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Re: Ask HN: Things that suck?

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Post by johnchristopher »

ga2arch wrote: post #46
johnchristopher wrote: post #33

Many times a day I want to share an url with my SO. I use a desktop, she uses a laptop and half of the time I just give up. Opening a mail client, or facebook, wait for the app/website to load, find a textfield on the screen, type her name, correct auto complete, no I don't need a subject, yes I want to send it... half of the time I give up. I wish there was something like her picture in my browser toolbar and when c…

https://www.pushbullet.com/ (scroll till the end of the page, it works in the browser too)

Well, thank you. The first minutes of usage are pretty cool, it seems to be a keeper.

Re: Ask HN: Things that suck?

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Post by lunixbochs »

comrade1 wrote: post #62

Fellow programmers that don't use an IDE and insist on vim or emacs.. I often work on large projects with dozens of programmers and the developers that don't use an IDE are very small-thinking. They don't seem to know any libraries besides the base libraries and can't integrate large systems together. They're fine for writing algorithms but beyond that they slow everyone else down.

This has not been my experience, even with Java.

Re: Ask HN: Things that suck?

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Post by [deleted] »

comrade1 wrote: post #74
e15ctr0n wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't downvote you but I'd honestly like to ask why you think that integrating large libraries would speed you up instead of increasing the bloat of the code base?

Just the reality of the projects. Just doing something simple like database access from a java project, or matrix math in a python projects, you're going to use a library.

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Re: Ask HN: Things that suck?

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Post by sehr »

na85 wrote: post #58
sehr wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Node.js is so last year. But in all honesty, it's transformed browser development. Common JS is everywhere now

>Common JS is everywhere now That's not a good thing.

Yeah, standardization & being able to use the largest package manager on the planet really blows!

...

Ah nevermind, I can see you're very enthusiastic about anything anti-javascript. Carry on

Re: Ask HN: Things that suck?

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Post by patmcguire »

jacques_chester wrote: post #27
patmcguire wrote: post #15

Paywalls across apps. I've got a subscription to the Economist, but I'm not logged in on Facebook, Twitter, whatever HN client I'm using, etc, so it's like I don't.

I happen to have a solution for this problem that this margin is too narrow to contain.

I'm just going to start writing that in all of my math books.

Re: Ask HN: Things that suck?

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Post by MrJagil »

xwowsersx wrote: post #61
hellbanTHIS wrote: post #40

There are a lot of terrible things out there but one that really bugs me is all the misinformation/propaganda that the internet causes. I didn't see it coming, I thought the web would make people more informed, not less.

Check out http://grasswire.com (I'm the co-founder). It's a newsroom that's fact-checked and curated by everyone. We're just getting started and have a lot of work to do, but we've had some pretty good success so far crowd-sourcing the news and debunking misinformation/propaganda that tends to spread like wildfire on the internet.

Cool idea, but the interface is confusing me profoundly.

When i Click on a story (and to a lesser extend, when i look at the front page) my eyes are zigzagging around trying to latch onto something, but everything seemingly craves my attention equally.

Large headlines, up vote trackers and huge (semi-informative) pictures all over the place is really a bit too much.

Make a list, have the photo the left of the headline, and maybe a blurb on the right or when hover-over.

Re: Ask HN: Things that suck?

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Post by CmonDev »

rsp1984 wrote: post #57

I would like to point out that any existing issues with web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/your newest hyped web framework) are merely a symptom. The underlying cause, and the thing that actually sucks, is the fact that the web has been designed as a sort of document viewing system, as opposed to a cross-platform app execution system. And it sucks in particular that 20 years ago, when there was still room to steer thi…

Thank you, I am not alone! I hope the madness will stop.

Re: Ask HN: Things that suck?

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Post by CmonDev »

comrade1 wrote: post #65
comrade1 wrote: post #62

Fellow programmers that don't use an IDE and insist on vim or emacs.. I often work on large projects with dozens of programmers and the developers that don't use an IDE are very small-thinking. They don't seem to know any libraries besides the base libraries and can't integrate large systems together. They're fine for writing algorithms but beyond that they slow everyone else down.

I wonder why the downvotes? This is based on observation on large-team projects. Maybe you have a different insight?

The love their plain-text notepads. Don't drag them into this century.

Re: Ask HN: Things that suck?

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Post by sejje »

snihalani wrote: post #72
sejje wrote: post #8

Driving. I want to be able to look out the windows or work or whatever I want to do. Power. I'm so tired of my devices running out of juice. Road trips and festivals etc become much less fun when I have to continually worry about how to charge my phone or laptop. Craigslist: They shut down services like padmapper but continue to give us a totally shit interface to work with. Finding a place to live, in particular, is…

How does craiglist shut down a service like padmapper?

Cease and desist.

If you're arguing that they can't actually shut them down, I get that--but they denied access to their data. That's my major complaint--padmapper put a nice UI layer on craigslist data and they made them turn it off.

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