eudora

I find the UI good but not worth that much of a cut. Maybe this is for people who can't roll their own solution.

Pretty shocking, thanks for such a detailed analysis

Moving in the direction of an everything app, like WeChat?

I was horrified at this news at first, but WeChat isn't too terrifying, and they're far more ubiquitous.

I just hope the social network aspect of Facebook (and Instagram) continues to shrivel.

I'm stunned that Samsung tab a survey about socks to launch a new washing machine

Pretty valuable reading, I feel like social theory should be more widely taught somehow

I wonder what happened to Telegram's currency

If the base of their site was served from an auto updated base, there's no reason why it couldn't be pretty much as secure as a platform.

Say it's a frontend over a Docker image that gets updated upstream for security issues, and the server has a Cron job that keeps it up to date.

Why couldn't that work?

I know there's some centralisation around the Docker image, but that could be open source or provided by someone like Mozilla or Apache or WordPress who we can trust.

And there's no reason why the user couldn't choose from a whole ecosystem of image providers with a simple enough UI

Knocking it out of the park, Mozilla, keep it up.

Getting more people on Firefox would do the tech world so much good, diversifying who controls what in the web.

Love the concept for the site, and love the interactive charts

The tax might increase income but imagine the effect on the costs to the health system!

At least in a European country where health costs are socialised. Not sure how much they're socialised in the United States.

The author makes the point that a standard is required.

I've heard of various implementations like kramdown and redcarpet behaving differently, so it seems that that is the case.

Sneaky because now you don't know what server a web page is coming from?

Because yes that's true, although cryptography it's maybe half true.

It also puts a _lot_ of work on the publisher to implement these changes. Again.

(Unless you're using CloudFlare)

But microservices!

Surely using quotes around the term does the trick?

Ahem

https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/

https://system76.com/

https://www.dell.com/learn/au/en/aubsd1/campaigns/xps-linux-...

https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/pd031426

> After more than 125 years of using two-dimensional paper drawings, the shipyard has set its sights on a “drawingless” future, where work instructions are packaged and delivered electronically.

> The migration is already bearing fruit. To date, 14 work packages on Kennedy have been completed using “visual work instructions” provided on hand-held tablets.

PADDs, finally

...hats off?

I LOVE this approach. Responsive gnome. It seems essential to me anyway, allows for tablets and any form factor you like.

That, and they take advantage of decades of work put into GNOME.

Collaboration!

I've also been getting a strong impression of Google being a yellow pages.

Almost all of the time I Google something, it's because I want the top result. As in, I search [company name] and go to companyname.com.

But otherwise, I find 90% of my searches are [reddit topic] or [wiki topic].

I use [reddit topic] the way I used to use Google itself.... I'm not sure if this is a good thing.

It's where people talk, rather than SEO and try to sell you crap.

That said, there's increasing amounts of ads pretending to not be ads, scams, and shills on reddit.

Did you learn anything useful? (I'm not asking the specifics of what you learnt, but say... Is it helpful to know disease related info? Ancestry? Etc)

I tend to agree that if his computer is shitting itself multitasking in 2018, even with photoshop or illustrator or whatever, then he's got the wrong computer.

I wonder what's the cheapest computer, with comparable build quality to the iPad pro, that also will not struggle with the same amount of multitasking (with the same kind of apps)

Less than an iPad Pro? Or more than?

As in, do you get more bang for your buck (in terms of multitasking productivity) with an iPad Pro?

Planning on mining some bitcoin are ya? :)

I mostly see what you're saying here

The thing is, if these things resulted in increased profit over the medium term, they'd probably have happened already.

So yes there's user-hostile decisions made that put profit over users. Like ad tracking.

But there's other things that I think convince a user to purchase a product, and purchase the next product from the same company (loyalty maintained) that may not be in the user's best interests.

An example is a larger battery. My current theory is a manufacturer could easily have a 2 day battery and it wouldn't make for a terribly unwieldy phone.

But they don't, because customers are going to buy the phone next to it that is sleeker and weighs less.

I think customers are more often than not short sighted when making decisions like this. When they're in the store they think "but this one's so much nicer, and the battery probably lasts enough"

I think purchases are often made emotionally, not rationally, and a phone with 7 extra switches and more weight or thickness just seems clunky and less "high tech"

I mean, maybe. I freely admit I have no evidence other than the anecdotal.

It's just generally been my experience that the vast majority of users don't care about privacy issues or "freedom" the way techies do.

As you say we both provide no evidence, but I suppose my claim aligns better with HN user's anecdotal evidence

It's true I could be wrong, it might be something really unintuitive and for some reason people want hardware switches and I've just literally never heard it until now.

But in my experience 99% don't even know about, let alone care about advanced features. Even simple features you and I take for granted. They want to launch Instagram. That's about it.