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> As if Debian were the only free open-source OS

It's the only free open-source OS backed by an explicitly democratic approach, enshrined in its constitution. It's "the GNU System that works, will always be Free, and will give an equal say to any developer" (at least in theory). All the other distributions are owned by a specific group of people (or in the RedHat case, by shareholders) and/or are not Free. That's the Debian differentiator that RedHat will never be able to match, no matter how many "community editions" they sponsor.

> What differentiating advantage to choose Debian over CentOS or Fedora?

Those are both owned by a corporation.

> being or not a corporation is irrelevant

I respectfully disagree there. You just have to look at the evolution of the Linux ecosystem to see how "being or not a corporation" makes a huge difference. History is littered with corpses of Linux vendors. In fact, there is an argument for big Linux projects being naturally incapable of making money as corporations in the long run, a concept that was seriously challenged only by RedHat and Ubuntu at this point.

> you have to understand that systemd standardization is not going to be positive to Debian relevance.

My point is, if that's the case, the project will likely have the necessary strength to reconsider and correct this choice later on. It's not like they can "run out of money" or something like that; they have such a huge mindshare that it would take ages to dissipate, and votes seem to indicate that most developers don't really care about the init system that much. If things come to worst, Jesse will just go down in history as a terrible release (wouldn't be the first...) and the project will move on.

If anything, it's downstream projects that have to worry (i.e. Ubuntu) since they have to differentiate in a competitive market, but they seem to have already adopted systemd, so...
Nice! So IBM is cool too, now..? I signed up, hope they'll let me take a look at it soon.
I agree with the general sentiment; disagree about the specific example (Gmail). I prefer it over the old one.
I heard about something called "parental rights" - is it something that depends on the individuals having "the material time to parent their own children" or is it me understanding things wrongly?
Or you could just be losing a lot of money!
There will be Windows 10 (Windows 8 is really a big mistake). Use Cinnamon, Mate or XFCE (or KDE even). Use another Keyboard on Android or change the theme on the official Android keyboard to old Holo theme (yes, possible).
There are checkboxes to not install SQL, MFC libraries and friends. It makes it a 9GB vs. 10GB install, according to its stated amount, I didn't check actual usage.
Hmm, the guides to Riga(Latvia) and Lithuania do not resolve, oh and Estonian one fails on reload as well.
> jbb555 10 minutes ago

>Yeah and too many times when you complain about this kind of thing you get accused of "hating change" or some such thing. No, I hate THIS change because THIS change is bad!

> acdha 4 minutes ago

> This happens every time something changes. Wait for the next release and the same guy is probably going to be complaining about changes to the current UI.

How appropriate that these two comments were at the top of the page. That's it, there is the whole discussion in a nutshell.
Our company successfully manages multiple Facebook and Twitter campaigns. Not only do we post on social media, but we also pull that content into website feeds with api's. This ensures visitors to the site see the latest social media posts. This, in conjunction with paid and targeted ads, produces a high level of customer interaction.

Just posting on Facebook/Twitter without purchasing ads and leveraging the content off/network won't produce favorable results.
Seems the Apollo guys didn't believe in packing out their trash:

"Defecation collection device"

"Urine collection assembly, large"

"Bag, emesis"

"Wet wipes, facial"

I certainly look forward to visiting that particular corner of Lunar National Park in 50 years :)

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I just updated my Nexus 5 to KitKat. The update forced me to use GMail instead of the Email app, and almost 24h later GMail is still "Getting your messages". None of my email accounts work. Never mind changing the UI, they should start by not completely breaking the key functionality of their applications in their effort to force everyone to use their services.
> When I code, horizontal space is never at a premium. It's always vertical space I'm short on.

It seems to me that a 16:9 monitor is exactly what you need -- rotated vertically. Get one that pivots!
They did, in a separate article:

Update, Nov 18: The USA Freedom Act does not renew the entirety of the Patriot Act, which consisted of over 100 sections changing numerous electronic surveillance laws. The USA Freedom Act does extend three provisions of the Patriot Act: the "lone wolf" provision, the "roving wire tap" provision, and a reformed Section 215.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/usa-freedom-act-week-w...
Depends on the changes. Facebook's UI revamps have usually been good ones (excluding their "hide the privacy settings" dark patterns), but a certain subset of users complain each time. I've got one friend who's been a member of each redesign's "bring back the old Facebook!" movement.
A six or even seven figure salary won't make you a billionaire. The success cases of the highly leveraged approach are billionaires. The highest return with high leverage is higher.

