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Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

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Post by sbuk »

Segmentation wrote: post #108
karzeem wrote: post #61

The negativity in this thread is a perfect exemplar of the say-anything-critical-to-look-smart, "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.", poisonous middlebrow dismissal that pg complains about. This is an amazingly light convenience, with really solid, streamlined execution. People, it's ok to think something is good.

Ugh. Just people you disagree with someone doesn't make them negative. It's critique. HN is a place of dissenting opinions. It's ok to have an opinion different than yours.

The "Ugh", that's what the GP is talking about. A number of the posts come across as spiteful, which is not objective and as such, has no place here. In fact objective criticism is something that developers aren't good at at all, but such an important engineering skill. Speak to designers and learn how to do it. You'll be a better engineer as a result.

Edited for clarity.

Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

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Post by pearjuice »

jcutrell wrote: post #80

Dear HN. Please stop making a big deal about how you don't like hipster beards. It really makes HN look like pretentious douchebags instead of intelligent thinkers. It makes HN people look like the have no understanding of marketing. If you're going to criticize the marketing, do it from a metrics perspective, rather than being exactly what you're claiming to hate by telling people to stop being hipsters - arrogant.…

You seem to be upset.

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Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

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Post by jamesbritt »

karzeem wrote: post #61

The negativity in this thread is a perfect exemplar of the say-anything-critical-to-look-smart, "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.", poisonous middlebrow dismissal that pg complains about. This is an amazingly light convenience, with really solid, streamlined execution. People, it's ok to think something is good.

It's a tough call sometimes. Or it feels like it. I didn't care for the site. Took too long to show what it was about so I closed the tab. Just a bit too cute for my taste.

I was going to post a comment about it, mainly as a data point, in case such things matter to the site owner. OTOH I have on iPhone and I don't have a Mac I use often enough to care about this sort of product anyway; it's in perpetual sleep mode 99% of the time. I'm not the target audience.

Does mentioning my dislike for the site make me negative? Is it to the long-term good that people feel reluctant to offer criticism?

I do get the point about "Knock stuff to show your IQ"; it's unpleasant and an easy habit to fall into. I've been with groups of geeks where it's impossible to discuss almost any piece of software because it turns into a dick measuring contest. (So to speak.)

Still, sometimes some things really are flawed and those flaws are worth pointing out.

I suppose that every criticism should be accompanied by some suggestion on how to fix or improve things, but that's not always possible.

I don't have any really good suggestions on how to temper negativity other than to encourage people to pause and consider why they are posting something, and for others to try to ignore the posts that irk them.

Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

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Post by wikyd »

joshstrange wrote: post #31
joshdance wrote: post #4

This seems like magic. What method does it use to unlock your Mac with no password?

It doesn't actually unlock your machine. If you lock your computer it will not work. What it does is put up a page that looks nearly identical to the login page with small changes. It's a cool app (I tried it) but I'm disappointed that I can't find a way to toggle the lock via Alfred/Keyboard shortcut. I can get in the habit of hitting a key combination/alfred command when I get up but having to click the icon in the…

I don't think that's true at all. I just locked my laptop using ctrl + shift + power and was unable to unlock it using the app.

Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

branksy wrote: post #63
lifeformed wrote: post #38

If your page scrolls, you should have a scroll bar.

Does it scroll? It doesn't do anything for me (Opera), so I guess everything's broken.

Introducing a javascript requirement to scroll the page?! That's just plain rude.

Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

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Post by joshstrange »

wikyd wrote: post #125
joshstrange wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't actually unlock your machine. If you lock your computer it will not work. What it does is put up a page that looks nearly identical to the login page with small changes. It's a cool app (I tried it) but I'm disappointed that I can't find a way to toggle the lock via Alfred/Keyboard shortcut. I can get in the habit of hitting a key combination/alfred command when I get up but having to click the icon in the…

I don't think that's true at all. I just locked my laptop using ctrl + shift + power and was unable to unlock it using the app.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying or maybe you didn't understand me. I am saying the it doesn't use the built-in locking mechanism but instead it's own "screen lock" that looks similar.

Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

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Post by joshstrange »

highace wrote: post #39
joshstrange wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't actually unlock your machine. If you lock your computer it will not work. What it does is put up a page that looks nearly identical to the login page with small changes. It's a cool app (I tried it) but I'm disappointed that I can't find a way to toggle the lock via Alfred/Keyboard shortcut. I can get in the habit of hitting a key combination/alfred command when I get up but having to click the icon in the…

Now that's a massive dealbreaker. That should be made more obvious.

I completely agree, I'm actually really annoyed because I paid $4 for something that I wouldn't have paid $0.99 for if I knew this is what they were doing. Now $4 isn't going to break the bank but still I thinks it's misleading not to point that out.

Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

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Post by joshstrange »

mronge wrote: post #105
joshstrange wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't actually unlock your machine. If you lock your computer it will not work. What it does is put up a page that looks nearly identical to the login page with small changes. It's a cool app (I tried it) but I'm disappointed that I can't find a way to toggle the lock via Alfred/Keyboard shortcut. I can get in the habit of hitting a key combination/alfred command when I get up but having to click the icon in the…

That is NOT true. It does in fact use the real login window

Please provide some proof. My tests using the built in lock hotkeys and trying to unlock with my phone say otherwise....

Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

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Post by joshstrange »

ptomato wrote: post #43
joshstrange wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't actually unlock your machine. If you lock your computer it will not work. What it does is put up a page that looks nearly identical to the login page with small changes. It's a cool app (I tried it) but I'm disappointed that I can't find a way to toggle the lock via Alfred/Keyboard shortcut. I can get in the habit of hitting a key combination/alfred command when I get up but having to click the icon in the…

activating screensaver via alfred will do it, as will a hot corner set to start screensaver.

Thank you for this!
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