Google Extends Its Patch Reward Program To Include Android 33
An anonymous reader writes "Google has extended its proactive Patch Reward Program to include even more open-source software. Among them is the Android Open Source Project, which the company previously did not reveal was going to be added. Last month, Google started providing financial incentives (between $500 and $3,133.70) for proactive improvements to OSS that go beyond merely fixing a known security bug. Google said at the time it would be rolling out the program gradually, and hinted that more project types would be on the way."
$3,133.70 ?? (Score:2)
I saw wut u did dere.
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Yeah, they cheapened out. That's what. $31337 makes more sense.
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yeah, what the heck is an "eleeto"?
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It's when you get two Cheetos that fused together during manufacturing.
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Totally |33+
such is the life of a peasant. (Score:2)
They should consider a "poor UI design program" (Score:2, Interesting)
You know, like this relentless drive to make things flat, single shaded and without borders / lines or dividers making information / data easier to identify. It's all mashed together.
Furthermore the tabletification of web pages, the urge to push Google+ on their customers, really importantly also is the move to remove the menu (context) button on Android devices instead for a multi-task button. One of the _primary_ reasons, literally one of the biggest factors in me moving to Android from Apple was this g
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Let me guess whenever you use word, or libre office or whatever you use you ONLY use the toolbar and you instantly know what every icon does without the tooltip? Didn't think so. At least they give you a
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I know many casual users will not appreciate that, but for the people who do it all the time, it's just plain good UI design.
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We're not talking about a tree of text items - I agree with you that text only trees are messy.
We want BOTH, you know? What we had earlier!?
An icon for edit with a silly pencil and it says "edit" underneath it.
An icon with the GPS bubble, with "GPS" underneath it.
I put Cyanogenmod on my Galaxy S4 recently and the stock google camera is a _fucking disgrace_ stuff is completely unlabelled and utterly meaningless icons, just put the god damned text below the icon so I can understand what the hell is going on.
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An icon with the GPS bubble, with "GPS" underneath it.
Sure. I agree. That is another aspect of this "new" trend, to distance themselves from "skeuomorphics", which is part of that "fad" I mentioned before. And a self-destructing fad, too. To repeat what I wrote above: they didn't learn their history, so they are doomed to repeat it via lot of bad decisions like these.
The "modern" (nonsensical) "theory" is that icons do not need to be "skeuomorphic" (i.e., resemble a real-world object). I know this because I am a developer and a lot of young developers I hea
Re:They should consider a "poor UI design program" (Score:4, Insightful)
UI design is good when it enables you to be efficient at a task and it does that. I agree there. However I think his point is more of a UX point. How do you learn other than just hitting things to see what they do? There's no manual, no alternative noob mode with text, no hover-for-tooltip, and no help file. Users shouldn't have to enlist the aid of another user.
User thoughts might include: Is this going to break something? Can I undo it? I'd better not touch it. How do you Google an icon? (You don't.) Why is that there? Where is the menu? Where is the list of things I can do here? I don't want to break anything. It's scary/frustrating because I don't know how to use it, but there is no guidance.
Eventually, you get enough of these negative/confusing emotions and the thought "Ah well, back to iPhone" forms. I've seen it firsthand with several people who tried to switch because they kept having thoughts like that during the whole return period on their Androids.
So you see, it's a fairly basic UX misstep that could be avoided with some sort of hint. It's really unfortunate that it happens all over the Android ecosystem because I like it and want to see it succeed... but they're really shooting themselves in the foot still.
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"So you see, it's a fairly basic UX misstep that could be avoided with some sort of hint."
Yes, but...
I agree with you. But this is a 100% avoidable mistake. NOT putting those things into interfaces -- and more, insisting that they're not needed or even wanted -- indicates a level of ignorant arrogance on the part of many young developers that has often astounded me.
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That's what I'm saying. Cheers!
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"You know, like this relentless drive to make things flat, single shaded and without borders / lines or dividers making information / data easier to identify. It's all mashed together."
This "flat-ification" of the UI did have a bit of a rationale behind it, but they turned it into a fad and carried it too far.
3D elements, shading, colors, dividers between elements, etc... all are part good UI design that was developed over a period of decades. It is ultimately based on psychology and neurophysiology, and what makes up a good human-computer interface.
But there are a lot of "fresh young faces" in the industry today, that never bothered to learn this stuff, and so because they don't kn
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I know when I was asked to do usability on an early website I was designing to be as a portal, I committed hearsay -- and this is after I'd made a living creating 3D interfaces that looked like the real world. I said; look at the top 5 or 6 links that all the popular websites have and just do those. Break everything down based on that. What most people are used to is what they expect to see. Generic an vanilla is useful. People are not here to "interact" with our website, they are here for content and the q
to bad that the cell carriers and oem slow down up (Score:2)
to bad that the cell carriers and oem slow down updates on android
Extremely rewarding for both sides (Score:1)
Will these be OS updates or... (Score:2)
Great idea but it's not exactly a secret that Google has a lot of trouble convincing carriers and OEMs to update their devices. Ordinarily, that would blunt the ability to fix problems and add features to existing devices but Google has an answer to that. Since Google can't convince carriers and OEMs to update their devices (apart from Google's own Nexus line), Google crafted a workaround. [arstechnica.com]
If you have an Android device and you check your installed apps (make sure its on the All tab and not the Downloaded