Comments for Luckymethod.com http://www.luckymethod.com Thoughts on the Beautiful, the Usable and the Profitable Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:39:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Disable “Press and Hold” in Windows XP SP3 and Wacom Tablets by Guest http://www.luckymethod.com/2009/12/disable-press-and-hold-in-windows-xp-sp3-and-wacom-tablets/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Guest Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:39:05 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/?p=166#comment-326 Thanks loads for steps to disable the wacomvirtualHID. :D solved writing problems in microsoft powerpoint too! (office 07, windows xp) <a href="http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1118" rel="nofollow">http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=111...</a> Thanks loads for steps to disable the wacomvirtualHID. :D solved writing problems in microsoft powerpoint too! (office 07, windows xp) http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=111…

]]> Comment on Focus on Now, forget Later and burn Never by Robert Reiz http://www.luckymethod.com/2011/04/focus-on-now-forget-later-and-burn-never/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Robert Reiz Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:01:04 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/?p=171#comment-325 That's a good advice! That's a good advice!

]]> Comment on We don’t have time to do things right. by Luca Candela http://www.luckymethod.com/2010/10/we-dont-have-time-to-do-things-right/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Luca Candela Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:26:04 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/?p=289#comment-310 I use a simple heuristic: would I feel ashamed showing the current state of the product to a new member of the team? Would he understand what has been done? If it takes you more time to figure out how to hack the system to include a feature or to fix what's not working, then it's time to take a step back and clean things up a bit. While it's easy to think you need "that special feature that will make all the difference", customers rarely care that much, but loathe to use stuff that works badly, or inconsistently. Speed, polish and simplicity always trump full-featuredness. I use a simple heuristic: would I feel ashamed showing the current state of the product to a new member of the team? Would he understand what has been done?

If it takes you more time to figure out how to hack the system to include a feature or to fix what's not working, then it's time to take a step back and clean things up a bit.

While it's easy to think you need "that special feature that will make all the difference", customers rarely care that much, but loathe to use stuff that works badly, or inconsistently.

Speed, polish and simplicity always trump full-featuredness.

]]> Comment on We don’t have time to do things right. by Albin http://www.luckymethod.com/2010/10/we-dont-have-time-to-do-things-right/comment-page-1/#comment-309 Albin Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:38:58 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/?p=289#comment-309 I couldn't agree with you more! The time is always now. I couldn't agree with you more! The time is always now.

]]> Comment on The Nexus One was a big mistake by Robert Reiz http://www.luckymethod.com/2010/04/the-nexus-one-was-a-big-mistake/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Robert Reiz Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:17:01 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/?p=179#comment-308 I totally agree. I have right now the Nexus S and I am not happy with it. Here are three more points: The GPS localization is really bad. It is a mess. Sometimes I have to wait 2 or 3 min. to get a signal. Before the Nexus S I used a iPhone 3. The GPS in the iPhone was much better/faster. Even inside of buildings I got a GPS signal with the iPhone. Since I synced my Adressbook with Outlook & Google I have every contact twice times! If I am delete one both are deleted. The image gallary sometimes shows the images not in chronological order. Sometimes the images are just randomly mixed together. I assumed that the google Ingineers are able to implement a simple "sort by date". This should not be a big deal. Next time than I am again in Germany I will by a simlock free iPhone. I totally agree. I have right now the Nexus S and I am not happy with it. Here are three more points:

The GPS localization is really bad. It is a mess. Sometimes I have to wait 2 or 3 min. to get a signal. Before the Nexus S I used a iPhone 3. The GPS in the iPhone was much better/faster. Even inside of buildings I got a GPS signal with the iPhone.

Since I synced my Adressbook with Outlook & Google I have every contact twice times! If I am delete one both are deleted.

The image gallary sometimes shows the images not in chronological order. Sometimes the images are just randomly mixed together. I assumed that the google Ingineers are able to implement a simple "sort by date". This should not be a big deal.

Next time than I am again in Germany I will by a simlock free iPhone.

