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by bsimpson 1y ago
To be clear, MUI is a third-party library inspired by Material Design. Google itself has shipped various iterations of Material components (first Polymer, then MDC Web, and finally the Material Web Components from the original Polymer team)
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I remember being so excited when Apple teased themeable System 8. I think I even found leaked betas of the themes and installed them on my dad's Mac. http://old.reddit.com/r/90sdesign/comments/1bzb2yp&#x
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by bsimpson 1y ago
> became associated with the worst of the worst Material 2 may have felt corporate and boring, but I disagree with this accusation. Before Material, indie apps on Android were big grey buttons and unpadded text on a black background. No
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by bsimpson 1y ago
When Matias was in charge of Material, he said the purpose of design guidance isn't to raise the peaks but to fill the valleys. An expert can come up with something that's more appealing/usable than slinging the components t
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by bsimpson 1y ago
For the last 2 decades, reddit and its ilk have been pseudonymous. You might mostly be careful not to give too much context about your daily life, but every once in a while, maybe you leak a little detail. Unless you run for President, no
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by bsimpson 1y ago
It's been <20y since YouTube was acquired for $1B, which felt like an imaginary valuation at the time, but it was for a company that actually had traction with users. Inflation-adjusted, this acquisition is worth 4x that for… vibes
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Sam and Elon are both ethically dubious power players who seem to be really good at inside dealing to benefit themselves, while all the other people in their companies just have to deal with it. As I write this out, it reminds me of another
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Jon Stewart interviews author of Apple in China(youtube.com)
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Jon Stewart did a gag in this week's episode where there were happy meal toy versions of a bunch of congressmen on screen for a few seconds. A lot of content is like this - you just need an approximation to sell an idea, not a perfect
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I try to be careful about e.g. changing punctuation and spacing if I want anonymous feedback to stay anonymous. After some shuffling at work, I ended up spending some time under an awful manager. She approached me after an anonymous round
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by bsimpson 1y ago
That part has never sat right with me. Grandpa sewed some oats before he got with your grandma? That's his business, not his relatives'. It's hard to argue that a criminal's rights are being violated if he's found
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I imagine the overlap between number of people who know about google_logo and that the Omnibar is set it Google Sans is quite small.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Right, and Flow was FB
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Sounds a lot like TypeScript and Flow.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I admittedly don't use AI as much as many others here, but I have noticed that whenever I take the time to write a hopefully-inciteful response in a place like Reddit, I immediately get people trying to dunk on me by accusing me of bei
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Thanks :) I create the tools that our researchers use to run the experiments. I typically don't run the experiments themselves. I wouldn't want to mis-speak or say something non-public and have it be picked up in the press, so I
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by bsimpson 1y ago
This post explains the methodology: https://m3.material.io/blog/testing-material-3
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I've noticed that lately too. And any thread with a political tinge has a comment section indistinguishable from Reddit, complete with the doomerism.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Have you looked into UX Engineering? It's a discipline for people whose expertise spans engineering and interaction design (e.g. might have been in one of those roles at companies that don't have UXE). It's been a while sin
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by bsimpson 1y ago
There isn't a highest age for testing. When you participate in an experiment, you enter your birth year, and we use that to stratify the data into age bands. Unfortunately, participant panels are not great at having representative popu
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Our team did the same during the pandemic. They declared that the first 5 minutes of every meeting were for bio breaks. Now meetings actually start at :05 or :07. The prior meeting will often drag until that time, but you don't feel
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by bsimpson 1y ago
FWIW, I had a place in Vietnam that was gross. I complained to Airbnb: they cancelled the rest of my stay, and put me in a hotel.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
That sounds like the old Super Shuttle (which I know from CA, not NY). I thought Uber's offering was more like a bus - you meet at the terminal and it takes you to the airport.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
This sounds a lot like Chariot, which tried to augment SF's bus routes in 2014.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Uber Shuttle leaves from Atlantic Terminal, which is also the home of the LIRR. It's a train that goes to the airport on a fixed schedule. More comfortable and reliable than the Subway for $2 more.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I'm surprised they're not launching with more coverage. I just spot-checked what was available in NYC - it's a handful of unappealing tours. Some categories, like massage, are totally empty. Are they abandoning NYC as a mar
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by bsimpson 1y ago
There are actually some really interesting problems to solve there: It's now widely understood that online reviews can have a large impact on the success of a small business. - What rating do you leave if you have a disappointing servi
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Which was extra weird since it's behind a paywall.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
There are too many shady middlemen in the vacation rentals space. I refuse to rent any place that has a separate lease, but they're no longer unheard of. To some degree, I understand the businessification of rentals - it's uncomf
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by bsimpson 1y ago
With lodging, they have the risk of people finding a listing off-platform and paying cash, but because lodging is such a key aspect of a trip, people are often willing to pay the premium to have everything vetted/supported by Airbnb. W

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