Cortana is really bad • Hacker News Board

Re: Cortana is really bad

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Post by WorldMaker » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 4:42 PM UTC

ethbro wrote: post #257

contextfree wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say the Office ribbon is still sort of hierarchical, just laid out differently. tab -> section/group -> item -> submenu/subdialog. If something isn't on the ribbon or in any of the subdialogs it's almost certainly because it's deprecated and only still exists for some obscure compatibility reason. As for Windows Settings, it's unfortunately weird not for some principled or philosophical reason, but just because t…

> If something isn't on the ribbon or in any of the subdialogs it's almost certainly because it's deprecated and only still exists for some obscure compatibility reason. Am I using it wrong then? I don't dive into Office if I can avoid it, but just yesterday there was some Powerpoint function I needed that didn't appear on the ribbon. Had to pull out the "everything" right/left boxes, add it to the ribbon, and then I…

I'm curious what that function was? In PowerPoint especially the last time I used something that wasn't on the ribbon was years ago. What were you trying to do?

Re: Cortana is really bad

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Post by castis » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 9:42 PM UTC

toss1 wrote: post #188

castis wrote: post #94

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The question was not whether or not an employer should continue to pay a person. The question was whether or not some angry internet person should be responsible for the livelihood of a developer of a product they are having difficulty with.

Oh, so it'd be ok if the "angry internet person" hust happened to be the PM's boss, noticed this abomination & fired them? Indeed, if more "angry internet people" (with good clear points like this one) actually provoked performance reviews, we might have better software. Quit the sophistry. The guy had a real point and you're merely trying to make distracting noise.

Your skewed view of my words led you to a strange end point.

Ill quit the sophistry when you stick to arguments that make sense.

Re: Cortana is really bad

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Post by seshagiric » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 9:42 PM UTC

magice wrote: post #35

As much fun as it is to bash Microsoft and Windows (although, let's face it, Windows has been so much better in the last few releases), I personally think Microsoft, its engineers, as well as its PM deserve (some?) empathy rather than anger for this. I mean, I can almost imagine how this thing happens. Someone somewhere sometime said, "hey, wouldn't it be cool if xyz?" Someone else replied with "oh yeah, and it's not…

I agree. The person who wrote the Medium blog about Cortana, actually pasted a full URL in the box meant for tracking ID.

It would be so wow if Cortana were really able to parse the URL, identify the tracknig ID and then use it but how can implement such stuffy. Different providers have different URL and query params for their tracking page. Some may call it TrackingID, some may call trackId, tid, t, xyz....