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themoonbuson LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever

Exactly. In some sense, you have to dictate to people who you have no power over, and do not respect you (obviously, I'm exaggerating a bit).

themoonbuson LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever

The problem is that under most open source models of governance, it's far easier to create good software than to design good interfaces due to the processes involved.

themoonbuson The Way We Hire Is All Wrong

I think it's the "software" part that is getting down voted not the 5 attributes... I'm legitimately curious, how do you measure those things quantitatively?

themoonbuson RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing

It doesn't matter that they are successful though, they operate on a much, much smaller scale than Radioshack. The maker market isn't nearly large enough to sustain a company of that size... that is to say, if Radioshack shrank to the size of one of Adafruit, it be a colossal failure as a corporation.

The only chance they had to stay relevant was to challenge the Best Buy's of the world, but they failed to do that.

themoonbuson Bright Tips – A/B Testing for Designers

This is a voting platform, not A/B testing.

themoonbuson The idea of giving up is worse than of it killing me (2014)

I don't mean to be overly harsh, but I cannot figure out what's going on half of the time in this post. I get the breezy style and all that, but I'm not sure what happened or what the lessons are that we can take away from those things... that happened...

Edit: I noticed there is a Czech version of the post, perhaps it's just a lost-in-translation thing.

themoonbuson Apple has lost the functional high ground

Yeah, I still haven't gotten over the layout of spaces to be honest, but overall I think mission control improves my productivity so I've accepted it at this point.

Yosemite seems to run fine on my old Macbook pro, but I don't do any heavy lifting with it.

themoonbuson Apple has lost the functional high ground

Missed that post, thanks!

themoonbuson Apple has lost the functional high ground

I'm speaking 100% from the perspective of a user, which is what I believe the post was focused on.

I've never developed for Apple platforms.

themoonbuson Apple has lost the functional high ground

Can anyone give specific examples of OS X backsliding in the feature department? The article he links to talks about having to tweak some settings, and not liking Messages... not really egregious issues in my book. I've been pretty satisfied with how it's progressed (and I'm far from a fanboy. There were times in my life when I was using Linux, Windows, and Mac OS on a daily basis.)

I can think of several features that have improved my productivity... mission control, handoff, updated notifications, the new spotlight to name a few. They also finally fixed multi-monitor support in 10.9 which was a huge deal for me.

I do feel far more productive in OS X than other OS's, but perhaps that's just familiarity at this point. I'm curious to hear what other people's major complaints are.

themoonbuson Self Hell in Python

I agree. I even always have a "var self = this" in my JavaScript class methods so I don't ever have to worry about scope of "this".

themoonbuson Plague

They do need to make it more clear what the word "information" means in the context of the app... It's such a broad word.

themoonbuson Plague

Well, as I see it, different apps for different purposes. Information that is only relevant in a certain geographic area won't spread beyond that area. Information that is widely relevant will spread widely (if I understand the app correctly, I haven't actually used it).

Also, many communication platforms have "arbitrary" constraints (square photos, 140 characters) that help shape the user experience.

themoonbuson Meteor vs. AngularJS

Lot of meteor advertisements on hn today... Well, two, at least that I've seen on the front page.

This article doesn't really say much of anything.

themoonbuson Content, Forever

http://i.puthtml.com/content_forever/phpjmHA51

... what?

themoonbuson Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap

The point of a teaser site is to tease, not tell.

My point was that magic leap uses a lot more words to tease, and as a result, the site borders on nonsensical.

And if the point of a site is to tell you what a company does or is working on, then that information shouldn't be buried in a random section.

But ultimately, it's not a big deal. Just the first thing that I thought of when I clicked on their site.

themoonbuson Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap

Right, except that this doesn't tease or build interest... at least for me.

...not that it matters, seeing as they seem to have already built interest with the people that matter, investors.

themoonbuson Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap

I don't think they owe us anything, I'm just saying the website is badly designed. They have a lot of content, but none of it says anything.

If you're going to be stealthy, be stealthy (e.g. http://quanttus.com/). If you're going to attempt to market your company, then market it properly. This does neither.

themoonbuson Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap

That's cool and all, but this has got to be one of the worst company websites I've seen recently. I get that they're stealthy, but this doesn't even build any interest.

It was only until I clicked "Wizards Wanted" (yes, I get it. Magic.) that I sort of got an answer.

Edit: Actually, the Developers section has some more information. But my point still stands.

themoonbuson A redesign of the Django websites

No matter what web stack I end up using down the road, I will always have a special place in my heart for Django. It taught me the fundamentals of MVC in web app context, and in some ways got me a job that led to many good things in my life.

Redesign looks nice, the old site was beginning to look dated.

themoonbuson Std::string half of all allocations in the Chrome browser process

Same situation here... I have to clear my browser history every couple of months in order for it to perform adequately.

themoonbuson A Brief History of Web Design for Designers

I was hoping for a little trip down memory lane in terms of aesthetics. All of the gifs are beautiful, but look like they are from 2014!

A really nice overview otherwise.

themoonbuson MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies

If we're going to be that pedantic, then it becomes difficult to communicate at all...

themoonbuson MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies

It's a native wrapper, so their use of the word native is completely fine. I don't think they're trying to trick anyone here...

themoonbuson Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2

Yes, the broad trend (or movement, or whatever), e.g.:

http://spyrestudios.com/minimalist-design-a-brief-history-an...

themoonbuson Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2

Minimalism isn't timeless, minimalism itself is a trend in design.

It's definitely a trend with merit, but it isn't some absolute truth to always strive towards.

I would recommend reading "Living with Complexity" by Don Noarman for some interesting arguments about why complexity in design isn't inherently bad.

themoonbuson Resignation from the pkg-systemd maintainer team

I don't think you're a misogynist based on this comment. I just think the minority is bigger than you might imagine.

themoonbuson Coming soon to Twitter

I'm still annoyed by the lack (or removal) of Instagram integration.

I'm sure both sides are at fault to some degree, but I feel like Twitter had more of an obligation to address the issue than Instagram did.

themoonbuson Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox

Congrats. Although I no longer use it as my everyday browser, it made a big difference for me in the early days of OS X.

themoonbuson Obama: My Plan for a Free and Open Internet

Net neutrality isn't a blanket term for "anything the government does relating to the Internet", it's focused on a specific issue.

I guess you could argue that net neutrality would make it easier to pass pro-surveillance laws, but I'm having a difficult time connecting the two.