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Re: If this then that

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Post by artursapek »

blasdel wrote: post #94
cpeterso wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The text is aliased on my Windows Firefox and Chrome, but not my Linux Firefox. The font is Helvetica, which is apparently rendered quite poorly on Windows.

That's it — Windows comes with a crappy bitmap Helvetica, and most Linux distributions are even worse because X includes an abysmally bad tiny raster one. Macs ship with a good one, and Adobe Creative Suite installers usually bundle one which is how lots of designers never notice the problem on Windows. Basically, you should never specify 'Helvetica' anywhere in a font declaration. Specify 'Helvetica Neue', the prett…

Word, I usually use Arial over Helvetica just to separate myself from all those hipsters raving about it on tumblr.

Re: If this then that

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Post by ianso »

linden wrote: post #9
utexaspunk wrote: post #5

Really cool idea, and nice site design except for one glaring thing- the size of everything! What the hell!? Is this designed for the legally blind? There isn't even an option in the settings to make things normal-sized... Fix it!

Thanks for the feedback, will work on tightening the UI a bit and getting a bit more on the screen.

Hum, just to pile on :-) I think the interface is great - it shows no more and no less than necessary.

Re: If this then that

#103

Post by robert-boehnke »

skymt wrote: post #41

A tip for Kindle owners: you can make an ifttt pipeline that sends RSS entries to Instapaper. Then on Instapaper's end, set up automated Kindle delivery. Presto, new posts from your favorite bloggers are now on your Kindle, entirely automatically.

Marco explicitly asks you not to use the send to Kindle feature 'to automate delivery of bulk content, such as entire feeds.'

See http://www.instapaper.com/user/kindle

Re: If this then that

#104

Post by ColinWright »

Lewisham wrote: post #67
ColinWright wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a straight-forward moan about how HN is going to hell in a handcart. If you don't care about the HN community, or you object to meta, stop reading. Still here? OK. When I make a comment on HN I'm about anal about seeing the response it gets. I care about whether things are perceived to be useful. I want to be useful, and helpful, and generally make things better. Really, I do. I take time to give feedback, an…

Does it really matter? There are people on the Internet. People disagree with each other. Someone disagreed with you. Maybe they were just downvoting everything for fun. Who knows? Who cares? Because you got a downvote, you make a statement that HN is going to hell. Honestly, I do not know how much more of an overreaction you could have crafted here.

  > People disagree with each other
Yes, and once upon a time people here on HN used either to respect that disagreement, or would discuss it. They used not to downvote for simple disagreement. That's part of the change.

  > Maybe they were just downvoting everything for fun.
Which again makes my point - you can do that in a city and get away with it, you can't do it in a village.

  > Because you got a downvote, you make a statement
  > that HN is going to hell.
Do you really think I've said this on the basis of a single downvote? It's a trend I'm seeing.

Sadly the boiled frog allegory is a myth, but using the analogy anyway, I think I can see the temperature rising here on HN, and it's respect, quality discussion and value that's being boiled out. I might easily be wrong and I might jut be remembering with advantages how HN was 2 and 3 years ago, but if I'm right, now's the time to start looking for a new place to have thought-provoking conversation with intelligent and knowledgeable people.

Re: If this then that

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Post by artursapek »

linden wrote: post #71
artursapek wrote: post #59

Does this support nested if-then statements, or multiple criteria? With the UI the "wtf" page demonstrates, it seems like this could easily be designed to work as a graphical version of programming.

Right now it just covers a single 'if this then that' statement, but expanding from there is definitely a direction we could take. However, we'd like to be really cautious about getting to close to traditional programming as things could quickly become unaccessible to the wider audience. We talk a lot about pushing complexity out to the channels themselves. For instance if "its going to rain tomorrow AND tomorrow is…

Also, just my designer's advice, I would do something about the Instagram icon. It stands out way too much from the rest of the site which I think you've designed beautifully. Maybe make your own iteration in Illustrator, mimicing those flat-colored geometric shapes that dominate the design language of the page?

Something like this: http://i.imgur.com/viGpC.jpg

Re: If this then that

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Post by mquander »

ColinWright wrote: post #104
Lewisham wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it really matter? There are people on the Internet. People disagree with each other. Someone disagreed with you. Maybe they were just downvoting everything for fun. Who knows? Who cares? Because you got a downvote, you make a statement that HN is going to hell. Honestly, I do not know how much more of an overreaction you could have crafted here.

> People disagree with each other Yes, and once upon a time people here on HN used either to respect that disagreement, or would discuss it. They used not to downvote for simple disagreement. That's part of the change. > Maybe they were just downvoting everything for fun. Which again makes my point - you can do that in a city and get away with it, you can't do it in a village. > Because you got a downvote, you make a…

I wish we would leave the angry off-topic meta rants for the (frequent) meta threads. I don't think that the occasion of a single downvote requires a big immediate derail. I would personally find that to be a small improvement to what quality discussion and value is present here.

Re: If this then that

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Post by ColinWright »

mquander wrote: post #106
ColinWright wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> People disagree with each other Yes, and once upon a time people here on HN used either to respect that disagreement, or would discuss it. They used not to downvote for simple disagreement. That's part of the change. > Maybe they were just downvoting everything for fun. Which again makes my point - you can do that in a city and get away with it, you can't do it in a village. > Because you got a downvote, you make a…

I wish we would leave the angry off-topic meta rants for the (frequent) meta threads. I don't think that the occasion of a single downvote requires a big immediate derail. I would personally find that to be a small improvement to what quality discussion and value is present here.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"

-- Edmund Burke (disputed - see http://tartarus.org/~martin/essays/burkequote.html and http://tartarus.org/~martin/essays/burkequote2.html for in-depth discussion)

Even PG is concerned that HN is declining - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696 - so it's not just me.

But clearly concern for the community is irrelevant and regarded as off-topic, so I'll stop now.

Re: If this then that

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Post by imrehg »

Oh boy, this is addictive :) Almost like a game of Alchemy - let's combine these services, what can we have?

You are doing great, guys, will definitely spread the world and come up with more tasks!

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