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geesejuggler··on Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)
- When editing the sheet name in the left panel, I could drag the sheet's location into it's text field.

- Would it be possible to edit the sheet title when clicking on the title itself (in the right panel)? Maybe show a pencil indicating this possibility.

- Local time format is not reflected in the sheet's modification time. What will happen if I share the sheet, will it reflect the latest modification time for all users or my latest modification / view? What I am trying to say is: is there a way for me to see if there are changes I have not seen?

- A little bit of hierarchy or tagging might help those with lots of sheets in the future.

- Exporting and printing options? :)

geesejuggler··on Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)
Cool! Looks promising!

Some UI/UX remarks...

- I would expect to find the 'new sheet' option near the sheet list (on top or on the bottom perhaps?).

- Creating a new sheet does not give an empty sheet (instead it presents the same info as in the preloaded example).

- How do you deal with different notations for numbers? Can I switch somewhere from #,###.## to #.###,##?

- Operators and currency is now displayed in gray, just like the comments. This hurts legibility more than it helps focus.

- When you can detect unit indicators, maybe allow users to click on them to change the unit to another (compatible variant). For example change kilometers to yards.

- Header and sub-header styles are quite similar, makes them hard to discern.

geesejuggler··on Figma Alternatives
It opens (and saves) Sketch files as well
geesejuggler··on Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
My guess is that (just like other big players) they have a team for each part/page/section of their platform. There is no cohesive product vision and no product principles (promises) to the users.
geesejuggler··on Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
> Languages like Go with supremely simple cross architecture support might get a boost here.

Go's crypto libraries are heavily optimized on x86, not so on arm (see Phoronix Graviton2 benches).

We will have to wait and see how much of Apple's halo effect will contribute positively to optimized arm code.

geesejuggler··on ARMed mac: not again or for real this time?
If Apple moves to a full ARM line-up, they will need to copy AMD's chiplet strategy.

As Apple understands economies of scale, they will need an architecture that will enable them to cheaply mass-produce millions of chiplets to combine them into low, medium and high-end cpus to suit their different use-cases.

Just like AMD is doing now.

There is no way Apple can create a monolithic Mac Pro-level cpu at low volume for a profit.

It might be easier to just go AMD with the whole Mac line-up. Requires only a little adaptation on OS level and will give users less nuisance trying to run their old apps.

In addition, they will gain performant GPUs as a bonus.

geesejuggler··on Apple updates its iMac line
The 21 inch model seems to have RAM slots, but not easily accessible like its larger sibling. The 27 inch has 4 user accessible SO-DIMM slots.
geesejuggler··on Apple and NeXT announce merger (1996)
I thought there once was a Windows NT version for PowerPC, but it was never released, or was pulled short after release. Never seen it in action though.
geesejuggler··on Apple and NeXT announce merger (1996)
> Michael Dell made his infamous quote that Apple should "shut down and give the money back to the shareholders."

In a bizarre turn of events, he took Dell (the company) off the stock market himself making it non-publicly owned.

geesejuggler··on [dead]
I suspect this being less of an issue in densely populated metropolitan areas like New York. But being from Europe, that is just a hunch... Can any New Yorkers share their experiences on this?
geesejuggler··on Launch HN: Boxouse (YC W17) – Shipping-container homes
Please take a look at http://tinyhousetalk.com A collection of tiny houses. Some of these tiny houses are very pleasing to the eyes. :)