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Ask HN: What assumption was considered true until a product proved it false?

2 points·by jeffkeen·4 lata temu·3 comments

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jeffkeen
·2 lata temu·discuss
Bless its heart for being so dang confident about every wrong answer it has.
jeffkeen
·3 lata temu·discuss
oh thanks for that tip!
jeffkeen
·3 lata temu·discuss
I’d love to see how you use it. My encounters with jest have been painful, and it seemed unnecessarily cruel to run browser tests in node, where you couldn’t just easily put a debugger statement in there and use the inspector to see what was going on.
jeffkeen
·3 lata temu·discuss
I’d love to clickjack some repos to merge some PRs.
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
Really missed an opportunity not naming this site "How do you like them apples?"
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
Incredible! I have a couple of old Macs lying around and it's a dream of mine to write a native app for them that does something modern, like a way to control spotify of something. Thanks for linking
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
Oof, sorry for that botched list formatting, all.
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
Forgot about that one!
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
This is so great. The 90s/pre OS-X Apple (the "BuT tHeREs No SOFtWaRe!" and "ApPLe is GoING tO DiiEE" Apple) had a sense of playfulness in their UIs that was largely lost when they became the Apple we know today.

The Mac OS classic architecture definitely had some problems with its non-protected memory and cooperative multitasking, but what it _allowed_ were extensions that could really get in there and muck around with things… and I looovvvved the zaniness that provided. To name a few:

- ResEdit! - Extensions that could seriously improve your computer's performance like RamDoubler or SpeedDoubler - That extension that made Oscar the grouch climb out of the trash can and sing a little ditty when you emptied the trash - The talking moose was fun for about 15 minutes, but still, I love the attitude. - After Dark! - Easter eggs like that "secret about box" text clipping thing that pulled up the pirate flag flying over the Apple Campus. - Playful messaging like "Installing System Morsels", or Sim City 2000's "Reticulating Splines" - Even the iconography was more playful—that little bloated mac icon in the Memory control panel next to Virtual Memory comes to mind

I miss the crew of developers, capabilities, and playfulness we lost in transitioning to OSX, but am thrilled that tiny fragments of this playfulness seem to be returning.

Welcome back Clarus! Moof!
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
I'm afraid to ask, but why are people anti ubiquity? I freaking love my udm-pro and am waiting for their cams to come back in stock so I can ditch my nests.
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
Lol, did you use this for something practical and useful? I remember it being kind of mind blowing tech wise at the time, but past that I can’t remember getting a ton of use out of it? Remind me of the highlights?
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
I used to be an nvm guy until I found volta. Never going back. https://volta.sh/
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
This is awesome! I've been wanting something like this for a long long time and am thrilled I didn't have to build it myself
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
Save Apple? Is this 1997? The M1 was great for Apple, but I wouldn’t say a 2 trillion dollar company needed “saving”.
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
I hate to be that guy, but this looks exactly like https://teuxdeux.com/, a service made by Tina Roth Eisenberg (https://www.swiss-miss.com/) which has been around for a long long time.

More than one product can exist in a space (and todo lists are a dime a dozen) and maybe this was a completely original idea and GMTA, but wow it sure looks like a note for note copy
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
VS code feels so third-party-extension and custom-config dependent and I’m sure OP has their VS code settings _just right_ for them, but that does not make it a good editor for everyone.

I love this community, but the people who are comfy configuring Linux and cant understand why everyone doesn’t roll their own solutions generally don’t know shit about what good UX is.

VScode ain’t it, that’s for sure.
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
Switched from heroku to a vultr VPS, and AWS S3/Cloudfront -> Backblaze B2 + Bunny CDN.

Saved myself a boatload and don’t regret it for a second.
jeffkeen
·4 lata temu·discuss
This comment reminded me that when I used flux and I'd work late, I'd reach a point where I'd get _tired_ because the blue light was gone (and I had my flux settings cranked). I haven't felt the same way with Apple's Night Shift.