> everyone is doing their best given the conditions they’re in Generous, but almost certainly untrue.
Evaluating the conditions is very subjective
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
The real problem isn’t the page load, it’s that it’s visible. If only one picture and a bit of text update, why does the whole screen have to blink?
The view transitions API addresses this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...
And seems to require JS and doesn't support (yet) cross-document transitions (i.e. anything that causes a reload)
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#74> I’m not pining for the HTML-only version of GMail, I promise.
> If your calendar was a bunch of progressively enhanced checkboxes and a submit button, you could be riding off into the sunset and counting money instead of taking support calls from frustrated octogenarians.
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#75One of the top things that I want in a job is coworkers who care obsessively.
it's a double-edged sword. I want balance rather than obsession.
Yes. Balance.
It is okay to care, but nobody is always right, and noone has a monopoly on good ideas.
It follows then that the person who just 'cares too much' will be on the wrong side of a decision. At that point the best outcome is for them to either change their mind, or let go.
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#76I try to be positive. People still choose to interpret my writing as negative, but that’s very much on them. I’m not a negative person, despite the circus that is Life in the Twenty-First Century. I was a troll. A fairly nasty one, and I feel the need to atone. No excuses. I just don’t do that, anymore. My formula tends to be specific, in praise (and as much of that, as possible), and vague, in criticism (and as litt…
I debated internally whether I should leave this comment or not, but I have a principle to always try to give constructive criticism where I can, so here it is:
I don't know if it's that people interpret your writing as negative per se, I tried to realize what your writing makes me feel and why, and I realized that your comments always have a very high percentage of "I" and "me". I can see how that might rub a few people the wrong way, but obviously there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
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#77I try to be positive. People still choose to interpret my writing as negative, but that’s very much on them. I’m not a negative person, despite the circus that is Life in the Twenty-First Century. I was a troll. A fairly nasty one, and I feel the need to atone. No excuses. I just don’t do that, anymore. My formula tends to be specific, in praise (and as much of that, as possible), and vague, in criticism (and as litt…
I debated internally whether I should leave this comment or not, but I have a principle to always try to give constructive criticism where I can, so here it is: I don't know if it's that people interpret your writing as negative per se, I tried to realize what your writing makes me feel and why, and I realized that your comments always have a very high percentage of "I" and "me". I can see how that might rub a few pe…
That’s deliberate.
I have spent most of my adult life in a community that is extremely sensitive to dictatorial language, and I have learned to keep it to “me,” or (preferably), to “we.”
A big part of my editorial review, is replacing instances of “you,” with “we.”
I state stuff as it applies to me, my opinions as personal points of view, as opposed to absolutes, etc.
In fact, when I diverge from this, it tends to immediately draw (often justified) criticism.
I am also quite prepared to back up what I say, but it has been my experience that folks refuse to follow up on it; instead, insisting on continuing to state easily disproven opinions. They don’t want facts to interfere with the narrative.
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#78I think part of the problem is that there seems to be a widespread sentiment among software developers to prioritize our time above the user's. Ease of development trumps ease of use and features are made to be easy, or rather fast, to build rather than easy to use and performant. As a young developer I was taught to take the extra time to make things better for the user. Even if it might mean spending two days on a…
„it‘s not economical to build good software“
Physical products suffer the same fate. It makes no (capitalist) sense for a business to make a product that never needs to be replaced. In the US, it means we've seen brands like Levi's and L.L. Bean quality and guarantees decline greatly compared to the products that earned them their reputation.
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#79One of the top things that I want in a job is coworkers who care obsessively.
This works if people also have very clear boundaries for where their responsibilities end and where their teammates responsibilities begin.
Someone who cares obsessively about things that are closer to their coworkers area of responsibility are a liability to a team IMO.
Caring obsessively about your own responsibilities is great. It is a pain in the ass from time to time, but that pain is worth it.
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#80Sure -- but lets be clear about what this is a function of; this is misplaced incentives. There's nothing (yet) incentivizing a clean, efficient, pleasant web, owing to the fact that scale of the stuff the web connects to/makes available doesn't have any meaningful "competition" whatsoever.
Ugh, did y'all downvoters get triggered when I said "no competition?"
Sorry, your downvotes don't make this not true.
Look, why does google no longer have the title of "simple, no frills search?"
It's very very difficult, pretty much impossible for any new competitor that provides a useful, good, quality web-related service, to not be crowded out by incumbents and anti-competitive behavior.
It's technically trivially easy to make a new/better Uber, Doordash, Google, whatever. But they're going to throw everything at you to make you not happen.