mmatants

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by mmatants 13y ago
> "meta" work that only affected the product in passing UX is basically a continuation of the project manager role (depending on what a given shop interprets that as). It is meant to steer the entire product design (and I don&#
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by mmatants 13y ago
The results on that page puzzle me for the nested input/label case - this is news to me. Given how browsers already forward focus for clicks on a label to the nested input, I always assumed that this takes care of programmatic associat
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by mmatants 13y ago
It's possible to do by adding a padding-right as well as position:relative on the label, and then position:absolute on the input to place it over the padded area. Not the easiest CSS to write, but I strongly prefer clean markup (at a c
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by mmatants 13y ago
I do not see any disadvantages to nesting inputs inside labels - and it's actually quite semantic and maintainable (in part because inputs no longer need auto-generated IDs). This approach has been part of the HTML standard pretty much
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by mmatants 13y ago
Can we please come up with a better markup for form element grouping than "div.control-group"? Specifically, HTML has always allowed nesting an <input> inside <label> - and that's more than enough to create eith
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by mmatants 13y ago
Minor nitpick: bicycling also endangers lives. And even though it doesn't happen often, reckless cycling habits may endanger motorists' lives too (by e.g. causing swerving through unpredictable behaviour). I say that as someone wh
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by mmatants 13y ago
Reverence is the debatable aspect here. Statue of a goddess implies respect, pornography implies objectification and a very different power relationship. So if we draw conclusions about the role of women in that society, interpreting statue
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by mmatants 14y ago
30 minutes? That's definitely a long time. I've only been in an environment that does standups for a few months now, but for 5-8 people (team + PM/etc) it has rarely gone beyond 5-7 minutes (everyone rhymes things off in 40-60 seconds each,
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by mmatants 14y ago
The result is that we are increasingly switching to renting our music via services like Rdio and Spotify. And I can't say that this trend is all bad. I know what I pay for (temporary access), and I'm OK with that.
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by mmatants 14y ago
So basically the generalized description is "don't document what is immediately evident from language syntax/function name itself".
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by mmatants 14y ago
You are describing a developer-oriented UI. Silently doing an automagic .replace() on developer-entered information may cause more infuriation and (importantly) bugs than flagging it as invalid. Devs should not be left blissfully unaware of
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by mmatants 14y ago
My post is off topic, but anecdotes are data. Poor data to make decisions about systemic changes, but good data to make decisions about individual choices and policies . A single instance of a wrong is enough to discuss how it might have b
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by mmatants 14y ago
I wonder if the real litmus test is "ship a project and talk to the satisfied customer after fixing a few production bugs". Arbitrarily I'd say that the project would be at least a couple weeks personal time investment at least, and then al
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by mmatants 14y ago
The cool part about jQuery is that I don't have to use it . Same with Bootstrap. So it's not a needless tyranny. With browser engines things get a little more political - mono-culture is not a good thing. But at least Firefox holds enough
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by mmatants 14y ago
Everyone wins in a proper argument.
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by mmatants 14y ago
This is a bit off-topic, but since you posted here - the "hall" logo in header could use tighter kerning between the "a" and the first "l". Also, I personally found the landing page pretty useful in terms of explaining the core user stories
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by mmatants 14y ago
From the article: "it might be great to try it for one or two days every month". The author seems to have thought of the ergonomics concern.
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by mmatants 14y ago
Users currently look at the 64GB number as a rough approximation of how much music/files/apps they can store on that device. Maybe they are wrong to do that, but that's the current intuitive assumption for Jane Doe buying an iPod. So with t
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by mmatants 14y ago
Ditto here. Of all the habits, #5 is the one that stood out and intensely/profoundly changed my outlook on relationships. It's funny how it seems obvious when you read it, but sometimes we need someone else to summarize and restate the obvi
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by mmatants 14y ago
In my experience, the introvert/extrovert trait is orthogonal to whether someone is sleazy.
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by mmatants 14y ago
I'm not sure that working 16hrs per day vs 8hrs gives a 2x increase in productivity. Maybe not even 1.5x - maybe not even 1.2x. And even if it was a 2x increase in output, I'm not sure that that's an enabling variable in a startup's success
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by mmatants 14y ago
As countries get richer there is more and more affordable education. In other words, higher job productivity from those who can get jobs means higher contributions to help those who can't. And even if one doesn't have a high-level education
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by mmatants 14y ago
Relevant: http://www.streak.com/
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by mmatants 14y ago
That makes sense. I think a lot of folks advocate maps and filter sliders because they over-estimate an average user's comfort level with such advanced features. I think a non-technical person is much more content with spending several ti
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by mmatants 14y ago
I hope you don't feel too bad about passing on the startup opportunity. Hindsight is 20/20, and no startup is guaranteed to earn $100M for its founders. Maybe it's regrettable for not getting the experience you'd obtain win/lose, but the
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by mmatants 14y ago
But both are still valuable, aren't they? Perhaps school and startup experiences are in combination worth more than the sum of the parts.
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by mmatants 14y ago
Minor thing about starting conversations on the street: some folks just don't want to be bothered in the middle of their own thoughts as they're walking. If you feel weird approaching random folks - that's just being an empathetic normal pe
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by mmatants 15y ago
You have described a much more "realistic" model for this - it's a spectrum of risk-aversion, not a binary attribute. A complementary attribute is the level of "abundance mentality" present in the person. The difficult thing, though, which
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by mmatants 15y ago
News as a push medium is entertainment. Small-talk fodder. Objectivity is actually undesirable for most of its consumers. Now, making a useful research medium (when a motivated individual is pulling data) is very useful.
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by mmatants 15y ago
Pixel hinting. The desired icons in this case are small ubiquitous monochrome glyphs. Text fonts and font renderers have already optimized that specific use-case tremendously - so why not plug into that.

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