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by calinet6 11y ago
I've noticed and felt uneasy about their UX around Paypal credit. When checking out, the option is "Use Paypal Credit" or "Use Paypal Balance" -- in standard jargon, of having 'credit' or 'credits&#x2
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Quality is defined in terms of customer expectations. Certain customers demand more, or are willing to pay more, for higher quality; certain ones aren't. However, I think most consumer or enterprise software companies greatly undervalu
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That's a really good question, and it requires some more context. First, you have to understand your company from a systemic viewpoint. Break it down, and understand the inputs and outputs of every part of your company. You've got
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QA is interesting, sure. I'm more interested in the Q part, and you don't get that just by having a role or department checking work before it hits the customer. This article does a great job of describing the minimum level of qua
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I think that's very true, and I appreciate your perspective. I have no doubt it's very truthful, and there are some great things about the openness that might be possible with a holocracy or something like it. I agree that the org
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It's very difficult to deduce causality in that situation. She could have been fired due to not fitting in with the organization due to her valid concerns, or she could have brought up concerns due to bias from being fired. It is most
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> The real problem with traditional management structures is that it often breaks down to this sort of system to start with. This is exactly right. The traditional organization already falls prey to politics and games due to lack of good
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Yes, I am speaking from experience directly with a holocratic organization.
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It's very similar in holocracy: the people who are natural leaders will fill the management needs of the organization; it's just more chaotic, less predictable, and not as good. The lack of structure brings out the worst in human
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Ask to meet them, and befriend them. Do it genuinely.
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That's all well and good, but requirements are different from practice. In my understanding, engineering degrees and especially those from very technical institutions tend toward specialization. There also may be a factor in who choose
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My thoughts exactly. I have known people who looked at the world in similar ways, and to put it lightly, it was frustrating to speak with them.
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It's still interesting to consider systemic effects, however.
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Alternatively, these are MIT people, so perhaps the problem is that their education and career are both overly specialized. Breadth would certainly be an asset to deal with change over a longer term. It's another great argument for a b
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I made the mistake of continuing to read other posts down the page. The author appears to have many biases, and a myopically logical view of people. I am unconcerned.
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It's difficult to argue the idea that any manufacturer of a device containing a battery cell would not engineer the system for the proper balance of longevity, capacity, and durability to result in acceptable quality to customers.
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A new thought has become clear to me recently: Advertising is a society virus. It's designed to infect and spread, enabling the growth of the infection at the expense of the human hosts. It piggybacks off receptors we use for rationa
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As a recent sufferer of health anxiety, I couldn't agree more. You can really go overboard with tests that are often harmful, and without a really deep understanding of statistics, it's difficult to understand exactly what they me
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Standing desks aren't the end-all be-all solution!
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I was JUST thinking about this this week! I have a simple apple reminder set twice daily to 'check your posture' -- it pops up on me at 11am and 3pm (times I'm most likely to have been sitting for a while) and reminds me to g
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I'm just thinking of SimCopter, where as a copter pilot you could get missions of all kinds popping up on the screen, and you could choose to take a delivery, passenger, fight a fire, and more stuff I can't remember. Not a bad mod
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Despite the debate over short-term effects, I think many forget that this is a rebellion over a general and widespread shift of income and wealth toward higher-paid executives and knowledge workers, and away from lower-paid service and prod
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The calculator market really hasn't scaled in price like the rest of the general purpose computing world... pretty amazing that the exact same TI-83 and HP48's used ten years ago are still selling for nearly the same prices they w
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This is an amazing article, if you get to the heart of it (though be warned, that requires actually reading it). One of the amazing insights: new information is a drug. It causes a dopamine rush. The influx of all this new information, al
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I think the point is that attention is a luxury. These days, the currency is attention. The amount of attention required for reading of any substance is very high, and with thousands of apps, sites, shows, brands, and everything else pull
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This comment may not have much meat to it, but HP was famous for their excellent graphing calculators, which used RPN input format. They were fun to program as well and started many a young nerd of the 90's on the path to making softwa
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Thanks a lot, you woke my girlfriend up.
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Infinite scrolling: fine. Really not that bad. Yes, you need to do some stuff to make sure it's usable, but you need to do a similar amount of stuff to make sure pagination is usable too. Parallax scrolling: get out.
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A ton of lessons here. If you deliver your primary objectives well and keep improving at everything else in the process, your customers will keep on loving you for it.
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I've outlined a blog post series about 30 headings long starting with this at the premise. There is a significant territory to cover, and it's difficult to present coherently. The top-level topic is quality, in fact.

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