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> Teambox 4 is our newest release, and it’s awesome.

Web developers have spent the better part of the past decade avoiding anything to do with horizontal scrolling as it's far from the best way to display information to the user in both software and hardware configurations and Apple simply went ahead and codified what had become a standard convention. And if you pick up any tablet product, regardless of manufacturer, you can confirm this.

If you're still intent on designing apps that don't follow convention while simultaneously blaming manufacturers for a poor user experience, then I have nothing to offer. The rules of the web are not set in stone and they will evolve over time as users either demand a different experience or become accustomed to and expectant of certain functionality that works for them.
I'm a big fan of sideways scrolling in the right places. Apples own product nav on the website would be a great place for two fingered sideways scrolling to be implemented.

For reference: http://www.apple.com/mac/
Interesting comment from an influential blogger, who was fighting against ACTA since the beginning (and is also a lawyer):

http://prawo.vagla.pl/node/9662 (Polish)
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&... (translation)

Executive summary: It doesn't matter what Tusk says, Poland will be covered by ACTA when EU ratifies it.
Excellent read, but unfortunately a little lacking in terms of solutions.

I've found myself in this position a few times, and in general, it was more likely to happen in Sales-focused organizations where non-technical sales people were all too eager to make unsustainable promises to land big customers for lots of cash.

Often the customers' real business problems could have been handled more elegantly with minimal code churn and a more sustainable pace for the dev team. But without a solid Product Manager to guide them to the right solution, an incoming request from sales was more likely to just be reformatted and then turned into a user story and/or bug.

I always felt the only sensible solution was to re-align the business expectations and help the product find it's focus, but frankly I was never successful at pulling this off.
You'll need the "flash cable," which looks like a standard MicroUSB cable but actually provides 1.8V TTL serial to the Peek (the Peek doesn't support USB but rather exports its serial RX/TX ports over a MicroUSB connector).

Peek themselves sold one for a while and you might be able to get an official one - otherwise they're not hard to build.

See http://elinux.org/Peek#External_MicroUSB_Charge.2FUpgrade_po... for more information.
My only concern is that I don't think people in Europe feel very "European". There is no identity in being European like there is in being German, Swedish, or whatever. Bundling us together because we live on the same continent seems a bit artificial to me.
Why do you think it failed?
I think it's multi touch gestures, not "Lion's Scrollbar". Honestly, I love the feature and use it all the time and I like the fact that I can see when I initiated it and just unscroll to sotp the action.

I don't think it's such a big deal. The only websites that have this problem are horizontal scrolling websites, and even then it's usually when I'm playing around with the mouse.
it's easy with a trackpad though. And on a touchscreen.
Horizontal scrolling is an anti-pattern imo, if you want 0-friction horizontal panels, include a column with a massive arrow to the sides so users will know there is content being cut to the sides.
I just posted an update to the post with the screen we're showing (only once) to "teach how to disable this".

I believe that's the best compromise: Keeping the scroll behavior, but teaching you how to change it. http://cl.ly/1R0T1Z1n2y160C1V3V0V
I'm OK with either vertical or horizontal scrolling -- but not both at the same time. Everyone in my company has a minimum of a 1920x1080 screen, and most have more than one or something even larger. We should not have to scroll in more than one direction, and a layout that makes that happen is ugly.

(I also agree that mapping forward/backward to the horizontal scroll is worse than ugly: it breaks user expectations by being inconsistent.)
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> That behaviour points towards the reverse of the cultural norm that most people think of when they think of HN.

I addressed that with:

>> Suppose that you thought that a lot of BMW drivers were jerks. Would that affect your decision to buy a BMW?
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Indeed, it solves the wrong problem. We are not lacking in tech news access over here, we are lacking in knowing who is around, what is around, who is hiring, who is firing, who funds, who succeeds, who fails, who is searching for cofounders etc.
I found nearly all Lion's UI changes annoying, and instantly looked for ways to revert them after installing. It made me worried that Apple is getting Redmond Disease. Windows used to have a nice unified UI -- learn once, use anywhere -- before "creative" monstrosities like the new Office UI.
Ah, right!

Why not make an about page that explains this? For all i could know, you had simply put a homehacked version of HN for the kicks of it.
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Just another pointless post upvoted because it has the word 'hacker' in it.

