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Curious to see how this goes. It seems to me it’s hard to match reality—for example, books, book shelves, pencils, drafting tables, gizmos, keyboards, mouse, etc. Things with tacti…

I recommend folks give “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” a read. Another good book is “Negotiating Rationally” (see below). If the core developers/maintainers are putting in thousands…

Seurat created beautiful works of art composed of thousands of tiny dots, painted by hand; one might find it meditational with the right mindset. Some might also find laziness itse…

Agreed. I think engineers though following simple Test-Driven Development procedures can write the code, unit tests, integration tests, debug, etc for a small enough unit by defaul…

Here’s a few problems I foresee: 1. People get lazy when presented with four choices they had no hand in creating, and they don’t look over the four and just click one, ignoring th…

The thing is though, this story is a metaphor for life we’re living right now. Consider up in Canada the paper mills that were built near water streams, dumping mercury into indige…

Given this anecdote I can imagine doctors having AI access to a network of the latest studies will certainly help better inform everyone. Ultimately, doctors are the experts doing …

Only time will tell! But it’s worth a try.

Personally, I don’t bother searching because I only consume the headlines, on other news sites too, come to think of it. There’s lots of interesting things people post but frankly …

Lots of nice thoughts that I agree with. But there is a lot of value creation in AI as well, beyond building things. For example, how can doctors save time and spend more time one-…

Please consider some folks might be new to A*, and perhaps even HN, so maybe this is the first time they’ve seen it! :) Also, I have ten books on perspective drawing, and my unders…

It seems the way to go would be to open source the SaaS code to ensure that longevity. The folks at Penpot have a good thing going with that—most people will use the SaaS offering …

This is too much for me now haha. A restaurant menu contains hamburgers, hotdogs, meatballs. A UI menu is represented by abstract icons of the items contained within a restaurant m…

Well, actually the three bars are now two: the cool kids have replaced hamburger with a sausage roll. See https://apple.com

I understand and agree to an extent with common use. However, it stands that language is more specific and unambiguous—thus better suited to communicate an action. There’s also the…

Well, to put it in perspective, consider these three words: Menu Settings Notepad If these are actionable buttons, the message is encoded and decoded by viewers. Three bars means w…

Interesting—I guess build quality and certain technologies that don’t change much makes supply-and-demand takes over.

Any symbolic visual takes time for our brains to decode. When compared to language which we’ve spent our entire lives decoding and which comes much naturally, the cognitive burden …

The hamburger menu is a pet peeve of mine! It takes much less cognitive load to simply read the word “menu”. Also, it used to be important when screens were nowhere near as wide bu…

Good premise for a cyberpunk novel. I recommend keeping the weird chins though, because plastic surgery makes anything possible!

I’m sure someone has done this, but it would be interesting to study the overall tech landscape and compare which technology has sort of retained its value, depreciated, or increas…

Nice I would like to explore KaiOS more. I have been thinking these days: what is the bare minimum people need today in a mobile digital experience. Browser, phone, email/contacts,…

I think it’s time folks dust off their library cards :) Or support an open source AI model. I stopped using ChatGPT when it started littering my conversation with emojis. It acts l…

I find as time goes on I am less-and-less excited about mobile releases. I’ve had a smartphone since the Google Nexus 1. The desktop experience is always better, and a good book is…