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The shoe planet
The Shoe planet

Well, someone has to produce all the shoes. And we’ve got all the best shoe-producers in the world.

We’ve got companies dedicated to producing shoes for high-gravity environment, we’ve got literally a million styles of shoes, and shoes for all the races and people kinds.

Shoes for fetishists of all sorts and kinds. Electronic shoes, sports shoes, shoes for space travel and shoes for burial rituals.

Just think about it. A hundred million small shops creating dedicated shoes, a billion people delivering half-products; the economy of scale unlike anything else in the galaxy.
We’ve got shoe universities, we’ve got shoe-masters who spent their whole life exploring the intricacies of feet kinds and people needs.

Our shoe creators learned and competed among the best. Just a month on our planet can teach you more about shoe creation than a lifetime travelling the universe, trying to extract some exotic knowledge from shoe creators on the other planets.

Now, it doesn’t mean that there are no good shoe producers anywhere else. They sometimes happen. Lonely geniuses. But as soon as one of them stumbles upon anything interesting, and as soon as the word gets to us, there’s a hundred shops that will open up over here and try to replicate the success.
And some of them will succeed.
OS X and iOS both extensively use transitions. What's your model of a good UI that doesn't exploit transitions?
We have a huge underutilization issue in tech right now. The strategy seems to be to throw programmers and designers at the wall until they make something that sticks, but a lot of bad decisions come out of that strategy and it's not immediately apparent that they're bad decisions until users complain.

This has led to a lot of cyclical design cycles, reinventing the wheel, NIH, etc.

It's going to be damning to the tech sector if any of the big players (Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix, off the top of my head) need to tighten their belts, because they're going to be able to shed a ton of employees without losing a shred of profit or productivity.
Mewtwo has always been low on the tier list and never has been an actual threat in high level play. Peach and Ice Climbers are spot on however.
Sure, I'll have a free beer, thank you!
One way is getting a typekit subscription and checking out their font lists [1]. Aside from providing many excellent fonts, there are good descriptions of mood properties and historical context that can really help to choose something appropriate.

1 - https://typekit.com/lists
The web interface convinently logged you in and you stop using it because of that?
They are not the only ones that can control certificates and DNS. I am not sure why you thought this was the case given it is widely documented (and occurs with some regularity) that we hear about some other country doing one or the other.

One might make the argument that most consumer hardware is not produced in the US. But it suffices to say that if Microsoft or Apple choose to obey a secret order rather than exiting a market of 300 million people, they will do so for other countries.

App Stores are subject to more than American law. For example, there isn't just a single Apple App Store. It's split up.

It is true that the NSA has uniquely easy access to say, Google and Facebook servers and so things are a little easier than just tapping all the fiber. That's precisely so many countries are gung-ho about creating their own, in-state services...so they're the ones with uniquely easy access.

But that's not "far in excess" of others, it just makes the job easier.
> allows for simpler app use, particularly for new users

Are you kidding me? So called "flat design", with nondescript icons indistinguishable from the surrounding text, is the worst thing ever for new users. How am I supposed to know that I can click (er, I mean, touch) something?
Not a whim, an existential crisis. Justifying their existence, cherry picking suitable answers from a ton of data to back that up. Confirmation bias to appear relevant.
Ironically for me right now the CSS completely fails to load due to massive numbers of 403 errors (probably something on my side due to corporate firewalls it works fine on my phone).

I think there needs to be a Rule Zero: Fail gracefully.

http://imgur.com/I5H1yvk
This is a surprising move, won't it result in a large drop in their MSDN subscriber base?

I may be wrong here, but as far as I can tell, the only reason to maintain an MSDN subscription for the purposes of Visual Studio (assuming you're eligible to use Visual Studio Community 2013) is if you want the features in editions beyond Professional, you want to be on the bleeding edge, or you want the peripheral perks of subscribing.

Personally I think it's a fantastic decision, I'm just surprised Microsoft is actually doing it. Hopefully they will be timely in releasing a Community edition for future versions of Visual Studio.

Also, this move is pretty great for startups. I think it also puts BizSpark in a better position. Most early stage startups will no longer have to jump through hoops trying to get into BizSpark, nor prematurely start the clock ticking on that until they're ready.

