My email includes a common Swedish first name so I regularly have people mistakenly use my email address for Klarna orders. What’s most annoying/troubling is that, at least last time I checked, they don’t verify an address before sending invoices, etc. so I end up with other people’s order info in my inbox. I finally started unsubscribing from notifications for orders that weren’t mine.
It bothers me for the same reason that any form of unsolicited email is a nuisance. It's one more irrelevant email notification, one more irrelevant email to have to archive, deal with, etc. If it were very occasional, I would not care but it is basically a daily thing, sometimes multiple per day.
The meaning of and technology needed to build a “basic web app” is in a continual state of evolution. Therefore, googling is not so much required due to a lack of knowledge but rather due to that this knowledge needs to be continually kept up to date.
My strategy is to just wait a bit and not respond immediately, to see if they get the message that their initial greeting was useless, and then post what they actually have to say.
The article states that there are 130,000 dogs and 125,000 cats, which sort of begs the question, why is the focus on the number of cats, when there are even more dogs?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. One big missing piece here is context. Attractive to whom? And in what context?
My site is all about minimalism - https://www.anders.co/ - it got an average score. And I guess that is fair. It was also compared to google.com, which I would say is anything but average.
Clicked on try it out on my phone, and allowed camera, but it did not seem to work. Just sitting here waving my hand at my phone and feeling a bit dumb :-)
Is there some step I’m missing. Or maybe does not work on mobile?
When I saw “favorited” I thought that was referring to what I guess is “upvoted” - as others have mentioned, I didn’t even realize that was a feature. Is there a list of most upvoted HN stories of all time?
It seems what is being called “hard work” here really is “expert work” which often can be no work at all, in that it rests on the shoulders of likely thousands of previous hours of long work, and can sometimes feel effortless. One seminal example of this Paula Scher’s 5 minute design of the Citigroup logo. https://link.medium.com/KuxBw6rJi9
I went through a multi-step process of trying to access Journal on my phone: being redirected to desktop, checking my inbox for an invite email, going to journal.com, having to download a desktop app, signing in, and then...after all that, I am informed that Journal is invitation only. I'd suggest maybe informing users earlier in this process that the app is invitation-only.
A related annoyance is people who hit return after every statement, so that you end up with multiple alerts for the same message, and worse, the alert you see first is for the last statement that was posted.
I had a colleague at a company that would always start his Slack chats with “Hey” and then wait for a reply. My “response” was to not respond until he finally got the message and would continue with what he actually had to say. Worked for me but YMMV.
This seems to imply that “tech expert” is someone all-knowing regarding tech. In my mind “tech expert” is about literacy. You may not know the specifics of all technologies but you have the mental toolkit for understanding them conceptually. But it is also about context. If you are the person who people ask for help with tech stuff, well, then you’re an expert, at least in their minds.
Is a newsletter not the same thing as a blog? If so, is this really a new trend? And if not, how is a newsletter in this context different from a blog?
I almost wish this attack had been perpetrated by sophisticated govt hackers. The fact that it was some kids still living at home is almost more scary. But the silver lining is this was hopefully a wake up call for Twitter.
My hope is that stories like this help to educate non technical users about what a clipboard is and does. That in turn might result in improved clipboard privacy.
How is it that a third party SDK is consistently causing apps to completely crash rather than, for example, displaying an error message? Is this a failure that cannot be caught? Sorry, just trying to understand. The dependency relationship just seems to be extreme.
Our organization was recently forced to switch from Slack to Teams. In Slack, there was a sense of spontaneity and fluidity to the experience, allowing for countless types of emojis and integration with services like giphy that made collaborating fun.
With Teams, it’s all business. No more #random channel or water cooler chats. Not sure which of the tools actually is better but personally I really miss Slack :-/
I would suggest considering many other books in addition to “the” book recommended by the author, such as Eloquent JavaScript. In fact, reading multiple books will offer multiple perspectives on the language, and result in a richer understanding.
I would also suggest having an actual project in mind while learning. It can be something very simple to start, such as creating the game Tic Tac Toe. But that will force you to apply what you are learning. In other words, try writing and maybe even rewriting the project based on what you learn.