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isnotchicagoon An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred

I have never heard of User Acceptance Training. I have heard of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), which is about users testing the software, not training users on the software. The goal of UAT is to work with the user to verify that the software's functionality and usability are "acceptable". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_testing#User_accept...

isnotchicagoon Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlimited plans

By default, AT&T also throttles video playback to 480p, but it is an option that can be disabled: https://www.att.com/offers/streamsaver.html (instructions listed in the middle/FAQ).

isnotchicagoon Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC

This is the first I had heard of Limn, and it looks like a really interesting magazine. What other great non-mainstream tech/design magazines are out there?

isnotchicagoon El Capitan and Homebrew

If I have already installed a bunch of packages, how do I move everything to something like ~/.homebrew? (1) Change the HOMEBREW_PREFIX (2) move the existing aliases from /usr/local/bin (3) add the directory to my path (4) ???

isnotchicagoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

Bessemer Alliance - Pittsburgh, PA (onsite) - full-time

  About the company

We are a small strategy, design & software startup based in Pittsburgh, PA. Our client base is diverse, ranging from small startups to global Fortune 100 companies. In our first 3 years we have experienced fantastic growth and foresee greater opportunities in the near future. Our client engagements typically involve research, strategy, and design. In addition to client work, we are working on a top-secret, internally-developed product that is slated for limited release in Q1 2015 (it is going to be great). We believe the future is bright and that we possess the ability to make it so. Learn more at http://www.bessemeralliance.com/

  Open positions

Visual Designer - create detailed UI designs for web and mobile applications and contribute to the overall UX vision. All our designers participate in research, facilitation, and synthesis activities, but your focus will be on visual/UI design.

To apply or hear more about the position, just send an email to spencer@bessemeralliance.com

isnotchicagoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

Do you know if the design position is remote as well?

isnotchicagoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

The [2] link is for a Front-End Platform Engineer. Should it link to https://jobs.lever.co/nilas/04ea91e1-6d77-4077-8253-4f8b7937... ?

isnotchicagoon Windows 10: Re-Crappifying Windows 8

There is a lot more to good design than big click targets. Even infinitely large targets are useless if the user does not know where they are.

isnotchicagoon Nexus 6

A trade implies choice. What are the phones with amazing battery life? There are some DROID phones (MAXX, etc.), but is that it?

isnotchicagoon Building advanced search on Imgur

But, 2 gifs is 100% of the gifs in the article...

isnotchicagoon Tower 2

A nice feature of the previous version of Tower (and even more previously, most SVN clients), is the ability to browse the entire repo and instantly see info about the last commit of each file (e.g., date, author).

That seems to be missing in this version. There is a Tree view of the repo for each commit, but it is cumbersome to both browse files AND see when files were (last) changed. Has anyone seen such a feature in Tower 2 or other GUIs?

isnotchicagoon Fast interactive prototyping with D3.js II – Tricks of the trade

Unrelated: the "Jobs" link in the footer results in a 404 error. It links to snips.net/jobs instead of snips.net/jobs.html.

  404 Not Found
  
  Code: NoSuchKey
  Message: The specified key does not exist.
  Key: jobs
  RequestId: E4C72F651DB2691D
  HostId: nVfBKmpulx+ustWYBLz5z/LvOtALcpAN5YVE4rOTDwSWa6I1yfPlJrIubcU5OjZW

isnotchicagoon Save more with Google Drive

Indeed. The announcement states, "If you already pay for storage, you’ll automatically move to a better plan at no additional cost," but that does not seem to cover people whose plans are simply becoming cheaper.

isnotchicagoon Why Infinite-Scrolling in Mobile Apps is Destroying Content Consumption

The column to the right of your feed (where birthdays and events show up) also includes the same links as the footer. Click "More" to get to the Developers page, etc.

isnotchicagoon Pencil

Well, that's fair; falling in love is not very easy.

isnotchicagoon Show HN: Site for musical artist recommendations (and anti-recommendations)

Subscribing for Google Play Music All Access (yeah, say that seven times fast) opens up the instant playlists ("radio stations") to include all of the music in Google's catalog. But I have found the selection of similar music to be pretty conservative; despite Google's large catalog, the same artists/songs come up every time I play a given radio.

isnotchicagoon Nexus 5

From what I have read, the radios in the HTC First lock you into AT&T. On T-Mobile, you will only get 2G speeds.

isnotchicagoon Unboxing and setting up the Firefox OS ZTE

You should look at the HTC First. It is discontinued, but runs 4.1, has good specs, and is available on eBay for $150-$200.

isnotchicagoon Appmaker

Using Chrome 30 on OS X, I am getting the following error when trying to play the video:

"[blocked] The page at https://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/ ran insecure content from http://www.youtube.com/embed/RaRIdLgZTPI?autoplay=1."

isnotchicagoon Small Victories: Host a website on Dropbox

Also: https://www.backlift.com/

isnotchicagoon The sound of the dialup, pictured

Your image wasn't loading for me, so I updated with the correct (for me) URL. http://jsbin.com/amunug/7

isnotchicagoon Here’s what I learned hanging out with Jason Fried

As far as getting into specifics, how have questions like "How often does that happen?" worked compared to questions like "when is the last time that happened?" In other words, having the user speak about a particular instance versus generalizing about a "typical" day.

isnotchicagoon Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

For more photos of the mountain and others, the photographers' site: http://www.glacierworks.org/the-glaciers/

isnotchicagoon Dropbox deployment for front-end devs

Small typo on the "What's next?" page after you create a new app:

``They will be in your Dropbox folder under the followng path:``

Should be "following", not "followng".

isnotchicagoon Thinking of Selling on eBay using Paypal? Think Again

"I am not a lawyer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL

(Unless you were being facetious, in which case, carry on.)

isnotchicagoon Tutorial: How to build your own peer-to-peer chat app (like Couple)

Just an FYI, but the website is unusable on mobile (Android ICS). The sidebar navigation completely overlaps the text when zoomed in.

isnotchicagoon Scientific Communication As Sequential Art

Unrelated to the content of the article, but the light grey text is almost entirely illegible. The figure captions are particularly bad, and I am surprised Bret Victor chose such an awful color scheme. This page is basically a perfect case for http://contrastrebellion.com/

isnotchicagoon Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smoother Scrolling

This is clearly unintuitive, but at least it exists.

isnotchicagoon WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

In the parent's defense, the rest of that paragraph and the chart below it downplay Microsoft's role in favor of Google's, which could be viewed as "not quite right".

isnotchicagoon Show HN: Edit any website in your browser with HTML5

Well. "Frape" is a term I had never heard before.