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Doesn’t the act of reaching for the mouse actually creates a natural moment of wrist relaxation? A fixed wrist position creates static muscle tension.

It’s unfortunate that we can’t settle on an icon set for at least a decade. Constantly changing the icons misses the very point of their function: instant recognition. This is part…

Not just a Futurama reference

English being my language of choice, but not my first language, I got 75/100. Performance breakdown: 18/20, 18/20, 11/20, 18/20, 10/20. (My first language is Russian.)

The bottleneck, in my case, was indeed the poorly designed GUI of JetBrains and VSCode versus CLI. By migrating to CLI, I have abandoned intelligent queries as well. This project s…

The icon is traditionally small indeed, but it shouldn’t be. I use the strings “vol-“ and “vol+” as icons, which makes the whole thing 8 characters long. As a universal law, optimi…

Instead of using a single menu bar icon “volume control,” I have transferred the lessons of the keyboard to the GUI and placed two buttons in my menu bar: volume down and volume up…

Thank you for busting the myth of worker self-management.

The social engineering thing runs deep. For example, if you grep for “Key” method, chances are the type/class name would stand on the same line. This is the case in Go and, I think…

I have always used traditional grep to search codebases. It serves me better than an IDE when there’re lots of scattered and frequent queries. grep’s design is surprisingly winning…

This is an outlier. The Go team and community never endorsed that. In fact, their position has always been the opposite. To give just one example, see [1]. [1]: https://research.sw…

You can’t be omniscient, I think.

“Done properly from the beginning” means explaining why a particular feature is either included or not. In this sense, Go is done properly from the beginning. It would be wrong to …

What’s the correction? The two claims are not in conflict. Saying “we don’t expect to ever add X” is not equivalent to “we never wanted to add X.” It simply means that they didn’t …

It’s accepted.

“Curly braces” reads like “the braces—curly ones.” Pointedly emphatic when you want to stress a particular aspect of a thing, much like “rational animals” instead of “humans.”

Aristotle indeed couldn’t prove it, that is, to derive it as a conclusion step by step from the evidence of the senses. His reasons for this are sound: 1) an attempt to do so has t…

Logic is identification of that which exists . Thus, a proposition either does correspond to reality or doesn’t at all. There is no partial semi-truths: the moment a concept or pro…

I agree that lying should be illegal, but “domination” is vague. One could argue (and I would agree) that there’s nothing wrong with dominance if it comes down to just offering a s…

I think that it's wrong to assume that vi is the only route to deep muscle memory. Heavy mouse users develop blindingly fast Fitts’ Law targeting. And if you need essential simplic…

No Plan 9. Otherwise, resources like this might help studying how the interfaces of the past evolved (at least, on the surface).

I’ve never heard of that feature in Windows! Unfortunately, that means I can’t judge it. But I have used mouse warping in other environments and I’ve never been caused disoriented.…

> TL;DR don't mess with people's mouse cursors, it's like cutting their limbs off. “Don’t mess” is a very broad range that includes things like removing the mouse cursor at nine PM…

You are arguing for uniformity. It does make a lot of sense: the global UI makes a considerable effort to build a single perfect UI, but that can only work if the apps actually mak…