You don't have to give attention to every lame story that "doesn't get it." Even if this was a story by Reuters, which it is not, it still wouldn't matter. Welcome to 20 years ago when the media stopped giving a shit about giving hackers a fair shake.
To follow up on my earlier comment, the KDE platform includes a component model called KParts that, to use modern lingo, is used to perform various "application mashups", including embedding the Kate editor (comparable to TextMate/BBEdit or UltraEdit/Notepad+, including powerful plugin and scripting APIs) into KDevelop while preserving all of its functionality. KParts allow developers to control how the merguing of things like action and shortcut collections, menus, toolbars etc. is done.
There's a lot of anti-sidescrolling sentiment in this thread... which I find odd considering how common place sideways gestures are on touchscreen devices.

I'd say that sideways scrolling has a big future ahead of it and in a lot of cases is better than having to press prev-next buttons.
^ This! My company had a website that predated Google (seriously) when we updated it you can imagine the shock people had after using the same site for like 14 years.Incremental design in this case was out of the question it had to be forced. They will get used to it soon enough.

Remember the famous quote from Henry Ford: 'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.'

Change for changes sake is not good however there are times where you NEED to change and you have to face the criticism and stand your ground. The trick is to know the difference.
You can turn off the horizontal-scroll triggering Back/Forward in System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures.

Set "Swipe between pages" to anything other than "Scroll left or right with two fingers"
His comment is that the ratio of Microsoft's income streams has been steady not it's magnitude. I think MS is a much better stock buy than Google or Apple, but that's due to P/E concerns not ability to create new markets quickly.
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Allow me to save everyone the trouble of reading the inevitable comments. Here’s everything that has already been said 2^n times before and will continue to be said:

1. Fuck Apple, they deserve it for trying to use patents themselves. All they do is make overpriced pretty black plastic toys, there’s nothing remotely innovative about selling jewellery to metrosexual fanboys.

2. Patents are fundamentally broken. They should all be thrown out, and miraculously everyone will rush to build great products with razor-thin margins.

3. INAL, but <<Insert two paragraphs of dense legal opinions>>.

4. Apple is innovative and deserves its patents, these people are just leeches and trolls.
Is that an open invitation?
Sounds like you are planning to break my browser's back functionality. If I were evaluating your site, you'd need to be pretty compelling to get to do that more than once.

There is a huge visual clue to the user that they are doing a "back" instead of a scroll (the whole page moves off to reveal the previous page behind it). It can be done accidentally, but a user will know what they have done and return. (In the static case, you have to move the page at least a quarter of the way out of the window. If you do a dynamic release it looks like less depending on how fast you are going. A "flick" could get you an accidental "back".)

Without looking at your site, I'll suggest that the bigger issue is that either "back"-"forward" isn't a no-op, or you leave a string of strange things in the back list. Both are common and both annoy users.
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Manufacturers need to learn to release dev kit style software bundles, and set up some community wiki / forum, to attract the interest of hackers.
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> am not saying that HN is close to that, but it was not long ago that the thought of someone systematically down-voting another member in HN would be unheard-of.

Oh really? When was this time?

I ask because I saw it the first time I noticed points. Is that because I'm a newbie?

> I share the concern that with HN's growth we have to be aware of possible decline in quality and discuss ways to ensure the quality that HN provides.

And the relationship between HN quality and "inappropriate downvoting" is?
I think he just means that code has more impact when you have ten million users than when you have ten thousand.
Minor point for me:
The twitter button was laid out in such a way that I thought the first sentence was "... elements like [TWITTER BUTTON] kanban views and Gantt charts" not "elements like kanban views and Gantt charts" and twitter button off to the side.
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This, again, differs very much from area to area and from subculture to subculture. I, myself, feel very European. In the hacker culture context, even more so, given that it's my way of saying "Not USA". We have multiple languages (impacts app design and priorities), a very different set of employment laws (impacts hiring approaches), a more laid back working culture (impacts to what extent VCs can get you to work 70 hours a week), and so on. All of these things are relatively common among most, if not all, European countries, yet very different in the US. Canada is, as usual, somewhere halfway.
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I think we killed the site.

Edit, it's working for now

I can understand how making a profit off of something like that could rub you the wrong way. However I think I personally would just be happy the message was worthwhile to other people and leave it at that.
I just took a look at this site out of interest. And the site's the kind of place where I would love to browse cars to buy. Been trying to find a used car online for sometime. By far this is most amazing UI to browse cars.

Like nick says, this does have a lot of potential to people who have time to invest.

Nice job! (to everyone who were involved with it)
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Failure point: You waited too long to hire a new developer.

