Hacker News: tsieling

New comment by tsieling in "Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle"

tsieling — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:47:17 +0000

Really fun and a fresh format. Well done!

New comment by tsieling in "AI Interior Designer"

tsieling — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 20:08:50 +0000

“Try me” “You have credits” on buy credits page “Sign in with google” “Upload image” “You have no credits - buy some” pricing page is broken

Pretty much sums up AI scam slop. What a joke.

New comment by tsieling in "Should required fields be marked?"

tsieling — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:47:58 +0000

I'm not sure we can always interpret 'optional' as 'nice to have but not necessary'. Optional fields can often cover edge or alternate cases like an apartment number in addition to a street address, a dietary or other accessibility accommodation, etc.

You could work around it by adding a bunch of conditional fields which then move more work onto the person filling in the form (tell me you need the extra fields then I'll show them and they will then be required) and add code complexity (more UI flows to test).

Many optional fields are indeed nice to have but assuming they all are misses that the world has a lot of fuzzy edges, and optional spaces handle those with a simple convention that many people expect and understand.

New comment by tsieling in "Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney over ‘Black Widow’ Streaming Release"

tsieling — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:02:18 +0000

I think they were negotiating in March 2019, when there wasn't a pandemic to consider?

New comment by tsieling in "Adobe Photoshop ships on Macs with Apple Silicon"

tsieling — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 20:28:57 +0000

That's exactly how I read it and my immediate reaction was 'hard no'. Glad it was a misread because bad things lie down that path.

New comment by tsieling in "Search Engine for Free Music Ranked by Usage of Youtubers"

tsieling — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:02:20 +0000

Why the email address grab?

New comment by tsieling in "Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th"

tsieling — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:31:39 +0000

Roughly the same, I think the variance is about 10% with Steam being an outlier working in tiers tied to revenue. At least one allows developers to name the cut (including 0%) but 30% is the most common number.

New comment by tsieling in "Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research"

tsieling — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:23:04 +0000

I feel pretty dumb, sure enough it's right there. Pardon my error I glanced right past that. Positioning the text with the password field would likely help, and/or include all rules in the error message, not just the one that's violated.

New comment by tsieling in "Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research"

tsieling — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:06:06 +0000

Ah another round of 'guess the password policy'!. Try a password. No, it needs a capital letter. Next try, No, it must also have a symbol.

I moved on after that. If this is the UX of setting up a password, I'm not up for the rest.

New comment by tsieling in "Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built"

tsieling — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:11:23 +0000

The policy and the design of the interface is inextricably linked to that change in interactions. A hands-off policy is still a policy for a site that rewarded more inflammatory content in pursuit of certain metrics.

New comment by tsieling in "Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first"

tsieling — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:20:23 +0000

More crimes are documented because of extra policing, but that is different from whether more crimes are committed. Crimes of different degrees are happening all around, but if you look particularly in one area that is where you'll see crime.

New comment by tsieling in "Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?"

tsieling — Fri, 22 May 2020 19:24:12 +0000

Agreed. Instant deal breaker.

New comment by tsieling in "Dotscience is shutting down"

tsieling — Wed, 20 May 2020 16:41:31 +0000

I appreciate how this was handled on the homepage: direct and looking out for your team.

New comment by tsieling in "How Tech Can Build"

tsieling — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:32:34 +0000

$1B, but it landed at about $750M because of the FB shares that took a tumble just after.

New comment by tsieling in "Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees"

tsieling — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:37:59 +0000

Take it or leave it isn't really negotiation, though, is it. There's no counter offer or alternative terms to work with. As I understand too many declines get drivers kicked off the platform, so their autonomy in this regard seems fairly limited.

New comment by tsieling in "Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter"

tsieling — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 21:46:36 +0000

Totally agree. I sent this to a few clients noting 'when we talk about digital storytelling, this is a good example'.

New comment by tsieling in "WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines"

tsieling — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:19:10 +0000

Press esc and wave that block away. For now, at least.

New comment by tsieling in "macOS Catalina"

tsieling — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:00:02 +0000

It's in the Mac App Store for me, but not as the marquee product at the moment.

New comment by tsieling in "Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents"

tsieling — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:55:39 +0000

I couldn't figure out their licensing or payment model for a team, everything led back to subscriptions and was hideously complicated. We went back to Dropbox because it just worked, no matter how much cruft its taken on.

New comment by tsieling in "The Last Apple Keynote (Hopefully)"

tsieling — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:42:39 +0000

This article is deluded. Apple practically creates its own weather and rules the news cycle through these events. Because poor Charlie is bored is hardly a reason to give up on a formula that creates billions in sales.