These guidelines are rarely followed anymore. I've been seeing/feeling negativity over here for a long enough time now. Don't know when, but I'll surely quit HN soon. It's like a habit that I have to get out of.
> Make a reader that's faster and smoother than the Kindle app...
Except that Kindle isn't any of those. Neither fast, nor smooth. But that's a kool-aid you've been drinking for too long. And even believe that books should not come on the web and have their own native experience.
> Also: hate,hate,hate page-flip animations - either they slow down the page transition, or they're there to obscure a too-slow page transition; either way they get in the way of the experience very quickly
It's all hatred and propaganda my friend.
Page-flips are an important experience of books, even iBooks has it! And I like it that way. I just checked on this one that transitions are close to 60fps. Agree with you on zoom-in part though, but then I'm reading it on my iPad so I don't need zooming so much.
> They're possible because of the web, but they're also unnecessary because of the web.
I'm afraid that is not your decision to make. It is absolutely necessary and does good for the children to move beyond stuck up books that are locked in time and technology of 15 years ago.
> Except that Kindle isn't any of those. Neither fast, nor smooth
Maybe that's true on iOS. On my phone (Android), it's the only reader I've found that I consider tolerable for most uses. It's not by any means perfect, but of the dozens of alternatives I've tested, it's the one that annoys me the least.
> Page-flips are an important experience of books, even iBooks has it! And I like it that way.
You may think so, I don't, and I won't ever agree with you on that. For my part I simply don't use readers that force it on me. Either they have the option to disable it, or I won't use it.
> I'm afraid that is not your decision to make.
It's an opinion, not a decision.
> It is absolutely necessary and does good for the children to move beyond stuck up books that are locked in time and technology of 15 years ago.
I agree, which I why I find it annoying to deal with readers that insist on trying to mimic even older technology in all kinds of ways that introduce artificial restrictions on a medium that does not need them.
Case in point: It's simply not possible to offer proper zoom support without text-reflow, at which point the page-layout oriented UI falls apart.
Page-flips are an important experience of books, even
They are - the physical, tactile experience of it is a helpful part of the reading experience. It's not the visual image of a page being turned that's useful; it's the actual physical interaction of reader and book.
Non-physical books that simulate the 3D visual and physical experience with a hideous 2D visual only experience are hideous and intrusive and make the overall reading experience worse. Non-physical books shouldn't try to pretend they are what they're trying to replace; they end up just reminding the reader of what they're not, instead of impressing the reader with what they are. It's like advertising by drawing attention to features a product doesn't have.
Given that this product is meant to be taking advantage of all the things a physical book cannot, to clumsily ape physical books in this way is just silly.
I can't select/highlight text because it triggers the page-flip animation? Your analog metaphor is ruining my digital experience. It's putting flash before substance.
No. For a neanderthal leadership it doesn't take months to recreate code. It usually takes forever.
Goldman Sachs and many such large corporation, including the US Government, are led by a bunch of dinosaurs. People who do not understand what code is.
What they understand instead is bullying, setting an example like some sort of public execution, owning people to the point of slavery etc. They know what it means to prosecute and destroy lives of individuals. And enjoy parties and drinks on the side in the evenings.
And this is just one example of that tyrannical trait.
I have this weird feeling that there has been some bad force working up against Firefox ever since they declared their all out war against user tracking (was anti ad-bearers).
I could be wrong but there are signs and absurd behavior like umpteen number of resignations at the top, Firefox Apps been published with strange love from private players like telefonica/others etc.
Nothing as interesting as that. Mozilla has had a "let's try and be friends" approach with the ad industry for a few years (see 3rd party cookies) but the recent introductions like pocket and Hello are simply features some group in management decided were needed. The open governance approach means our source of income (various search referrals) is all we'd need to stay afloat for quite a while. Having said that it's a smart play to get into the mobile OS game and continue on the browser-as-a-platform path.
The moment anyone decides to add bundleware to the official release would be a golden age for tech recruiters since most of the engineering staff would be already packed.
Agree! Like they say: You're probably going to be the only one bleeding on the bleeding edge.
Choose whatever takes you to MVP the quickest. Avoid the #beliebers in the echochamber[like this one!]. Choose something that you're familiar with, and probably aren't immersed deep enough yet. So that there is still ground to cover. Usually there is always much to learn.
Focus must be on the MVP and not on the quality of the framework or the hipness of stack. Those things are unimportant until you're ready to hire. Once a bit more stable then play around. Contribute into the system. Push it forward. Avoid stagnation. Have beer. :)
I just feel helpless about this country. I go to these shopping malls and night clubs and see droves of people unconcerned or even aware about the apathy that this country has been fostering. We're no longer a role model of a democracy we enshrined in our pitch last century. Sometimes I feel we're no less bad than North Korea, except for the ton of money floating around that lets a section of people off the hook. Or political power.
> that native youtube(the one used on mobile) is far better at playback.
No, it is not. Playback would get stuck, sound would go away for no rhyme or reason and what not. Better experience? - no - quite the opposite.
I got rid [1] of the native nuisance completely. And the experience of search, comment and history on native was simply terrible. Much lesser control on ad-blocking too, and really the ads on YT are sometimes seriously irritating.
That is irrelevant. I prefer to not have ads and Google is generally kind of to comply and suggest developers respect ad-blockers as well, even though the vast majority of Google's revenue comes from ads. To suggest going native to provide revenue over UX only benefits the provider, not the user.
In fact among the various options available for an off-planet settlement, I find an enclosed pressurized habitat on the Moon the most plausible one. At least our orbit around the Sun doesn't change when it comes to our Moon. And we have some experience visiting it too.
FWIW, it's not about saving the species or terraforming at this stage. It's about setting up more space-stations first - which in my opinion would become transit/rescue points for longer hauls and hops at some point in time. A station on Moon sounds like a better proposition than throwing buzzwords like terraforming or considering ourselves capable enough to prevent extinction level event on Earth at this stage. Even the dumbest startup ideas have to go step by step.
As far as I know support on Safari wasn't quite there yet. Last when I checked, and that was almost two months ago, Flex broke down pretty badly on iOS Safari, both on iPad and iPhone.
Guess I need to revisit this probably. Thanks for the great piece of work!
And then why can't this model of board (of Directors) be reconsidered and perhaps reinvented? What makes for the need to have a board and what other alternatives to a board does an entity have?
I'm sure someone here knows about the underlying concepts about Companies & Corporations and can answer this.
It's a requirement of Delaware corporate law to have at least one board member. In theory, the board is there as the elected representatives of the stockholders, to make sure that management is acting in the best interests of the stockholders, and to replace management if that's not the case.
In other kinds of entities, like an LLC, the company can be managed directly by the members (stockholders), but that's not very efficient for larger organizations, since you'd have to get votes from the whole group of stockholders for everything instead of just having a small group vote at regular meetings.
These guidelines are rarely followed anymore. I've been seeing/feeling negativity over here for a long enough time now. Don't know when, but I'll surely quit HN soon. It's like a habit that I have to get out of.