mattknightlewis

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by mattknightlewis 3y ago
U.S. Army libertarians
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by mattknightlewis 4y ago
I've always felt there's something very Yakov Smirnoff about him. He flatters western sensibilities too directly.
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by mattknightlewis 4y ago
UX writing tone, of course, is only a tiny piece of the overall foreclosure of customization that the current era of UX designers is complicit in. I see a continuum between cutesy UX writing and reduced ability to customize any and all sett
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by mattknightlewis 4y ago
Of course not, but I see that fact as an indicator of the collateral damage in the continued "War on General Computing" more than anything else. The customer is not always right - what they may want is to be infantilized, but what
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by mattknightlewis 4y ago
I'd rather read overly technical language that assumes intelligence or curiosity on the part of the reader, rather than comforting euphemisms. When I was a kid I thought SimCity1993 really was "reticulating splines" during th
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by mattknightlewis 4y ago
What I really need is a browser extension that recognizes I'm on a recipe website and automatically scrolls past the recipe writer's whole autobiography to the section with the ingredients and instructions.
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by mattknightlewis 5y ago
When I was getting my friend hired at the company I work at now, she asked "what is the workplace culture like?" I told her "There is none." Her response: "Oh thank God."
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by mattknightlewis 5y ago
I'm starting to think of Follower Count as being some sort of mental prison.