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Ask HN: What annoys you?
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#52I'd love to see a text editor that let you select text blocks by drawing a box. (ie, you could draw the box selection style and select the last 5 characters of each line)
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#53I'd love to see a text editor that let you select text blocks by drawing a box. (ie, you could draw the box selection style and select the last 5 characters of each line)
Textpad does this.
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#541. Technologically possible things that have been castrated/restricted by business people (or that need to be hacked, i.e. can't be done by your mother, in order to get them to work properly). Examples: phone tethering, ring tones, lack of power outlets in economy class on airplanes, VOIP over 3G, media licensing (aka dvd zoning), inability to stream Netflix from different countries, inability to watch streams on ESPN3.com/Univision from non-approved ISPs (wtf?), general lack of TV/radio streams on the internet (major annoyance during the world cup)
2. Things that are obscenely expensive but don't cost much to produce/service. Examples: mobile broadband ($30-60 that you can't share, see above), mobile text messaging ($0.25 per 160 bytes!?), dealership car service, iPhone cases, Monster cables, etrade transactions, international roaming (data: $20 PER MB, voice $2.29/min), laptop batteries, retail books, music, DVDs, basic software (such as FTP/ssh clients, PDF readers, etc).
3. Getting ripped off, knowing I can't do anything about it. Examples: exchanging foreign currency, used video games
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#55Reading posts with a lot of comments in HN. I never know what comments are new without looking to the date (sometimes they are hundreds).
yeh if anyone has a firefox extension to fix this then it annoys me as well.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
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) Is there an available solution for the reverse of SendGrid? Basically a service which would receive your emails and then post to a url on your application.
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#57I'd love to see a text editor that let you select text blocks by drawing a box. (ie, you could draw the box selection style and select the last 5 characters of each line)
Are you talking about "column selection mode"? It exists in several editors, SlickEdit for example, and lets you select "boxes" (or columns) of characters.
My favorite editor nowadays is Sublime Text, which takes this concept much, much further. It allows having several cursors active at once, each one behaving like a real cursor, so you can do things like ctrl+right to move all the cursors to the next word, no matter the length of each specific word. Kinda like real-time macros, only much better.
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#58The ridiculous "zomg I am a founder", "omfg entrepeneur", and "omfug I will change the paradiggams boxes!" flag waving that occurs. Makes me want to stab my own eye balls.
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#60Email - 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.
I remember reading an article from someone who've used email for 25+ years and he pointed out three or so fundamental changes to email since he started using it. I think it was readable email addresses, conversations, and search.
Anyone know which article I'm talking about?