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Re: Death Clock

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Post by samwillis »

reidjs wrote: post #97
samwillis wrote: post #44

As an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a html input type=date, at least on more modern devices and provide a fallback for older ones. The UX for date selection in modern browsers is very well thought through. Apologies for being off topic. EDIT: This shouldn’t be the top comment, you should probably sto…

Unfortunately html input type=date rarely works in mobile browsers.

Don’t really want to continue an off topic discussion but it is widely supported and you can conditionally load a fall back easily.

https://caniuse.com/input-datetime

Re: Death Clock

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Post by kurthr »

bambax wrote: post #27

This conflates life expectancy at birth with your current life expectancy. Those are wildly different. They were even more different in the past when life expectancy at birth was below 30, and most healthy adults lived past 70. But they're still very different.

LOL!

You have -3.8% of your expected lifespan remaining

I assumed they would get this right, how sad.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by wyclif »

samwillis wrote: post #44

As an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a html input type=date, at least on more modern devices and provide a fallback for older ones. The UX for date selection in modern browsers is very well thought through. Apologies for being off topic. EDIT: This shouldn’t be the top comment, you should probably sto…

When I saw that I immediately said, "There is no way I'm going to click that many times like a rat in a lab experiment" and closed the tab.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by buildsjets »

thepaulmcbride wrote: post #74
falcolas wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A shame there’s no affordance to indicate that this is available.

Yeah, fair point. I'll try to improve that. Any idea on how you'd want to see it done?

Well, the web 1.0 way to indicate that text was clickable was to make it blue and underlined. What was so wrong with that convention?

Re: Death Clock

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Post by [deleted] »

reidjs wrote: post #97
samwillis wrote: post #44

As an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a html input type=date, at least on more modern devices and provide a fallback for older ones. The UX for date selection in modern browsers is very well thought through. Apologies for being off topic. EDIT: This shouldn’t be the top comment, you should probably sto…

Unfortunately html input type=date rarely works in mobile browsers.

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Re: Death Clock

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Post by throwawayboise »

dahart wrote: post #58
xwdv wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So many people are saving up their happiness for a day when they feel like they can finally be allowed to truly be happy. Sometimes, the day never comes, and the happiness has expired.

About 10 years ago I moved onto a wonderfully quiet street that has only old people. All three of my immediate neighbors (either side plus straight across the street) were couples that had just retired and had been saving for a long time in order to go traveling. Two of the men got too sick to travel and died within a year. The remaining man got sick and almost died, but he’s hanging on. He and his wife both too sick…

Travel is the last thing I would want to do, especially if I'm old, but that's just me.

The rest of it is pretty accurate. My dad lived about 3 years after he retired, half of that he was too sick to do very much. My mom lived another 6 years after that but the last couple of years were not what anyone would really call living.

Don't assume you'll be a vital, active, world traveler at age 80. It might work out that way, it might not.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by throwawayboise »

xwdv wrote: post #69
dahart wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

About 10 years ago I moved onto a wonderfully quiet street that has only old people. All three of my immediate neighbors (either side plus straight across the street) were couples that had just retired and had been saving for a long time in order to go traveling. Two of the men got too sick to travel and died within a year. The remaining man got sick and almost died, but he’s hanging on. He and his wife both too sick…

The early part of life is the best time to spend money on travel and experiences. In the late part of life, one should spend money on the material things that provide passive satisfaction and don’t require too much physical effort. People often get these backwards.

The problem is if you spend all your money when you are young, you won't have any to spend on "material things that provide passive satisfaction" when you are old. Time value of money and compounding gains is a powerful thing.

On the other hand, if you are old and wealthy, you may be too frail to do anything.

It's a tricky balance, with no guarantees.

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