Jambone
@Jambone@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
To me, buttons and icons provide the visual cue that “clicking here does something”, without having to mouse over them to discover that they’re clickable.
It’s the unadorned text strings that aren’t as obvious.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
Yea, I agree that Office 2003 was the pinnacle of Office UI design. And I’d go so far as to say that about Windows 2000.
Having controls in predictable shapes and locations really contributed to “ease of use”. One of my pet peeves is the more recent trend where clickable elements aren’t obviously so. Such as a string of text that one has to hover across and see the cursor change shape to know that it’s clickable.
As others have said, I think a significant part of why the UIs have changed since then is to accommodate touch screens and “webification”.
'Glad to see your posting. I thought I was just being curmudgeonly :)
- Comment on Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid. 2 months ago:
Florida Power & Light
- Comment on Jellyfin | "We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 10.9.0!" 5 months ago:
I have the same question, mainly because it seems like the Plex interface is trying too hard to show stuff that’s not on my local server.
- Comment on Reddit's cofounder said that at first the company felt like 'a homework assignment that got out of hand' rather than a business 10 months ago:
“This polish takes forever to dry…”
- Comment on Exploits of a Mom 11 months ago:
In the mid 80’s, a friend that worked in a hospital was telling about unusual names. My favorite:
Syphilis (SUH-fill-ess) - the word was on the mother’s chart, she liked it as a variant of “Phyllis”, and thusly named her baby.
- Comment on I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I lost everything, have no backup, and I'm stupid. 1 year ago:
In MSSQL, you can do a BEGIN TRAN before your UPDATE statement.
Then if the number of affected rows is not about what you’d expect, doing a ROLLBACK would undo the changes.
If the number of affected rows did look about right, doing a COMMIT would make the changes permanent.
- Comment on Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk 1 year ago:
This was my first non-OS Microsoft purchase.
The most fun thing I did with it was to write a “war dialer” inspired by the 1983 movie “War Games”.
It had a “graphical” screen where one could enter a telephone area code, an exchange, and starting and ending numbers, then it would command the modem to dial each number in sequence.
It would log the call results as “no answer”, “busy”, “voice”, or “data”.
Good memories…