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The Peter Principle: Are you at your level of incompetence? (1974) [video](youtube.com)
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
The following presentation called How to speak on YouTube is excellent and very popular. The talk is given by Patrick Winston (1943 – 2019) who was a professor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Description: "The talk is
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Using grids in interface designs(nngroup.com)
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
Aardman's stop-motion TV series Shaun the Sheep also does not use speech and relies on visual comedy. There are even two feature-length films - both devoid of any dialogue or narration.
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
Niklaus Wirth is the creator of Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon. He believe strongly that teaching programming is most effective when students can grasp the entirety of a small language. Below are a few quotes taken from a 2018 interview with W
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
Niklaus Wirth is best known as the creator of Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon. He received the ACM Turing Award in 1984. A recurring theme in his career is the emphasis on simplicity and clarity in programming. Below are a few quotes taken from
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An interview with Niklaus Wirth (2018) [video](youtube.com)
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Responsive web pages: Design happens between breakpoints(cloudfour.com)
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How to write well for your audience, including specialists(gov.uk)
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
This article (2011) about the Microwriter is from Bill Buxton, the well-known computer scientist and designer. Computing history is full of interesting hardware and software ideas that have mostly forgotton - this is an intriguing device fr
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Microwriter: A portable, one-handed word processor with 6 button keypad (1978)(microsoft.com)
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The slow but inevitable demise of UX Design(andybudd.com)
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Will word processors start a home working revolution? (1979) [video](youtube.com)
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
I like the documentation first approach, but I understand that it does not work for everyone. Designing a program (on paper or the screen) before you start coding is still the recommended textbook approach from university courses and books.
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
Pinterest is still popular. When it adopted mandatory sign-in to browse the site many years ago, it undoubtedly turned some users away. I've been using Pinterest for a long time and more recently it feels that adverts are more prevalen
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
There is a difference between a simple language and a small language - sometimes they are the same thing, in other cases the language is small but not necessarily simple. The C language is a relatively small language, but has been used to w
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
Niklaus Wirth, the creator of Oberon (and Pascal and Modula-2) has been in the small programming camp all his professional life. I also agree with his views. One of the advantages of small languages is that you can actually learn or master
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
This is a treasure chest of computer-related papers from 1951 - 2000. The topics span the full breadth of computing, including topics that might not immediately come to mind. An example: I posted a 1984 paper about end-user documentation fo
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Iterative design of a survey question: A case study (2019)(nngroup.com)
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by hazelnut-tree 4y ago
Doh! I forget to include the URL when I submitted the entry. Apologies! The link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800060.801172 The full paper can be downloaded as a PDF or viewed online from the link abov
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'Those silly bastards': A report on some users' views of documentation (1984)
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