This is seriously cool! this really brought up some very fond memories of a movie I really really like. Thanks for posting.
Growing up I always like the UX they had for things in star-trek TNG. Back then in the nineties touch based interfaces were really something out of a sci-fi movies, and now 20 years later they're commonplace, which gets me to the point - is there anyone working on a starr trek like JS UX framework? That would be so cool!
The most practical example for a LCARS-like UI is the Flat UI bootstrap templates.
Unfortunately, most attempts at making LCARS practical have failed because it was designed to look good on camera. Just try to use lcarscom.net[0] or lcars.org.uk[1]. Not to mention that CBS Studios Inc. holds the copyright, and enforces it[2].
A vey interesting post. I'm actually excited about the ability to pa by mail and in general paying for things online in a more convenient way than having to create accounts at all these web sites and then having to fill my personal and payment details. Having said that, I do agree with the author that indeed we are moving (albeit sometimes too slowly to realize) into a more passive state of existence where more is done for us and we sometime loss some of the subtle qualities of human connections. Having siad that - what can you do? progress is progress and while we might feel sentimental sometime we have no option or alternative but to adapt ourselves to it.
I must admit I am rather excited for Google Wallet in GMail as well. Paypal frustrates me at times.
And yes - progress is progress and all we can do is be aware of what the changes are around us. That way, we'll have a better chance at avoiding wasted movement.
We haven't tested Azure Cloud Storage. However, we did test other cloud computing hosts such as GoGrid and Rackspace. Their upload speeds were almost the same and sometimes even better than EC2 when uploading to AWS S3. Perhaps we will test Azure in a follow-up post.
I wish more companies would go down that road of actively encouraging the community to hack their products. There's a certain degree you need to have in your product to do this. I guess a lot of big companies don't have the kind of culture which would allow this to happen, regardless of the good it would do to the product.
Off the top of my head - No. I cannot think of any products which would require more than 3/4 core metrics.
Each product should be measurable by 3 to 4 metrics max. If there are more metrics which are considered "core metrics" it will be very difficult to ascertain how its exactly impacting your product, to detect how change in one metric affects another will become too complex. i.e. metrics have some sort of relationship between them.
It's a good call for action, but from my own experiences the cost of rebuilding things (time,money,breaking stuff) is so great, and there's no real incentive for anyone within the company to do so. On the bright side - this does open a window for new enterprise start ups to redo these kind of systems and win over large and legacy software.
It would be interesting to have some feedback for someone who went from vim to ST.
ST seems an elegant and powerfull text editor for those who've been using big IDEs but what about someone like me who've been using vim for 5 years and learned to never move my hands off the keyboard ?
I have not completely switched but notice that I am using ST more on my web development projects. Sometimes, I find it better on looking for files and js/css/python linting.
Growing up I always like the UX they had for things in star-trek TNG. Back then in the nineties touch based interfaces were really something out of a sci-fi movies, and now 20 years later they're commonplace, which gets me to the point - is there anyone working on a starr trek like JS UX framework? That would be so cool!