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Judging from the headline I thought this was a design doc for a OSS clone of WinXP, which would be a cool thing IMHO.

This is what the Amiga is missing!

One good example would be PGs essays. They are honest, I suppose, and they are very successful marketing.

Make it 100%. I consider myself relatively "geeky", but I couldn't explain neither what a VPS or an nginx image is.

"Normies" are people who are not sure whether the photos they took today with their phone are "on the phone" or "in the cloud" or maybe on the laptop also? Or what?

Go from there to "nginx", I'll wait and don't hold my breath.

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Well, you say this is not a topic for this site, but HN is explicitly about intellectual curiosity and as long as you present your case with enough complexity and new information, any topic should go. It's not the topic, it's the way you go about it.

You raise an economic, political and maybe societal, ehr, question? It is not entirely clear to me what your inquiry or proposal is. You can help the community accepting your topic by being more clear and information rich.

The crisis in the Middle East is a terrible thing, but I don't think it will lead to a majority of people being "screwed".

The money printing is not really a danger in that sense. Yes, I also do think we should manage to have a better banking and currency system, FIAT is less than optimal, but it's not the case that it doesn't work at all either.

I don't know who you are referring to with "normal people", but I am inclined to not see the HN crowd as normal people. Depends on your parameters of course.

The problem is not that the normies don't care, the problem is a society that seems to need that to function well for everybody. The problem is the existence of government. Instead of a state we need a society based on private property, that would solve these problems. It is about who has the possibility to apply force and a state government enables that in a wrong way.

I am definitely "no" on anything if I didn't ask for it.

Almost as good as a link to the relevant CXDC comic:

https://characterdatabase.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_Offic...

You know, one thing we could do is to get the costs for energy usage sorted out. Like, people who use a lot data-center electricity, pay accordingly.

If AI would cost you what it actually costs, then you would use it more carefully and for better purposes.

Good work! I do like that the tools are task centric and that means I don"t have to handle all sorts of things, I just quickly learn the three to four tools that I really need (as a person working in the real world). #pareto

Now, privacy, I love it! That "normal people" just store stuff in the cloud "it's on my phone", yeah ok, is one thing. It's another topic…

But since Gmail came out and was all the rage in nerd circles, I am wondering why the people who understand the tech the most, are so eager to hand over their data to Big Tech and some other very questionable entities.

Here's the thing in terms of money.

If your app does put my data into the cloud, I am not going to use it. At all. Ever.

If your app blesses me with a beautifully designed native GUI (or UI), instead of presenting itself in Electron slop to me, then I am already almost sold. Literally. I start to consider forking over some cash to you, dear developer of that beautifully designed, privacy respecting app.

I do use my browser to browse the web. I am not interested in a "secondary OS architecture" where I have to play sys admin for a range of "apps" aka plugins. Neither Chrome plugins (I don't use Chromium based stuff.) nor Wordpress plugins, nor Emacs "modes" are going to replace well done native programs.

You don't care enough about your project to provide a native program? Tells me, I shouldn't care either. Good buy.

For a high school student who survives on an allowance, paying $39 for an app may be a bit much, but not for an adult with an income.

Curation. A good maintained app store does all the "sys admin" stuff for me. No viruses, no weird installation procedures and so on.

This is why that works. Hassle-free. Locally-run, native app, means beauty and privacy.

I would pay for that. Happily. In fact, I have done so many times. The success of a plethora of developers with paid-for apps in the stores proves I am not the only one.

And, btw, this is the distribution/commerce model that RMS always favoured. I quote RMS:

Since “free” refers to freedom, not to price, there is no contradiction between selling copies and free software. In fact, the freedom to sell copies is crucial: collections of free software sold on CD-ROMs are important for the community, and selling them is an important way to raise funds for free software development. Therefore, a program that people are not free to include on these collections is not free software.

This is basically the app-store model.

And I would pay, for the above stated reasons and I would be inclined to gulp an even higher price if the package has the "OSS inside" sticker on it. For personal reasons, right?

Then there is one last thing. I don't want to have to create an account somewhere just to test-drive your app. Or to use it fully, later on.

Privacy means, I don't have to be online in order to use the software. The end.

So Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war, that is going on between North America and China?

That is at least the logical conclusion based on the information the linked-to article provides.

What I am asking myself now is, why did Canada join the US in the 2024 tariffs enactment the article is talking about in the first place? What was their motivation?

The US president always said, that he deemed the existing contracts between China and the US as "unfair" for America, hence the tariffs and trade war. That is his official explanation at least. But why would Canada join that? That's what I want to know.

Any takers?

I agree. That thing made all the designs worse.

I think the difficulty for AI to learn this, in general, is the missing out of the day-to-day experience living as a human, because that is what shapes our viewing habits. And those are what a good graphic design interacts with.

The Green party and the Social Democrats were the governing coalition that enacted the nuclear exit. Sure, it was completed by the other two big parties after Fukushima, but by that time the exit was already underway in practice.

