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I thought uber drivers not suppose to load your bags and you should do it yourself anyway? Why would you charge more if customers are loading their bags on their own? You only have to push a button to open a trunk that's it...
It is the same guy who wrote this — http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/14/b...
In general I agree with you. (As do the mods, see what dang says here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739 )

But this article is specifically about design for mobile, and it contains a design element that is hostile to mobile use; and we are unable to talk about the content of the article because a lot of it is in the images, which are unreadably small.

It's also a bit disturbing that a comment asking for a wide section of society to not be excluded from some content is met with "just ignore it".

Edit: changed "your" to "some". Also, I don't think parent comment deserves downvotes. I upvoted it.
I know who isn't buying it - anyone like me who doesn't live in one of those lucky 16 countries... It's still not available globally and it's not clear when it will be, so either they have a terrible supply of them, or there's still quite a lot of demand in the countries where it's being sold.
Any problem with simply typing the information? It doesn't seem like it's that hard to type. A year selector just so someone can type four digits seems superfluous.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9910207
> "There are certainly a lot of karma coming to a lot of people who deserve it, ..."

That's an extremely judgmental comment.
Had this exact thing the other day.

I had boxes and I ordered an uber, done it before, used them a good 50+ times.

The driver turned up and said an "UberX" is just the person, nothing else, that's what the next one is for.

I've never seen any info telling me this, so this is Uber's fault I feel and I've chatted to the same type of people, they work more, but also they said, sometimes the controllers in London, send drivers around everywhere for a fair, whereas Uber it is perfect for people to pick in the same area.

So to excuse the phrase, it's all swings and roundabouts. I'd love to be able to pick up a black cab and maybe pay a little bit more as their knowledge far outweighs any gps alternative.
>Tap to start it scrolling it downward
>Tap to stop it scrolling downward

Always thought this is a one tap (and hold/swipe) operation?
I finally, after many years, found Taxi service in NYC to be very, very good.

Then Uber popped up and the city is absolutely filled with car services. There's a million black cars on the road and yellow cab companies from New Jersey here. As dangerous as taxi drivers were, I've found these (as a pedestrian) to be much worse.

Then my experiences using Uber have been pretty bad -- from new drivers not knowing how the app works to people not knowing their way around Manhattan/Brooklyn and either _not following_ their GPS or blindly following their GPS. On one ride the driver tried to drive in a circle 3 times and then chose to take the battery tunnel (and pass along the toll) when we were next to the Williamsburg Bridge. I had one experience last week where I hailed an Uber and a drunk woman waiting for a cab jumped in and tried to get him to take her home. I explained to the driver that I was his fare and then he acted totally disinterested in the fact that she was in the car and had me deal with telling her to get out.

And now when I get in a normal taxi, my experience is much worse.

Uber is really great for two things: cost effective rides from NYC into New Jersey and the ability to summon a ride to your location. Probably the outer boroughs and Long Island are good too but I don't have experience with that. Other services are summonable and there's no reason that normal taxis couldn't be as well.

Honestly, as a midtown resident, I hate Uber in New York City. They drive dangerously on the road here and now it seems like everyone else is too (especially the tour bus companies and private sanitation services). It's lawless here in part because of them.
The user opens a URL that downloads an 'app' and all it's dependencies. So, to start with, you'd have dozens of UI frameworks, network libraries, parsers, etc on your system. Some of them would be great, others would be terrible. Slowly, as the best ones bubble up to the top and become 'standards', each of dependencies would disappear. Developers would settle on one of a few different engines and frameworks. Apps would be the content, a few scripts to drive the engine, and a manifest to tell the user's computer which standard engine to download.

Which would essentially be the modern web as it is now.
You have one. It's called "the size of the browser window". If you don't want a site to be the size of your monitor, don't use a full screen window.
> nice to have fast document-only thing separate from apps

The problem is economical, not technical. Content producers want stats (who is reading what for how long?). They want flexibility (images, fonts, math formulas, typography, videos, interactive 3D diagrams). They want income (Ads suck the least apparently). They want wide reach (desktop, mobile, ebook reader, billboards). They want interaction (comments, notes, sync). Todays browsers provide all that, but a document-only thing would restrict them. Find a way to improve upon the browser (most prominently on income) and investors will throw money at you to build it.
My point is that for H&M and similar networks the prices are constant across countries, based on their pre-set FX rate, which is not in the favor of the buyer.

