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Does anyone know Rosen's role in Sega Saturn? I owned one and loved it so much. It was ahead of its time, given few mastered its design intricacies while those who did are legendar…

I was thinking the same thing. Then it occurred to me: what if the designer - writer sought to draw my attention by making me hyperfocus on the text? That is, musicians do it with …

Define "AI therapy". AFAICT, it's undefined in the Illinois governor's statement. So, in the immortal words of Zach de la Rocha, "What is IT?" What is IT? I'm using AI to help with…

If so, that's interesting. Why? One of my principles is that we gain control of an uncontrollable environment by relinquishing control to that environment. It may not be obvious, b…

Well said. The death of trust in software is a well worn path from the money that funds and founds it to the design and engineering that builds it - at least the 2 guys-in-a-garage…

Thanks so much for this splendid writing about Satie! For me, it's as if the hauntological presence of David Foster Wallace showed up to match the known and yet unknowable genius t…

This is a good idea. It reminds me of the need for better visual debugging or visualization of the masked complexity in these products. I'm sure they exist inside tech titans, but …

Maybe. I get the frame but I don't think arguing the co-opting of Cockburn by the MBA crowd gets us anywhere. Think about it. GUI - Graphical User Interface - a concept taken from …

For those of you who read with glee of the author's work and it's launch in Toronto soon, the event is free and open to the public if you wanna flee to Toronto for fun or are alrea…

Thanks for your comment. Indeed. Therein lies the rub. Why? Because no matter the fact that I've spent several years of my latent career crawling and parsing and outputting PDF dat…

This reply is so perfect I'm going to memorize it for family and friends.

Indeed. I'm guessing legal is the only reason we don't have 3d-printed ikea. Raymond Loewy FTW. But then, we'd have garages full of bespoke n-of-1 junk instead of mass-made LLM (li…

Indeed. I thought blocks world stuff would be amazing for early childhood education. I'm guessing some labs are already there since minecraft supports user-programmable models for …

Indeed. I complained that Apple design gets a free pass while being haunted by Steve from beyond the grave for a decade. Your comments resemble my habits except rusted sway right i…

Does brain science have a Fitt's law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law This is before we even start talking about serial or parallel, concurrency, etc. And then modify t…

The range of communication side effects and their societal impact is correct between swimming in the shallows and alone together.

Solving complex challenges from code to testing of complex systems full-stop is a page from Buchanan and Pirolli, combined: https://web.mit.edu/jrankin/www/engin_as_lib_art/Design_…

If anyone is succeeding here I hope they have a stronger neck and head structure than I do. I was present when Randy Pausch made the empirical lecture on screen real estate at CMU …

I upvoted your comment because I'm afraid you may be correct. I say, "afraid" because I can remember the day when a member of my team was fired for copy pasta from SO with little, …

I'd refer you to a comment I made a few weeks ago on an HN post, to the same effect, which drew the further comment from gwern here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40922090 L…

The previous commenters are correct. T1D here. Sorry for the book. I think you are correct but you may be overstating the case when you say, "healthy people can stay active for wee…

That's right. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149986 We all wanted an experience as simple as interacting with the human at Whole Foods checkout OR the robot at the sel…

This is a short book. My apologies. You don't really have a choice with current gen CGM as to "all day". These devices are designed to be inserted and used on either a 10 day cycle…