I can understand people complaining. The dialog UI you linked to is a horrible grey text and grey, it's really hard to read. The rest seems to be a case of "flatten it, because it's modern", it really don't make thing more visible or clearer.
Again, this (insert three or four choice expletives) flat design meme that treats contrast as if it's an evil to be exorcised.
Never minding the fact that basic UI elements were moved for no good reason, the old UI differentiates the borders between elements a lot better than the new. Look at the layer selector in the first screenshot and compare it to the new one - the thicker lines between elements gives your eyes something to lock onto, and the elements "stand out" more. Colors are removed for.. why, again?
I know the advice is "engineers shouldn't design UIs", but I'm quickly coming to the conclusion graphic designers shouldn't either. Just about every UI convention of the last couple decades is being thrown out, or at least heavily modified, for something that's not necessarily better in any way.
Thank you!
Without having worked with the new UI, I do like the looks of the new palette. The form fields on the other hand look like they could be overseen easily.
I'm not sure about the legal issue here though. If I see it correctly, you are downloading the songs to your server and serve the file from there. A lot of content that is uploaded is often times illegal, so you might be charged for distributing illegal content (illegal as in copyright).
What I'm also wondering. How come the parsing takes so long? I know other services that are a lot faster. Is it just the speed limit of the server itself?
The brothers do have some money, I suppose, from their company.
However, I'm not sure if they are using the data gathered from this service, thus resulting in revenue somehow (maybe in their social network).
Replacing SMS I can see, since whatsApp/GroupMe/iMessages/whatsoever is already doing so, but replacing e-mail? Why would it replace e-mail in your opinion? I think IM/chats have a completely different purpose compared to e-mail, which unfortunately is often times used wrongly imho.
Wow, never heard of it before today. This should definitely be promoted more!
I was surprised there was only one old news here on HN. I submitted a new one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913456
Besides having a lossless compressed audio file, I often wonder, if one can actually hear the difference between a well compressed mp3 (say, converted from a flac) and the actual original flac?
Is there a real benefit for the average consumer? The problem I see is the quite large file size.
FLAC is intended for music archival storage, so its not really about perceptual loses, but preventing things like generational loss if you are using music for stuff like mixing/re-encoding etc.
Blind test? HydrogenAudio forums will tell you that if it's not a blind A/B test you can fool yourself very easily.
You might also like to try AAC (or ogg) at a similar bitrate: MP3 has a couple of encoding peculiarities that are an unavoidable function of the format & if you know what to listen out for they're fairly obvious even at higher bitrates. (I'd still be surprised if you could tell the difference between flac and 320kps mp3 in a blind test though.)
Seriously, I can't stop but think while reading your comments that you have a lot of emotions building up within you.
I see your point in people evangelizing VIM, Emacs, Apple, whatsoever, but... who cares? Let them be. I don't see, why you try so hard to prevent people from being happy and enjoy little things in life. Why does everything have to be insignificant, because something else is so much more significant? I seriously don't get your point there.
Let people love their editor, even if it is insignificant to you. People actually are more productive, when they are happy using a product they like, or could you seriously imagine writing code/surfing the web/do anything with the on-screen keyboard? Even you would get frustrated and would hate your job. It does matter. Maybe not the productivity-wise, but definitely how you, as a person, feel.
Well, it's possible that you are confusing passion with emotion. It really takes a thick skin to go against the grain. The grain on HN is very pro-vim for some reason. And, yes, it blew my top to see an article now proposing to go farther and ignore "hjkl". How insane will this cult get?
If all I achieve is to virtually snap a newbie out of the trance created by HN dogma the result is good. It would be a tragedy to promote these tools for another thirty years.