This is what I was coming to say. Of course Alice is going to take some handholding because she's new. She could be an A+ developer and will still require team time to help her get up to speed. The problem is that the team in the article waited too long to bring Alice on. They were already far too behind the 8 ball to have any time to get her up to speed. If they had brought her on sooner then they might not have ever been in the situation to start.
Have you had training in what questions to ask in order to properly gauge a person's reaction to said question to determine the likelihood of that person to commit a crime or other undesirable act?

I would imagine in most cases the "WTF? Leave me alone." response would not mark you as anything other than a law-abiding citizen that's just annoyed with the process. They ask the horribly silly questions for a reason. Well, most of the time, sometimes you just get someone who's having a bad day or maybe just an overall jerk high on abusing his authority.
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It's already here. Think of Google search as a public API. They put captchas up if they think you're a spammer.
> The real question should be why is the SAT so racially bias?

How is it racially biased? How are you defining an unbiased test?
I’ll keep looking for a better solution to prevent this event completely in JavaScript. Apple, Google, are you reading?

I think it's pretty safe to assume that apple & google won't be providing you with a javascript api to inhibit page back & page forward.
I don't have much help probably. But my sympathies. I'm actually looking for a car now, and your search is gorgeous. I usually just go to carmax to use their search because it's user friendly, but your onto something better here.

"I have no idea who I would talk to about something like this (without connections there)."

Really though? Just email a few people in each place using LinkedIn with titles like "Business Development" or "Corporate Development". In 2 seconds this guy looks promising:

http://linkd.in/wOV6ze

You can probably guess their email addresses or use google to ferret out the pattern. Lead411.com is actually useful to save you time, but their customer support sucks when you decide you want to cancel that account.

If you search for them in LinkedIn and their name turns up "Private", use google to find bits of their linkedin profile. Coming to linkedin from a google search gives up all the "private" data.

Be bold. I've emailed complete strangers everywhere and have gotten meetings. I have a habit of emailing whoever I want. Mark Cuban. Marc Benioff. Howard Schultz. And I get meetings.

The most important part of reaching out to folks is to follow up. I can't believe how many times I've had to send two or three notes to the same person. Yes, you can become a nuisance. Try to do it nicely. There is a way to accomplish this without coming off as an automated spammer. I've heard from multiple people I've emailed 3 times, that they are glad I followed up with them, because they simply get too busy to remember to make an entry for me in a calendar. Even if you hear from someone and then they blow you off (e.g. don't make it to the conference call, etc.) Keep following up!
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as lame as it sounds, i was looking to buy these posters as inspiration for my 'hacker way' office :(
"Pushed out of the cloud" to my fat cache (and thus in many cases pushing something out of my fat cache). Furthermore, it was proposed that changes to the cache would be synced across devices.

This, as the comment to which I responded proposes, creates an issue because the state of the device is unknown to the user and any particular piece of data or particular program may or may not be available at any time.

Perhaps I am just dense, but I do not see how this is advantageous compared to local storage. In other words, just because you feed it a case of Krispy Creames, a thin client is still a thin client.

For a given amount of storage, a Fat Cache may beat a thin client. But it's turtles all the way down, if the amount digital information people store keeps increasing, i.e. the first box of ten 720k floppies lasted me the better part of a year.
Lots of comments are about horitzontal scrolling being a PITA. The author point is that some web-apps (trello?, plurk?) may be broken by a non-standard behaviour implemented in some browsers.

I would love to see javascript hooks to this events so you could cancel this behaviour programatically.
Two reasons:

1) The auto market is huge, and the players are huge. Competing with Edmunds, Cars.com, Auto Trader, is extremely difficult. Word of mouth only gets you so far. You need a marketing budget, and you can't stop building. Auto Swatch was only ever a side project for us, and that spells failure.

2) Our sub-project within Auto Swatch, the dealership management software, was impossible to sell to dealers, even though we were cheaper than their system (usually http://carsforsale.com). They didn't want to spend any more time online than they have to, and they actually resented the fact that they needed to get their inventories onto Cars.com, Auto Trader, or the internet in general. Dealerships make money when people walk into the building, not when people shop around online for the best price. So when we said to dealers "we have a better online inventory manager for you, and we're cheaper", they said "we don't care if it's better, and it's already cheap enough with our current provider".
Oh, nonsense. Lion's gestures make the web MUCH more easy to browse, for me. All you have to do is change the forward-back gesture to three fingers, if you want it to never interfere with scrolling. This takes five seconds. To say this "breaks the web" is silly and hyperbolic.
Incredible how Apple has ONLY really fulfilled its potential with the iPhone and iOS... so all this Mac vs PC was a distraction...
Am I missing something here? Are they mad that they use their tag line, "Stay focused & keep shipping"? Because the design of the actual poster is different.
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Downvote for a me-too post, probably.
Do people really have this problem? To transition from scrolling to page-turning requires a significant swipe across the pad -- where scrolling would've stopped, and then you'd have started to see the 'go backward' arrow appear across the screen. I find it difficult to accidentally go backward or forward when I'm scrolling horizontally, unless I'm scrolling 'violently' left and right. Is this typical behavior for your app? (such as a user getting to the 'end' on the right, and then wishing to return to the full beginning on the left?)
I don't know man. You sound like you just don't like new stuff.

