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Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by bshimmin »

prawn wrote: post #114
sharkweek wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Few years ago asked my mom to send me a few photos from the family christmas - they showed up in my email inserted into a word doc.

This is how some of my clients send me screenshots. :(

I have one pair of clients who send me wireframes produced in Excel, sometimes with screenshots of LinkedIn (which serves as the inspiration for most of their ideas) pasted in. I find it quite amusing and genuinely like the clients as people, if not really as clients, so I don't have the heart to tell them how silly it is. (I did once try and get them to use Balsamiq, but it didn't end well.)

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by mellavora »

Zak wrote: post #62

If you're concerned about your drinking habits, you should probably not check out aa.org. There is little solid evidence that AA is a particularly effective treatment for alcoholism. Various types of therapy with real trained and certified therapists have good success rates backed by actual scientific evidence, as do certain prescription drugs. Combining them likely has an even better success rate. Talk to your docto…

Entheogens are far and above the most successful treatment for alcoholism. Also depression.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by bobbykjack »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #139
tempestn wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lately my 3 year old's favourite passtime is to come sit on my lap while I'm trying to work (or surfing HN or whatever) and ask, "Can I press this key?" (Shift? "Uh, ya, sure.") "Can I press this key?" (Ctrl? "Sure.") Some of them make you think though. (F2? What will that do in this context?) It's not among my most productive times, but it's fun. :)

I let my 3 year old play with my laptop at times, by giving her a full screen xterm running bash in a separate tab on my tiling window manager. She mostly likes to type the letters she knows (her initial, my initial, uncle's initial etc) but it's surprising how often she manages to Ctrl-R or Windows-Shift-3 or some other combo that makes things go haywire.

I hope she's not called Rebecca Mary-Rachel Ford ...

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by bobbykjack »

jakobegger wrote: post #134
tempestn wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lately my 3 year old's favourite passtime is to come sit on my lap while I'm trying to work (or surfing HN or whatever) and ask, "Can I press this key?" (Shift? "Uh, ya, sure.") "Can I press this key?" (Ctrl? "Sure.") Some of them make you think though. (F2? What will that do in this context?) It's not among my most productive times, but it's fun. :)

I told my 2 and a half year old that the "S" key is the snake key, so now he always asks "can i press snake?". He's also found a second snake (the 5 key).

When he finds the '@', he's gonna be delighted!

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by facepalm »

asperous wrote: post #94
Zak wrote: post #62

If you're concerned about your drinking habits, you should probably not check out aa.org. There is little solid evidence that AA is a particularly effective treatment for alcoholism. Various types of therapy with real trained and certified therapists have good success rates backed by actual scientific evidence, as do certain prescription drugs. Combining them likely has an even better success rate. Talk to your docto…

Your comment might not be precisely true. There is solid evidence that AA may help people with alcohol problems. Some people may not want to go to a doctor, but of course going to a qualified doctor is a good idea. Kelly J. F., Magill M., Stout R. L. How do people recover from alcohol dependence? a systematic review of the research on mechanisms of behavior change in Alcoholics Anonymous. Addict Res Theory 2009; 17:…

I read an article only yesterday which said the success rate of AA is probably "just" 8% or so. AA themselves claim the success rate is "75% for anyone who really tries", which, if you think about it, doesn't mean anything at all.

The article was specifically about this issue that AA blames it on the participants if their method fails. Which is pretty absurd, again, if you think about it.

It's like claiming I have a cure for cancer that works in 99% of all cases, but only in cases where it works.

(Edit: this is the article, it was on HN after all http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/03/the-irra... )

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by pseudonom- »

Devthrowaway80 wrote: post #92
Zak wrote: post #62

If you're concerned about your drinking habits, you should probably not check out aa.org. There is little solid evidence that AA is a particularly effective treatment for alcoholism. Various types of therapy with real trained and certified therapists have good success rates backed by actual scientific evidence, as do certain prescription drugs. Combining them likely has an even better success rate. Talk to your docto…

Definitely talk to your doctor. It's not true to claim that there is no solid evidence suggesting that AA is not effective. There is a lot of shitty evidence both supporting and discrediting 12 step programs, and the author of the linked article has found plenty of shitty science to wave his hand at. Look through the dates of the studies referenced - 1967, 1981, 1985, 1996. The most recent paper there is almost 20 ye…

Looking at the studies linked by the article you've linked, their conclusions for high efficacy mostly seem to be of the form "AA increased the likelihood of abstinence". My understanding is that AA, more than other methods, places an emphasis on total abstinence.

It seems that one could support alternative goals (like "reduced incidence of harmful alcohol use") for which AA might not be so well suited.

Your thoughts?

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by abcd_f »

bbcbasic wrote: post #51
sharkweek wrote: post #15

Love it - How about this as an alternative: The user is stuck in a very (corporate/government/sluggish) environment. I will review your site/app from a major bank's / federal government's offices and report back! Or maybe this: The user is a 65 year old dad whose son doesn't come around often enough to ensure his father hasn't installed countless malware that he blames "internet" on. I will go to my dad's house and u…

User found you on Google. He intends to visit another 100 sites like yours to find what he wants, and therefore will only spend 3 to 10 seconds on your site.

Same for StumbleUpon, except the visit time is between 0.3 and 1.0 seconds.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by asjo »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #139
tempestn wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lately my 3 year old's favourite passtime is to come sit on my lap while I'm trying to work (or surfing HN or whatever) and ask, "Can I press this key?" (Shift? "Uh, ya, sure.") "Can I press this key?" (Ctrl? "Sure.") Some of them make you think though. (F2? What will that do in this context?) It's not among my most productive times, but it's fun. :)

I let my 3 year old play with my laptop at times, by giving her a full screen xterm running bash in a separate tab on my tiling window manager. She mostly likes to type the letters she knows (her initial, my initial, uncle's initial etc) but it's surprising how often she manages to Ctrl-R or Windows-Shift-3 or some other combo that makes things go haywire.

Install sl(1) and teach your 3 year old to type s l ENTER :-)

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by dasboth »

prawn wrote: post #114
sharkweek wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Few years ago asked my mom to send me a few photos from the family christmas - they showed up in my email inserted into a word doc.

This is how some of my clients send me screenshots. :(

I've had screenshots inserted into PowerPoint presentations before. That was a low point.
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