{"id":15929,"date":"2009-07-15T16:45:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/07\/vive-la-difference.html"},"modified":"2009-07-15T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:45:34","slug":"vive_la_difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/vive_la_difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Vive la diff\u00e9rence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2009\/07\/chrome_os_context\">observation<\/a> from Daring Fireball the other day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So I think Gnome and KDE are stuck with a problem similar to the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uncanny_valley\">Uncanny Valley<\/a>.&#8217; By establishing a conceptual framework that mimics Windows, they can never really be that much different than Windows, and if they\u2019re not that much different, they can never be that much better. If you want to make something a lot better, you\u2019ve got to make something a lot different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of a drag to see other image-editing apps just imitate Photoshop.  I certainly understand the rationale for doing so, but their creators are tying their own hands.  Why not break some really new ground?  That&#8217;s what Mark Hamburg &amp; the Lightroom team did, rethinking a lot of problems from the bottom up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting observation from Daring Fireball the other day: &#8220;So I think Gnome and KDE are stuck with a problem similar to the &#8216;Uncanny Valley.&#8217; By establishing a conceptual framework that mimics Windows, they can never really be that much different than Windows, and if they\u2019re not that much different, they can never be that much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}