Posts made by Medinoc
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RE: UI Bites
@hungrier I've seen some Tumblr blogs with no date at all on posts. Same with fellow WTF site Not Always Right. :-(
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RE: Killed by Google
@hungrier said in Killed by Google:
Downloading
Note because the onebox doesn't mention it: It's about blocking non-HTTPS downloads linked from HTTPS sites.
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RE: UI Bites
@Benjamin-Hall Our first computer with a hard drive had a 2GB one (to better give an idea of the time, it was a P166 MMX with Windows 95).
Our previous computer was bought 10+ years earlier, and used only floppies with 178k of user data per side. -
RE: UI Bites
That said, I remember some UI in imperative, but that wasn't a translation: Back before Google became our Lord and Savior™, we had that search engine themed after a dog, so the "find" button was named "Go fetch!" in imperative form.
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RE: UI Bites
On the other hand, you still see people who will come up to the signal and press it five or six times as if they think it's counting and will cycle faster if there are lots of people crossing; or who while waiting will press, and press again, and press again, and again, ... I suppose it gives them something to do.
In some places we have crosswalk buttons that light up a "call registered" light when pressed. It does a good job of dissuading people from abusing the button... when it works (I remember an intersection near my old home where after a few months it never lit up).
Edit: By the way, in French we use infinitive translations too. The only place where I remember seeing imperative translations was Sid Meier's Civilization II (possibly IV too? I don't remember)
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RE: UI Bites
@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Windows use a different, but related placebo. When an application crashes, there is a dialog showing progressbar and something like “searching for solutions”. When it completes, it gives you the option to restart the application. If you press cancel during the progress, it just gives you the same option immediately. I've never seen it come up with any other solution, so I doubt it is really doing anything. What I don't understand is how it can make Windows look better though.
I have. It's actually looking into their WER database. Some (very rare in my experience) times, the error can be flagged as having a known solution (i.e. a patch) or flagged as requiring more information (in which case Windows asks for a bigger error report).
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RE: ERROR_THREAD_EXISTS
This discussion about
void
and the function/procedure distinction reminds me of the WTF in Texas Instruments TI-89 BASIC, which was the source of my very ingrained bias about the function/procedure distinction:They defined a function as "Can return a value and is absolutely pure". Which meant there was absolutely no way in the language to code a logical unit that prompted the user for a value, accepted said value and returned it, because of course UI is impure.
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RE: Linux locks and a kinder, gentler Linus
@acrow Wasn't that written in the single-core days? In those days, if you didn't yield in your spinlock, you'd spend the rest of your scheduling quantum wasting CPU time.
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RE: Linux locks and a kinder, gentler Linus
@Vixen said in Linux locks and a kinder, gentler Linus:
he's be just as acerbic as Tovalds, but much less...... pyrotechnic.
Less pyrothechnic? What happened to "the social skills of a thermonuclear device"?