scott-smith_us

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1. 61.▲
   by scott-smith_us 7y ago

   Serious question - why is this a tool and not a static list or spreadsheet?
2. 62.▲
   by scott-smith_us 7y ago

   Very nice!
3. 63.▲
   by scott-smith_us 7y ago

   Here are a few of mine: - Dialogs that display truncated information, but aren't resizable (looking at you, Windows). - File Open/Save dialogs that always open to the same default location, requiring the user to keep navigating to
4. 64.▲
   by scott-smith_us 7y ago

   +1 for the reference to Chesterton's Fence -- hadn't come across that one before. Now I have a name for the tendency of bad supervisors that show up and announce "Things are going to change around here!" before they have
5. 65.▲
   by scott-smith_us 7y ago

   Another consideration: We've all probably read that “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” When another (maintenance) developer sees float/double being used to represent money
6. 66.▲
   by scott-smith_us 8y ago

   I don't agree with this writer's take on the AA incident. Any airline has a right to ask you to exit their plane, just like a taxi driver can ask you to leave his taxi. They owe you a refund, and maybe compensation, but they don&#
7. 67.▲
   by scott-smith_us 8y ago

   Please explain why wanting to hear both sides of a story gets an "OH COME ON!" from you?
8. 68.▲
   by scott-smith_us 8y ago

   We had a bloviater guy at one company. I used to get up after ten minutes or so and go to the mail room, then call the guy in the next cube and say "this is your rescue call".
9. 69.▲
   by scott-smith_us 8y ago

   A few years back at my last job, I was approached by a senior guy on a product team asking me to game some tests so we could get our Windows certification. I just kind of brushed him off at the time. I'm still sorry I didn't colle
10. 70.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    As a frequent victim of this, perhaps you can satisfy my curiosity: What is the logic behind auto-starting videos at MAX VOLUME? That just sends me stampeding for the [X] on the tab button all the faster.
11. 71.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    > I don't fault the guy for the arbitrage Well, it's entrepreneurial, but he's almost certainly also violating all kinds of employment stipulations and policies he's formally agreed to (security, privacy, etc.)
12. 72.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    I used to do this defensively when submitting 8-bit games for publication back in the 80s. The non-gamers at the publishing company seemed to feel they had to get back to you with a handful of changes. If your game was really polished, the
13. 73.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    Sounds like Beezid. Worse than payday lenders IMO.
14. 74.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    I still think they could have charged for less than the full month. The goodwill and trust that would have engendered would probably have been more than worth it in the long run.
15. 75.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    There was an ongoing prank in my high school (late 70's) to insert John Holmes' name whenever/wherever possible. For example, one trick was to ask someone in the front office to add to the end-of-day announcements "{popu
16. 76.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    You have to have water storage if you've got people on board. I'd rather have one system that stores both fuel and life-support than have to have two separate systems and then guess exactly what proportions of both I'll need.
17. 77.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    Thanks for doing this. SUGGESTION: A video demo link would really help short-attention-span people like me. Something brief that shows it being used and highlights features that make μPad stand out (e.g. "infinite canvas" -- what
18. 78.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    > this kid calling himself a prodigy is a clear indication of way too many gold stars handed out for adequacy Maybe, but people like this have been around since long before they started handing out participation awards. I think it has mo
19. 79.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    I know this was meant to be kind of tongue-in-cheek, but it's really a distillation of all the worst-case, deathmarch, and doomed projects rather than the average experience. Yes, I can relate to everything the author talks about, beca
20. 80.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    I only know about thunderfoot's hyperloop debunking video, but it was so full of incorrect assumptions and half-truths that he lost all credibility with me.
21. 81.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    Royalties from a book or patent or software?
22. 82.▲
    by scott-smith_us 8y ago

    Untrustworthy is untrustworthy, whether due to incompetence or malice.