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Now it did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573887#44576031

It’s an interesting middle ground between technology, psychology and art. As I said in the article when I compared the skill set with that of the architect. Personally, I find that…

The Taj Mahal is 372 years old, the Parthenon 2457. And the latter isn’t even the first Doric temple.

You made a good catch with the spacing of the columns! I actually wrote about it in the article in the 7th footnote. But that is where it had to remain because – as I assume you kn…

I think these questions that all of you have brought up here are really interesting and definitely a part of the psychology of perception. Optical corrections, however, are really …

If it is ugly, it doesn’t work. One you understand that – really understand that deeply – you will not go back to the frame of mind you have now.

That is a very good catch, I learned something, thank you!

Thanks for your nice comment! It’s good to hear that people get something out of it! If you want to help, please share the link to the article around your colleagues and friends. T…

I’m sorry but what you write is simply not correct. Gothic writing is actually a form of calligraphy and the very stilted shape that the characters have make it actually very hard/…

That’s not quite true. If you look at what Bill Atkinson did with the innovations on the first Macintosh, comparing it to Xerox Alto won’t hold up. Of course they got a first gener…

Incidentally, I also wrote a piece about AI and more or less that point: www.nubero.ch/blog/014/

It did take off in newsletters but not here…

Interesting thoughts, thanks for commenting!

I almost got run over by one of Zurich’s new trams a few weeks back, and the reason is bad industrial design.

There’s a hand icon on mobile, and a mouse pointer on the desktop version actually…

I expect a minimum of interest and curiosity with my audience. Also the ability to read. “Take a look at the following pictures¹” it says at the first clickable example. The choice…

It’s a metaphor. Keep your pants on

I really don’t understand in which context you want to save space. We are not talking about printed book pages after all but screens. You can always scroll. As for the tracking of …