The initial argument would only be valid if prices in different currencies would be smaller in the poorer countries, which doesn't happen anyway, regardless of currency.
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Multi tenancy applications that use a single database to store the data of multiple organisations (for example CRM data) require strong isolation between tenants. It is much more reliable and makes for a more simple system if the isolation is enforced as a database policy rather than saying to the developers "OK folks, can everyone please never, ever write a query that doesn't properly WHERE the correct client. No bugs ever please for the lifetime of this software. Thanks!"
I agree with all your points. I think the following two are important (they have been for me):

- Sense of Entitlement: I thing your studies can give you that (mine have)... That's something the society has given to some, not to all. There's room for improvement.
- Expectations: as long as our society is a 9to5-job-society, you can't expect much more... Here again, there's room for improvement.

"Just put shame on successful entrepreneurs for having no merit because of their (supposed) wealth."
That's what I felt when reading the article (and I'm by no means rich).

I think pretending you have to be rich to be an entrepreneur is extremely counter-productive, and that's what the article does (a socialist penchant also found at http://qz.com/author/agrothqz/) instead of looking at ways to make the situation better. If I judge my own country (France, which I left), I'd say this is the nation-wide mindset, and its harming entrepreneurship like mad.
True, but in miniscule amounts. Significantly lower than the doses taken by the people who use L-theanine as a supplement. Also L-theanine to caffeine ratio is all wrong.

>Why pick pure l-theanine and caffeine over green or black tea?

>Most studies done on the l-theanine-caffeine combination have a l-theanine to caffeine ratio that isn't consistent with ratios you would expect from most teas. The studies used about twice as much l-theanine as caffeine by weight. The ratio found in most teas is reversed, with the possible exception of high quality green tea. [1]

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/wiki/faq
Since the algorithm needs to evaluate hundreds of thousands of wheels, it's not a full-blown FEA model, as that would have taken far too long. It's written in a real-time physics library called Bullet, and the rim can at most be modeled as a few, infinitely stiff segments.
Here's something I don't understand. It's probably more relevant to a country Greece's size than the US:

Why isn't consumer banking more international, like every other major industry?

In Greece, interlocking government & bank failures have brought down the country and it's causing this seized up state. People are now afraid of leaving money in a bad banking system. So banks have no deposits, and can't provide financial services. But, if Greeks had easy access to large & stable foreign banks they wouldn't need to worry about the sorry state of Greece's own banks.

I mean, if Greece's local canning industry had collapsed they would be buying foreign canned goods and everything (at least on the consumer side) could continue undisturbed.

What is the big advantage of a local banking industry anyway?
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Personally, I feel Apple should admit they got it wrong--on so many levels. Just let it die. Let companies like Pebble give it a go?

Drop the whole concept of a smart watch. Work on getting that iPhone small enough, so it can be strapped to a wrist.

If they insist on keeping this product; get the price down, and do a complete redesign.

(I know they don't want to canabilize iPhone sales, but that would be years away? I would actually strap a 1 x 3 inch devise to my forearm--if I could make calls, and access the Internet. That's something I might buy?)

One another note, to mechanical watch enthusiasts; I found a vintage IWC cal. 89 in a box of old broken watches. It is so old the paint on the face was worn away. I only noticed a fish on the crown. I don't think the watch has ever been servised? It's probally from the 50's. I'm in the process of getting its history from IWC. I literally thought it was a old, cheap Timex. I was bored one night, and wound it. It wound rather smoothly? "No--it must be a cheap watch, with a fish on the crown? A Horologist tossed it in the spare parts bin years ago?". Well, a day later, it was keeping perfect time? I was shocked? I timed it on a Viborgraph, and it was keeping time with an error rate of 1 min/day. They built this movement for longevity? IWC still has parts for this movement. I could pass along this watch to my nephew, and he could wear it another 70 years? (Dillon--you don't know me, and I'm sorry. Me and your father had a falling out. You seem like a great kid! This watch is yours when I pass, which may be soon?). Apple--this is why some of us love our watches. This actually happened last week. Sorry about using HN as a diary? I don't have anyone to talk to anymore.
1) Almost every application uses technology that's build on older technology that's build on older technology. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

2) Nobody says browsers want to replace all applications. It's a false condition the whole article is based on.

And why is it anonymous? Does he/she know it's nonsense?
>4 tap operation

Click dropdown, select item

>Stepper

Click +, click +, click +, click +, click +, click +, click +

wut
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Also according to Kindleberger ("manias, panics, crashes"), which is slightly more accessible than Fisher. I cannot recommend this book more to people interested in having insightful things to say about market bubbles.

http://www.amazon.com/Manias-Panics-Crashes-Financial-Invest...

