bouncingsoul

I consider Digg Reader a perfect web app. It's simple, free, featureful and has a stark beauty to it

Like everyone else, I had to find a replacement for Google Reader, so I tried a lot of them (even paid ones). Digg Reader was the only one that exactly matched how I used Google Reader — and in fact, I like it even better now.

Not looking forward to finding a replacement.

Yes. People might balk at your Vox link, but I'd advise anyone to look into it themselves. There's little good research about flossing: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/9611

My personal belief is that flossing does something since you can clearly see food bits or whatever on used floss, but that's different from believing those food bits wouldn't be removed by normal brushing anyway or that they even cause harm.

“It’s still in private ownership but the easement ensures it can never be developed,” Sweeney said. “It’s not open to anyone in the public at any time, but people can email and get a permission card and go and enjoy it.”

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2016/11/08/box...

ATMs have the same problem with viewing angles. It's funny with those too because that interface will always be used at extreme angles: From above (potentially) when a person is standing at an ATM, from straight on if they happen to match the ATM's screen height, and from below if someone is sitting in their car.

A good case for touch screens, where the label is the interaction point.

I will miss this one. Used it for at least 4 years.

Other than wanting a highlighting feature, I've been completely satisfied with this abandoned product (last update at least 2 years ago?). They nailed it for me, especially with design aesthetics.

And it had the absolute best send-to-Kindle parser: It sent an actual personal document, not a Kindle magazine, and they even managed to include article images most of the time (which other services struggle with).

:'(

The whole pricing/platform debate seems like a red herring.

> Brent took a job at the excellent Omni Group in September 2014, and from that point onward the writing was on the wall. We could have, and probably should have, shut Vesper down a year ago. But we loved it too much. Or at least I did.

> I even cheat, personally, and run Vesper on my Mac in the iOS Simulator

1. There was only one developer in the company.

2. That developer got a day job (quit).

3. Gruber and the musician partner are stranded with an app they can't update and a Mac app they can't finish on their own.

Gruber clearly loves Vesper. He runs it in the freaking simulator. I really doubt he needed to see huge financial returns to keep at it.

It sounds like the real lesson is: It sucks when your technical cofounder quits.

Yes! I did notice there wasn't a "This app will have access to…" screen when I signed up (I've never seen that before), but that just made me assume they were asking for like the absolute minimal permissions possible or something.

"[random game on a whim] has Full Access to your Google Account" is scary

I interpreted that not as he's going against lawyers' advice but rather that he's speaking now in case the near future involves a gag order settlement

I suggest Arq. You're incorrect about not backing up the whole computer: You can tell Arq to back up an entire drive.

Yes, the UI on mobile is unclear. Your reply to [deleted] looks like a new top-level comment: http://i.imgur.com/FodrC3R.jpg

I think the page layout is very good. I felt nicely oriented and I quickly understood what your product does.

Pricing on subscriptions seems like the wrong approach. If someone wants to sign up, you're making them do a math problem. They'll have to leave your page to check reddit to see how many subscriptions they have exactly. Sending people to reddit is probably a bad step to have in any purchase funnel.

I think it does solve a problem. In my experience, reddit does a mediocre job at sampling Front Page stories from my subscriptions.

The $0.99 per 5 subscriptions pricing is meh, though. I think a free 5 subscriptions plan with an unlimited plan for $XX/year would sit better.

Good luck with this!

In case you didn't know, there's already a special version of the `inherit` keyword for using the color value in other properties:

    background-color: currentColor;

Fully supported in all modern browsers. http://devdocs.io/css/color_value#currentColor_keyword

Whoops. I thought this was a tool for script authors, not the end user. Now I get it, and I think it's way cool. And I think J_Darnley doesn't like red.

I think they're suggesting just styling "Error:" in red and then using normal text for the actual message.

npm does something like that: http://i.imgur.com/7oBLP.png

Snapshot 61 added maxhorz and maxvert to fullscreen options by default. You have to set fuoptions yourself if you want something different. See my other comment for what I do.

