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@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
because you can't be a Miss/Ms and a Mrs.
The modern world (*cough*) is well on track on having disproved that
Mr ≠ Ms
(and you divide by 0 just by asking).
Soon it might tern around this as well
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@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
Who would marry a female electronics engineer?!
Ms ≡ Miss ∨ Mrs
Edit: I have been informed that Ms is either a synonym for Miss or Mrs...stupid language.
Why is it stupid? There were two titles, Miss and Mrs., but some didn't like the title for women indicates whether she is married, so a new title was devised, Ms, that explicitly doesn't.
But wouldn't it still need to be:
Ms ≡ Miss ⊻ Mrs
?No. If the set { Miss ∧ Mrs } is, as could be expected, empty, it does not matter whether we include it in the definition, but if somebody came up with argument why it is not actually empty, it would still contain women, so it should be included.
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Race signup form. On top of the localisation issue, I assumed that the country box under the town referred to residence, when it's actually used to mean 'nationality'.
Consequently, my attempt to become North Warsaw's fastest foreigner on Saturday has hit a snag :(
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@coldandtired said in UI Bites:
Race signup form.
For a second, I thought: "wait, they're doing mandatory race-specific forms in Poland now? That can't be good..."
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@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
Who would marry a female electronics engineer?!
Ms ≡ Miss ∨ Mrs
Really? TIL.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@coldandtired said in UI Bites:
Race signup form.
For a second, I thought: "wait, they're doing mandatory race-specific forms in Poland now? That can't be good..."
Nononono. Race signup forms. For becoming another race. Like they do with gender.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@coldandtired said in UI Bites:
Race signup form.
For a second, I thought: "wait, they're doing mandatory race-specific forms in Poland now? That can't be good..."
Nononono. Race signup forms. For becoming another race. Like they do with gender.
Wouldn't that be race replacement forms? This is for getting your first race.
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@ben_lubar For people who were born albino?
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This datepicker was not designed to make my life easier.
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Why does Office (latest version) on MacOS insist on not bringing newly opened documents to the front? I open something, and it opens behind all the other windows. WHYYYYYYYYYYY!
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@Benjamin-Hall I accidentally used a Mac the other day, and was flabbergasted when the Open File dialog opened behind everything else.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
Why does Office (latest version) on MacOS insist on not bringing newly opened documents to the front? I open something, and it opens behind all the other windows. WHYYYYYYYYYYY!
Because Apple knows people working on Macs only do one thing? CLOSE THOSE OTHER WINDOWS!!! YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall I accidentally used a Mac the other day, and was flabbergasted when the Open File dialog opened behind everything else.
As if Windows wasn't doing it with every other dialog window these days. And sometimes even the application windows – I randomly, but regularly, get windows stuck on top, so trying to activate other windows does nothing.
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Because Apple knows people working on Macs only do one thing? CLOSE THOSE OTHER WINDOWS!!! YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!
No, you're supposed to run everything in fullscreen mode like it's an iPad. And you are allowed to work on two things at the same time, because they added support for splitscreen mode some time back. Oh, and I think you can run a video in the corner of the screen if you'd like to too. Using several windows on the normal desktop is though. They even changed to maximize button to mean fullscreen instead, so yeah.
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They even changed to maximize button to mean fullscreen instead, so yeah.
Ordinary maximize is double-tap on the title bar.
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@dkf I know. And that's what I use. Because fuck fullscreen mode with a rusty spork.
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Because fuck fullscreen mode with a rusty spork.
It's not too bad for most apps when you have multiple displays () but unfortunately it sucks for my IDE.
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Ordinary maximize is double-tap on the title bar.
Except it does not maximize, for example, Safari windows.
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@marczellm The maximize is a bit weird. I think it only maximizes horizontally or something from how I remember it. I know I had to drag windows on one side to get the correct size.
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@marczellm The maximize is a bit weird. I think it only maximizes horizontally or something from how I remember it. I know I had to drag windows on one side to get the correct size.
Just tested--it maximizes vertically.
How I miss the snapping feature of windows--just drag it to one side or corner and let it do the right thing.
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I think it only maximizes horizontally or something from how I remember it.
Depends on the app. Safari maximises vertically and expands somewhat horizontally. Finder and Chrome maximise just vertically. Calendar, Thunderbird and Eclipse maximise in both directions. Skype expands fully but doesn't use the space, leaving masses of blank space entirely unused . Word 2011 does something strange that involves shrinking horizontally on one of my displays and something totally different on another one. (Gee thanks, MS!)
Needless to say, Slack does nothing unless you manage to double click on the exact one pixel that is topmost of all. But that might be the standard “double-click on the edge” behaviour of the Mac instead (I don't use that because the edges of windows are hard to hit accurately on a high-DPI screen).
