Kids these days grow up with the idea that they can have spaces and lots of other funny characters in their directory names.

— 8jean

Their home page is filled with modern web clichés: lots of white space, a huge 1,000-pixel vertical length video, and short paragraphs describing their product.

We redesigned the inbox to make email light, fast, and mobile-friendly. Quickly swipe messages to your archive or trash. Scan an entire conversation at once with chat-like organization. Snooze emails until later with the tap of a button.

I don’t understand exactly how they “redesigned the inbox”. It looks nearly identical to the Gmail application. It even has the same swipe-to-archive functionality. Chat-like organization? Oh, they mean Gmail’s conversation view.

Designed 30 years ago, traditional email transmission is clunky and slow. To make delivery as fast as possible, Mailbox checks your email from the cloud, then delivers it to your phone securely. You can even get push notifications for new messages.

This one made me laugh. Email is just text, so I have no idea what they mean by it being clunky and slow. I’m also a bit confused by their claim that they speed up delivery by “checking email from the cloud”. Where the hell else are you going to check email from?

Stop staring at emails you can’t deal with now. Mailbox lets you put off messages until later with a swipe and a tap. Snoozed emails return to your inbox automatically, so you can focus on what’s important now.

Isn’t this called “flag for follow-up” in most other email clients?

When your inbox holds just the stuff you need to address now, email feels lighter and faster. Mailbox makes getting to zero — and staying there — a breeze. After you experience a clean inbox, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

This one is really up to the user, I think. Many people simply don’t like deleting emails so they can search for attachments and other information. Personally, I keep a clean inbox.

At the very bottom of the page I’m supposed to get in line and wait for them to allow me to use their program. As if it was some huge privilege and some exclusive group. No, thanks.

You cannot expect normal human beings to question all their assumptions 24/7. Every time you blinked you’d have to prove to yourself that the whole universe hadn’t just been switched off and then instantaneously recreated itself.

— tehcyder

Estimado cliente:

La clave de acceso debe ser alfanumérica, no se permiten acentos, o símbolos especiales (#, &, ?, etc.) ni más de 2 caracteres consecutivos (123 o abc), tampoco más de 2 caracteres idénticos consecutivos (111 o aaa).

Estimado cliente, en su pregunta no se permiten caracteres especiales ni la letra Ñ.

The text says that I’m not allowed to use any special characters. This also applies to the secret question I was trying to set (this means I cannot end the question with ‘?’). The passwords are also limited to 10 characters. Way to go, Mexican banks.

The first screen after starting Steam’s Big Picture mode

The store view looks pretty good. It’s a nice way to highlight which games are on sale at the time. It includes the same categories the regular Steam client has such as Daily Deals, Specials, and New Releases.

The Steam Big Picture store view includes familiar categories found in the regular Steam client

If you click through to see the games available for purchase, their display resembles the way games are displayed in the Xbox 360 dashboard. I found it annoying that the currently selected game is left aligned. I wish there was an option to make it the center game. You can click through to view the game’s details, full screen trailers, and screenshots.

In an annoying move, the currently selected game is aligned to the left.

I liked the way games in my library were displayed. There’s an option to view all your games, but I don’t recommend this because if you have items in your library that are not actual games, such as “Counter-Strike: Source Beta” Steam will just display an ugly generic banner for the game’s image.

Steam’s Big Picture library view makes your games look pretty

There are also a few other annoyances. For example, if you go back to a previous screen the client doesn’t save where you were. This means if you’re looking at the 10th game on a list, click on it to view its details, then go back, the client will take you back to the first game on the list (instead of the one you were on). Hopefully they get that fixed for the next update.

Everybody knows that tiling window managers are the cure to all the world’s problems.

— Marcin Herda

Me too. I love downloading and uploading and updating and transferring and virus scanning and defragging and registry cleaning and installing and encoding and rendering and unzipping and compiling, as much as possible at the same time. I imagine all these massive bit streams flowing in and out, the heart rate of the computer going up, my quad core maximizing its potential and hacking through millions of operations in a harmonic way of perfection, leaving a trail structure and cleanliness behind. It’s so refreshing.

— AlphaCunt

The players of DayZ would have a fair chance of winning first place in the Olympics if crawling on all fours was included in the games.

— Donncha O Caoimh

The main factor in determining whether or not a [programming] language succeeds is the quality of its creator’s beard

— llamalad

Very clever video using a pocket projector