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The Design of Everyday Things - Course(udacity.com)
82 points by dmazin 13y ago|17 comments
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by dmazin 13y ago
Is that an Arrested Development reference?
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by dmazin 13y ago
Shit, somewhere in there is a point.
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by dmazin 13y ago
"I want to have something to eat, to go to school, and healthcare" said a lot of other people.
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by dmazin 13y ago
100% agreed. Good question. Though parents haven't really been able to control what children consume (and having been a child, I wouldn't have let my parents keep me away from something I wanted).
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by dmazin 13y ago
Okay... First of all, children are not actively engaged with media. They can appreciate art, but for the most part they are not having a conversation with what they consume, so, yes, we should be aware of what they consume, because, again,
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by dmazin 13y ago
I agree with your first sentence, but what's being said is troubling is the message that American military power should be unchecked.
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by dmazin 13y ago
But kids aren't consuming COD as art. Maybe many many years from now we can appreciate it aesthetically, like we do some propagandic speeches, but right now it's very clear that COD drives a very certain message to the people who
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by dmazin 13y ago
I also found the equivalency funny.
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by dmazin 13y ago
The way the bot sounds disappointed/bewildered at the end of the call is absolutely amazing, as is the fact that the telemarketing company also denying that they use robots.
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by dmazin 13y ago
I venture not.
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by dmazin 13y ago
RJS was the most awful experience of old Rails. This comment has no other utility, it was just really ugly and depressed me and I've never gotten to say that before.
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by dmazin 13y ago
Clearly I do believe that information should be regulated, since I support FDA's ban of 23andme disseminating statistically inconfident yet severe medical information the way they do. Because of the way people react to it, I do not thi
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by dmazin 13y ago
Thank you for asking. I decided not to view information about Alzheimer's and Parkinson's because the abnormality they reveal is a genetic variant that you cannot, like, read crossword puzzles to avert. It's just bad news. If
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by dmazin 13y ago
If Google tested 42 shades of blue once there'd be no story. The problem is that that sort of testing was a part of the process and was crippling.
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by dmazin 13y ago
Oh, right. I'm sorry. I think there are some ideas that cannot be broken down and you really do have to be reckless to try them - they deserved a mention because otherwise my comment was too general. They're dangerous but they&#x2
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by dmazin 13y ago
There are cases when you're wrong: ignorance is better than very, very, very severe information without context. I chose not to view whether I have risk for Alz, Parkinson's, and carry BRCA because I will not be able to process th
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by dmazin 13y ago
For what it's worth, my info is still visible so it might be possible that it'll be up for you too by the time sequencing is done.
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by dmazin 13y ago
This is exciting, especially the updated texture. I used Soylent because my dinners were so depressing (crumbled tofu with deactivated yeast) that I figured I might as well just gulp liquid nutrition. But, honestly, that was even more depre
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by dmazin 13y ago
So what's the part of the process that I understand poorly? I'd like to know, so I can improve. Honestly, we agree.
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by dmazin 13y ago
You are demanding something you're just not going to get. You want it to be clear that a solution will work. Next you'll say you want market research. Next you'll say you want to test 42 shades of blue. This is why it's
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by dmazin 13y ago
Sort of... though just to nit-pick a bit, an application should never feel like it's doing you a favor (Heyday doesn't). It should feel like it completely defers to you. But we agree.
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by dmazin 13y ago
I am floored by you weaving feature explanations with permission grants. That is art.
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by dmazin 13y ago
This was around already. The relevant news story is that this service may be announced for San Francisco next week: http://allthingsd.com/20131205/online-retail-giants-grocery-...
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by dmazin 13y ago
Wait, App.net is free?
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by dmazin 13y ago
Er, yeah, I feel like a lot of the outdated comments are regarding the sexually negative or blatantly sexist maxims. And honestly, I don't mind an echo chamber of treating ourselves and others right.
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by dmazin 13y ago
My statement was overly general; when something affects your mind, that's a whole other area - life advice is necessarily useful only to those who can act on it, unfortunately. There are also those who have been so forgotten by society
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by dmazin 13y ago
"Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been."
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by dmazin 13y ago
Again, there is literally no thing on Earth that can stop you from acting with dignity. That is the point of stoicism.
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by dmazin 13y ago
If we define it that way, I agree, but this is not a useful guide, imo. You cannot control your reputation, though of course treating others well should be extremely important.

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