FUCK YOU, "Hacker News." You have a pathetic, incompetent Web site that can't handle the basic functionality we would've expected 10 years ago. Then you insult people who contribute FREE content to your pompous, horseshit site with this bullshit?
Pull your head out of your ass and learn who puts the fucking food on your table, jagoffs.
Good point, although the glacial pace of Apple's refinement and their total lack of user customization options cripples their platform aesthetically and functionally.
This is a bigger problem on the Apple desktop, which still forces the late-'80s/early-'90s inverse color scheme on you all day. Squinting at black text on a glaring white screen results from the failed attempt to make the screen an analog for a piece of paper. This fails because paper doesn't emit light. It's a bad idea left over from the "desktop publishing" era.
On any other GUI (certainly Windows for 20 years), you can simply set up a color scheme that makes sense. Competent applications then take on that scheme automatically.
Note that this is not a call for the return of the asinine "skinning" fad of 10 years ago. We are seeing that in mobile apps, which eschew well designed standard controls in favor of undiscoverable gimmicks.
Misguided argument. TLD limitations should've been abolished altogether. A domain name should be able to end in any string, and registered by any registrar.
ICANN't has turned this idea into a massive scam and rip-off, squandering the opportunity to take TLDs to their logical conclusion and end this fake, asinine domain-name "shortage."
It is far more ridiculous. Software patents are akin to patenting the order in which you add up your monthly bank transactions. There are patents on song playlists.
If you can't see how such offenses are different from a patent on a mechanical device, you must work in Congress.
Yep. Software patents should be abolished. They're a patent on algorithms, and the horseshit workaround to the 1970s ruling AGAINST them should've been closed long ago.
Five years is pretty much forever in software. But for software patents, five days is too long.
The difference is that these experiments involved NEW controls, not NO controls. This fad of hiding everything and leaving users to guess what they're supposed to do defies common sense.
I'm trying to get stuff done; I shouldn't be forced to play Myst with the UI.
Bunk. This is a functional problem, caused by intentional obscurity. This is a replay of the "skinning" fad of 10 or more years ago, which thankfully died on the desktop.
A great example is this ridiculous Clear list-making app for the iPhone that pointlessly eschews listviews and disclosure indicators in favor of... nothing. You're supposed to guess at what to pinch or swipe, and there no visible difference between and individual item and a collection.
No one should be surprised that the dipshits at LinkedIn fell victim. Nor should they extend any sympathy, after LinkedIn was caught stealing mobile app users' calendar appointments and notes.
I wish they'd fix the log-in system in general. It continually reports "bad login" for no reason, rendering your ID permanently useless because there's A: nothing wrong with the credentials you entered and B: no way to reset them. And yes, I have an E-mail address specified.
And the behavior is totally unpredictable. Once, after several attempts, a message magically appeared about sending a new password... but because the log-in credentials were "bad" and in fact cleared out, the system didn't know where to send any such E-mail. Yet it claimed to do so. Surprise, surprise: That E-mail never arrived.
So we wind up having to create a new user ID on every machine or every time a cookie expires. It's pathetic.