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> Apple products are gonna be perceived as the icon of the beauty and usability regardless of the actual qualities. ofc. but people don't like it when you say the quiet part out loud.
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Yeah, sure. But understanding the legal system tells us the players and what systems exist that we might be mad at. For me, one company obligated to retain business records during civil litigation against another company, reviewed within t
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How did you go from a court order to persevere evidence and jump to dumping that data raw into the public record? Courts have been dealing with discovery including secrets that litigants never want to go public for longer than AOL has exist
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Oh, pshaw. I can despise both at the same time, thank you very much. "People that dislike X must think Y" is reductive and divisive.
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That person is way too far down the rabbit hole themselves to give a decent criticism of Alexander. When someone's #1, heavy-hitting, come-out-swinging criticism amounts to "his group is not as smart as they think they are" t
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> counterculture influence on professional norms > disconnected from traditional concepts of professional duty and self-accountability I wonder what world you think used to exist. "I don't want to X, but this time it's
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> We were constantly faced with product leaders (VPs of Product, CPOs, PMs, etc.) who were very excited about adding Cord to their existing product. They saw the value unambiguously. And then we’d get to the dev team and face a stonewall
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>a lot recent UI/UX and visual design has become less about seeking to understand and improve the way we interact with machines and more about creating a digital form of fast fashion full of trends that everyone is expected to follo
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Corporate Memphis is the name for a visual language used by corporations seeking bland, soulless, deliberately-inhuman representation of people. There should be a name for the dystopian content-mill meets HR-email tone that AI's are co
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Everything can always be more complicated, of course. For example: 1. The AI will never know the user well enough to predict what will be best for them. It will resort to treating everybody like children. In fact, many of the crude ways
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> Couldn't it be the case [...] need different advise than people who know less about the topic? > for people who are not deeply into finance the best advice is likely rather "don't do it!". Oh boy, more nanny soft
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> my guess is some people who own an iPhone have decided that's 'their team' and who wants to see their team lose? Apple vs Android is Coke vs Pepsi for Zoomers.
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The control loop metaphor was an interesting idea until I started worrying halfway through that it would would be operating on something with all the same categorical problems as the impressionistic style derided the start. The sensations w
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Who are you trusting as a technical interviewer if you don't already trust them to give negative feedback internally? Do you not code review? Are you a rubber stamp "LGTM" shop that should just be pushing to main but cargo cu
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> at the same time, do you really need a meeting room for a standup? We're stuck in the office, the least you could do is not subject everyone within earshot to your meetings. I have struggled very hard to not fill this comment with
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Dude, who cares, why does it matter? They successfully designed for the failure mode experienced. If you want to fantasize about design perfectionism no need to make it about how wrong they must have been.
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> “[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix Well, that's one way to spin "second screen" content that isn&#x27
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Very reasonable counterpoint. It's unfortunate you're addressing a bland dismissal that shouldn't carry weight on it's own. Everything is always more nuanced. Doesn't mean grantparent poster didn't have a go
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>I feel like this is broad enough to make most social interactions lying They... kinda are tho. We even have a term specifically for that: "white lie." Sometimes, like in your "how are you?" example, various patterns
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>is just so inauthentic I agree and resent that work is just a place where I go to get lied to and lie right back. We've found that lying is a highly successful workplace strategy. But the point of the lying game is to never admit
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If the press ever got ahold of an alternate TOS tailored to softcore porn, it would really undercut Twitch's attempt to convince the press they're not a softcore pron website.
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The problem isn't that the technical challenges aren't addressed. The problem is that no amount of tech can un-do a design that forces in a "just trust me bro" control relationship. For some people it isn't a conce
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I feel you. I keep hearing people in software say "wild west" when they mean "absence of paternalistic bureaucratic controls." The virtual space is locked down so so so much harder than the physical because it's &q
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I've been trying to figure out what bugs me about this advice. I think it's narrowly tailored to people with zero technical leadership on their project, but also doesn't give them enough groundwork to really succeed either. S
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> Been going to a bunch of hackathons in SF lately and honestly, everything feels fake. SF software scene exuding the hacker aesthetic while killing the ethos? You don't say. > Was it always like this and I'm noticing it now
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>- To improve tone, style (while trying to keep it personal!), or just to simplify messy sentences. Ironically enough, as I was reading your post this is what convinced me it was written by ChatGPT. FWIW, the initial draft you gave to ch
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The guy on the left would be wearing nut huggers if he had the body for it. And he wouldn’t wear them onto the weight room floor, causing an equally deliberate photo to seem less casual.
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No, I think everyone always interprets composition. That's why directors labor over it in the first place. Regardless of how consciously tuned in or trained in the visual language any particular viewer is. I just made that little j to
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>In the first shot, a smiling Murs stands in a relaxed posture, against a gym backdrop. He’s carrying a few extra pounds but looks within normal range, and well-muscled underneath. He seems as though he’s mid-workout; it could have been

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