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exodust wrote: post #221
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #103

I actually love this, and I bookmarked it. Why? Not just because of nostalgia. Web 1.0 sites had a different set of UI idioms, which seem unintuitive to us, as we're too set in our new ways now. If you get past the fact they're ugly by modern standards, you'll see these sites accomplishing amazing results through startlingly simple means. It's an excellent source of inspiration, and if you combine those ideas with mo…

> UIs in movies And those little chirp sounds that go with the movie UIs. More than onKeyPress, they happen on every interface event. Text comes into view? chirp-bleep . Our real interfaces aren't that noisy. I wonder who drives these UI design decisions in movies, the sound people, editors, writers?

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Post by RGBCube »

scarface_74 wrote: post #303

I was about to comment how bad Web 1.0 design works on mobile and then I remembered that Safari was originally designed with affordances to deal with the pre-responsive web. The link took me to this site http://www.niagarafrontier.com/ I just started double tapping on elements and it made just the sections I was trying to read full screen and it was immediately readable.

> I just started double tapping on elements and it made just the sections I was trying to read full screen and it was immediately readable.

I never knew this was what double tap did, I always thought it zoomed a fixed %.

Also works on Firefox mobile, BTW.

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Post by redbell »

Hit a few clicks and start getting some random, nostalgic, fast, and straight-to-the-point sites.

All of the sites are quite calm; subconsciously, my brain was waiting for the Accept Cookies banner and/or the Hi, How can I help you robot popup, but nothing appeared to distract you. What a lost era! I miss those old days :(

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Post by dlkf »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #312
dlkf wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That isn’t how AB tests work. In a (properly-run) AB test, a user will only see one variant. AB tests have shortcomings, but the Pepsi critique isn’t one of them.

The Pepsi critique can also happen with AB testing depending on what you're measuring. The problem that Pepsi had is that they measured user satisfaction after a small sample not a full can. This would show up even if you only present drinkers with one sample.

By ”the Pepsi critique” I specifically meant the exposure of both variants to a single user.

I agree with you that having users take a single sip is also a problem for construct validity. But it’s not clear from your post how this would this would happen in a properly run AB test.

Are you thinking of the case in which we ship a change that confers short term wins in user spend or churn, but comes at a long term cost that isn’t visible within the window of the test? This is a common problem, but it’s not clear to me that it’s the same problem Pepsi had. Here the problem is with choice of response variable, whereas Pepsi’s problem is choice of treatment.

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Post by mike256 »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #319
rmbyrro wrote: post #278

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Try Unix, bro. Ubuntu is arguably a decent start coming from Windows. It gives you easiness of use, intuitive visual interface, simple software installation process, decent compatibility with hardware... Then you can gradually get familiar with Linux and doing things on the command line. Once mature enough, you can explore pretty much any other distro.

The best linux distro is probably mac os.

unix distro not linux

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Post by EugeneOZ »

I learned a lot about drugs today, thanks to this site. I’m not quite sure that all the info was correct (a statement that crystal meth doesn't create physical addiction was quite surprising), but still, I learned a lot of new drug names today.

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Post by rruark »

qingcharles wrote: post #302
rwky wrote: post #78

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You had to ask and apparently I have nothing to better to do on a Saturday night. It's a Russell Hobbs Model 5569, it says it has a "microchip" inside. If I was to hazard a guess it's at least 25 years old (the post is 18 so sounds reasonable). It actually fits a piece of toast, even thick pieces or crumpets which a lot of modern toasters don't. It does require the toast flipping since it does one side more than the…

Toasters that cannot fit crumpets should be a violation of some aspect of the UN Charter on Human Rights. I used to also have that toaster with the "microchip." It sounded impressive at the time. Now I want to tear one open and see what sort of "microchip" it uses. A 555?

A cheap toaster these days will use a toaster ASIC rather than a general purpose microcontroller or timer. PT8A2514 [1] is one example. Another surprising type of ASICs I've come across are vape ASICS [2].

[1]: https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/PT8A2514A.pdf [2]: http://robruark.com/other/Teardowns/Vape_ASIC/vape_asic.html

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Post by darepublic »

Found this great tale which led me down further down rabbit holes in the aftermath of reading it. It also dawned on me how long ago 2001 is: the dates on these events were prior to Sept 11 2001. https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/
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