The requested magic with payment inputs is tricky. Commas and periods are both used for thousands and decimals sometimes interchangeably within the same country.
Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
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Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#162The space at the end of the password entry was found in QA testing. Since we are an agile shop and run two week sprints that bug was left in and put on the backlog to be prioritized later. Gotta release every two weeks, even if it's utter crap. As long as the PBIs are completed, who cares about the users? It's a sad day when I have to sneak bug fixes that annoy me in on my free time, but this seems to be the norm in…
well .. that bugfix have associated a few risks.. 1. let's suppose a user have a password: (note the space) " 123" 2. also you store the password using some hashing function, which prevents you from knowing the password. 3. two weeks later the bugfix goes live, the user cannot longer access the service. Also, you cannot easily estimate how much benefit/annoyed users your _fix_ will endup having .. which makes it a hi…
Absolutely true for regular passwords. In the specific case of the blog post, it can work however, because it's just the numeric two-factor part.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Because they don't have a choice Then set up a company that make fresh PC with windows installs without crapware and you have a business model right there. Choice is just a matter of people starting doing it. Or you know, buy a Linux computer (sure, the choice is not great there either, but it's something that a few manufacturers offer online: Lenovo, System75 and a couple others).
This already exists, http://www.microsoftstore.com/
Interesting, I admit I had never heard about it. Are the prices competitive ?
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#164I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously? Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this. Anyway back to your issu…
I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. Few people are willing to pay for quality web services which leads us on this cyclical path of new more friendly services coming out followed by monetization or shutdown of said services. These changes never benefit the users (i.e. product) of the services. I think an example of this outside of Google is imgur.com. It started out as an extremely lightw…
Every word in his rant is gold.
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#165The fact that this post is currently #3 on HN homepage and has ~100 comments in support is a strong indication to limit investment of time and effort in HN as a source of knowledge and HN community as a source of rational discussion. EDIT: 50 -> 100 comments. That rule about avoiding gratuitous negativity is obviously not working.
Lighten up, everyone likes a good rant once in a while (especially as good as this one). Not every link on HN can be to a white paper or similar.
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#166Guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E "You are sitting in a chair, IN THE SKY."
There's a difference. The hard parts are done. The easy parts are broken. We know they can do better, but they do crap, and this literally looks like them saying "fuck you users, we'll shit on you because we can get more money this way".
Want some examples? Random things we had better 60 years ago than today: kettles, shoes, clothes, watches, utensils, furniture. There's a purposeful downgrading going on.
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#167Can Marissa Mayer fix Yahoo maps? Google maps have become unusable on most of my devices, I thought I was alone...
bing is decent on mobile.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used https://www.airdroid.com/ for that; it gives you reasonable, LAN-speed downloads.
Just for file transfers, I really like SuperBeam. It does just one thing, it's really fast (the WiFi direct connection is fantastic) and the PC software is just a file that you run, no installation or other crap necessary.
I'll check it out, thanks! AirDroid is a first good-enough solution I discovered, but it has way more features than I need - you can tweak and manage your mobile device from the web browser in all kind of ways, but the only thing I use is downloading/uploading files.
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#169I think it's important for every company that the CEO answer support mail from regular customers at least a few hours every day. Then he/she will get a better understanding about the product(s).
About sharing images, I find setting up a FTP-server is the simplest solution. Most file-browsers have FTP built in and allows features like drag 'n drop.
The problem with usability in free services like Google, is that they earn more money the more time you spend on the site. So if it takes ten minutes to do something that should take five seconds. Their metrics will show one hundred times more earning from the slow and tedious version. Guess what version they want you to use!?
Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#170I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously? Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this. Anyway back to your issu…
Lollipop is just a bad, bad update. Tap the square button and close two apps at the same time. If you did everything right, now your phone says that Android UI failed. This has been going on since day one. Day one. Which was sometime in November. Their Hangouts app sucks. I don't know how people in the U.S. use it, but here people use it only for SMS, and they crammed everything in that so it's hard to do the main fu…
I can't replicate your "Android UI failed" problem on a Nexus 5 running Android 5.1