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I'd love to agree with this but almost every experience I've had with an open source project that has a complex GUI has been painful. Tried to switch from Sheets to Libre Office Ca…

While I definitely recognize there’s a cycle, I also can’t but feel that old media is regurgitated because the state of what we are creating now. I don’t think we’ll be doing the s…

What are they going to change?

Same as doctors not thinking washing their hands was useful until somewhere around the mid 1800s.

I don't know why you've come to that conclusion? I do the exact opposite. I got to malls to buy something specific, but there's no reason to spend anymore time there than necessary…

5 to 15 minutes? What if you want to have lunch?

Why?

A question for all those in favour of street parking: If parking right in front of the store is so vital for business, why don't they do it in shopping malls? Why do you have to pa…

What has worked for me: 1. Find out why you are overweight. For me it was comfort eating junk food and large meals. 2. Start working on what’s causing the first step. I very gradua…

Damn. RIP, lots of laughs a long time ago.

>This makes a lot of unfounded assumptions about what the police can and would do. In a lot of places they do absolutely nothing . A lot of bikes show up on sale on places like FB …

So what do you do when the lock breaks and you can't cut it open? Look, I could list a dozen reasons why this is a bad design but I won't. Besides the U-lock, there has never been …

“A statement from Austin’s Transportation Department says it had provided a list of groups Refraction AI should reach out to ahead of launching service here. The list of groups inc…

After I clicked a few panels I got this weird feeling and then I realized it... I actually remember reading this when it came out! 1998 was 22 years ago :$

Our Teams has Planner to do lists. Great, I thought, now our to dos are integrated into our chat platform. Then I tried to edit a comment I made on a card. Couldn't figure out, con…

Finn here. We don't have an Apple store, but I've been to a few in NYC. Just wondering around and looking all the staff run around and people waiting gives me anxiety. If I buy an …

Really interesting read on how fonts render on different systems. However a huge reason why I went from Win to macOS are the incredibly frustrating scaling issues. At work I gave u…

It's 2:40 AM, I open Hacker News because I couldn't sleep and notice this is on top of the page. I have no words. I didn't really know Alex from his work at Automattic, I knew him …

I'm curious, what made you write this comment? What's with the negativity?

I've been there. In my idealistic grumpy old man world, I'd rather have the main area silent and if you want to have a chat, just book a room :)

In the past few years I've been to public libraries in Espoo, Helsinki and Vantaa. They all have the same modern vibe as Oodi (although less glamorous buildings maybe). >If you nee…

>Exactly. The nostalgic fantasy I'm criticising carlospwk for is that public libraries are "noisy, too relaxed and not geared towards actual studying". Not really a position that f…

>I find that the fetishising of books and silent library spaces is a nostalgic fantasy championed by people that rarely actually use libraries, while they are unaware that librarie…

I don’t think it’s accurate to call Oodi a library. It’s more of a communal space for citizens and a sort of a playground/hangout for kids. With some books. Maybe I’m a cranky old …

Ditto. I instantly thought of a less successful and intelligent version of Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley.