Hacker News: callumlocke

New comment by callumlocke in "An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS"

callumlocke — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 06:55:21 +0000

Dear downvoters, it’s a joke.

New comment by callumlocke in "UX Issues with Notion"

callumlocke — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:00:08 +0000

> Likewise, wouldn’t you be baffled if you needed to click a “Start Editing” button in Word or Google Docs?

Interestingly that’s exactly what Apple Pages does now, on phone/tablet at least. I like the way it forces a moment of consideration of what’s there before I dive in. And iterative edit–review–edit cycles help me to keep making macro progress instead of fiddling with irrelevant details. (I’ve not tried Notion though.)

New comment by callumlocke in "Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon"

callumlocke — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:08:59 +0000

Ignore the negativity, your comment helped me.

New comment by callumlocke in "Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon"

callumlocke — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 09:05:07 +0000

I think the commenter was just trying to be helpful.

New comment by callumlocke in "The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death"

callumlocke — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:35:14 +0000

Having a limited supply of empathy is one way to think about this, but another (less immediately appealing) way is as fast moving moral fashions. In your example it seems like the empathy got ‘used up’, because of the order of those two events, but I think that sort of thing often happens the other way round too, in which cases it’s harder to tell ourselves stories about why. Maybe the best explanation is it’s mostly arbitrary. That’s the problem with relying on public charity and the feel-good factor as a mechanism for helping the worst off. Moral fashions are like weather – somewhat predictable, but not definitely not reliable or consistent.

New comment by callumlocke in "Google Analytics Opt Out"

callumlocke — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:33:26 +0000

Maybe it helps them in some way with legal compliance, or just PR (gives them an easy way to fob off people with concerns), the benefits of which would significantly outweigh the lost revenue from the miniscule percentage of Chrome users who will install this.

New comment by callumlocke in "Firefox Was Always Enough"

callumlocke — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:25:59 +0000

> for the average user

New comment by callumlocke in "New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night"

callumlocke — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 11:53:48 +0000

> If a law is bad when enforced, then the law needs to be changed, not the enforcement.

Useful as a rule of thumb but it's not always true. Models are never perfect, the map is not the territory. We are constantly figuring out what our shared values are, and it's a moving target. And the body of law itself is a complex beast with its own surprising dynamics. It's part of an ecosystem. You can't wave away its complexity with such a simplistic ideal.

A given law may be 'bad' (regrettable, even draconian/immoral) when enforced in certain cases, and yet it may also be unfeasible to change that law to add those cases as exceptions. This is why the law gives judges flexibility on sentencing, for example.

New comment by callumlocke in "Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers"

callumlocke — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:24:08 +0000

I’m the author of JSON Formatter [1] with 989,000 users.

I probably get a couple of offers a year for it. Of those that have offered specific sums, they ranged from from $10-20k. I always reject them, because it’s pretty obvious they want to turn it into malware.

I’ve had a couple of cases where I felt they went to some effort to schmooze me first, presenting themselves as having benign intentions, almost like a carefully crafted con. But as far as I can tell, there is no legitimate, ethical reason to want to acquire it, and I won’t sell out my users like that.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-formatter/bcj...

What interactives can do that articles can’t (2018)

callumlocke — Mon, 13 May 2019 16:54:03 +0000

Article URL: https://ejb.github.io/2018/06/03/interactives.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19901175

Points: 61

# Comments: 4

Apple is removing Alex Jones and InfoWars’ podcasts from iTunes

callumlocke — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 05:48:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-is-removing-alex-jones-and-infowars-podcasts-from

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17695323

Points: 57

# Comments: 140

New comment by callumlocke in "Cinematography in User Experience Design"

callumlocke — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:32:36 +0000

Good UX depends on audience and context. Many things are widely shared precisely because they give the user something fun and unexpected.

For people who work with computers all day, being online is more perfunctory, and the pleasure of seeing something fun/different rarely outweighs the annoyance of the interruption or of having to figure out an unconventional UI. But that's not everyone.

New comment by callumlocke in "The free, traffic-requiring TLD: .tk"

callumlocke — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:18:08 +0000

Doing what? All I see is the Wikipedia article for the TLD.

Apple has no idea what’s next, so it’s just banging on the same old drum

callumlocke — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:01:19 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@ow/apple-has-no-idea-whats-next-so-it-s-just-banging-on-the-same-old-drum-dcfd0179cf80

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286724

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by callumlocke in "Show HN: Transity – Plain Text Accounting"

callumlocke — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:19:51 +0000

Stopped here also. Bad sign. Different tools for different jobs, no need to get emotional.

What interactives can do that articles can’t (2018)

callumlocke — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 07:00:17 +0000

Article URL: https://ejb.github.io/2018/06/03/interactives.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17235516

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by callumlocke in "Microsoft acquires Github"

callumlocke — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 13:42:54 +0000

I think the edge just means CDN edge locations. There’s been a trend towards making edge locations smarter (via Lambda etc), so you can sometimes send dynamic responses straight back from the edge, ie quicker than always deferring to the big data centre for dynamic stuff. Previously computing on the edge was restricted to fairly simple caching of static responses.

New comment by callumlocke in "GitLab sees huge spike in project imports"

callumlocke — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:44:35 +0000

The only people who will see that ad are those who have already decided to check out GitLab today. It’s a convincer, not a traffic driver.

New comment by callumlocke in "Show HN: JavaScript/WebGL webcam face swap with color correction"

callumlocke — Thu, 31 May 2018 13:57:08 +0000

Never seen a live camera feed working in iOS Safari until now. Has something changed recently to allow this?

React store built on top of the new context API: react-waterfall

callumlocke — Wed, 16 May 2018 16:19:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/didierfranc/react-waterfall

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17083596

Points: 1

# Comments: 0