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Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by SllX »

oleganza wrote: post #54
allie1 wrote: post #35

Is it rigged to give you the good ole' blue screen of death every 10th click or so?

Because real Windows 95/98 had BSOD every 10th click or so and people could not get work done at all. Funnily, in last few months on macOS Catalina i've got more kernel panics than in prior 13 years on Mac and 8 years of Windows combined.

I know this is unsolicited and I apologize for that, but check your Console logs immediately after you boot back up if you haven't already, there might be a hardware issue, and you ought to be able to get a good idea of what's going on by seeing what kext is affecting it.

My current and previous laptop have been fine, but I used to have issues all the time on a much older laptop, and the issue back then, I forgot exactly which piece of hardware it was, but there was a bug in one of the drivers that was patched in an update, I think it was 10.4.9 or 10.4.10 that had the issue, a known issue at the Apple Store; but they couldn't do anything about it from behind the Genius Bar. Generally if you're getting kernel panics though, there's either something wrong with a piece of hardware or with the driver for it, although it could be any kind of kext causing the issue if you have any 3rd party kexts installed.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by mPReDiToR »

hnlmorg wrote: post #41
hunter2_ wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now you've got me wondering if the left/right shadow preference might actually be rooted in other natural phenomena besides human dominant handedness, like something with the rotation of the earth a.k.a. sun setting in the west.

You're over thinking things there. More likely it's just an artefact of those interfaces being designed in the countries who read left to right. Off topic but I like how you've referenced that infamous IRC meme in your HN handle.

What? The username just shows as *_ for me?

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by a_imho »

pedrocx486 wrote: post #52
aspenmayer wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just let out a big oof IRL. Not sure if that it’s a bad thing or aesthetic though, to be honest.

Function over form. I don't think this is a bad thing, HN doesn't need to be any more advanced, it does its job really well as is.

Browsing pages of Who is Hiring when the comments move to other pages sucks.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by aspenmayer »

pedrocx486 wrote: post #52
aspenmayer wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just let out a big oof IRL. Not sure if that it’s a bad thing or aesthetic though, to be honest.

Function over form. I don't think this is a bad thing, HN doesn't need to be any more advanced, it does its job really well as is.

Aptly put.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by pickledcods »

hunter2_ wrote: post #24
rob74 wrote: post #19

Looks nice, but the shadows on the buttons are wrong: the top and left edges should be white, the other two black. This way, the buttons look more like elements of a status bar, those had the borders reversed to produce an "inset" effect (like in this screenshot: http://173.255.209.242/chhtml/toolkit/demos/Windows/gifs/gad... )

I was always slightly perplexed as to how that difference in orientation of colors leads to the out/in effect. I guess it's not so much the left/right but the top/bottom that really achieves this phenomenon, given how most daily light sources come from above (sun, ceiling fixtures, floor lamps) and there are relatively few instances of uplighting (landscaping, ...) around us.

The illusion of left/right is driven by which hemisphere you are on. On northern hemisphere the sun moves from left to right and the morning being brighter than afternoon. So top/left would be on average the brightest source.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by genmon »

hunter2_ wrote: post #24
rob74 wrote: post #19

Looks nice, but the shadows on the buttons are wrong: the top and left edges should be white, the other two black. This way, the buttons look more like elements of a status bar, those had the borders reversed to produce an "inset" effect (like in this screenshot: http://173.255.209.242/chhtml/toolkit/demos/Windows/gifs/gad... )

I was always slightly perplexed as to how that difference in orientation of colors leads to the out/in effect. I guess it's not so much the left/right but the top/bottom that really achieves this phenomenon, given how most daily light sources come from above (sun, ceiling fixtures, floor lamps) and there are relatively few instances of uplighting (landscaping, ...) around us.

Our brains are hard-wired to assume light comes from above, and 3D "pop out" from shading even means we can identify the shapes faster. More info and references in this section from Mind Hacks (I was a co-author):

#20 Fool Yourself into Seeing 3D -https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K6bjvFUcedgC&pg=PA57&dq=...

(It briefly mentions Susan Kare's work who designed the first 3D buttons in Windows 3.0 -- 1990!)

There's another effect going on here which is visual affordances: not only does the button "pop out" but we immediately see it as something we can push. That's from the psychologist James Gibson in 1977.

There are a ton of cognitive quirks that are useful to know when designing interfaces. The pop-out effect is one of my favourites.

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