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Fully agree. There is also the 'no bullshit' attitude that starts to emerge when you turn 40. You want product to do a thing. Not to engage you in any way. Y
by Nokinside 7y ago
Fully agree.
There is also the 'no bullshit' attitude that starts to emerge when you turn 40. You want product to do a thing. Not to engage you in any way.
You either already have a life or you know you will never have one.
Many older people have money and they are willing to spend it if does a thing and it's easy to get.
If Amazon would buy Paul Graham's old Viaweb code, it would need just little updating to become a tool that generates killer UI's for the aging population in the developing world. Plain html5 with commons sense and good defaults with tiniest amount of javascript is all you need for a well functioning web service. Incidentally Hacker News is not far from this ideal.
This is what good news site looks like: http://lite.cnn.com/en http://lite.cnn.com/en
- noir_lord 7y agoI was thinking the other day what a good TUI would like on the web (without throwing out baby with the bathwater).
- ghaff 7y ago>You want product to do a thing. Yup. Sure, I like to tinker with things sometimes. But I don't, for example, particularly appreciate spending half a day yak shaving with a computer just to get it to the state where I can actually use it for the task I actually set out to do. About a year ago, I decided I should have a working Windows computer for games and the occasional other Windowsy thing I want to do. My first thought was to upgrade one of my home-built systems. Instead I ended up just buying a big laptop on sale because I more or less to myself that I know how to build computers. But I don't especially want to in this case. I just want a relatively compact computer I can use for some specific tasks.