]]> Comment on Disable “Press and Hold” in Windows XP SP3 and Wacom Tablets by HBJ http://www.luckymethod.com/2009/12/disable-press-and-hold-in-windows-xp-sp3-and-wacom-tablets/comment-page-1/#comment-296 HBJ Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:18:34 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/?p=166#comment-296 The registry hack worked great for me as far as I can tell. I have been dealing with this in One note for a long time. Every other method seems to disable inking which defeats the purpose of having a tablet in the first place. I would like the pen button combined with TAP to still work as the right click though. What happens now is the second pen button IS the right click. IOW I don't get the option to TAP with the button engaged. Do you know a hack to make this work as it's supposed to? System is a laptop with built in wacom tablet (3"x5") windows XP Pro latest SP. If it were tablet edition I'd know what to do. The tablet control panel is missing the usual options (I also own a 12" tablet computer so I'm accustomed to the normal tablet options). Please contact me if you know the cure. pro audio guy at yahoo dot com You know what to do..... Thanks The registry hack worked great for me as far as I can tell. I have been dealing with this in One note for a long time. Every other method seems to disable inking which defeats the purpose of having a tablet in the first place. I would like the pen button combined with TAP to still work as the right click though. What happens now is the second pen button IS the right click. IOW I don't get the option to TAP with the button engaged. Do you know a hack to make this work as it's supposed to? System is a laptop with built in wacom tablet (3"x5") windows XP Pro latest SP. If it were tablet edition I'd know what to do. The tablet control panel is missing the usual options (I also own a 12" tablet computer so I'm accustomed to the normal tablet options). Please contact me if you know the cure.
pro audio guy at yahoo dot com You know what to do…..

Thanks

]]> Comment on Dear Facebook, please fix the duplicate names bug NOW. XOXO :-) LOL by PanchoAlvarezMontero http://www.luckymethod.com/2009/10/dear-facebook-please-fix-the-duplicate-names-bug-now-xoxo-lol/comment-page-1/#comment-294 PanchoAlvarezMontero Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:09:21 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/2009/10/dear-facebook-please-fix-the-duplicate-names-bug-now-xoxo-lol/#comment-294 It is easy to see that they do not know anything about relational databases but they do now a lot about flat-file systems such as XML and the like. Since uniquely identifying a row in a relation or table is at the core of the relational data model a database expert never would've made such a mistake. It is easy to see that they do not know anything about relational databases but they do now a lot about flat-file systems such as XML and the like. Since uniquely identifying a row in a relation or table is at the core of the relational data model a database expert never would've made such a mistake.

]]> Comment on We don’t have time to do things right. by Dave Doolin http://www.luckymethod.com/2010/10/we-dont-have-time-to-do-things-right/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Dave Doolin Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:05:05 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/?p=289#comment-285 Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) wrote a really interesting article on "technical debt" a while back. (I won't spam you with a link). His premise was it's inevitable, but just as inevitable, if you don't pay it (i.e., maintain your code), it's all going pear shaped. Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) wrote a really interesting article on "technical debt" a while back. (I won't spam you with a link). His premise was it's inevitable, but just as inevitable, if you don't pay it (i.e., maintain your code), it's all going pear shaped.

]]> Comment on We don’t have time to do things right. by Magne Matre Gåsland http://www.luckymethod.com/2010/10/we-dont-have-time-to-do-things-right/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Magne Matre Gåsland Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:18:35 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/?p=289#comment-284 Very true. But have you heard about the Pareto principle. How do you know when something is 80% or good enough? I feel the most difficult part is not "getting stuck" in optimising things that you feel matters, but maybe in the grand scheme of things doesn't really really matter.. I'd love to hear your thoughts about this. Very true. But have you heard about the Pareto principle. How do you know when something is 80% or good enough? I feel the most difficult part is not "getting stuck" in optimising things that you feel matters, but maybe in the grand scheme of things doesn't really really matter..

I'd love to hear your thoughts about this.

]]> Comment on We don’t have time to do things right. by MIT http://www.luckymethod.com/2010/10/we-dont-have-time-to-do-things-right/comment-page-1/#comment-277 MIT Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:19:15 +0000 http://www.luckymethod.com/?p=289#comment-277 Great Post ;) Great Post ;)

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