I do agree with you on the rest of the comment. The mean return for a highly leveraged approach is probably lower than the mean return for organic growth startups.
Are you serious? Every Operating System manufacturer these days "standardizes" their UI across their whole offering every few years (Microsoft, Google, Ubuntu and Apple are all on board). Just a moment ago, Holographic Design was the thing on Android. Let me guarantee you that Material Design will be, too, a thing of the past in a couple of years. What the designers don't seem to realise is that this is frustrating to the users.
For those of you who actually are interested in digging in, I have to warn you: ROOT is terrible, really terrible.
Well, that is bound not to be the binding legal document here, there must be quite a long contract that actually defines the terms. Nothing to do with Microsoft necessarily, that's just how lawyers are.
I find the new Google Maps UI to be frustrating. The number of taps to just find directions to something after you search for it seems to be increased, for no good reason.

I think it's mainly because there are multiple paths through the app to do the same thing, and some of them are optimized flows and others are not. So tapping the search bar is not the most efficient way to get directions anymore... you should tap the blue directions icon instead.
I agree, the new keyboard sucks a lot, there is no visual distinction between the letters and it is very easy to make a lot of typos, it is very painful. Went back to Swiftkey immediately.
Try using old GMail after using InBox. Or hand someone an Android 4.4. phone after they've bought a new Nexus. You will see immediately that the new UI is a big improvement.

Articles like this show a lock of imagination. If you can't imagine the shock of looking back at an older design, you can't perceive the benefits.
It's a Windows application though, what are you going to do with it if you can't run exe?
Even though this point is irrelevant to the article, when you are on the Desktop, you can use a commandline.

When you use a commandline the UI and Workflow geniuses do not get to have any input, and then you get less surprises of this nature.

When you use a Desktop application, it is easier to keep the software at a version with a UI you like. The trend towards storing your data on other's computers leads to empowering the authors of web programs, so that they don't have to respect your taste in UI as much(among other things).
In this case - isn't it? Samsung is happy to almost completely change the whole look and feel. HTC has its own additions. Components like keyboards are completely separate apps. Nokia released their launcher.

What's missing apart from people actually writing and releasing those independent UIs?
NFC it is possible to hack a bank card
What might work well would be if the amount put up for escrow were determined in part by the reputation of the entity doing the trade. The entities could still be pseudonymous (it's got an identity, but no one knows who is behind it).
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This is becoming pretty annoying. When buttons disappear or keyboard experience changes, it gets me angry. Not because I hate changes, but because I have no choice and no warnings. I will now think twice before updating my Android system.
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It is a problem mainly in Asia and countries which has unique characters in their alphabet e.g. russia cyrllic, the baltic states, certain romance languages which requires a large amount of accents e.g. french
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>> but you can let 9 year olds loose with fully automatic weapons, and of course buy all kinds of guns.

You really don't know how the US or guns work, do you?
I've just set up 3 different work areas consisting of laptops with external second monitors. I've settled on the configuration having the external monitor above the laptop display as being the most optimum. I find that I never need to move my neck to glance from one screen to the other, and only require a slight tilt at the waist to comfortably switch for longer periods. Contrast this to a side-by-side configuration, where it feels awkward to merely shift my eyes sideways, so I move my neck more. This in itself isn't so bad, until I need to focus on one screen that's off-center for prolonged periods, keeping my head in an awkward angle that doesn't seem healthy. Naturally, any configuration should still be augmented with regular stretching/activity breaks.

tl;dr: Vertical: Mostly eye movement. Horizontal: Lots of neck movement.
Pretty sure it will install .net 4.5 if you don't have it already during installation.
"There are a bunch of new ‘transitions’ between elements. I don’t know what the battery cost actually is for this, but as a user I just don’t care about cute transitions between elements. I want fast interaction with my mobile device."

This is poorly phrased at best. Transitions exist to make it obvious what is happening: e.g. you minimize a window and it zooms into the taskbar/dock, as a visual reminder that it's not gone, just stored there. This kind of thing is even more important with an unfamiliar interface.

Are the particular transitions he's complaining about bad? I have no idea, since he just wrote about transitions in general, without specifying any. Not all transitions are good, but writing like they're all pointless suggests that you just don't understand UI (and I'm not a UI person, just someone who reads a tiny bit about it).

Edit: Just looked at the formatdoc. Is there a way to quote text without getting those scrollbars?
The new gmail interface combined with the fact it logs me in to youtube to watch a video, made me install a cli mail client. Haven't looked back.
Google sucks at UI. Period. They had one good UI: the original Google home page.

That was a textbox. You can't build an OS around that.

Everything since then has not been about making their products more usable, it's been about finding ways to cram more advertising into their products.

Err, no. How does the left version cram more advertising in than the right version here?

