Word is tons more powerful than Google Docs, has add-ins, way more formatting and styling. In my mind, Google Doc is not a direct competitor to Word when it comes to professional editing and writing.
Professional firms that produce contracts and reports generally have document format guidelines and standard templates. They may also have approved typefaces, up to and including brand-custom typefaces. And while these things could be applied by document editors or tools later based on a simple set of text documents (I'd be in favor of that), in reality everyone works in Word, and the working Word documents are what will eventually become signed legal documents or stamped and sealed engineering studies, or similar. Styling does matter.
Ideally, yes. But so many people only know of Word, or have been writing using Word for so long that they won't change their workflow and they simply do what works for them.
Formatting really adds a lot of depth that is important for deaf/hard of hearing people. Maybe you should try thinking about people with disabilities some time.
"Officially", SRT files are only timecodes and text, but most players support html codes directly like <b> <i> <u> to support more formatting options than the basic SRT. I wonder if some of them simply render the text as html and could be vulnerable to similar attacks. I say "Officially" because SRT has no standard, it just evolved through usage and it's a fucking mess, as I'm a software dev working on a subtitling editor software.
I seen a similar problem in another context where a browser engine is used to render some simple HTML in an app for convenience, but then suddenly turns into something exploitable because nobody is thinking about updating the engine when a bug is found in an esoteric (for the app) feature.
Embedded web engines should probably have a minimalistic safe mode.
Funny rambling backed up by a crazy well detailed article and you get downvoted by the HN hive mind. Docker is the ...ahem... whale in the room that you shouldn't criticize ever!
Your app has performance issues? Scale issues? Your database queries are slooooow? I'm a performance/design/architecture expert looking for contract work. Web or desktop apps. Specialized in everything Microsoft : C#, ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms, WPF and WinForms, WCF, SQL Server, Azure but I am also fluent in many many other languages and frameworks.
I downloaded Ingress yesterday because apparently Pokemon Go pokemon spawn locations are based on data from the Ingress map that was collected over the years. Ingress is sooooooooo complicated it's a major turn off for everyone who wants to play casually.
I often hear my friends talking shit about the spotify desktop app and web app not working properly. I don't use spotify but it seems like something's not working at least every month or two.
I just started playing around with ffmpeg for a side project of mine. I'm sad because it's C++ (and I didn't write enough C++ in my life to be any good in it) and I was looking around for a good C# wrapper exposing a media player that I can simply use in a desktop app, but everything I found was extremely buggy and laggy.
I'm currently trying to make an exact copy of ffplay.exe (since the source code is available) in C# using an tiny SDL2-C# wrapper and a tiny ffmpeg-C# wrapper, instead of finding a library that does everything. I'm glad to hear that ffmpeg is reliable and solid, I hope I can make it work in C#! (I'll probably put everything up on github if it works)
This page has by far the worst scrolling interaction I've ever experienced.
First up : no scroll bar so there is literally no visual cue that I need to scroll. Scrolling "activates" the next portion of content.
Somewhere around the middle part : I can scroll and see the scrollbar, but WAIT! Another portion of the page starts hiding the scroll and hijacking the scrolling to show something. Uggggh again?
Scroll some more : Scroll bar appears once more! I am free to scroll to the bottom of the page. Nothing makes me hate a webpage more than some shenanigans like this that breaks what a webpage should be.
I agree. If I remember suddenly that there is information at the top or bottom of the page that I want to access now I can't just click on the scrollbar to redirect me, but I have to wait an extra good five to ten seconds just to get back to it.
holy cow, every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling. It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about. For non-technical people, it's more intuitive having the screen-focused on the main content.
> every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling.
Only when the Show HN is of a website that hijacks scrolling.
When it doesn't, surprisingly, there are neither complaints about hijacking scrolling nor complaints that would be resolved by hijacking scrolling.
There may be a message in that.
> It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about.
IME, non-technical people are thrown even harder by violations of basic platform UI conventions like hijacking scrolling or having no indication that scrolling is necessary.
> very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about
If I thought that was a really nice product and sent the link to my dad (he likes gadgets and cars, after all), he'd have no clue what to do after landing on the page. He usually drags the scroll bar to navigate a webpage. Good job on alienating a huge portion of your potential users.
Which filters? I have ghostery, ublock origin, and a corporate firewall, all of which usually cause me some trouble, but I didn't have any issues with this site.