In vimrc:

    if has('gui_macvim')
      set fuoptions=background:Normal
    endif

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/HeWkK.png

You might want to look at http://openkeyval.org if you weren't aware of it. Exact same idea.

(HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846088)

It's obvious that a static HTML page will render faster than one dynamically generated from JSON data. But now the site looks massively more annoying to maintain since any change in how the data is presented will need to be made in 30+ places. And even adding a single library will involve HTML coding.

tomdale started a project in a framework he's comfortable in and said he plans to iterate on the site. Who cares if it's a little slow? It's a dick move to copy the source from Firebug and file a pull request.

This pull request doesn't genuinely help the project.

I haven't done complete browser testing, but I know you can use a PNG and simply change the extension to .ico and it will still work in some browsers.

Edit: I tested on a domain that previously didn't have a favicon. Putting a PNG named favicon.ico at the root without an explicit <link> worked in Chrome 9, Firefox 3.6, and Safari 5. It didn't work in IE 9.

That is true. Here a similar solution for iOS:

    a[href*=dir\=up] {-webkit-tap-highlight-color: green;}
    a[href*=dir\=down] {-webkit-tap-highlight-color: red;}

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Lswpg.png

It has to be more than just a solution: it has to be a solution that requires close to zero coding from time-constrained PG.

I think adding a hover effect to the arrow would provide the most benefit per second coding. The following line of CSS can do it without requiring image editing:

    a:hover img {opacity: .6;}

That gives a little feedback about what irrevocable action is about to take place – which is especially useful when mousing the area in between the arrows, where currently a single pixel of movement can invisibly turn an intended upvote into a downvote.

Other solutions are better, but this is an easy 80% one.

The homepage should show a screenshot of the results screen, because that's where (I assume) this service has value over just sending a mass text.

I'm not criticizing truncation. You need to do it on long names. I'm saying it looks like the designers of the GNOME UI are using truncation as a quick fix for a flawed design.

Besides, truncation in OS X is much much smarter:

http://i.imgur.com/MN3Q2.png

Notice how the tracking (spacing between letters) in the first item gets tightened to make it fit? It looks a little squished, but it's much preferable to reading dots.

The last item had to be truncated, but it happens in the middle and keeps the useful end information visible.

I was being honest when I said I was amazed at the GNOME truncation. I think an operating system UI that can't handle the names of its killer apps (e.g., OpenOffic…) lost its way somewhere.

I'm amazed by how dumb and severe the icon label truncation is. That screams to me that it was designed without testing it with real content.

How can anyone see Network C…, Network P…, Network P… in the preference panel and not wonder if the truncation is too agressive?

I assume you haven't read HTDP and that you don't know me apart from a single online comment, so I don't appreciate you telling me I lack self discipline.

I didn't quit after one chapter. I explained my experience in hopes of saving someone else from wasting time.

Edit: I didn't downvote you.

I would advise anyone who is already at the point of considering reading SICP (so probably some familiarity with programming) to skip How to Design Programs. I tried working through it and found the pace excruciatingly slow to the point that I lost interest and stopped.

I've read the authors' presentations and thinking behind the program's design and I was impressed, but I think the end product they came up with just lacks anything special to recommend it. It's dry, slow, and not particularly fun.

I haven't done SICP so I don't know what a good prereq would be, but I remember The Little Schemer being entertaining and covering the same sort of ground as HTDP at a better pace.

You're saying when people don't care about a particular issue they just follow the accepted norm and get on with their lives. And you applaud that. But I don't see how that's incompatible with others who do care making an attempt to improve that accepted norm.

Norms will only keep improving if people keep complaining.

Here's an article about the forgotten tradition of they as a singular pronoun: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723184

Also, because of the he, I assumed Ixiaus was referring to Gary Shteyngart, the author being reviewed.

Parent comment is currently at -2 points, but a comment 10 days ago expressing the exact same opinion has 29 points:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883654

Online discussion confuses me.

The page looks and reads like blogspam, but I'm glad you posted it for this one observation:

As a person who seldom, if ever, gives a ‘thumbs up’ when a virtual hug is what’s needed, I often wonder what’s missing from Facebook.