> Monitors are bigger than ever with huge resolutions, and yet UIs are being dumbed down to uselessness and alienating an increasing number of users.
Looking at the screen resolution data of visitors to the web apps I’m working on, I’m still surprised by how many people are on 1024x768 screens and even smaller (often more than 50%). Don’t forget there’s a big crowd of people on small and cheap laptops in the developing world. New OSes should also serve this group.
>I’m still surprised by how many people are on 1024x768 screens and even smaller (often more than 50%)
I was also surprised when you said that, but after a few seconds of thought outside of my tech bubble where everyone has 4K/retina screens, I remembered that my parents, and my GF and her parents, all still use their 10+ year old PCs/laptops with low-res screens, so now I am not surprised anymore.
> Don’t forget there’s a big crowd of people on small and cheap laptops in the developing world.
In the developed world too, I'd think. It's not like Grandma -- or the kids / grandkids buying her a Christmas present -- are going to splurge more than a few hundred bucks on a laptop for her to Facebook with.
The light tone and funny images make it stick, up to the point that it became part of my vocabulary; when my SO is worrying too much about what other people think, I mimick a mammoth trunk and she immediately gets it, and vice versa.
Good stuff! Reminds me of an R package [1] I developed a while ago while at DataCamp that does this specifically for R; it turns static R Markdown documents into interactive playgrounds.
One interesting distinction is "tutorials" vs. "lessons"... LearnR and datacamp are much better for _lessons_, where you ask a learner to type in some code and check to see if you got it right, with hidden cells with the appropriate test cases backend.
I was surprised to see an update to a contemporary JavaScript framework to be welcomed rather than boo’d by the average HN reader. That in itself is an accomplishment.
the appetite for a credible alternative to a Facebook project is strong. also the vue team has done a great job dripping out information over the past 2 years and building anticipation. very little surprises in this release, hence mostly celebration left. you need to go back a bit further in time to find the critical HN comments.
“On Writing Well” by William Zinsser is a title that covers some items on the list, although it’s general for writing non-fiction. It taught me to get rid of the fluff in sentences to make my writing more compelling.
If you’re using free Heroku dynos, the first visitor in a while will experience long load times because the dyno has to be spun up. This is a pretty bad experience. I’d spend the 7 dollars each month to make sure your dyno is always up.
> It is a story of how the most ancient painkiller known to humanity has emerged to numb the agonies of the world’s most highly evolved liberal democracy.
