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by notadoc 9y ago
> Where you grew up affects your income in adulthood That certainly extends beyond Canada
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by notadoc 9y ago
My own 2 cents for interviewing, for engineers and most other vaguely technical positions but perhaps broadly applicable: - Don't ask them to whiteboard, especially don't ask them to whiteboard some absurdity - Don't put a pa
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by notadoc 9y ago
Surely guaranteed to go nowhere.
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by notadoc 9y ago
I would say that wanting to select text efficiently and effectively is not limited to enthusiasts. I get what you're saying, I just don't think it applies to a lot of the enigmatic UI/UX of post-Jobs (post-Forstall?) iOS.
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by notadoc 9y ago
> How obvious is right clicking on a computer to bring up special features? Well considering that most mice have 2 or 3 obvious physical buttons I would say the right-click on a mouse is pretty obvious. It has also be deeply ingrained in
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by notadoc 9y ago
Oh no I think it's a very bad thing. My implication is that I either shouldn't have bought an iPhone 7, or maybe that Apple pulled the headphone jack a decade too early.
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by notadoc 9y ago
I considered it but I'm not a big fan of headphones, I usually listen to music at home or in a car. One of the most annoying situations was when I had a great podcast I wanted to share with someone on a long drive, pulled out the iPhon
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by notadoc 9y ago
I would argue that good design should never be confusing and prevent errors and guess work to begin with.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Right, and you can feel it, though I'm not sure if most people are aware of it. The smartphone and social media often feels like a glorified Skinner box. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
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by notadoc 9y ago
That is an excellent choice, based on personal experience I would highly recommend it. I put 3-4 important people on the exception list and ignore everything else. You will find 99.9% of alerts and digital nags are adding zero value to your
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by notadoc 9y ago
The next time you're driving around on a street or highway, look around at your fellow drivers. It is absolutely shocking the number of people who are staring down at their phones.
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by notadoc 9y ago
That's kind of funny. Similarly, I stopped listening to any music on my iPhone once I got an iPhone 7. Unexpected side effect of having no headphone jack, but I always forget the dongle somewhere. So, no more music from the iPhone. I l
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by notadoc 9y ago
I've come to hate notifications, alerts, and digital nags of all kinds. I disable practically all of them on every device I own, the only unsolicited notifications I want are from rare legitimate emergencies. But yea, simply having a s
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by notadoc 9y ago
I get what you're saying, but a phone camera is much easier to use than an SLR.
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by notadoc 9y ago
> The new lock screen makes a lot of sense on the newer iPhones. Sure, but have you used it on an older phone? Just recently I was trying to explain how to unlock an iPhone 6 hand-me-down to a relative by pressing on the Home button now
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by notadoc 9y ago
You really think the command line is of comparable complexity to simple text selection?
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by notadoc 9y ago
The whole site appears to be missing. What happened?
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by notadoc 9y ago
I like that too, but how many users know about that? 0.5%? Is it obvious and intuitive?
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by notadoc 9y ago
Even the smartest and most technically capable people I know are confused by 3D Touch, almost all of whom eventually turned it off. What is it for? Why is it better than an alternative or a long press? How does it make anything better or mo
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by notadoc 9y ago
But it's still an iPad. Touch screens are just slower, less accurate, and more cumbersome than a cursor and a good hardware keyboard for the vast majority of professional applications and use cases.
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by notadoc 9y ago
From a user perspective, the speed of AMP is nice but I absolutely hate not being able to see the original URL of a site. I want to see the original URL, certainly not a CDN mirror URL that could obfuscate or muddy the source.
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by notadoc 9y ago
I'm not much of a gamer but I would buy this for the nostalgic factor alone. I hope Nintendo actually produces enough to meet demand this time and doesn't cancel it after a few months like they did with the NES Classic. But then a
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by notadoc 9y ago
I suspect it's because many people are having kids later in life nowadays due to career, education, circumstance, priorities, happenstance, etc. I personally know tons of people in their late 30s and early 40s having their first child,
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by notadoc 9y ago
> On the flipside, btc usually goes up when gold goes up, and gold goes up in recessions. That's why I think a recession will be the defining time for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Do they become more valuable in rocky economi
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by notadoc 9y ago
> The price of bitcoin, ether really has nothing to do with overall economic prosperity. You don't think the same economic policies that have driven all other asset values through the roof is also impacting cryptocurrency?
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by notadoc 9y ago
Imagine a repeat of 2008, what do you think would happen in that scenario?
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by notadoc 9y ago
Harsh and an obvious problem for those over 40 and industry in general, but is this simply the natural result of companies optimizing for maximum productivity at the lowest possible cost to them? Many 40+ year olds have families or other li
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by notadoc 9y ago
Sure, give in a few million years and I am sure we will be optimized for packaged donuts.
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by notadoc 9y ago
Does anyone think these cryptocoins will hold value during, in, and through the next recession?
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by notadoc 9y ago
"A fool and his money are soon parted" Sounds fitting, huh?

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