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by asoneth 3y ago
I think the massive blowback the College Board got from "Adversity Scores" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_SAT#2019_introd... would prevent them from doing that themselves. However they do offer
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by asoneth 3y ago
Like a teetotaler who gets drunk on Saturdays? Or maybe a straight man who only sleeps with other men on Saturdays? Or a reformed crook who robs banks on Saturdays? Or a devout Christian who stocks up on indulgences on Friday so they can si
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by asoneth 3y ago
> If I am vegan for January and then in February eat meat, am I retroactively not a vegan for January? Like many labels I think it comes down to intent more than timeframe. If you go vegan and then a day/month/year/decade
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by asoneth 3y ago
> The pro-RTO don't talk about why is outsourcing perfectly ok but not WFH? It isn't that companies want RTO at all costs -- if they can lower labor costs by at least 30% then executives seem to get over their antipathy for rem
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by asoneth 3y ago
Agreed that most people do not miss their commute, though because I am lazy I found it useful to force me to ride every day. But I'm surprised to hear that you think "nobody misses face-to-face meetings". At least in my offic
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by asoneth 3y ago
I agree that public companies can be successful, have long-term plans, or satisfy stakeholders so evidence of success or longevity or happy customers is not a counterargument. But think of recent decisions that Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or
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Yes. Many of those companies have made choices that trade reputation and/or relationships built up over years to increase a quarterly profit margin. Whether that is sacrificing product quality, sunsetting well-loved products/servi
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You're right, management was simply the messenger relaying customer priorities. I will point out that enough consumers are willing to pay for a quality products that many niche companies exist to serve them. Many citizens choose to mov
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by asoneth 3y ago
My current employer and my last were both 25+ year-old quietly successful private tech companies. In both cases there was a strong commitment to product quality in order to maintain our reputation and long-term customer relationships wherea
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I don't regret the decision but I do feel a little guilt for what I left behind. I have friends who moved out of struggling towns and states who describe similar feelings about being part of the "brain drain" death spiral tha
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by asoneth 3y ago
Indeed. I wish more developers were willing to take such a principled stance. (Though given the vitriol they endure I understand why most don't.)
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> if you can't convince your "boss" to give you enough time to deliver something that meets your bar, quit. I did this and while it solved my moral dilemma it made things worse for our users. Many years ago I started my ca
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by asoneth 3y ago
Ok, I'll bite. Why would most people not consider using Google Maps and Spotify on your phone to be using your phone?
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The city I live near has walk signs come on automatically, followed about five seconds later by the parallel automobile light. This seems to be standard timing for a Leading Pedestrian Interval[1]. Because this happens in both directions it
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by asoneth 3y ago
I think YouTube is bigger (by profit, revenue, customers, or total hours used) than Netflix, Spotify, and Tik Tok. See: https://mannhowie.com/youtube-valuation Also see: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07&#x2
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by asoneth 3y ago
I knew I recalled it from somewhere, thank you!
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Observationally, self-serving denial seems to go through steps: 1. It's not happening. 2. Ok, it is happening, but it's not our fault. 3. Ok, it is our fault, but it's too hard to be worth addressing right now. 4. Ok, it woul
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by asoneth 3y ago
> give consumers worse experience in terms of range, recharge time, and reliability My expectation was also that switching to electric cars would involve some sacrifice but for my use cases it has been net more convenient. For daily comm
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Every interface convention was novel at some point. Breaking them doesn't necessarily make a UI bad, just as following them doesn't make it good. It depends on your skill as well as your audience, their expectations, and how exper
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by asoneth 3y ago
I may be, though given the popularity of dedicated toasting appliances, have you considered the possibility that it's not really an edge case?
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by asoneth 3y ago
Are there examples of phones that have done this, or is it a hypothetical fear? Either way, I remain glad that the government has not made it illegal for a company to remove functionality from a product.
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I respect that you would be willing to sacrifice three minutes of sleep for toast without a toaster. However, I am working to increase my sleep back to a healthy amount including physical therapy, setting better boundaries at work, and outs
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In my case the primary benefit of a toaster is that it requires minimal intervention, not energy efficiency. When I'm trying to get multiple small humans dressed and fed in the morning I prefer to put all the slices in a toaster oven a
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by asoneth 3y ago
> Imagine removing the number keys from your phone and calling it progress. But that's what the iPhone did, didn't it? Before that most phones (even touch-screen ones) had physical number keys, whereas the iPhone demoted the ke
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Some customization controls, such as the darkness of the bread, are valuable to me because I like slightly darker toast than my partner. (As others have pointed out, note that this product does have a knob for that.) But all options have
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> Nobody else wanted to take up the mantle of maintaining an X implementation. This is the most surprising part to me. Despite the volume of end-user complaints I haven't seen any developer stepping up to take over the soon-to-be de
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The challenge highlighted in the article is that adds are increasing in areas that are harder to avoid such as billboards, hotel rooms, airline seats, ride-hailing apps.
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Implementation differences are certainly a part, but people do interpret them differently. For example, I'm working on an application that is transitioning some of our stateful navigation to be more stateless to hopefully address some
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I agree the use of "stateful UI" is ambiguous in general, but with respect to navigation I typically hear hierarchies referred to as stateless and activity stacks as stateful. With a hierarchy like iOS every child is supposed to h
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by asoneth 3y ago
Now that you mention it, I do know a couple designers who do FOSS development but I doubt they would be interested in doing design or research for someone else's project. As someone who also jumped from development to design I agree wi

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