feature for looks, I don't agree if that's the implicit complaint. I think Gmail can support "heavy use" even if it doesn't delineate from the side interface and doesn't give an entirely straightforward icon for every folder and label.
The end goal is to convey the separation - that is achieved by both. The whole point of the article is that whitespace can be a (more) effective separator.

just noticed they haven't rolled out these changes to everyone, I still have an outline and text buttons: http://cl.ly/2X1r2G322r241K3M2Z0U

People should also note that the "classic" theme is still available. I like the "dense" version of the new theme, though I don't use the web interface much anymore.
He's real alright. I seen his somewhat bombastic and voiced style several times on HN but only recently realized he's only 15 years old :) . He's a talented fellow actually, only a bit dramatic.
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what a self serving tool. Anyone building anything today is building as a web app.
>The text is there, it's simply been converted into tooltips. Are you really going to need to have the text there after using the button a few dozen times?

Multiply this attitude by a hundred apps/websites and YES I WANT TEXT. I don't use the toolbars of half my apps because I don't know what the buttons do, and I shouldn't have to work to find out.
You can't just say "No." It's not rational.

Plenty of Googlers get thousands of messages per day and they use Gmail. There are filters and importance heuristics built into Gmail to help with huge volumes of email. To say "nope, you can't do it that way," flies in the face of reality.
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Unity was first released in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition. And that was based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix, first released in 8.04 (they didn't necessarily share code, but the design was similar).

You would think that by 11.10, released a month ago, they would have something release-quality. I think it's just the design that people don't like. Canonical has the resources to fix bugs, but they don't necessarily have the desire to fix design defects.
This is cool. I developed a Voice Call reminder iPhone app - http://JustRemindIt.com. When I developed it, its soul purpose was to send Voice Call reminders to anyone. I didn't think too much at that time for what else people can use this app.

Couple customers sent me feedback email saying that this app is really cool as it helps them to get out of a boring meeting. They simply schedule a Voice Call reminder to themselves. And my app does the reliable job of calling them. When phone rings, they just walk out of a meeting without faking much :).

Couple of people said they use it as a "Future Voice Mail" service. Send real message to someone, not just "reminding" specific.

I guess use case mentioned in this article could be another use case for my app :).
That's known as a mission type order. Or Mission Orders in marine. MCDP-1 and Maneuver warfare by William Lund are good books on the subject.
Oh, sorry. I don't count Unity/Compiz. I thought you meant the general performance of Ubuntu is bad. I would highly, highly recommend you give Gnome-shell a shot. I have some el-cheap-o Nvidia card with the latest from the Ubuntu repos (they have a new repo that Jockey sees that will let you use the latest from Nvidia rather than the standard distro one)
Just want to mention this because I never see it in lists like these, yet everyone I've recommended it to has been blown away.

Talkerapp: http://talkerapp.com/ - It's a free Web chat system (with a paid level for extra logging and file transfers). I believe it's open source too. I use it for some of my online courses and haven't had another Web chat system come close (although stylistically it's a bit like Campfire).
> You can just apt-get install xubuntu-desktop. No need to reinstall everything

Yeah, that's what I meant - you don't have to switch distros, which necessitates a reinstall.
Properly working right-click and click and drag for starters. Neither of those exist in Gmail.
Agreed. The screenshots in the article show bugs that should be fixed whether or not they're currently exploitable. And they might even be currently exploitable...more info needed.
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