Vanguard's website has always been a mess, to be honest. It's really hard to figure out how to do some basic stuff like transfer money.
I figure their website is so bare bones because it reflects their low cost ETFs. They'd rather have a crappy website and cheap ETF's than a fancy website with slightly higher cost ETFs.
I haven't encountered a "pixel perfect" designer for at least 15 years now, if not more. Virtually every single UX designer I've worked with provides flexible designs that scale with screen size.
One problem with two separate designs is deciding when to show one vs. the other. This gets especially tricky when people share links. Wikipedia, for example, has two different URL's: one for mobile and one for desktop. How often do you get links to the mobile version instead of the other?
And if you keep the URL the same but serve different output depending on the browser, then you get inconsistent behaviour between two different devices.
Nailing the UX for mobile and desktop is actually pretty damn hard.
I remember way, way back in the day the "used" PC parts you'd order on ebay would wind up getting bid so high they'd be sold for more than a brand new "latest and greatest" model.
The homepage needs to be the content. Without doing that you are gonna be dead in the water because only a small fraction of people are going to bother registering just to test the water.
Also look at how the current and past generations of forums grew up. Lots of time it was their site owner linking to the content on whatever site they are on...
The last 1.75 fuckin' years have in part been because of the fact journalists and politicians live on twitter. These dudes think pleasing twitter mobs is more important than actual real life people.
I mean here in the real world that argument falls flat. Our legal system isn't code. It is warm fuzzy meatspace with concepts like "intent" and stuff.
But that isn't what The DAO was advertising. It was "code is law", which was supposed to remove the element of messy human judgement from things.
Of course, it was a spectacular failure because nobody actually really wants "code is law"... instead all they did was re-invent mob rule and those with the loudest voices decided what to do about the "theft".
> Ethereum has had lots of these hacks, due to bugs in the smart contracts provided.
Code is law, bro. These aren't hacks or bugs. They are inert chunks of code that all play by. Even "bugs" in the execution engine are fair game when code is law...
The fine folks who carefully investigated the DAO smart contract and transferred lots of its value to their possession are just as entitled to that wealth as the people who possessed it in the first place. There was no hacking and no thievery. The smart contract was executing exactly as it was written. I argue the only people playing in bad faith were the makers of ethereum and the DAO, who rolled back the blockchain and stole the funds back into their hands.
Now this argument sounds silly, but I stand by it. Code is law is a horrible idea. But if you want to live in that world... all "bugs" are just as much of the "law" as the stuff that isn't a "bug".
I guess you are right about the beat frequency bit, but I still assert that the cheap LED's are cycling on and off 60 times a second (or 30.... math is too hard early in the morning). That is a bit low for my taste.
Some of these cheap LED bulbs have horrible flicker. For a fun time, record a slow motion video of a cheap bulb on your phone and play it back. Like half the damn video is black (pretty sure it is because they literally chop out half the AC sine wave with a diode). LED Christmas lights are also really bad.
Then compare it to something like a Phillips hue bulb. The difference between the two is pretty big.
On a side note I sometimes wonder if other animals have a quicker “refresh rate” on their eyes and see nothing but very visible flicker on these bad LED bulbs. I also wonder if some animals could see the raster scan in action on old CRTs...
The number of teams who design a data model & ORM layer "just to make it easy to move later on": Lots
The number of teams who eventually move to a different data store? Almost zero.
Getting "locked in" to a database is a non-issue. In fact you should get locked into a database system, provided you picked a good one to start with. Most teams never even scratch the surface of what a powerful DB like Postgres can do for them and it breaks my heart every time.
> How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ?
Nobody but a handful of very vocal HN posters care about this. In the marketplace this isn’t a problem.
At the end of the day, you have to trust your data in somebody else’s hands. Unless your print your own circuit boards, make your own CPUs and write your own operating system, you cannot escape trusting a third party.
It is certainly not censorship at all. Calling it censorship muddies the waters and plays right into the hands of the people who want to push hate speech.