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@Benjamin-Hall Cinnamon does proper edge snapping if you drag windows to the edges. It also comes with the option to set windows to always on top which is another nice feature I wish existed by default in more window managers.
@dkf Ya know, Apple should just to the thing they're otherwise famous for and crack down on inconsistent UI behaviour and force everyone into the One True Way. Even if the One True Way would end up something asinine, it's at least better than everyone doing their own thing.
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Apple should just to the thing they're otherwise famous for and crack down on inconsistent UI behaviour
They could start by cracking down on the issues in their own apps…
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@Atazhaia I'm forced to use Mac for school (we're an Apple school, iPads and Macbook Airs for everyone).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
How I miss the snapping feature of windows--just drag it to one side or corner and let it do the right thing.
I just installed this:
The free version is sufficient.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall I accidentally used a Mac the other day, and was flabbergasted when the Open File dialog opened behind everything else.
As if Windows wasn't doing it with every other dialog window these days. And sometimes even the application windows – I randomly, but regularly, get windows stuck on top, so trying to activate other windows does nothing.
No repro.
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@marczellm queue blakyrant about "having to install 3rd party software to do what other OSs do standard!"
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@Benjamin-Hall I'd be very surprised if Blakey would do a "Linux does what Windon't" rant.
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@Atazhaia It was more about style of rant (with me being the ranter) than about who, but Windows does the snapping (Aero Snap) as well as anything on Cinnamon (which is copying Windows, not the other way around IIRC). And most window managers on linux (last I checked) don't do anything like that. So it's something that Windows (in my experience) does way better than Linux, and infinitely better than MacOS.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
And most window managers on linux (last I checked) don't do anything like that.
The default window manager on my machine at work (too to figure out what it is) just loves to stack all my editor windows directly on top of each other. The default 80 x whatever is maybe 20% of the screen. Tile them? No. Cascade them? No. Stack them exactly, so you can only see one at a time. You can move them, of course, but that's the default positioning.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
@marczellm queue blakyrant about "having to install 3rd party software to do what other OSs do standard!"
cue someone waiting in the queue behind the blakeyrant
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
And most window managers on linux (last I checked) don't do anything like that. So it's something that Windows (in my experience) does way better than Linux, and infinitely better than MacOS.
I'm almost certain that kwin had this before Win 7.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
And most window managers on linux (last I checked) don't do anything like that. So it's something that Windows (in my experience) does way better than Linux, and infinitely better than MacOS.
I'm almost certain that kwin had this before Win 7.
All I can find is that it was a feature, then they removed it from default, then they added it back a couple years ago. When this happened, Seems to me to be about the same time (~2008-2009).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
And most window managers on linux (last I checked) don't do anything like that. So it's something that Windows (in my experience) does way better than Linux, and infinitely better than MacOS.
I'm almost certain that kwin had this before Win 7.
All I can find is that it was a feature, then they removed it from default, then they added it back a couple years ago. When this happened, Seems to me to be about the same time (~2008-2009).
That I can, unfortunately, believe. There's (in general) been a lot of removing cool features in the name of dumbing it down for "normal" users.
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Challenge of the day!
Go to this page and try to actually add the thing in your shopping cart.
For the among you, this is what it looks like. It's in French, but the UI is fairly obvious. Item description (holiday weekend in some nice place in Brittany, if you're curious) on the left, widget to add to cart on the right, with buttons to change the quantity and, uh, nothing else.
Bonus : it's a gift package for a week-end. There is a "quantity" selector. How often do people buy more than one such gift package at a time???
Bonus bonus : see if you can find the price of that item. The only way I found is to first manage to add it to your cart. Before then, who knows?
Bonus bonus bonus : you can browse the rest of the site, they actually only sell that one item. So they have a full (broken) shopping cart thingy, for a single type of item, that probably only ever gets sold in quantities of 1.
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@remi
They're French-Agile, so the rest of the "add to cart" process is currently scheduled for their next sprint, after everyone gets back from holidays in 6 months.
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@izzion
So you just hope they'll manage to release something reasonable before the holiday break starts a week later?
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@remi: what do I win?
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Challenge of the day!
Go to this page and try to actually add the thing in your shopping cart.
Challenge completed!
Filed under: Ask me how I did it!
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@Tsaukpaetra: don't look now, but I think there's a cat on your screen.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra: don't look now, but I think there's a cat on your screen.
*Pets Kitty*
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It would make a great Poe or Noe? post as well.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Pets Kitty
Is that what kids call it these days? you dirty ape!
Well, the name used to be Neko, but Kitty sounds more cuddly.
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I play this game:
The game lets you define bus routes, which you can then drive. I'm not sure how the route list is sorted, but it doesn't seem logical to me.
I created route #1 before route #2 was created...
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So this game even replicates the bad usability of the typical bus schedules. That's attention to detail.
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@topspin Nope