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Meh. New UIs are a game that we all get to play. It is as much about marketing and sales "and staying fresh" then anything. It is just more distraction so we can ogle our devices from a new perspective. You don't want to get stale now.
Interesting! The plot device reminds me of a dystopian short-story, in which the perfectly ordered world the protagonist inhabits ultimately transpires to be retinally projected image seen through government prescribed and mandated glasses that are permanently fixed to all citizens from birth.

Only when he fails to heed warnings to visit his optometrist to have them adjusted does the reality come to light.
Yes, the videos are already english subtitled: you need to click on the CC at the bottom right of the video. For now, Vimeo does not support default subtitle for the video, looking forward for this feature.
The article doesn't claim to do that, however. It states right up front that it's got a narrow focus:

First, I was a UX designer with no UI skills. I love designing UX, but I wasn’t doing it for long before I realized there were a bunch of good reasons to learn how to make an interface look nice

He says flat out it's not about UI design, it's about how to make a mockup attractive, because that has value too.

I thought the articles were great! Exactly what they claimed to be, written in an easy to read no nonsense style, with useful advice. I subscribed to his newsletter ;)
I once had a fun experience. I was return to the U.S. after a stay in South Korea. My hosts gave me a box of grapes as a going away gift, I figured I'd eat them on the plane.

Short story, I didn't. And I didn't throw them away. Customs asked me if I had any fruits, I told them yes I had grapes. They looked at each other and then looked at me.

"Sir, we're going to have to see these grapes"

"okay, if I'm not allowed to bring them in I can just toss 'em"

quiet stare down while the other customs officer inspected my grapes

"sir, where did you get these grapes?"

"Korea"

they turned to look at each other again, apparently I was bringing in the equivalent of a WMD

about 5 minutes later the officer doing the inspection finally looked at the label "product of California, U.S.A."

laughter ensued, I was given my grapes and allowed on through
I agree. I've been traveling into London for the past couple of days and I always feel annoyed just navigating through Google Maps
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> The problem with arguments like these is that there being "no good reason" is highly subjective.

Not only is it subjective it's almost certainly incorrect. If you read anything about Google it's clear that they don't make UI decisions without looking at a ton of data, making the changes and testing those changes.
What does the author of that post think? A Google designer updated a load of designs on a whim?
Sounds awesome, but if it is as gizmodo describes it feels like one of Google's moon shots. We are just barely starting to see good VR... combining a real and virtual world together is another order of magnitude of difficulty.

I'd love to be proven wrong but don't see this for many years.
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Well, they can go back to the drawing board and do some more research. This was an example posted here a few weeks ago, by a heavy Calendar user. Look at the old and new app and see if you can answer a common question for a calendar user, like when do I have some free time in the next month: http://imgur.com/a/Qo91p

Also, not that it matters, but the old app is 2 MB and works flawlessly, the new one is more than 20 and chugs a bit when scrolling on a quad core processor.
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I support your idea, start a school of philosophy on this? Crowdsourced capitalism?
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Argh, lollipop's driving me up the wall! Vent time, woo!

The thing I'm hating is that they've managed to completely screw up Chrome by getting rid of tabs and mixing them all in with your other apps, in an attempt to force you to use the bloody useless app switcher button instead of making it do something vaguely useful.

And the lock screen, what the hell were they thinking? The amount of times I've opened the phone app instead of unlocking the phone is becoming obscene. I often have my phone landscape while using it as a mini-tablet and in that orientation it's easy to do. Perhaps I'm paranoid but I think the screen now locks faster than it used to and I haven't been able to find the setting to slow it down yet, which exacerbates the problem, when you're lounging and intermittently transferring your attention between tv and internet browsing.

And the new calendar app only allows you to see 6 hours at a time, so you can't get an overview of your day.

The settings app requires some sort of double swipe down that's just plain awkward. Auto-brightness has been got rid of so often you're constantly fighting the brightness of your phone at night.

The new notification have to be double tapped, which again is awkward, especially as they register the first tap and then "helpfully" tell you to make a 2nd one. But the first tap is behind a button press of the lock screen so it's actually a triple press.

I'm also slightly perplexed as to the home button icon change, to a circle of all things. It actually offends me a bit, it's so tiny and yet completely devoid of meaning. It's different for Apple's circle button as that was a real button, Google's tiny circle just kinda floats there. And the "back" triangle changes orientation for no discernible reason other than the designer obviously wanted to animate something.

The new phone app is strange, the buttons are too small, the volume of the button presses doesn't turn down as you turn down the speaker volume.

And this is in a day and a half of use. It honestly feels like anyone testing it would have hit most of these issues. I suspect Google's designers then turned round to the testers and said "As designed. Material, you know. It's just a new way", rather than admit they'd screwed up.

The worst part is, it's not added anything. I've not come across a single thing yet that I've gone, oh, cool! Not one.
At best their training wheels for a UI. As such if you can't turn them off your building a poor UI. Worse, if your UI needs them then clearly your using a bad design.
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I'm not a designer either, but I also prefer the solid colors with illustrations to boot.

