Maybe it's just me, but this looks kinda tasteless, like they took everything wrong with 2010s era flat illustration design and amplified it. IMO Samsung OneUI design language is miles ahead.
Readit Newsanother_kel commented on Android's new "feminine" design language neowin.net/news/googles-n... · Posted by u/bundie
I'll always be amazed at how Skype went from being top dog in 2010 to not even being considered a choice in 2020. How did Microsoft drop the ball so hard that when the Pandemic rolled around everyone decided to use the then-unheard of Zoom instead?
Taking a general public lens here. For vidya, Teamspeak/Mumble provided better quality & latency but Skype remained king for its ease of ad-hoc calls until Discord blew it out of the water.
Skype was built on p2p for 2000s internet. It was great technology at the time, but completely wrong choice for 2010s with smartphones and huge chat groups.
If we went back in time the only way to truly save skype would be to basically make discord and gradually replace skype with it, keeping the userbase. This would be way harder than just making discord because migration is harder that writing from scratch and getting that migration approved in a corporate setting is insanely hard.
Still waiting for the WYSIWYG GUI-base authoring tool for a web animation API. You know what artists - animators - generally don't like? Wading through docs and code to spin a square. It's been about a decade since the average of the various watersheds in the slow death of Flash, and we still don't have a replacement.
Have you tried https://rive.app/ ?
another_kel commented on Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content caniemail.com/... · Posted by u/fagnerbrack
> What an excellent resource! (And yes Outlook is a pain and supports so very little!)
So outlook today is the internet explorer of mail?
Kind of. Though if outlook magically goes away we'll still make emails with <table> because most clients still do not support even flex-direction. Outlook is just exceptionally bad with stuff like width:100px working on table elements, but not on <div>, or padding working only on specific elements.
"Google Bard now open to use..." in the USA only, apparently. At least it is not working north of the border yet.
Works in Georgia(country, not state)
another_kel commented on React is holding me hostage emnudge.dev/blog/react-ho... · Posted by u/iredd
There's 2 things that I hate about react.
1) JSX - It's terrible. Svelte, Vue, Riot... they all got it right. JSX, mixing a weird syntax of HTML and JS together is just inferior to HTML with additional markup.
2) I don't know why but every react project has crazy levels of abstraction. Everything is 15 layers deep and making any sort of change requires way too much effort to navigate 15 files and code reading to make the most mundane changes. Other libraries seem to suffer from this to a far smaller scale.
> JSX - It's terrible. Svelte, Vue, Riot... they all got it right. JSX, mixing a weird syntax of HTML and JS together is just inferior to HTML with additional markup
Hard disagree. Every time I work with Svelte\Vue I wish it had JSX, which is way superior to templating because:
- Creating sub components in the same file is super important. Going to a separate file, copying all the imports, writing emits, then going back and importing that file is too much hassle for a simple case where you have a carousel with cards. Refactoring is slow, components end up bloated.
- Passing down functions is more convenient than emits. For all the talk about how svelte is boilerplate free, it's equivalent of passing down a function and calling it is at least 5 extra lines of code.
- Passing down JSX elements is more convenient than slots. Every time I need to remember how to do named slots in vue\svelte I have to read documentation, while in React the mental model is obvious.
another_kel commented on Maybe people do care about performance and reliability buttondown.email/hillelwa... · Posted by u/soopurman
How bloated software can become is limited by available hardware resources. 20-30 years ago typical RAM size / CPU core count where much smaller than nowadays. If you run desktop software written 20 years ago on modern hardware it would work much faster than modern desktop software with comparable functions (not always, but quite often). But I'd agree that there was plenty bloated software which run slow on hardware most people afforded at that time. May be this happens because software is typically developed on top of the line hardware but users on average spend less on hardware then developers.
> with comparable functions (not always, but quite often).
Is that really the case? Are 2010 skype and 2022 discord comparable in terms of functionality? Are 2000 winamp and 2022 spotify app comparable?
Todo app 15 years ago was a simple CRUD app. Today todo app has to do CRUD, sync, offline mode, public API, integrations with popular services, collaborative projects and support 6 platforms.
People whine about bloated web tech in app, and how good it was with native while forgetting that availability and feature parity on all platforms is a feature too.
I still remember how bad it was before electron as a windows user. Half the apps that seemed cool(omnifocus, bear notes) had mac only desktop version, other(1password, evernote) had a native windows version that felt ugly and unpolished.
Visa and MC issued in Russia work just fine, no need for external banking
They don't work «just fine». They only work within russia. You can't pay for any foreign stuff wit it, you can't even pay in the app store.
People who can afford it literally travel to Belarus\Kazakhstan for a weekend just to get a debit card that works worldwide.
another_kel commented on MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/ValentineC
Adobe products lag even in new Macs with 40bln transistors M2 Pro CPU. Hilarious. How hard it must be to scale bitmap without lags ? https://youtu.be/6Ij9PiehENA?t=457
This is Illustrator, not photoshop, so it's vector. It doesn't really lag, the bounding box moves smoothly, but the preview is absent. To get preview you need gpu acceleration[1], which is either absent on arm macs or turned off here for some reason.
1 — https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/gpu-performance-previ...
> So 7 years into ray traced real-time computer graphics and we’re still nowhere near 4K gaming at 60 FPS, even at $1,999.
The guy is complaining that a product can’t live up to his standard, while dismissing barely noticeable proposed trade off that can make it possible because it’s «fake».