ProxCoques

8 ms·

31.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
No way to know, but the concept of "momento mori" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori means the living might live more "examined" - and therefore more valuable or meaningful lives - when the
32.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
Yes! The history! Why such an obviously useful feature isn't in all weather apps, I shall never know. Along with the usage you mention, I was always wanting to know at least what the temperature was yesterday so that I could work out w
33.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
Excellent app! And I'm sure I'm not the only one to congratulate you in showing past weather - a so obviously useful feature that 99% of all weather apps never have.
34.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
I thought this was a good discussion of the issues regarding the nature of the bubble: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/#pop "Once investor subsidies dry up, will the real-world, non-
35.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
Indeed. "Limited conditions" being the issue here (and as per the article).
36.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
I think this is one of my fave FSD predictions: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tesla-driverless-cars... Oct 2014: "Five or six years from now we will be able to achieve true autonomous driving where you co
37.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
If "wealth" is the value of labour, then there is a limit to the value you yourself can generate with your own. After that, to become more wealthy you must work out a way of taking that value from other people, and making it your
38.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
See also "being less wrong" about stuff. Particularly in a business context. The idea that a leader (or just a group of people) can have some ability to hit the jackpot straight out, or to know the one true way of doing anything f
39.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
> this train will keep rollin’ for a while yet. OK. And then what?
40.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
I was about to check Spamhaus's ROKSO list, as I recall it listed about 30 people on it who were/are collectively responsible for almost all email spam (but it's down https://www.spamhaus.org/faqs/rokso&#
41.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
This is of course a great, well-written post, clearly summarising various important and even immutable principles that have been part of information design for over 25 years. Too bad the vast majority of designers being paid to create UIs t
42.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
A lot of offices in London closed their gyms over the pandemic and never brought them back. I always thought that was pretty stupid. A lot of people who could WFH even before then used to come in for the free gym at least.
43.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
> you need a chat-first workforce I second this. Worked for a large retail operation and people used to sometimes move between departments. These had very different communication styles: one group had communal rolling chats about all sor
44.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
Thanks - I'll add that one to my timeline: https://webtorque.org/fsd-timeline.html
45.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
OK but I'm not sure how any of that relates to why separate legislation is needed.
46.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 makes distributing intimate images without consent a crime in England and Wales. It prohibits sharing, or threatening to share, private sexual images of someone else without their consent and with th
47.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
Self-hosting email is only really a problem if you choose an ISP that doesn't care about its IP reputation. I've self-hosted my family and some friends email since 1998 without any significant issues.
48.
by ProxCoques 2y ago
Would this have qualified for the Dead Media Project? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Media_Project
49.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
"People" here means Californians aged 18-30. A similar survey in France or the Netherlands (even the UK I would think) might be rather different.
50.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
> man i would be mad as someone living in the city that these services are no longer available. Before Uber, we had these things cal... oh never mind.
51.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-cr...
52.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
As I always tell my students: the solution to unreliable code is not to put the bugs in there in the first place.
53.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
> Writing doesn't convey nuance well Er, what?
54.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
Christ I'd love to get a 5000 word mini-essay from a colleague about ANYTHING we work on because we can't get into the details about nothing these days. It's all bullet-points, evasive jargon and hand waving. No wonder produc
55.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
Archy had everything in one file too, for similar reasons to the ones expressed in FTA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software)
56.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
Being an anti-meeting crusader is great, but if you don't step up to monitor and properly respond in all async channels, then know that your behaviour in the eyes of a lot of people who matter is straight up career-limiting. Do not do
57.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
In HCI, I think the general (and researched) consensus about pie charts is that they are fine and probably perform better than alternatives when they have a few (as in probably 4 or less) slices, but then go to total crap for anything much
58.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
I think the reason why they called it "Pro" was because this version is to work out how the market cleaves to which use cases. So next year will we get the "Vision Media" and the "Vision Workstation" that speci
59.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
Good point - and is the fact that most people neither know nor care about virtual desktops even after years of existence an indication that most people don't need them? I'd even go so far to say a major part of the initial popular
60.
by ProxCoques 3y ago
I seem to have noticed engineering teams I deal with having a bigger proportion of people from the Indian subcontinent now. Before Brexit there always seemed to be a couple of Polish, Hungarian, Spanish or Italian people in there, but they

More ›