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Same here.


Full disclosure: I work on this: https://www.getboxlock.com/


I honestly don't really see this working? What incentive does the delivery driver have to spend more time scanning the box (place the label in view for the barcode scanner), unlock, open the door, place box, relock it

I can 100% imagine the driver just putting the box on top and leaving, or trying quickly to scan and have it fail then again put the box on top.


This is probably the biggest roadblock to this product's success. However BoxLock is in talks with all the major carriers to provide training. The carriers themselves are incentivized to use BoxLock because it provides a guarantee that the package was delivered successfully and securely. They don't want packages stolen either.

You can add delivery instructions to most shipments that tells the delivery driver to use BoxLock.


Neat. Does it somehow know which barcodes belong to your packages, or could a thief rip a barcode off any package and use it to unlock it?


Yes, it knows which packages belong to you. It will only unlock if the package is being delivered to that specific lock and the package is "out for delivery".


I think it's kind of cool. /dissenting-opinion


I'm presuming you viewed it on a mobile device. On my laptop running firefox I had this experience.

My laptop is presently docked to the right of my monitor on my desk. When docked I use a keyboard and mouse with the actual laptop being slightly to the right using its touchpad is somewhat awkward but do-able.

Space bar to go down doesn't work, page down/up doesn't work home end doesn't work arrow keys don't work. Try clicking on the little arrow that doesn't work. Try dragging the screen that direction with the mouse doesn't work. Grab scrollbar manually and pull it down doesn't work. I literally skipped that section because I couldn't figure out how to read it. Note I didn't realize you could grab the scroll bar manually do scroll horizontally because I have never had to do that.

After reading this thread I tried reaching over awkwardly to use the 2 finger scroll mode on the touchpad keeping in mind the normal sensitivity is such that one full swipe top to bottom about 2 inches is 2 pages of text. So about 1 inch per page of text.

Swiping through the first section the "overview" took 62 awkward swipes left to right about 2.5 inches each. About 155 inches of travel almost 13 feet for the last few it actually went down while I scrolled sideways which made me pause for a moment.

Scrolling through pages of content is so basic that going through the massive work of making a beautiful device and all the software required to run it and making reading about it that painful is remarkable.

Its like launching a new high end clothing store and making the entrance a dance dance revolution pad where one must complete a hip hop number to enter.

It isn't merely subjectively terrible.

Edit: On my phone also running firefox in vertical orientation it scrolls normally but cuts off a bit on the right hand side, in landscape orientation it scrolls normally AND looks correct.


>I'm presuming you viewed it on a mobile device. On my laptop running firefox I had this experience.

I viewed it on Firefox on my MBP and thought it was great.


Did you have to scroll right 62 times to actually view all the content?.

Were all the normal keyboard/mouse wheel navigation methods broken?

Seemingly good design would imply working for the 90% that don't presently use mac or detecting that a device isn't a phone and presenting a usable interface.

Seriously how do you screw up something simple like scrolling?


Firefox 63 on Mac works fine for me on this page. Spacebar, page-down, and scrollbar all work (i.e. the content moves a page at a time but horizontally).


Chrome 69 on linux scrolls horizontally at a much saner speed and has working arrow keys but is a fail in every other way mentioned. Firefox 65 on linux is a horrific user experience as described.

An article unlike a computer isn't a new exciting tech marvel it should be simple and work on any device that can render text and multimedia.


I've tried Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. And in every single one of them, scrolling works fine with spacebar, with the mouse, with Page up/Page down, and even that vim*-extension's 'd'.

I also enjoyed the effect. For anything I visit repeatedly, such as webmail or github, or news websites, I prefer a "lean" implementation. But a product page that I will visit may twice in its lifetime? Knock yourself out!


Novelty and breaking expectations regarding established HCI conventions are different sides of the same coin, I guess.


Or, like any good programmer, when God was coding animal DNA:

#include <BovB.h>


God would not use an imperative language.

p.s.

Look, imperative is most of what I've done and ~understand. I am not making it out to be inferior, rather questioning fitness for the job. Time and Place peekaboo thinking just seems pedastrian for a transcendent entity devising a world. (That's even an inside joke in Genesis with God looking for Adam.) Short scripting of little bits, sure, but blueprints and stuff, no way.

But, yes, this is just an opinion.


As Niels Bohr reputedly said: stop telling God what to do.


That would kinda put a dent in our relationship.


let light = true

?


(call-with-two-lights world)


let there = light


this.light = !undefined


Yeah, but apparently he forgot to guard his header with:

#ifndef __BOV_B_H__

#define __BOV_B_H__

#endif


He certainly didn't forget it. He is a good programmer after all.

The entire problem is that he left an extra underline at the end of the #define, and 3 underlines look exactly like 2.


You always remember the successful investments you didn't make, but not the unsuccessful ones. Think of all the money you didn't lose making bad investments.


If you're a little faster than average on the draw and have money to burn, the profits from the successful investments outweigh the money lost on the unsuccessful ones. E.g. if you have $50k, and spend it on five companies, only one of those companies has to be Apple for you to make way more than you started with...


Apple isn't a '1 in 5' company, though.


Agreed! I have a couple of those as well, but you're right, you tend to forget them.


I just bought a 34" 21x9 ultra wide monitor and am in a similar dilemma. I use ShiftIt (https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt) for window management since I can assign a single keyboard command to center whatever window I’m working on. However, what I’d really like is for command/alt-tab to automatically place the active window in the center, the previous window to the left, and the second-most-recently used window to the right. I might have to contribute to ShiftIt to make it happen, unless someone here knows an app that already does that.



OS X will alert you when your battery is getting low.


As a programmer, I have a very hard time believing the Theory of Evolution provides an adequate explanation for the state of life on this planet. We are ridiculously complex and very well tuned creatures. I can't believe something like this would ever produce something meaningful:

  begin
    code += random(character)
    code.execute
  rescue
    code.pop
    retry
  end
How much more the amazingly complex life on this planet...


For those of you who would like to watch the keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlX9i9Icno


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