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by asoneth 3y ago
Agreed. Finding remote jobs seems easy, the challenge is finding remote jobs that are interesting and pay close to my current salary. I'd accept a 10-20% salary hit to skip my 20m commute 3 days a week, but so far the only options have
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by asoneth 3y ago
Many UX/UI design folks I know have unpaid side projects, they're just not FOSS. Nonprofit org websites, event posters, flyers, t-shirts, illustrations, small utility apps, WordPress themes, unsolicited redesigns of well-known app
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by asoneth 3y ago
> I think a lot of FOSS development is a backlash to the sort of development people have to do at work, where they're forced to reckon with designers that have more say about what the interface looks like than they do. I think you&
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by asoneth 3y ago
Not the commenter you replied to, but B seems in response to your comment that "Most ui UX ppl only want to work on successful projects". They are pointing out that even successful projects don't appear to have enough design,
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by asoneth 3y ago
I have had similar experiences. The best career decision I ever made was to prioritize working with Good People and one of my few regrets was putting up with smart jerks for so long.
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by asoneth 3y ago
Yes, the company I work for now is medium-sized but it is stable and run by engineers so fixing bugs take precedence over shipping a feature by some artificial deadline. At the end of the day our customers and field folks understand that ou
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by asoneth 3y ago
The only thing worse for a company than burning customers who might choose not buy their next product is if they fold before having the opportunity to release another product. Early in my career I was a minor participant in discussions like
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by asoneth 3y ago
Agreed. It reminds me of the "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott ) so let's say this was a real psychology experiment. Middle-schoolers and high-schoolers are
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by asoneth 3y ago
I agree that design (rather than functionality) holds Calc back, but chalking it up to personal preference may prevent the Libre Office team from increasing their user base. Like others, I am having trouble putting my finger on the reason,
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by asoneth 3y ago
Reminds me of the Slaughterbots video [1] that the Autonomous Weapons project [2] released five years ago. [1] https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw?si=L1z_NYk77BHAbFel [2] https://autonomousweapons.org
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by asoneth 3y ago
I'm actually impressed at how nicely they answered the request by explaining why it's so large, pointing out a few workarounds, explaining why it's not currently a priority given their vision, and leaving the door open for po
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by asoneth 3y ago
Depends on the distance, right? Over short distances (up to about 800m) a cheetah's sprint speed of nearly 100kph dominates, true. However, because they only maintain that for up to 30s, an augmented human moving at 75kph would be less
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by asoneth 3y ago
Their model seems to predict a theoretical top speed of 18-20.9m/s (or 40.0-46.8mph, 64.8-75.2kph): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay1950#F2 As much as I want to imagine people chasing down cheet
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by asoneth 3y ago
This is the opposite of my experience with salary transparency both as an employee and a manager. It tended to made unproductive employees leave when they realized that the company did not consider them as critical as they imagined themselv
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by asoneth 3y ago
I would also like to live in a world where it is easy for end-users and distros to theme apps. But with current technologies and cultural expectations this results in an untenable testing and support burden on app developers. We could shift
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by asoneth 3y ago
Formal usability testing is still practiced in enterprise, military, and professional products. From what I've seen from colleagues in the consumer space they've predominantly switched to A/B testing and statistical clickstre
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by asoneth 3y ago
First, there are obviously diminishing and eventually negative returns to increasing work hours past a certain point. At the extreme end, 168h/week is clearly less productive than 40h/week despite being more than four times longer
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by asoneth 3y ago
I completely agree that qualitative feedback is the most valuable kind of product input. However, quantitative metrics like telemetry are used to answer different kinds of questions. > How big peoples projects are on average doesn’t matt
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by asoneth 3y ago
In my experience at mid-sized companies the decision is usually made by the development teams themselves who have a choice along a spectrum between a proprietary SAAS solution that may end up costing the company unpredictable amounts of mon
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by asoneth 3y ago
> a scam NGO for nepotism and transfers of wealth I thought you might be exaggerating, but if the wikipedia entry is to believed it seems like a pretty obvious case of laundering bribes: "In 2003, Buyer created The Frontier Foundati
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by asoneth 3y ago
I agree with others that this sort of guidance is in no way proof of malfeasance but I can also see why it might arouse suspicion. If a suspected mob boss is recorded telling members of their organization stop using words like "murder&
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by asoneth 3y ago
Having discussed this issue with friends at Microsoft, they apparently spend astronomical amounts of time, money, and effort to maintain backwards compatibility while still adding new capabilities, functionality, and toolkits. They know tha
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by asoneth 3y ago
Producing a bespoke icon library for a large organization can be shockingly expensive depending on how the organization is structured. I've worked on projects where dozens of different stakeholders needed to sign off on the icon librar
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by asoneth 3y ago
I am disappointed any time "modernize" comes up as one of the priorities on a redesign, especially for enterprise products. Most enterprise software does not gain much from looking "modern" and like all fashions the more
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by asoneth 3y ago
> even further backward with the mechanical keyboard obsession My impression has been that, along with 3D printing, the mechanical keyboard obsession has has spurred a renaissance of keyboard innovation in the last decade or so. You can
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by asoneth 3y ago
One option is to study and practice soft skills like any other skill. I found this unpleasant but useful, and I would recommend at least trying it. Another is to find organizations that have individual contributor (IC) promotion tracks that
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by asoneth 3y ago
> because there wasn't another way to do it Precisely. In some domains most customers will always choose the cheaper option. In those cases web apps resulted in a race to the bottom. Companies in those domains simply could not affor
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by asoneth 3y ago
> And especially given that a whole lot of these apps aren't built by scrappy underdog devs but massive firms that could extremely easily afford native developers I understand why someone would think that, but in my experience the e
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by asoneth 3y ago
Reminds me of an apocryphal story of the engineer tasked with speeding up elevators in a tall hotel. After evaluating all the options, they ended up adding mirrors next to the elevators. The guest complaints about the slowness of the elevat
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by asoneth 3y ago
I did not interpret their statement as meaning they have many variants of the same tool, but that they have tools that cover a wider variety of situations. I found the same thing moving from a very large company to a smallish company. Both

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