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This is stupid and not worthy of Hacker news. And a stupid graph with a "FFFFUUUU"-style clutter in it wont make me go "lol!" and change my mind either. Go awa

by trezor 16y ago

This is stupid and not worthy of Hacker news. And a stupid graph with a "FFFFUUUU"-style clutter in it wont make me go "lol!" and change my mind either. Go away. Keep this to reddit please?

bradleyland 16y ago
I think there's a very relevant point here. Listen carefully to his arguments and set aside any attachment you may have to C or F. Personally, I lament our reluctance to switch to the metric system here in the US, but setting that aside, the author does a good job of relating why he likes Fahrenheit. He expresses how he's able to relate to it better than Celsius, and he makes some good points. How is that applicable to HN? Imagine the author is one of your customers. Further, imagine that he probably represents the majority of your customers in the US. Now imagine that you're building a cool new social weather website. As an international standards fanatic, you decide that you're going to use Celsius on your new website, because "that's what the world speaks gosh-darnit, and US users are coming with us, like it or not!" raises fist This is a neat little exercise in listening. Is it realistic? No, it's patently absurd. You won't find many people who would roll a US-targeted website using metric units of measure. The implications are too obvious. But what if we apply this rationale to the other decisions we make. What aspects of our craft are affected by our attachment to "correctness", even when our users cry out for something different? Ask yourself these questions: What attachments do I have that I force on my users/customers? What aspects of my craft confuse users the most? Then let go of your attachments and try a different approach, measure the results, rinse and repeat.
- crasshopper 16y ago
  I think what's interesting is "X has a useful property P that everybody talks about. But P is not what we want to optimize on."

by trezor 16y ago

This is stupid and not worthy of Hacker news. And a stupid graph with a "FFFFUUUU"-style clutter in it wont make me go "lol!" and change my mind either. Go away. Keep this to reddit please?

bradleyland 16y ago

I think there's a very relevant point here. Listen carefully to his arguments and set aside any attachment you may have to C or F. Personally, I lament our reluctance to switch to the metric system here in the US, but setting that aside, the author does a good job of relating why he likes Fahrenheit. He expresses how he's able to relate to it better than Celsius, and he makes some good points. How is that applicable to HN? Imagine the author is one of your customers. Further, imagine that he probably represents the majority of your customers in the US. Now imagine that you're building a cool new social weather website. As an international standards fanatic, you decide that you're going to use Celsius on your new website, because "that's what the world speaks gosh-darnit, and US users are coming with us, like it or not!" raises fist This is a neat little exercise in listening. Is it realistic? No, it's patently absurd. You won't find many people who would roll a US-targeted website using metric units of measure. The implications are too obvious. But what if we apply this rationale to the other decisions we make. What aspects of our craft are affected by our attachment to "correctness", even when our users cry out for something different? Ask yourself these questions: What attachments do I have that I force on my users/customers? What aspects of my craft confuse users the most? Then let go of your attachments and try a different approach, measure the results, rinse and repeat.

crasshopper 16y ago
I think what's interesting is "X has a useful property P that everybody talks about. But P is not what we want to optimize on."