One of my major peeves with BizSpark has been the requirement that your company's public-facing site be more than just a "Coming Soon" page. While I can see the reasoning, it's kind of annoying when you haven't launched yet, you'd prefer to focus on your product, and you want to make said site using Visual Studio anyways.
If you're having trouble with that, I suggest you take a look at CompletableFuture, or ExecutorCompletionService, or any other number of methods to do this in Java. Just like node has it's own lingo, so does Java, and once you learn it, things become real simple.
I think it's odd that they're doing this kind of PR push when their product is so tenuous. If you look at Carmack's keynote and the low level detail of how Occulus is struggling with latency and precision in head tracking, the idea that these guys will tackle a whole swag bag of deep problems in some kind of predictable time frame is pretty ridiculous. My guess is they've made promising inroads in the core display technology (lcd occlusion plus fiberoptic scan projection) that is very impressive on its own, but everything else they've got is merely state of the art.
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For Google Maps you can click on the help button on the bottom right and choose "Return to Classic Google Maps".

The new Maps has come a long way since launch but I agree that it's still very far from good.
Yes, you read correctly. One man's convenience is overstepping the mark pushing G+ for another.
I must say, it does help. Just today I was creating a simple web-page (with my developer-designer chops) and remembered the complaints that people have about contrast. I went back and tuned the colors to make them readable as much as possible. This is inspite of I myself hating the low-contrast designs; sometimes you get carried away by the aesthetics.
That's why the license said "revenue" and not "profit", just to make sure you need to pay for it, even if your company play some weird tax tricks and has minimal or no profit each year.
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How is Luminati.io different from Tor?
I need to do some massive web data collection -- does anyone know how Luminati.io is different from Tor or a proxy network?
Would it be possible for you to add support to other TeX formats, in particular, ConTeXt?
As far as I remember click "?" mark on the bottom of map window - there is option to change it back to map classics. You can save this as well once changed (small pop up will come out) so it will become your default.
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Bea...

Loved it!
Model performance is discussed in their full paper, here:

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/devisag...
Pardon my french, but Dude, where did you learn about that ? I'm not the finest follower but I care about this kind of features and scroll through changelogs and missed this entirely. This is beautiful.

damn, the abstracted bookmark url is at least from 2006 http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

#dumbfounded
>> "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."

Try the 'agenda' view which does exactly that.

I was also going to debunk most of your other complaints because I know they're false but I don't have my Lollipop device with my at the moment.
Perhaps "loose" could be debated, but something like this would likely not happen in most European countries:

http://www.snopes.com/info/news/uzi.asp

And this kind of thing is much rarer:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/20/us/fsu-incident/index.html...

I'm from the US and know quite well how things work.

I'll also add this link, as I think it's an excellent, and nuanced view that a lot of people elsewhere don't know about or see:

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/04/gun...
As a Windows Phone user, this really resonates with me, because WP has actually been preserving the UI and basic principles it builds on, and only added features as users voiced needs for specific upgrades (like allowing transparent tiles with a photo behind the start screen (effectively a background, but in a non-traditional way.

With the exception of Windows 7 -> Windows 8, MS have also kept cosmetic updates to the system, fairly conservatively.

The authors critique of OSX is maybe the only thing i disagree with, since I haven't experienced any situation, where more than the cosmetic things changed, i.e. no UI elements changed really.
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Sadly, this meme is universal through time and space and shows no likelihood of abating.

I once had a customer who told vendors, "I don't want maintenance, and I don't want the software I just bought to change, ever." At the time, most of us thought he was crazy. Now I'm not so sure.

I'm still sitting shivah for Classic Google Maps, Palm Graffiti, and Windows XP. Sigh.
In any distributed trust system you can really only calculate based on volume and value and both of those things are easily manipulated since there is no way to identify individuals.

Also you have the situation with your nodes of then requiring an additional layer of trust on the network to determine which nodes are to be trusted.

You can't even do things like lower the trust ratings of people who trust people who end up being dishonest because you don't know that they were dishonest in their trust of them.

Reputation systems don't work with anonymity. They rarely even work without it.
Without PR push you don't get the big bucks. Apple for sure today doesn't need that so they can afford to stay quiet.
Magic Leap has Brian Cox and the team behind the movie Gravity working with them as well. This is impressive if they can pull it off: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30056232
A good advice for beginners, indeed. However in the day to day work, an IDE saves you a lot of time.
It's 1440 not 1140. So it's still 16:9.
As an industry, we’ve forgotten how to visualise the software we’re building
> and bad (transitions are gross!).

Serious question, why is this a "bad" complaint? Personally I hate transitions, I think they bring nothing of value and they're wasting my time, had the impression that there must be other people who thought exactly like me.
Auto Brightness has been renamed and is available at Settings > Display > Adaptive Brightness. It just has to be turned on.

And I know it's personal preference but I love the way chrome tabs are integrated into the app switcher. It allows me to focus on what I'm doing and not so much what app I'm in. Now each tab is like an app in and of itself. I think that's the way multi-tasking should be done.
It would be quite ironic if the foretold BYOD revolution enables people to be curmudgeonly stick in the muds.
I do care about Windows desktop changes. Not for me, but for my mother, over 80 years old, and although she still can handle changes, it becomes more difficult. She's using Windows 7 right now (coming from XP via 2000 and 98), with the classic (grey Windows 2000) design. I hope that stays with Windows 9. I'm very glad we could skip Windows 8.

