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The UX on this small child is terrible

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Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by cseleborg »

plaidfuji wrote: post #2

How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??

That's dependency injection for you, it's just impossible to know what you're actually dealing with. The other day, I hit a system error at

> ((IEatVeggies)child).justDoIt() > Cast error: Not a IEatVeggies

So in the REPL (very confusing and error-prone UI there too, by the way)

> print typeof(child) > IAmHangry

Unbelievable! There isn't even a direct conversion from IAmHangry to IEatVeggies. This type system is just completely insane.

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by MichaelMoser123 »

satyrnein wrote: post #248
MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #223

What happened? I thought that humor was strictly verboten on this site, according to regulations! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Anyway, what is a 'Mandarin-immersion preschool', can anyone enlighten me?

The teachers would speak mostly in Mandarin. My son came out of Spanish immersion preschool speaking pretty close to native level Spanish (despite neither my wife nor I speaking it).

Congrats! I tried to teach my kids Russian (my wife doesn't speak the language). My big daughter used to understand Russian, but didn't speak it; Later, our second daughter did have some slight delay with language acquisition, so that I stopped trying.

I am not sure that your son will keep the language, once he is out of the preschool. A second language is a very fragile posession, as far as i know...

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by joejerryronnie »

tkgally wrote: post #234
cookie_monsta wrote: post #89

I have a slightly ageing model (my co-developer is adamant there will be no upgrades, please do not suggest) and my problem is that it appears to have defaulted to ICT time (we are at GMT +11). I hear it performing operations well into the early morning, but booting from a cold start any earlier than 9am leads to all sorts of unexpected behaviour and system errors.

It sounds as though many of the commenters here are still trying to deal with the first-generation Small Child. My sympathies to all of you. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to acquire a next-generation model, rebranded as Small Grandchild, and the UX is much superior. All of the troubleshooting and command-line interactions are handled by the Grown Child, who herself now has a reasonably good interface. For me…

Well played sir, well played.

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by disillusioned »

rsyring wrote: post #252
tkgally wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds as though many of the commenters here are still trying to deal with the first-generation Small Child. My sympathies to all of you. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to acquire a next-generation model, rebranded as Small Grandchild, and the UX is much superior. All of the troubleshooting and command-line interactions are handled by the Grown Child, who herself now has a reasonably good interface. For me…

> purely hug and play That was fantastic...thank you. :)

Literally perfect.

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by ragebol »

tkgally wrote: post #234
cookie_monsta wrote: post #89

I have a slightly ageing model (my co-developer is adamant there will be no upgrades, please do not suggest) and my problem is that it appears to have defaulted to ICT time (we are at GMT +11). I hear it performing operations well into the early morning, but booting from a cold start any earlier than 9am leads to all sorts of unexpected behaviour and system errors.

It sounds as though many of the commenters here are still trying to deal with the first-generation Small Child. My sympathies to all of you. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to acquire a next-generation model, rebranded as Small Grandchild, and the UX is much superior. All of the troubleshooting and command-line interactions are handled by the Grown Child, who herself now has a reasonably good interface. For me…

Ah, so the troublesome interface is abstracted away by an further developed version of the roughly same thing. Interesting

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by anshumankmr »

zeroimpl wrote: post #249

It sounds like these problems would be easier to address if the project maintainer adopted a CI/CD workflow. Just make sure that if it’s a public repo to setup proper access control.

The CI/CD workflow exists. It just takes hundred of thousands of years to build and be released into production. And every once in a while, the whole system is given a factory reset.

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by [deleted] »

simonh wrote: post #194
cookie_monsta wrote: post #89

I have a slightly ageing model (my co-developer is adamant there will be no upgrades, please do not suggest) and my problem is that it appears to have defaulted to ICT time (we are at GMT +11). I hear it performing operations well into the early morning, but booting from a cold start any earlier than 9am leads to all sorts of unexpected behaviour and system errors.

It’s probably running a process that’s connecting to internet services such as mine craft or league of legends out of working hours. I’ve found that disabling internet connectivity at the WiFi router from 12:00 midnight until the morning can be effective to prevent wasteful background processing over night.

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Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by junga »

ninkendo wrote: post #40

Sounds like somebody hasn't read the documentation: https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Owners-Manual-Instructions-Troub...

We got this book from my colleagues for the birth of our first child. Surprisingly it's quite good. I expected it to be a cringeworthy collection of nerd jokes but it's full of reasonable advice.
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