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5y ago
A word of caution: every project I have ever worked on that added i18n “later” has strongly regretted it. I18n is much easier to tackle early than as a refactor.
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5y ago
How did you manage this? MS constantly nags me about edge. It’s in menus, it sends me periodic “reminders”, etc. When I gave up and just started using Edge to make it stop, they started nagging me about switching to Bing. They call it “reco
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5y ago
I agree with basically everything in this article. Emacs needs new users, and to get them we need to reduce the barriers and user friction. In fact, increasing adoption through reducing user friction is a very well known topic in software d
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5y ago
> I haven’t done anything remotely relevant and since these are senior level roles there’s just no point in applying Engineering Manager for a large org here: don’t worry so much about this. Apply. Apply like crazy. When you get an inter
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6y ago
Probably because having the default be something other than what a user is used to is not going to compel them towards doing the research to fix it. In order to get cua-mode working in emacs, you first have to know that it exists. I didn&#x
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I think adopting cua-mode as the default would go a long way towards reducing the initial friction for new users. Most of the time when I try to get people to adopt emacs, they abandon it because it feels like a huge task to relearn basic t
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8y ago
I spent half a decade working as a PG&E contractor for the Energy Savings Assistance Program (ESAP) provided by PG&E. My job was to—at no cost to the occupant—install home weatherization measures into low-income housing. This ranges
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9y ago
looks like the story is deleted already.
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9y ago
As a web developer, this claim is patently false. Reviewing aggregated user behavior data is how good UIs get built. It helps us to identify pain points, confusing or misrepresented user paths, poor hierarchy or site structure, poorly indic