I guess many older people will have these problems, and I can't understand that MS has no clue about the first generation of elderly people using computers.
Those things may be all true, but are unrelated to the point I was responding to, which was your invoking the "if you are not paying for it, you are the customer" meme.
Instead of creating "gorgeous" UI, shouldn't we be creating usable UI? Just because something is wonderful to look at in no way guarantees that it's functional or usable.

I feel like these articles miss the point that ultimately, UI is about people. If people don't actually enjoy it and have a better experience, then it doesn't matter how nice it looks.
There is nothing there to stop sock puppet reputation gaming though which is going to be the main attack vector of any distributed anonymous/pseudoanonymous reputation network.
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the op didn't just say that. he went on to point out the flaws with the new design. It would be great to hear the reasoning that went on behind those changes, but overall I agree with him. Most times I see a redesign (os or a website), there is net negative change in usability. Part of that is due to having to re-learn the UI. And I wouldn't mind this if there was actually a benefit, but often times I can't find it no matter how long I think about it. If users that are conscious about UX are not seeing the benefits, how is it a positive change?
Those sound like real obstacles. Content is always a big problem, but because of the amount of money that has been poured into this and the people/companies backing it up, I'm pretty sure that they already have that one solved.
https://hackdesign.org/lessons. Really solid design primer aimed at web/mobile app developers.
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It might have something to do with the HN effect and 12MB of uncompressed png images. I know it's an article about design, but this seems excessive to me.
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Busy work: if UI designers did not change everything all the time, they'd all be out of jobs.
Any ideas for trust approaches that cannot be gamed by cliques in a distributed network? Anything I can think of would break the functionality of the network/remove all usefulness from it or open up other attack vectors.
Use K9 Mail.
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> When I code, horizontal space is never at a premium. It's always vertical space I'm short on.

Last time I completely rebuilt my home setup I got monitors that can be rotated into portrait. I've not used the facility nearly as much as I thought I would, but then again I've not done much development since so that might be why.

Having one portrait and one landscape seems to be idea for web development: portrait for coding and landscape for output (as that is what the user's will likely have) & the things that don't fit properly in 1080 pixels wide.

You don't want to large a monitor in portrait for coding though: you'll be looking down a lot (or up+down if you sit with your head centred) which might be quite bad for posture. Beyond a certain size you are probably better off with a large monitor and some UI hack to artificially split it into columns.
The thing I'm hating is that they've managed to completely screw up Chrome by getting rid of tabs

Go into Chrome's settings and restore them.
The menu sequence to change this is:
Settings / Language & input / Google keyboard / Appearances and layouts / Theme
A few things I've learned
Try using an "exotic" layout for a while and you'll see how often you'll encounter applications that assume/require QWERTY.
Sure, this help?

http://i.imgur.com/WDLz0Ju.png
Perhaps it's a case of busywork - teams creating work to justify their existence.
The problem is that software companies acquire the amount of labor (which is large) that they need to create something but then don't have anything to do with that extra labor when it's finished and all that's needed is maintenance and a reasonable amount of additional upgrade work.

So if the company is profitable enough that it doesn't need to lay anyone off, it has the excess labor keep iterating on a product that's already very good and only needs a small amount of labor to keep it ideal. This makes the product worse.

Once you see this you can't un-see it.

(Also there's the more cyncial explanation that by changing things dramatically you get people to think they need to keep spending money.)
> they've managed to completely screw up Chrome by getting rid of tabs and mixing them all in with your other apps

To be fair you can turn this off, that's the first thing I did when Chrome notified me of this "awesome" change.
The augmented reality in this app is sickkkk!
I got a battery for a nokia 3310 to replace the dead one in my 86 year old grandfather's 14 year old phone and he was delighted not to have to go and learn something new. He's very mentally agile but he recognises a waste of time when he sees one.
Yet if neither men nor women wish to change their own language, why must it be changed?

Sometimes HN reminds me of Christian missionaries: interposing themselves into foreign cultures that they do not understand and saying "No! No! It's all wrong! You do it our way."

It is an ugly kind of imperialism.
In some apps, yes, but in many others they are just as atrocious as they've always been—just adhering to material design a bit more. For example, Chrome on iOS has a pretty wonderful UX but Maps is a shitshow; it takes me several frustrated clicks to do what I want. You can never tell what a UI element does simply by looking at the screen.
Is there any reason a UI can't be both?

