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by asoneth 4y ago
Not quite the same thing but I've heard of people putting "A Duck" in their designs, which is a superfluous design element that is included solely for the purpose of letting a micromanaging superior remove it so that they can
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by asoneth 4y ago
Seconded the Tufte books, especially to learn about the principles of visual communication. Though as a fan who has all his books and attended multiple lectures, I have to admit that his forays into interaction design were... underwhelming.
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by asoneth 4y ago
Most products don't need a whole book: 1) Use a mature, well-designed GUI framework. Especially if you don't have a designer it's unlikely that novel interactions or an unusual visual design will be a key selling point for yo
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by asoneth 4y ago
I think you deal with bad designers the same way you deal with bad developers. Try not to hire them in the first place, fire them if you can, and if you're stuck with them try to make sure they are occupied with tasks that will not cau
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by asoneth 4y ago
Is that really a downside? In some cases you convince your organization to shift focus onto more useful products, and that can be a really great feeling. In other cases (company is too large, management too committed) it helps you confront
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by asoneth 4y ago
> Why optimize for the one-time thing at the expense of the everyday use? I'm not necessarily endorsing this perspective, and it depends on the specifics, but there are cases where this makes business sense. If you take a task that
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by asoneth 4y ago
Agreed. Alternately renaming it to something like "Overview" or "Home" might better match new user expectations about what will happen when it is clicked.
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by asoneth 4y ago
> How would we know that the same people complained about code cleanups and not having a file picker? I also saw some complaints of this form. If I recall correctly they were non-contributors complaining that Gnome devs were dedicating t
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by asoneth 4y ago
> There's value in a laptop that can be easily repaired/upgraded for non tech people How does the price of a Framework today plus upgrade modules in three years compare to a cheap laptop now and a new cheap laptop in three year
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by asoneth 4y ago
> It's probably inevitable though that it would have become more of a social media product over time. Personally I would have welcomed that. Google Reader did essentially become a social media product over time. By the end it was
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by asoneth 4y ago
There are many fine RSS readers, but what I miss most was the social and community features. The communities that spring up around things like GReader are like lightning in a bottle. Perhaps the companies that can afford to build things lik
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by asoneth 4y ago
I ended up going with blank but I did consider getting "Linear A" keycaps https://shop.keyboard.io/products/linear-a-keycaps-m100 for my Keyboardio Model 100.
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by asoneth 4y ago
My understanding is that low-fee accounts with low balances have never been profitable for banks. Perhaps they were used as a way to bolster the bank's image and/or as a long-term loss leader to attract customers who might eventua
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by asoneth 4y ago
You said: "The restaurateurs might be raking it if they own the real estate. If you pay rent for your location you are probably scraping by..." He may refer to himself as a "restaurateur" or a "restaurateur who is h
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by asoneth 4y ago
A restaurateur who only makes money because they own real estate seems like a landlord with a side hobby.
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by asoneth 4y ago
> There is no reason Emacs couldn't be the number one editor right now I suspect you're right that under different stewardship Emacs could have taken over the wold. And who knows, if they cared to run usability studies on the i
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by asoneth 4y ago
I agree that Emacs commits a number of unforced errors with regard to its user experience, especially for novice users. My guess is that with some usability studies they could flatten the learning curve substantially and significantly incre
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by asoneth 4y ago
I agree that team cohesion, manager skill, and domain experience are significantly more important factors to the success of a project than physical proximity. A bunch of random people dumped into the same room will not outperform an experie
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by asoneth 4y ago
> What he did wasn't immoral ... Since morality is subjective I agree that morality is subjective -- what he did was immoral to some and moral to others. Similarly there are people who considered it immoral when CEOs were publicly v
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by asoneth 4y ago
> Productivity would have to be massively increased to justify all of these additional costs and constraints so you’d think by now this would shake out in the data I agree with you about the immense costs of an in-person office. But the
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by asoneth 4y ago
Perhaps. It's also possible that this reverses causality and that they use the product name "LibreOffice" because of the existing term "libre software", rather than using "libre software" primarily because
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by asoneth 4y ago
I recall a Computer-Supported Cooperative Work paper (possibly this one? https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358916.359005 ) that identified different levels of collaboration including working together in the same room
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by asoneth 4y ago
> Calling this “libre software” instead of “free software” seems very self-serving How so? When talking to a non-technical audience my experience has been that the term "free software" is misinterpreted more often than not. If
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by asoneth 4y ago
True, though I wonder to what degree a per-person dividend (some sort of universal income) could offset the regressivity of consumption taxes. That is, we go ahead and tax consumption of land, road space, emissions, extraction, etc and ever
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by asoneth 4y ago
As someone who knows nothing about this field your post was particularly enlightening. I am especially grateful that you have defined most of the terms and acronyms you used.
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by asoneth 4y ago
> There is no such saying. I mean, there clearly is now because people have been saying it. I was curious about the origin and the first instance I see online is a line from Ed Harris in the 2017 movie Geostorm: "I'm turning th
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by asoneth 4y ago
Agreed, though I'm not sure the W3C has much choice. When WHATWG wrested control of HTML from W3C it drove home that browser implementers determine the standard. Given chromium's ~75% market share[1] and Apple's ~18% market s
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by asoneth 4y ago
I also did not like living in a city, but it is clear from prices that people are willing to pay a premium to live in major metro areas like Sydney, London, Paris, Amsterdam, New York, etc even in the post-pandemic work-from-anywhere world.
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by asoneth 4y ago
I agree with the trend you mention, but the fact that it is bi-directional preference may even things out a bit. States can focus on attracting employ ers by having business-friendly taxes, minimal labor laws, minimal environmental protect
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by asoneth 4y ago
That is true. Many kinds of reporting requirements are only triggered for companies larger than a certain size, so perhaps that would be beneficial here as well to maintain anonymity.

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