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Just as an aside: that's a misattributed quotation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall


There's a lot of positing here. To assume the "average user" doesn't understand what browser tabs, PDFs, and FAQs are seems ... odd. Now these may or may not be fine tips, but they are not recommendations based on best practices or any research that I can tell. If they are, I'd be interested in seeing it.


As mentioned in the post, these are findings based on usability testing - direct observational research.


Windows 8 backlash?


Every major UI change has a backlash. Many corporations and businesses are still on XP because the change for Vista/7 was too great and required too much new hardware for too little benefit.


This was my first reaction too. Very cool, but wouldn't pay monthly for it.


You don’t need time off. If you think you do, you’re in a Job and should stop thinking it’s a startup, because it will fail.

Or you're a human being and you'll be just fine.


I'm running programs of similar functionality but coming in at 1.95GB.

Chrome (only 8 tabs right now), Rdio, Sparrow, Coda, Terminal, Notational Velocity.


Quick thing on Terminal. I noticed that I had to limit the scroll back history in Terminal or else it eats up all your everything. For example if you have a number of term windows open and they are tailing log files or have verbose running processes open. I put it at 10k or so and things are fine now.


It says "Modern experience for modern browsers and devices.". Is that just an empty sentence or are they using a better engine? The paragraph after just talks about pixels and white space.

EDIT: More of the same, apparently: http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2012/07/...


I use this: http://cocoon.drinkbrainjuice.com/. It's in free beta right now.


This chart was created by somebody with a fundamental misunderstanding of what bankruptcy is.


I doubt it, since Boot Camp is a native OS X feature.


Boot Camp only allows for one other OS. Back when I tri-booted, I had to do it all manually (and use refit). Boot Camp had no idea what was going on.


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