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Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by jakevoytko »

Problem: Designing clean architectures to solve an unfamiliar class of systems programming problems

This goes beyond design patterns - I mean designing systems with a dozen or more components that interact in complex ways. My first few cuts have lots of rough edges, and as I redesign the system, cleaner solutions appear. I work on lots of almost-real-time robotics systems, and good solutions for normal apps have subtle-yet-fatal problems when you need a small average latency at 100% CPU load

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by zyfo »

Phone calls - makes a lot of noise and interrupts me regardless of what I'm doing.

I want some people to be able to reach me right away, while I couldn't care less for others. Creating barriers for interruption based on:

a) the person calling

b) the time of day

c) the activity I'm involved in

needs to become more accessible and intuitive.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by mslate »

daleharvey wrote: post #20
mrduncan wrote: post #17

Email - Not a lot has changed in the past 20 years, I think we can do better. Yes, Gmail was pretty innovative but I still think there are plenty of things to improve.

Fully agreed, I think wave was an awesome concept, but a terrible implementation. Managing email programatically in particular for me is a nightmare, sendgrid is an awesome service, but processing incoming email should be much easier. (I have yet to try lampson)

IMHO the only problem with Google Wave's implementation was that it didn't integrate with normal email, limiting its network to Google Wave users. This seems very obvious, but I rarely hear people mention this when Google Wave comes up. Did you have something else in mind when you said it had terrible implementation?

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by todayiamme »

Modern Psychiatry - Parts of it are updated for the modern world. The rest is still pretty much medieval guesses sans experimentation. Accurate unbiased information for someone in distress is hard to obtain, which compounds the problem.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by mseebach »

mrduncan wrote: post #11

Airlines - They are nearly all just a pain in the ass to deal with. When was the last time you heard someone tell you how they had a great experience with an airline?

I know where you're coming from, but when the combination of online check-in and dedicated bag-drops is in place (unfortunately, sometimes, especially when flying on budget airlines, it's not), flying is pretty painless. And painless, affordable transfer from A to B is my definition of a great airline experience.
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