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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I think what you're talking about is a system which doesn't use wealth to determine the provision of things like education, health, housing or arguably energy and transport. It may use it to determine non-essential aspects of thos
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Are we talking about the same thing? Not only have I never encountered any business back-testing experiments in any way, but purposefully running "losing" variants on a percentage of traffic would be anathema.
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I'm a UX designer who has worked at large online brands for the last 15 years and I completely agree with this. For all the millions companies spend on "analytics", they have no ability to measure the effect of any given desi
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
The idea of "bot" interfaces like this (as opposed to what's termed "direct manipulation" UI) go back a long time, and are subject to quite a bit of debate in the field of usability. The issues are summed up here pr
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
So he's saying that having got to where they are without all these apparently sensible yet strangely vapid things, he decides now's the time to go for them? Doesn't that kinda collapse the whole argument into a bunch of PR fl
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
By those measures, you may as well say Bitcoin is "useful" for Chinese millionaires to evade exchange controls whereas before they were forced to have Rolexes up their arms on the plane from Shanghai. Or in supporting the graphics
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
It doesn't (unless fiat currency inflation is some apocalyptic issue maybe?). But then do credit default swaps or collateralized debt obligations bring much benefit? Even gold and diamonds feels sort of marginal really. I'm not tr
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
If you think altruism is a myth, or that everyone you don't personally know is acting in their own self-interest, then I think you have a much bigger problem than what we're discussing here.
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Epistemic trust essentially means assuming good faith unless shown otherwise. If societies didn't have that, they wouldn't function (or even be able to have become societies in the first place). Like morality - human society would
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
The problem is that using your own sources of news only works if you understand why news is being distorted in the first place. There is no automatic reason why an identifiable individual on the ground is more trustworthy than any other new
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
> It maddens me that, generation after generation, people have been told to aim high, get a job, work hard, get a degree, move out, see the world, etc. Turns out, now people in their thirties have to "compromise" or "settl
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Yes. I have taken to keeping my camera on (because people seem to expect that) but covering it up with a window in which I can put some "doodle" one of those youtube videos of somebody making something complex. This seems to keep
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I've been looking at alternatives to Bandcamp, and while sadly Ampled has decided to shutter at the end of the year, https://resonate.coop is a possibility in terms of a new music "business model". For a more stan
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
This prompted me to check whether the other website of this nature was still around. And it is! http://www.llapgoch.org.uk/
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
> Without the government interference that enables them, such monopolies/oligopolies simply wouldn't be able to survive If you think market concentration is a product of regulation, then I don't think the economic world, o
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
If you're an admin on Slack, you'll know that upwards of 75% of all channels on a given system are private.
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
> Overheard conversations are a gold mine of knowledge sharing, many an interesting idea has come about because, "I couldn't help but overhear...". Not only that, but looking back on my early career I feel I learned a she
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
On the meeting room thing: I worked in an office a number of years ago where the name of the person who booked the meeting (and its time/duration) was shown on a small touch screen by the door. To start the meeting, that person (or the
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Ah interesting - and endorsed I see by Brad Frost too (although it's interesting he doesn't identify the issue in this Ecosystem post, so perhaps he does't see it as quote the holy grail, but hey).
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I know the "technology-specific implementation" is optional, but one thing that bugs me (as a designer) is that no design system I've ever used has had any ability to tell me where, how often, or even whether a particular com
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I seem to recall this caused one of my first exposures to Linux. I worked for a small consultancy and we set up a similar network, but with Red Hat boxes running AppleTalk to do file and print serving.
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Indeed, certainly nobody is doing an overhaul just to implement the design system, because the business case for that (unfortunately) is too hard to make. And obviously, if you've got a DS and building some new front end from scratch t
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
It's one thing to have a great repository of reusable, accessible, versioned, centrally managed and agreed components. It's quite another to have production systems actually using that repository, unless the DS came before buildin
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I recently took part in a panel discussion about design strategy. I kept on being dragged into discussions about project management and process. In the end, I just gave up trying to explain and they all triumphantly celebrated a "good
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
> the primary principle to follow Yes. I spend a lot of effort with people at all levels trying to get them to agree on what, fundamentally, the system should achieve for the user. Sometimes it's speed, sometimes entertainment, trus
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
It's more about trying to work out what motivates people to do things while using some reasonably simple tools like the N/N web heuristics to guide you. More a way of thinking straight about what qualifies as a good design under a
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
UX designer here who has done nothing but design web, mobile and related UI since about 2000, mostly working for or at large consumer brands (and now thinking of retiring). I'd definitely agree with the idea that change for change&#x27
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
If you ask me, the whole idea of trying to prevent bad actors from acting badly by throwing up barriers to EVERYONE trying to get access to your system is... weird. Better to deploy some light measures (tarpitting, RBLs etc.) on entry, then
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I agree, but suspect most such systems are using licences from other closed-source projects, IP from 3rd party agencies they commissioned, and stuff that may well have cross-licencing and other crap going on. I doubt a company like BG would
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
> though many of [Liz Truss's] proposed solutions were flawed Good old British understatement there. Her proposals were so utterly unhinged that they would either prove the entire field of economics since WWII fundamentally wrong, o

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