Even the economist has previously commented on this, but I guess the writer of this article forgot

http://www.economist.com/node/1923462
typing would involve 6 actions:

click, type 4 digits, return

a select would involve 3 or 4
Large numbers of people were not relocated to build the Hoover Damn. Maybe you're not familiar with that region, it was not a population center of any consequence.

The US has vastly different laws and practices than China when it comes to forcing people to move. Relocating a million people in this day and age, would simply never happen. Even the correctly maligned practice of using eminent domain for corporate benefit is exceedingly rare (even though it gets a lot of press). In fact, the US has the exact opposite problem - the inability to expand cities like San Francisco because the people won't allow it.
Don't forget to divide the result from `ab` by `x` where `x` is the concurrency amount (`-c x`).

The 'time per request' that has 'mean, across all concurrent requests' behind it is the mean of every single request. All other ms values show you the response time per single request * concurrency. So the percentile table is only interesting when you take this into account.
Do you think an average computer user fills out forms using just the keyboard? I'm a developer and I still use the mouse.
I was coming here to comment that I hate the way that a country 'manages' it's finances. Or makes mistakes. Or joins the Euro.

And what I mean by that is that a very small powerful minority entrenched at the top of a countries hierarchy or banking system do things for their own benefit that positively or negatively affect millions of others.

And then the media reports on these actions as if it was a _country_ doing something. And the main reason I hate it is because if you don't understand what happened in the past then you are not able to prevent bad things from happening again or happening elsewhere.
Lousy excuse

If someone wants it they'll find a way of getting it shipped or brought by someone that is traveling to a country where it is available
But it's only one venti at Starbucks ;)
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The problems mentioned can get real. Other simple solutions could be:

- Allow to merge threads using special comments. Once a comment with a merge request gets 'a lot' upvotes / more than the corresponding thread, it gets merged.

- Add an 'also on HN'-block with all threads linked inside the comments.

- Allow to create compositions in submit-function. This could also create a potential for meta-HN-content, e.g. 'links with great discussions'.

IMHO:
HN is nice because it does not have a lot on functionality. It just works. Complicating things isn't a solution.
It's human-driven in contrast to an automatic news aggregator and it should stay human-driven.
His father was the same age as his maternal grandfather ? and mother 30 years younger than father? (Charles II of Spain)
Obviously the solution as proposed only allows for non-variadic functions to be curried (where 'non-variadic' means that the function needs to be called with a fixed number of arguments to work correctly, not that it can't be called with the wrong number of arguments, because clearly Javascript doesn't care).

Does currying even make sense for variadic functions? I can't imagine what that would look like as an implementation.
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The web browser is not the shell[1] or window manager, and it never will be. It may render GUI widgets just fine, and you could use it as a shell, but only because you can technically use any program[2] as a shell.

I know developing native client applications is not popular recently; there good reasons for that, such as wanting to develop your software for as wide an audience as possible. What you have to remember, when choosing your development environment, is that there are always limitations to every platform. On the web that means you are always going to be sandboxed not only in what the application can do, but also in how it can interact with the user. Given that we always have to care about phishing, CSRF/clickjacking, and numerous other types of malware, applications developed for the web will never[3] be able to do many of the things we expect from a native application.

This doesn't mean you can't do good things on the web (we could list numerous examples of Great Tools that are available on the web); it's just isn't going to ever have all of the features you get with a "real" native app. Even if you try really hard to get away from "document"-style nature of the web, the sandbox and realities of making things safe for the user will always be a problem. Yes, we can try to work around that by rebuilding another OS -inside- the browser. Some people are certainty trying. Instead of throwing your sanity away on that never-ending pile of problems endlessly-expanding complexity, I suggest simply realizing that while some things just aren't going to be practical inside the browser, for other problems it's still a decent platform to develop for, and it is slowly getting better.

Oh, and the Mac/OSX people will be angry you try to get them to force them to use too many non-native GUIs.

/* I'm skipping the discussion of the "software as a service" scam... I'll assume, for the moment, that the desire to make the web into an GUI shell is not simply part of a scam to try to convert one-time sales into a recurring service fee. */

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_%28computing%29

[2] I once saw /usr/bin/gopher stuffed into /etc/passwd as the shell

[3] at least I hope it's "never" - making a platform where I can impersonate too much of your native GUI over the network just asking to be attacked
I think he expected that people would move from high unemployment to low unemployment regions. In practice, I don't know how true this is. For instance, even in a culturally homogeneous countries such as England and Germany there are significant differences in unemployment rates between regions.
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Sure, why not to make it in Turkish. Thank you for the feedback.
The problem in my opinion is that the browser is addressing too many layers of abstraction at once. This makes it very difficult to get the specs right, security becomes immensely difficult to get right, and it becomes almost impossible to implement a browser (bad for competition).
Seeing as my post is already unpopular, I'll get right to the point.

