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nkkollaw

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Email: nkkollaw@gmail.com
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nkkollaw··on Coronavirus: A draft decree to 'quarantine 10 million people' in Lombardy
Seems like a good course of action..?
nkkollaw··on 21-year-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands
Ha! That's neat.
nkkollaw··on Show HN: Fluxo – Build a financial model in minutes, not days
I think it's helpful when if you open an empty dashboard, there is an example that uses all the features that you can play with.

I logged out because I couldn't really gauge the product without doing a lot of work.

Zenkit does what I'm talking about pretty well, if you're interested in this pattern.

nkkollaw··on Show HN: Fluxo – Build a financial model in minutes, not days
It would be nice to have a sample table just to see how it works :-/

Looks great, though!

nkkollaw··on Undiscoverable UI Madness
Aren't we saying the same thing..?
nkkollaw··on Undiscoverable UI Madness
Not to me, what I got from the article is that most people can't use basic functionality that macOS hides by default.

The vast majority will not learn that ctrl + click does right-click, and that you can enable scrollbars again to actually see if there is more content to view.

nkkollaw··on Undiscoverable UI Madness
Maybe he's not.

Also, if he's not it kind of proves the point of the article.

nkkollaw··on Undiscoverable UI Madness
macOS is bad in terms of discoverability, but iOS or whatever they call it nowadays is ridiculous.

I have a brand-new iPhone I bought for testing websites, and I use a beat-up Motorola just because iOS is so frustrating to use.

Apple needs some design lessons, Microsoft has been doing such a great job with Surface devices that if they could make Windows just a tiny bit better people I bet a huge percentage will switch.

nkkollaw··on Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
I literally have no idea what you're talking about.

Whatever you say, though.

nkkollaw··on Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
This has nothing to do with what I said.
nkkollaw··on Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
The web mirrors people.

How do you stop people from behaving like they do..? And why would you want to? Who should decide how people should behave (beyond established laws, of course)?

If people don't do something illegal that should be reported, they're being people. You have nice people, assholes, politically correct, politically incorrect, etc.

nkkollaw··on [dead]
I thought that Mark Zuckerberg would be pretty aligned with Soro's point of view.

What does Soros not like about Mark Zuckerberg?

nkkollaw··on Apple Was Headed for a Slump. Then It Had One of the Biggest Rallies Ever
They did innovate with the butterfly keyboard, LOL!
nkkollaw··on Ask HN: Are older devs more resistant to adopting new tech?
This is exactly how it is.

Unfortunately, it seems to me that new devs have to always bw kept entertained and know/care very little about the business, and would rather make the company tank and have fun experimenting and move on, than get the job done.

Maybe I'm getting old.

nkkollaw··on Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force
Social studies degree..?
nkkollaw··on A Sad Day for Rust
A lot of guesswork and generalization, right there.
nkkollaw··on Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force
I'm well aware of that, but now women can choose, and don't choose that.

What is your point?

nkkollaw··on Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force
I know, I just find it completely nuts.
nkkollaw··on Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force
Not really. The article is not stating the opposite.
nkkollaw··on Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force
Maybe.

Aren't there laws that prevent discrimination on gender and race pretty much in every first-world country? That would make it illegal to pay a woman less for the same job.

If you consider jobs where the title is the same but the professional works B2B, maybe women are less likely to ask for a better pay? That's why pink razors cost more, after all.

Female soccer players make less money because less people watch and there is less money, same thing for BBC journalists who demanded the same pay even though they got 10% share compared to their male colleague.

There are so many variables...

nkkollaw··on Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force
Women tend to choose jobs that pay less.

They're on average more interested in people, so they tend to choose to become nurses, teachers, etc., while men are interested in things and become software developers, engineers, etc.

I have no idea why income HAS TO be distributed equally. Unless you want to force women to become software developers..? But why.

nkkollaw··on Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed for 3 years
I agree.

I find many comments on this thread pretty despicable.

nkkollaw··on Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed for 3 years
Doesn't it seem a little insensitive to experiment on human beings..?

Given China's complete disregard for human life, I don't find it odd that they're the ones doing it, but we should not praise the effort.

nkkollaw··on Japan Shrinks by 500k People as Births Fall to Lowest Number Since 1874
Ceasing to be Japan would equal to have the culture be extinct so it's obviously not a solution.

Even if it wasn't (like you seem to argue), I would rather realize than in 10 years many jobs will be automated, so you won't need as much manual labor and Japanese will be just fine.

nkkollaw··on Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
Netflix's UI is probably one of the worst I've ever used.

Horizontal browsing on desktop (or even mobile for that matter), are you kidding!?

Mouseover will completely change the layout, etc. etc.

Just very bad in general.

nkkollaw··on Japan Shrinks by 500k People as Births Fall to Lowest Number Since 1874
But then it wouldn't be Japan anymore...
nkkollaw··on Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent
I don't think it would be easy to push the switch to management: "We'd like to rewrite our React Native up to use Hippy..."
nkkollaw··on Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
Ha! You're right. Thanks.
nkkollaw··on Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
So true.

I used to be an iPhone user for many years until iPhone 5. My Android phone broke and even though I also own an iPhone 6 for testing, it was so frustrating to use that I'm using my Android tablet as a phone until I fix my actual phone.

iOS is just stupid. You have to memorize all these gestures for no reason. No discoverability, I bet most people don't know about 80% of all available gestures. To go back to the previous screen I have to press firmly, then swipe—but all the way to the right, or if I stop I trigger overview mode or whatever is called.

macOS suffers the same problem, but to a lesser extend.

Unfortunately, Johnny Hive has completely lost it. He's been obsessed with out things _look_ instead of how people are going to use them—and that's why people keep hitting his glass walls at Apple's HQ. Steve Jobs kept design at bay and insured a mix of beauty and usability. Now that he's gone you can tell that products got worse and worse in terms of usability (but 1.2 millimiters thinner, and so beautiful).

Maybe with Hives gone things will improve. The MacBook Pro 16 is a step forward (besides ports).

nkkollaw··on Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'global tipping point‘
LOL, per capita.

How is that metric useful in any way, besides deceiving people and accuse other countries of being the bad guys?

It's industry which pollutes, not people. That's why it's so pointless to blame plastic straws and other silly things like that.

Maybe if we stopped buying things from communist China things would go better.

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