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Colin Charles
Personal blog · bytebot.net/blogdataprogramming
Colin Charles's personal blog at bytebot.net covers data and programming. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this personal blog for posts on desktop interfaces, such as spatial file navigation in Nautilus and Mac Finder, and on Linux desktop memory use and KDE.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-08-30
What Hacker News says?
Are you talking about spatial mode? That still exists in Finder. Just hit Cmd+Opt+T or select "Hide Toolbars" from the View menu. You're absolutely right. I don't have the citation on me right now, but spatial mode has been found to be easier to grasp for new users in every single test ever. The only reason it was dropped was because (1) Windows Explorer, (2) power users whined about too many open windows and (3) a…
Comment linking /geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html
on “Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody”Submitted SPIDER in MariaDB as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGnome's own Nautilus had direct support for spatial navigation for a long time in the Gnome 2 era (including briefly on by default in something like Gnome 2.6 before complaints reversed that decision), though it was obviously a small bit underwhelming compared to Mac Classic, and lost entirely in the Gnome 2 to 3 transition. https://people.gnome.org/~bmsmith/build/nautilus-spatial-mod... http://www.bytebot.net/geekd…
Comment linking /geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html
on “Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux”Submitted A few great weeks for MariaDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWow, I thought this was a bad joke about KDE being bloated. It is not, KDE actually requires a local mysqld instance for PIM data: http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/02/19/kde-42-bring...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2009/02/19/kde-42-brings-the-mysql-server-to-the-desktop
on “A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops”Submitted Square-like payment devices in Asia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionStill just a blog that clearly needs a huge theme update? Heh, but it has collected fragments since January 2004, when I gave up hand coded HTML and doing an rsync on the diary. http://www.bytebot.net/blog/
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?”The word you're looking for is "spatial interface". http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/
Comment linking /geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html
on “Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor”