If you take his comments about overlaying text, for example, he's offering tips on how to keep overlaid text readable while also looking gorgeous. This is something that combines both usability with visual appeal.

I'd also argue that _people_ aren't a bunch of automatons who use computer interfaces simply to accomplish tasks. A "gorgeous" UI can make an otherwise mundane task (e.g., looking up which recipes to cook) into something fun and enjoyable.
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Will you buy the newer products without the newer UIs? I didn't think so, so the manufacturers are motivated to keep changing.
You probably mean schedule, and no it doesn't as it shows only 6 or so items per page and isn't good for glancing at. I can't glance at it and see I've a meeting in the morning, I've got to read it to see when the appointments are. There's a reason the old paper calendars work so well, cause you can just glance at them.

The old calendar also had a week view where you could see most of the week and what was on. Now you're constantly having to scroll.

As for the rest, how can you debunk what actually happens? If you don't have your lollipop device on you, that probably means it's not a phone...
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The fact that we are discussing this generically as UI Design shows the immaturity of the concept. I can see at least two clear ideas needed to discuss this in a more detailed and rational manner.

1. We need to clearly separate the difference between UI design and UI decoration. Design should be driven by user testing that measures speed and rate of completion of tasks. If every feature of the latest UI is not measured to be a quantitative increase, then it is not a design improvement. Decoration is about being fashionable and has nothing to do with usable, efficient, elegant UI. I see no reason they cannot exist side by side, but today the prevailing policy seems to be that decorating UI in a trendy fashion trumps usability.

2. There needs to be thought about the adoption and transition of users from an old interface to a new one. Right now the philosophy seems to be "Stop whining and suck it up - our designers are smarter than you." This is not reasonable or professional. New designs should be measured not just for usability of new users, but also against users that are used to the previous interface. There are probably many techniques to improve the user experience of UI upgrades but we'll never discover them until we recognize that it is important and spend some time and effort studying this phenomenon.
Can you elaborate? I think you mean the ROOT analysis framework, right?
Commuting to work by cab is not the typical use case.
> “The idea that DJs are just picking songs because they like them is so antiquated,” says Radha Subramanyam, the executive vice president of insights, research, and analytics at iHeartMedia

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I imagine that hardly anyone here listens to traditional radio anymore, which makes a lot of sense to me as I'm very particular and selective about my music listening habits too and rarely trust any recommendations.

However recently I started listening to NTS Radio rather frequently. In contrast to the quote above NTS shows are very much made of songs the DJ likes - that is all the qualification they need. No agenda, no hype, no ratings. Every show owner is free to come up with his very own selection, from all genres. Of course it means you have to find the right show for your taste - however if you do it's rather satisfying - I've been able to dig up a ton of rarely known soul gems on "The Do You Breakfast Show": http://www.mixcloud.com/tag/the-do-you-breakfast-show/

The whole idea and philosophy behind NTS Radio is very appealing, worth a read and a fresh contrast to the data-driven selection process described in the article: http://www.dummymag.com/features/the-rise-and-rise-of-nts-ra...
Windows XP - I was most productive on this OS...BY FAR. Everything since has been less optimal. This includes IOS.
has anyone implemented an open source equivalent? It would be useful to see some code

edit: found a MATLAB implementation: https://github.com/LNSD/LNSD-ShazamMatlab
Think they are too tightly coupled to use HN parlance. Would like to see stylesheets or backwards compatible skins becoming de riguer. Particularly when the program does nothing new.
(IMO, of course) because it's a very broad complaint. You dislike absolutely every transition? It's been proven that they are helpful for users, so what is the request that comes with your complaint? Because if it's "remove transitions", that's not realistic. The majority like them.

You might be surprised at the hints they give you subconsciously about where UI elements are going and what they're doing. Google's Material Design actually does a good job showcasing this - I had no idea the lock screen had a 'double swipe' motion to bring down quick toggles, but the transition of my first swipe made it clear that the extra motion was available to me.
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Oh sure, definitely. I should have said the "US" equivalent is DOTMLPF. I edited my post to reflect that. The idea is definitely the same though.
I'm starting to think that this constant change is what will prevent Software Creation from becoming mature (and finally accepted as Engineering.) We don't dwell on a thing long enough to truly explore it's pitfalls and potential.

Then again, perhaps that's just the perception from taking a look from too high an altitude. Personally, I'm focusing on the tools I like using; cautiously evaluating newer tools but not the bleeding edge (I like to avoid scabs); making careful decisions about the stack for my latest creation, and then sticking to those choices; in the last five years, I've felt more like I'm doing a Serious Engineering. If other individuals do similar things, perhaps there's hope for industry maturity after all.
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