Over 2000 for-hire car services are being added to the streets every month in NYC. This is causing an unbelievable amount of congestion in an already crowded city. Within two years, the number of these will be double the number of yellow cabs we already have on the road.

The average speed of traffic this year was the slowest recorded - 8.5 miles per hour - and will slow further as we add more of these cars.
I think it's because of language.

If there was one official European language, as primary, it would be easier to unite the people. Language is the greatest divider. Just look at Belgium, or Spain/Catalonia, France/Corsica, it is still dividing people.

I don't even think Google Translate would help, because it could well be mainly the result of different languages causing different systems of thought.
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You're completely right that the problem comes from being trapped inside the browser's VM. Anyone building a highly interactive single page Javascript app definitely has their work cut out for them.

It's funny, but in some ways web development has actually regressed in terms of difficultly. 10 years ago before its death, browser plugins like Flash actually made a lot of inroads towards making it easier to build highly interactive web experiences.

The current shift towards Javascript has arguably left developers with a weaker set of tools for producing dynamic experiences than they had with Flash even if Flash really did need to die.
Really? Are we at an age when taking the phone out of our pocket is an inconvenience? Frankly, I live my life in front of a computer on a desk. My calendar and a million other things are one click away and in a format far more convenient than a phone or a a watch.

I think the watch will, in the long term, be a flop. Apple needs to find a real killer app for it or it is toast. I already have a $500 iPhone in my pocket or on my desk and a $5,000 computer on my desk. They are going to have to pull off a really interesting trick to justify a $500 watch that is redundant. Yes, they are selling bunches of them, but I fail to see this as a long term product unless they pull a rabbit out of a hat.

How many of you developed iPhone apps? Us? Over a dozen. How many of you are developing Apple Watch apps. Us? Zero. No interest in working for Apple for free.

Down-vote away. I know the truth hurts.
Sometimes I dream of an alternate future where SUN weren't asshats and Java won and we're all running applications that come with maven POMs. Then I remember how badly the average web developer can bungle simple static HTML and realise how happy I am I don't have to debug spaghetti XML.
+1 for tig, which is an awesome tool. I tend towards it mostly for walking through commit history, but it also works very nicely for staging files selectively (and is very good for selecting individual hunks in a larger changeset).
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As soon as the author started explaining problems about browsers I started thinking about solutions. And I realised that "we" already tried to solve this problem with plugins. Flash, Java applets, Silverlight, etc. were all envisioned as solutions to these problems. And it doesn't take too much brain to realise they all failed (at least in the popularity contest).

Restful nature of the Web is giving good structure on which to build and time shows that evolution, instead of forcing one good solution, is much better way for technology adoption when it comes to the masses.
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Yeah, it's a rubbish argument. Cheaper Nokia phones still wouldn't sell due to lack of demand. They were already cheap in comparison. And by the time they came up with N9 the app ecosystems for iOS and Android were already well established.

What I also dislike about articles like this is conflating tax increases and government spending cuts under one umbrella of 'austerity'. If for example Finland increased taxes more while Iceland cut more spending, is the recovery due to devaluation of the krona (btw Iceland imports more than exports) or better domestic demand as people had more money to spend? They also claim Iceland did 12x the 'austerity' Finland did, so maybe it helped after all? That's what should be investigated.

That is not to say euro is not to be blamed, but not for the reasons in this article.
"a right-turn" doesn't generally take you into oncoming traffic though.
Thank you, ra!

Have a look at the register_admin_menu_item hook - http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v1.0/reference/hooks.html#register...

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/wagtail/gootoMvXV8s/yxebbY1Z... has a working example.

Cheers,
Dan
> 2) Nobody says browsers want to replace all applications. It's a false condition the whole article is based on.

Many people have been saying exactly this. E.g. http://blog.codinghorror.com/all-programming-is-web-programm...
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It's not my content, I don't know what made you think that. And mobile users aren't a "section of society", they're everyone. This isn't about exclusionism.

Yes, having an article about mobile UX design that isn't available on mobiles isn't good for mobile users, but it's no more hypocritical than a journal article about mobile UX design not being available on mobile, it's just the article being on a different form than the form being discussed. That happens, but it doesn't need to be the focus of discussion.
URL should be http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33572959 - it seems the url has the submitter's original comment appended to it.
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