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Genuine question: Is there an applicable takeaway from principles this vague? "Tolerant: Handle errors respectfully. Effortless: Don’t make demands or place restrictions on your users. Accommodat…

A bit of context as there seems to be confusion: building a git-based website with content as markdown / yaml / json / etc is a pretty pleasant way to work. Changes are fast and easy, a…

I think history is teaching us new lessons with this current generation of tech companies. Apple is not just bringing a new product, they are bringing the entire trillion-dollar machine that includes …

I kinda hate the template syntax, though. Example: {{ if and (or (isset .Params "title") (isset .Params "caption")) (isset .Params "attr")}}

I understand that HN is a popular web property, but these projects humor me because Hacker News is probably the worst example of something to be improved / accelerated by these Javascript technol…

Beautiful illustration and execution. I was hoping for a bit of discussion on tools used to create this. Looks like it makes clever use of three.js.

But going to one bin makes recycling impossible. So really, that just ignores the problem or decides it's too hard to solve. What I'd love to see is a solution that makes disposing of trash …

Metro, Material, and iOS7 (after Ive took over software visual design) are probably the leading examples. Noteable that they all come from the top three brands in consumer tech. Most of the conversati…

Flowdock has great ambitions, but it was hard to wrap your head around it. Slack came in with an unapologetic focus on chat, which helped anchor it in people's minds. They certainly want to be an…

Inside scoop from a creative director: Designers aren't toning down contrast to reduce eyestrain or to avoid black. It's an attempt (really a hack) to simplify a busy page / UI. They ar…

The first iPhone was expensive and limited, but it inarguably caught fire with a group way bigger than early adopters. No comparison. They sold 1 million in 74 days.

Gmail allows you to create unlimited unique addresses by using the + symbol. so you could do: username+trello@gmail.com. It's worked well for me for a few years. The only downsides I see are that…

LeBron James and Steph Curry were born in the same Akron, Ohio hospital, 39 months apart, so I buy the theory. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015…

Microsoft is all over the map with collaboration apps—I can't really figure out where their head is at. They have Outlook Groups, GigJam, Teams (their new Slack clone), Sharepoint, and Yammer.

I thought most of the problems with prices in the area are geographic constraints (think peninsula nature of San Fransisco) coupled with city zoning laws (that, for one, limit vertical growth). In gen…

Also, I think the idea that Javascript and HTML, languages designed specifically to markup and manipulate web documents, are the right tools for native app development is misguided as well. I'm n…

Aunt in the family would intentionally break a dish when she was asked to help clean up after a holiday meal.

If that's true, how has "the average amount of hours worked by production team members dropped to about 42 hours per week"?

There was a great session with Spencer Kimball (CockroachDB creator) and Alex Polvi (CoreOS) at the OpenStack Summit. It's a good overview and demo: https://youtu.be/PIePIsskhrw …

Thanks for the detailed writeup. I totally agree—there are corners of the product that seem pretty exciting, and I'm certainly a fan of redhat. I just think they could really help the effort by e…

I wonder if there's a name for this: that impatience and discomfort you feel about anything new until you understand what it is exactly and what to compare it to. Until that question is answere…

All of this said, Slack, I feel you've proven your model out, so it may be time for you to go native with your product. Do it as part of your commitment to the environment—you could prevent the e…

Lots of commentary here, including "why not just stay in the browser"? Certainly you can run Slack in a browser tab, but I don't think they'd be enjoying the same success as they h…

This is a really good point. Could two electron apps share a chrome runtime? Has to be a way to make this more efficient.

Boy did they drop the football in this area. I always thought the advantage to making the switch to more common PC architectures was the ability to keep pace and support a wider array of components an…

I agree that they seem to be covering "commercial fruit juice." But it's an interesting question as to how chewing fruit in its natural form compares to blending it. The second question…

The HN reaction to this device is what I expected: we're somewhere between suspicious and terrified. I'll be really fascinated to know how the wider market reacts. I was one of those who bel…

They could have (and seems should have) created an elegant manual press, maybe with a crank mechanism of some kind. Would have arguably taken about the same amount of counter space and I still think t…

Yeah and it really lacks the soul that Wunderlist had. It was the right visual presentation of the right features. I'll miss it. :(

Facebook's model of popularity and personal relevance to the top will never be the right platform for news. It alarms me that it's the #1 news source for like 70% of adults in the US. More a…