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Interesting how the example image for a bad UI shows the good UI using "Metric" vs "English" buttons.

In the England and the rest of the UK we use "Metric" vs "Imperial".

And we use a half metric system; metres and miles, litres and pints.

I notice in the USA the system is a different half metric system. Americans are much more likely to use ounces instead of litres. I also heard they sometimes use "kilopounds" and other such weirdness.

Anyway, this example image is one big fail to me.


Lived in the USA all my life and I have never even heard of "kilopounds"


Maybe they mean to reference the oddities surrounding tons, short tons, tonnes, and metric tons?


kilopounds feels like a weird bastard but I think it makes sense. The actual values of the metric system are just as arbitrary as US Custom/Imperial (a particular mass, 1/10,000,000 part of the quarter of a meridian, such and such hyperfine transitions in a arbitrary atom, &.) The value of the metric system is decimalization -- the centi-, kilo-, mega- prefixes. Really, if americans ditched miles and tonnes and stuck to kilofeet and megapounds the systems would not be meaningfully different.

On the other hand, having your prime factors be 2 and 3 rather than 2 and 5 are nice when you divid things into quarters and thirds regularly (inches).


I've never had my posts downvoted so much as on HN.

I'm more or less on topic. I'm not engaging in a flame war. I'm not trolling.

Is it the "kilopounds" thing? What can I say, I heard that this kind of Greek prefix gets used with non Metric meaurements. So I said sometimes.


A "motion map" ? I think you'd better read the paper again. They compute a full 3D reconstruction. Much much more computationally expensive. You would not "be able to create a similar motion map using the gyroscope data".


Oops, good point! I forgot that they calculated the geometry and stitched the images to create novel frames.

The gyroscope data most certainly would not allow one to do the same.


> it's difficult for a woman to step into any kind of leadership position and do the tough things without being perceived as a "bitch".

I disagree that leadership is about being a bitch or an asshole.

Yes, it's widely said that Steve Jobs was an asshole. But people "got" where he was coming from. He was a perfectionist. I'm pretty sure he didn't alienate all his friends.

In leadership you have to be able to take tough decisions; but it's not about being tough with other people all the time. You might have to be tough with someone occasionally, it's a tool you might need to use.

Take Martha Stewart for example. Tough bitch ? Successful CEO ?


She didn't emphasise it very strongly, in fact it was a very weak emphasis but she was saying that everyone has a different set of strengths and weaknesses. She might find it easier to get press attention as a woman but a guy could easily have a strength that makes up for this.

> But I don't think this kind of dismissal of the issues women have is very helpful

I think she knows better than you, unless you are a female CEO.

She made the point that sometimes when a woman is doing sales the customer can be more interested in her than the product. But historically, a lot of women in sales have tried to use sexuality to get the sale.


No, I am not a female CEO. I am female and have struggled a lot with the ways in which being female throws up barriers to some of my goals.

The fact that it wasn't perceived by her as a big deal does not prove she knows better than I do. Statistical outliers are not inherently more wise than others about the problems that your "average" person has.


> The fact that it wasn't perceived by her as a big deal does not prove she knows better than I do.

You've already said you don't agree with her on this point and yet again you don't say why.

> Statistical outliers are not inherently more wise than others about the problems that your "average" person has.

I'm sure that formerly, she was not a CEO, she was an "average" person. So she knows more about getting to CEO as a woman than you do. I'm not arguing that she has had the same experiences as you but I think it's a given that she is not implying that it is the same for all women.


You weren't previously asking me why I disagree with her.

If you are actually interested in a few of my thoughts on the subject, there are relevant posts on my personal blog that can be read. You could look for the tag "The Gray Zone" to get you started.


> You weren't previously asking me why I disagree with her.

I think the onus was on you, the person posting a comment that you disagree with the author of the article, to make your argument/point.

You can't join a discussion with "I disagree" and not say why.


I very nearly stopped at this point:

"All Apple products are banned in my household to make a statement about programmer freedom."

Sorry kids, to increase freedom I'm taking away your iPhones and you have to use Samsung.

There must be a Franklin quote there, somewhere ?


It's about as oxymoronic as refusing to play Sun City to support freedom in South Africa.


It was developed before or after Elop's burning platform speech ?


Elop's burning platform speech (memo, really) was from February 2011.

So the Nokia X came way, way after...


It was a rhetorical question.

But it's not necessarily true that Nokia X came "way after". Nokia could have put the project on hold when they started serious negotiations with Microsoft.


> If someone were to hack into any mail account, all they need to do is search for ‘password’ and they have all of the user’s passwords.

Only if you're dumb enough to not delete any password emails.

Granted, preferable any site sending you your password in an email should either send a reset link or "your password is 'red*'"


Only if you're dumb enough to not delete any password emails.

You delete it from your MUA, but how can you be sure that it wasn't stored in any of the intermediate servers?


The natural assumption is that the hacker has got your password, not hacked gmail or hotmail, etc.


I am not surprised. I tried to add some additional languages to Google (web) preferences to the "Skip translations for" but then the primary language for everything Google was changed to one of my additional languages. I had to go back and change it to default single language.


And that happened in a released product. Not sure if Chrome engineers bother to test the product thoroughly now that they have such a quick unobtrusive update system. Updates are bad. They are the reason for the demise of Windows. They ease mistakes for sloppy people.


Profit = Sales - Apple's cut - Apple Developer Account annual fee - iTunes App Store annual fee.

What makes you think he will be making a profit on a $0.99 app ?

Likely he was not making any profit at all. Are you suggesting he shouldn't try to claw back some of his costs ?

And now they reject his app; he takes it down and definitely won't claw back anything. Now he is down $200 + time and effort. Yeah, screw him for trying to make money off the backs of anyone.


Either way, IMO, students shouldn't be the ones paying (yes, I know it's only 1$). Maybe he should have made an arrangement with the school so they cover the Apple fees or fund it through donations.


The information was on the web. Students didn't have to pay the $1 to get to the information; they would have paid it because he made a nice, convenient app. Or they could go in via the website and dig through it themselves.

Did you read the story ? He tried to talk to the school but after several school employees told him they liked his app they changed their tune and decided he was ripping them off. T hey could have worked to understand what he had done and offered him his costs to open up the app but they decided not to.


People are using shorteners on shortened links, this is the problem.

The most obvious one is Twitter, always using it's own service regardless.


My guess would be for analytics, so it knows how its own service is being used and who is accessing websites through it. It comes with a convenient feature that bad URLs can be taken down on its site.


Genuinely curious: How does it take down bad URLs? And, by "bad", are we talking about 404s?


"Bad" as in malware, phishing, etc. When they recognize that a URL is bad, they can simply stop redirecting to that URL.


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