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Once in a while you hit a really ancient site that is CSS free. Like the original CERN sites. They seem strange but navigation is usually absolutely clear and they are lightening fast.
You can fully use amazon still with javascript disabled. The site even looks nearly the same but it doesn’t spin your laptops fans rendering kindle unlimited ads on the home page.
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I still don't believe modern we design is actually preferred by the masses. Ofen times it isn't even a balance between aesthetics an clarity, because the modern pages are broken or otherwise unusable. It has gotten to the point where I wonder if maybe I'm not neurotypical. I'll take sites formatted like Craigslist 100% of the time. Now I'm just waiting for windows OS to fully replace file navigation text with iconogr…
Agrre 100%. The fact that the back button is completely useless now (at least on mobile) because every website wants to refresh every time you go back is probably one of the worst things to happen to web navigation in a long time. Horrendous experience and it leaves me fumbling with opening everything in new tabs which can get super messy/annoying on a phone.
Also, the desktop version of Sleipnir is…not recommended: quirky and buggy.
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unix distro not linux
BSD, not UNIX. Or do I misremember?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
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Wow, sometimes all it takes is just… 9 reposts. Probably a lesson about startups in here somewhere
We went easy on that one because the content was better than usual.
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?
A piece of technology that I had no idea existed: http://www.officemuseum.com/stapler_gallery_stapleless.htm
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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…
It's about what you actually measure versus what you think you are measuring. In this case, the can satisfaction vs versus the sip.
Short term spend or churn could be examples. For an information serving website, examples might be mistaking time on the site or pages viewed for user satisfaction and finding the information they want.
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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
Maybe that's what I could have done with Butterfly Labs[1] Jalapeno (sic, no ñ) devices I was given, all laser-etched with "WARRANTY VOID". They could only do SHA256(SHA256(x)), and man did they put out a lot of heat. Reportedly, the chip was unusually dense and took a long time to validate. I'd have needed to alter the thermal throttling behaviour in the firmware, I suppose.
[1] Yes, the one that was seized be the FTC after some of the company officers (and a "not an officer, but functionally an officer") decided to do things that got most of them busted.