Andrew_nenakhov

My favorite scene with Patrick Stewart is him leading the defence of the Atreides palace while being armed with an adorable puppy in Lynch's "Dune". RIP.

Except that for computer screen you need to hold your hands up in the air, while with mouse and keyboard they basically rest upon the surface. That's far less tiring.

I told you a true story about my experience and you call it 'hyperbole'. Well, ok if it suits you.

On your second point, proper developers release security updates and backports for software released decades ago, while others always chase new shiny things and contribute a lot to this unsupportable legacy hell that we have to deal with.

It does, because everyone and their dog started releasing software that only runs on the latest version of macos. So if you are not running the latest macos, you can't use the latest software version.

For example, I used Sketch on my ond mac once and was quite happy, but then they dropped support for the OS version that mac was stuck upon. And since newer libraries resources etc all target latest version of Sketch, the version of Sketch I could run quickly became useless.

The GP was preaching the virties of information control, and we Russians know far too well how it ends.

And no, your claim that US has a firm grasp on what information reaches its people is laughable: you can host and serve any information critical of government without issues. The closest you had to putinism was when companies en masse started deplatforming Trump and his supporters in early 2021.

Trump was censored by social networks long before January 2021, under all kinds of bullshit reasons.

It's rather strange to see such shameless apologetic of Putinism on HN. Yeah right, let's give the government more power and control over the information, what could go wrong???!

Stackoverflow killed itself long before AI appeared: they developed so hostile and toxic culture that it basically collapsed its utility to zero.

I beg to differ; SF Symbol icons serve their purpose much better than Apple's old raster icons of yore.

But hey, tastes differ.

Most likely it was this: McDougall, S. J. P., de Bruijn, O., & Curry, M. B. (2000). Exploring the effects of icon characteristics on user performance: The role of icon concreteness, complexity, and distinctiveness

I think I stumbled upon it while reading that era's GNOME HIG, that had some very similar thoughts about icons..

Some very long time ago, in the early 00s, I read some UX study about icons. Ppl there replaced regular icons in app like MS word with random shapes, red square, blue circle, purple triangle, etc, and found out, that after initial learning period people find these icons just as fast as more meaningful ones. Recently, I tried finding that material, but couldn't find it. Still, it matches my experience with icons.

Humans are very good at distinguishing shapes and colors. Visually distinct icons of various shapes help build muscle memory and quickly find the needed option.

One of the worst trends in icons is this insatiable desire to put different icons into uniform shapes.

For example, this trend resulted in tragic replacement of beautiful varied and distinct Android icons that were introduced in Android 5 to the uglicity we have now.

On iOS, beautiful SFSymbol icons that floated beautifully on flat surfaces since iOS 7.0 were encased in absolutely similar circular 'liquid Glass' blobs. Sad.

The only reason AfD grows in popularity is because the other parties are deaf to what worries their constituents.

Other parties are so indoctrinated and zealous in their beliefs that they fail to see this simple truth and would rather resort to some authoritarian actions than think of changing their ways and try to win the electorate back.