You mean the Green party was undermined by Russians?

The Green party had the goal of de-nuclearization from the beginning, at that time the Soviet Union was still in existence. When the Green party came to power and negotiated the nuclear exit, they did not need any external motivation to do so.

The only way I can see this being Russian meddling would be the Green party being infiltrated from Russia from the beginning.

If you have sources that point to the Green party being undermined by Soviet/Russian espionage or some such, please point me torwards them.

I think Joels has it right in his assessment of hours vs days: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/29/painless-software-...

In another piece somewhere he also states, that the engineer working on the thing should estimate the hours, because everyone has a different skillset and that then relates to the task and how long it takes.

This is well done! The UI, the concept…

Another thing. Regarding the field "effort" it is measured in days, it should IMO be measured in hours, or even better yet be user configurable.

Depends on context. Learn to read the other person or group, there are cues. Also there is mutuality, back and forth.

I also question the validity of the cultural concept of "oversharing" being as always bad. Maybe it's bad by definition, but then what is "oversharing?" If you share am I allowed to give you advice?

Elisp, but not really elisp, more the environment of elisp. It's a LISP machine. Hard to explain, it's a different way of computing. Another living instance of this model of computing is a Smalltalk image. Others have written about how LISPing makes you a better coder much better than I could. Try it out!

I want to do my part to convince you to switch to Firefox and show you how I use it.

Last time I checked, the tab closed button was still on the right side of the tab. On the macOS version. This is a deal breaker. Therefore FF is useless to me as a Mac user.

Other browsers on the Mac have this correct. Safari, Opera, Vivaldi at least.

Vivaldi is the other contender, who is at least on par if not better with FF in terms of privacy.

Problematic privacy is of course the reason why Chrome wasn't even installed on my machines ever. Opera and (arguably so) Brave are the others with privacy endangering issues.

There are other Mac only options, but they have even worse problems, being cloud dependent and whatnot.

I do like the concepts of what they are trying to do in most of the cases, but for now I prefer the clarity of Safari.

Now, some of you might not be Mac developers, so let me say something about app development on the Mac. There is a manual with guidelines of how to do it. It is called the Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and that stuff is very important. It would be a very interesting process to develop something like this for a desktop Linux, btw.

When I have to work with apps that don't adhere to the HIG, that's bad for productivity and enjoyment. So I don't.

In the case of FF I was willing to hack the UI CSS to correct the button issue. Hey, it's FF after all. Two upgrades later, the thing wasn't working any more. Ok, bye bye FF!

For a while FF was the most microsoftian app on my Mac, because it always announced it's updates without me being able to silent those notifications.

I am still watching, it's FF after all, but if Mozilla can't correct these (actually minor) issues of keeping the UI clean, I can't have it.

That would make it even more valuable.

I think that Jason Fried knew about that.

They did. The GNU project started in 1983.

He doesn't need to in a strict sense, but these rules represent best practices and emerged for good reasons.

Thank you for telling HN, much appreciated! I am concerned re privacy, so, thanks again.

There is a rule in journalism to not burn one's sources, did you violate that rule in the OP? (I don't know, I am not a journalist.)

We could invite Notion management to comment on this thread.

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Python looks like an ordinary dumb language, but semantically it has a lot in common with Lisp, and has been getting closer to Lisp over time.

They might even let you use Ruby, which is even more Lisp-like.

https://www.paulgraham.com/lispfaq1.html

Every Firefox upgrade involving tabs makes me hope they finally debug the tab closing button on macOS. Disappointed again. On macOS the tab close button belongs to the left side, not on the right side. Firefox still gets it wrong.

This is a usability flaw that renders it basically unusable to me. I suspect this oversight stems from too many programmers not having enough understanding about proper application design and development on the Mac. It's a cultural issue then.

But I keep hoping, mainly because other browser vendors get it right. Namely Vivaldi and Opera amongst others.

It stands for Enhanced Chip Set as improvement from OCS, which stands for Original Chip Set. Note that even ECS found it's successor AGA, which stands for Advanced Graphics Architecture. AGA can display 256 colors even without using HAM (hold and modify).

Three things:

(1) In a fully automatized economy, owning a link in the last mile of food delivery is valuable.

(2) You could make a USP out of "our robots are clean: best hyghienic condotions for your pizza." This works until some journalist finds leaked machine oil in your tomato cake.

(3) The wisdom of the ages speaks of being ten times better. The design goal for the iPhone was to be ten times better, than other smart phones of that era. Not just better. Ten times better. I fail to see how current pizza delivery can be improved ten times. Maybe it can. But it's pretty good already.

Care to share the Ff plug-in you use? Would you recommend it or is another tool in that space better?

If you are in the pull down of search suggestions and in the search field is standing (copied) the suggestion where you currently are, then when you hit arrow, the search field jumps back to your search string. It should instead led you edit the selected suggestion.