That said, I am not very excited about many pieces of the Lion UI either. Inertial scrolling is amazingly useful, though. Also, I quite like the 'Ribbon' in Office. Much better discoverability than all those hundreds of menus beforehand.
Doesn't kinko's handle fairly large prints? Seems like it shouldn't be that hard or expensive to print off a large sheet of paper with some big words in red Impact.
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"the noise of space"

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Great link, that comment is amazing.
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Some good points, nate. I'm going to spend some time putting the site back up in its proper place, then emailing some folks.

Thanks!
It's purely PR, since Poland signed ACTA already on Jan 26th with 21 other EU countries. Now ratification is mainly up to the EU Parliament. A "yes" vote in EU will mean 90% of ACTA still applies in Poland, regardless of national ratification.

PM Tusk pretends to be making mends with the outraged internet community. I wonder if anyone will buy that b#llsh!t.

On the other hand, Poland is still pretty awesome to have some actual public debate about ACTA. In most countries, 99% of citizens haven't even heard that acronym, not to mention understanding it or agreeing / opposing it.
As brador observes, the problem isn't the hiring, it's that the hiring came too late. The solution is that you have to suck it up and hire Alice anyhow, and probably one or two others. Yes, in the short term they'll make things worse, but in the long term you'll be able to recover. The alternative is that in the short term things stay bad and in the long term things get worse.
> It doesn't matter what Tusk says, Poland will be covered by ACTA when EU ratifies it.

If EU ratifies ACTA, but Poland not, "only" the part of ACTA that is under EU competentions will be binding ("only", because that's like 90% of the whole treaty).

But it is debatable if Poland has even the possibility to never ratify a signed treaty.

Also - any new law has to be compatible with signed international treatis, even if these treaties are not ratified).
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Interesting that I get to work and sit down to see this, then immediately have to put in headphones to drown out the noise.

My anecdotal evidence indicates that noise makes it hard to concentrate and it's hard to be a productive programmer if you can't concentrate.
I have had to hold back from implementing features in web apps because of this behaviour, I love swiping to navigate back / forward on normal websites, but in some applications it really destroys their capability

Saying "dont scroll horizontally" is not a solution, there are a lot of solutions where scrolling horizontally is required, think of a drawing tool with a fixed width canvas, or a spreadsheet where you can only go to column F
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I've fiddled with xmonad on the mac, and as someone else said it only tiles X11 apps. This is not totally useless as I primarily like xmonad for controlling terminal windows, so I set it up to manage urxvt instances. I used xmonad.layout.gaps to make it avoid my dock area (I like my dock on the left, and I like to have the dock even when xmonad is around) and it seems to work well but the configuration breaks in subtle ways (doesn't start up sometimes, etc). I haven't put any more time into figuring it out. I might just go the VM route to get my xmonad fix. If Lion's x11.app had true Lion fullscreen support it might work better, but it doesn't yet.
Hey Nick - a quick Devil's Advocate thought for you. I have heard a lot of people lately say that they want to sell ______ (insert anything) and that is has a lot of potential. They are working on another project and need the money to move that project forward.

I challenge you, as I have challenged these people in the past, if it has "that much" potential than why not continue to do it yourself?

I am sure if you saw an opportunity to make a lot of money, you could get past the idea of working with investors, and media folks. Shit if you made enough money you could just hire someone to handle it.

Thoughts?

Jonathan
I think tintin is right - your complaint is that it's not effective, which is also probably true. But they just want to get you talking, and your current plans are an easy topic that at least are relevant.
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I had the same experience with several open source e-commerce projects, sadly. Huge communities but horrible code.
Yes I know that alot of them are/were lawyers (and thats a problem) but then they fall into the lawyer category. More of them where not lawyers, im still holing on to my knowledge argument.
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I would suggest searching in French. I would, but I don't speak French.
These obscure things always lack a theory.
There are always some reports about a functioning device, but never the attempt from a physicist to explain them.

Is anyone here with enough understanding about the subject? Superconductor levitation exists for example, but there is also an explanation for it.