At least they recommend using an overlay with the image, many don't do this or don't tint it enough to make the text readable.
Whatever happened to overtime?
Somebody with abnormally good eyesight probably could if they knew what they were looking for.
There's Pong fan fiction too, you know.
More than one year after it happened the new GMaps interface still looks like crap, and on top of that it feels slow, on a Mac Mini with 4GB of memory. I still (don't know exactly how, could be a cookie thing, not sure) manage to have access to the old interface in one of my browsers, and the old interface works like a charm, both in terms of UI and speed.

And about GMail, nothing more to say, only that once you've managed to break the "Open in new tab" button and the "Back" button then you have no business doing UI-stuff in a browser.

Yes, I know both products are free as in I'm not paying anything for them, it's just that is really, really frustrating to compare them with how they used to behave.
"No user-serviceable parts inside."
>There is only so much attention to go around and only so many items that can be put into a persons feed before it loses any value to that person.

True, but it's reasonable to expect that users might've simply dialed down the noise by "un-liking" whatever pages with which they no longer wanted to be engaged.

So, I don't think it was at all unreasonable for a company to assume that it would have to compete on interest and thus ensure that its content was more compelling/engaging. That versus simply being forced to pay, else reach only 1% of the people they worked so hard to gain as "fans".

Further, if FB's direction should have been obvious to companies, as you say, then FB should certainly have known. So, while encouraging pages/likes/etc., why not telegraph to the businesses that their reach would eventually be so heavily gated behind a paywall?

You're being far too "forgiving" of FB and far too harsh on the companies that were, effectively, on the receiving end of a bait-and-switch.
AFAIK, different OEMs just change the system's look and feel (desktop, launcher, keyboards, maybe some built-in apps that are usually crap/adware/spyware), not the UI of the actual applications (e.g. GMail).
I think it depends on what your complaint is. This article has a mix of solid complaints (they keyboard has been rearranged) and bad (transitions are gross!).
As a long time Android user I had the same complaint about the transitions that the author did. I've already had plenty of time to figure out how things work, so I don't need those visual cues, and it just makes the whole experience feel more laggy. At the same time I can see your point for new users. Random idea: what if those transitions just sped up over time so that the longer I use the app (and the more experienced I am with it) the more the UI would prioritize speed of use over friendly reminders about how UI elements work (ie. transitions).
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One of the big issues that sets Smash Bros. apart from other fighting games like Street Fighter or Tekken is the attitude of the developers. Sakurai and team don't really consider their game a fighting game and cater to the casual crowd with smash bros. This is in stark contrast to Capcom who tries to make Street Fighter the competitive fighting game. This is changing somewhat with the Wii U invitational and actually issuing balance patches this time around for smash 4 but it will be a long time before another Smash is a competitive hit like Melee was, Sakurai has even said that melee was too technical and was a mistake.
Data is easy for them to get since, you know, they control the OS behind your phone and will get the data anyway.

The new Google Maps UI is fucking custom tailored to showing you advertisements. It's much less useful now for things like driving directions or finding businesses that don't pay for sponsorship (i.e. if I search for "Rite Aid" from my house, it shows me a Rite Aid 3 miles away instead of the one literally 50 feet from my front door.)
>Wait for the next release and the same guy is probably going to be complaining about changes to the current UI.
Off course he will. It's his point. He alreadey stated that it is not the ui that is bad. It's the practice of constantly changing things for no good reason that is bad.
Interstate 80 has one because the big interstate tractor-trailers run along Interstate 80. The other, smaller highways around South Lake Tahoe and the like don't.
>> "why is the Compose button a floating button taking up space in my Inbox list"

Because it's a button people use a lot and putting it there makes it much easier to get to. It doesn't 'cover' anything. You can scroll the inbox past it. It's a new design pattern in Android and used very well in Inbox imo by making the button expand and show most used actions.
It's Visual Studio Professional with a different license. Previously you'd have paid through the nose for Visual Studio Pro, now it's free (subject to license conditions).
I haven't realized hackernews makes comments even harder to read once they get enough downvotes. Thanks for writing the lowest rated comment I've seen so far :D
I have to first trigger the unlock on Lolly Pop and then if I swipe wrong I'm taken to Phone which I barely use. Also the Phone's button to open the keypad looks like the App List button, so I usually hit that by accident.

The white background doesn't look as good as the transparent one, in the app list. The space between pages makes the screen look smaller.

There are permanent notifications for The Battery save mode and when you Restrict Background Data.

It takes me two swipes to pull down to access the settings.

Notifications on the lock screen are nice but not enough text is shown.