The old UX was not perfect, but I find that it worked better in so many ways. New UX does not seem finished, just pushed out in beta state. Like O365. Sad.
A big problem is that the web standard is too complicated. Browsers are pretty much a virtual os that can do almost everything. For anyone to make a browser from scratch today is not feasible. We will move towards a monoculture, because there is no alternative unless we make a drastic shift in rethinking how the web should work.
Yes. I find it really difficult and uncomfortable to read bright text on dark backgrounds. It honestly hurts my eyes. And afterwards my eyes have leftover streaks of bright after the text lines. Can't stand it, and I will go to lengths to turns such pages into "bright mode".
"it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption"
I bet G+ has more active users than your average indie developer could ever dream about. But Google is not that kind of company. It's all or nothing. World domination or shut it down and try again (or buy a company that succeeded).
Fun anecdote: One of the first graphics I made was a font, complete with smooth round edges. I had an Amiga connected to a CRT. Proud me took it to my friend to show off. He had a real monitor. My font looked like blocky crap :-)
Looks cool but, but I can't help thinking there is something about this that looks like "modern" pixel art. Probably works excellent for kids that like "pixel games" but for me something is missing compared to oldschool hand pixelled graphics.
I'm not sure people know what reviews are anymore. I often see people giving 5 stars to a product they have not received yet, or a game they barely played.
Google may be better than everyone else. The question is though, do you really need all that "betterness"? Because if you don't, there are actually plenty of alternatives to choose from. They may not be as good as Google, but they do their job pretty well. Giving up some of the (perceived) "Google awesomeness" in favor for say privacy, may be worth considering. Just a thought.
The author of NESticle sure had a weird sense of humor, which is probably why it is such a loved application!Besides the ability to relive your childhood by playing pirated roms :-)
> means websites will be more accessible overall, to even less common browsers
Not to mention more accessible to people with disabilities. A forum like wc3 needs to make sure that new features works for everyone and all use cases. Call me judgmental, but I doubt that Chrome developers have the will or ability to foresee all such cases when whipping up cool new features.
This begs the question: Is it healthy that one of the most important technologies today (web) is also very complicated (=expensive) and thus effectively limiting number of players.
A problem is that systems today are too big and complicated for a single person to build and manage. What's the best way to collaborate without loosing the creativity needed to push forward making the system better?
What is the purpose of a search engine? To present answers, or to preset pages that mention a specific subject? It's hard give correct answers; sometimes there isn't one. I think it's better to point to pages (the classical search engine philosophy). But that requires 1) knowledge about how to search, and 2) critical analysis of pages you visit.
Could it be that whenever coders today need some fairly trivial functionality, they tend to go out and find a library that contains it. So you end up with lots and lots of libraries where only a tiny bits of them are used. Just a hypothesis though.
Does anyone know if there are any "consumer grade" image training kit out there? I'm thinking a software that you can train on your own images to put into categories.
This can swing both ways. If you deliberately build a professional social presence, blogging about coding, LinkedIn resume, and so on, then it's likely positive, but if you publish drunken photos and post rude twits then it probably will hurt your job chances.
Everyone today keeps talking about apps and webapps. But there is still a small market for desktop applications. Probably mostly older computer persons who are used to this way of working.