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by npunt 6mo ago
Indeed. UI/UX is actually a pretty shitty career unless you are good enough to regularly pull rabbits out of your hat. At the low end it's just drawing boxes and using someone else's tricks in a system that isn't even th
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by npunt 6mo ago
A magic trick is a good way to put it, especially for laypeople. I see your point and agree, it's always hard to know going in which ideas you're going to one-shot (and be slightly embarrassed about having one-shotted) and which o
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by npunt 6mo ago
Yeah a lot of this is a very very cleaned up, performative version of design process. It's like its own subgenre. Original thinking is wild, feral, messy, often solo tho heavily influenced by the context around you. None of that presen
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by npunt 6mo ago
I can't do these one-sentence-per-paragraph, you-have-zero-attention-span we-have-AI articles. If I wanted LinkedIn I'd go there. This has no right being #1 on HN.
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by npunt 7mo ago
Sonic Mayhem!
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by npunt 7mo ago
thanks swyx! you're always on top of stuff
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by npunt 7mo ago
Read/watch this interview [1] with Ada Palmer on her new book about the Renaissance. Florence did this for a time. > You put names in a bag. You examine all of the merchant members of guilds. You choose which ones are fit to serve,
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by npunt 7mo ago
Yeah there’s balances to be struck. Tho I would push back a bit on the notion of great works being outdated. Think of them more as having survived the gauntlet of time, crushing generation after generation of newer writing with their undeni
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by npunt 7mo ago
The mouse cursor binning special case is starting to look like how animals perceive, where we detect patterns and develop predictive models over time in how they are going to act, and that confidence leads to more deeply encoding those patt
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by npunt 7mo ago
Love the effort here, been thinking about what this kind of tool might look like for a while. Something like this coupled with better prosocial affordances in the medium will do a lot to improve discourse online. I wrote up one a while back
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by npunt 8mo ago
I think you vastly underestimate the importance of fiction. Fiction may be the best canvas for creative and abstract thought, the place where possibility is explored and the 'what' and 'why' is established, without bei
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by npunt 8mo ago
Yep. From what I recall from my time in education about a decade ago, Common Core standards were generally considered excellent. The rollout of Common Core tests wasn't that great, but that should have been a one-time adaptation pe
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by npunt 8mo ago
Eh, disagree. If kids can't read, write, or do math, they won't be able to adapt to whatever is relevant in their adult lives. These are the foundations of every other skill, and schools teach these and are assessed by them. And i
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by npunt 8mo ago
1000%. One of the big reasons I love Halt & Catch Fire is because their reach exceeds their grasp and they were too early for the ideas they dreamed of. I wrote a piece, partly inspired by the show, on category-defining products and h
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by npunt 8mo ago
Great read! Agree with the themes & tensions you identify.
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by npunt 8mo ago
Taste is pretty transferable, I think what you're talking about is intuition. The foundations of intuition are deeply understanding problems and the ability to navigate towards solutions related to those problems. Both of these are rel
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by npunt 8mo ago
This is based on changes in trends and is somewhat of a moving target so I'll give some dates. In the 2000s, 'forums' were forums, and 'social network' was the dominant term for products like FB and Myspace. A movie
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by npunt 8mo ago
I too think this is likely the only workable solution. My bias is the OS/ecosystem layer is the right place to handle access to the digital world. However as digital access becomes more and more essential to doing anything in life, thi
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by npunt 8mo ago
I agree it has roughly the same inherent design biases as X with a few nuances, though it now has drastically different creator incentives both explicitly and implicitly.
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by npunt 8mo ago
I'm not advocating for that either, I'm only pointing out that "if everyone just" is a collective action problem that is a non-solution because it doesn't describe the mechanism by which everyone does something. You
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by npunt 8mo ago
Disagree, that's reductive and beside the point. It's useful to have words that distinguish major classes of activity online, even if several types are combined on a given platform. "Messaging", "Chat Rooms", &
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by npunt 8mo ago
OPs is closer to the truth; the shift from network -> media shows a useful distinction between what the focal point of activity is. Note that "social" (as in social interaction with people you know) in "social networking&q
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by npunt 8mo ago
Any idea that is based on "If everyone just..." is wishful thinking. Describe the mechanism by which you convince everyone to just do something.
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by npunt 8mo ago
Agree, wish there were quality of life improvements to Civ1 that kept the simplicity and aesthetics fully intact, while modernizing some of the tedious mid/late game stuff like managing each city in a large empire based on some straigh
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by npunt 9mo ago
Short story: not worth it because LG has terrible quality control. I bought two copies and experienced bad light uniformity / banding with both, color repro wasn't great, and the matte finish was a bit fuzzy. Many others have had
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by npunt 9mo ago
I recently got this after getting three copies of the LG 32U990A, which had serious light banding and uniformity issues. Loving the Asus.
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by npunt 9mo ago
Yeah, after a period of general stability where power was more even distributed among different groups of people (pols, media, finance, labor, edu, etc), we've found ourselves at the mercy of this dangerous new concoction of naive soft
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by npunt 9mo ago
Part of the role of college education is to expose students to the broader world and help them become informed members of society, raising unanswered/unanswerable questions, getting young people to think and grow and find their place t
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by npunt 9mo ago
wait til you find out who supplies iPhone screens.
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by npunt 9mo ago
Haha yes hopefully Oracle works its anti-magic on TikTok, that'd be lovely to see. Agree social & network effects are essential to achieving the mission. We (Margins) are building that part out now after spending the last year and

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