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Oh wow. This hits hard in the feels. Here's my personal submission for "UI problem that has existed for years on touch interfaces, plus a possible solution, but at this point I'm just shouting into the void": https://medium.com/@pmarreck/the-most-annoying-ui-problem-r3... In short, an interface should not be interactable until a few milliseconds after it has finished (re)rendering, or especially, while it is still in…
is this one of knuth's 'premature optimizations'?
It is probably full of node_modules/, venv/ and target/
One of the ways psychologists classify people is between those who are maximizers/optimizers and those who are satisficers/stop when things are "good enough." As someone who is very much on the optimizer side of things, and experiences the struggles described in this article, the lesson I take to heart is that while satisficers tend to be happier, optimizers get more done. Your optimizer tendencies make you into an e…
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) But are those really different classes of people? Isn't everyone a maximizer up to a point where they think "good enough"? Where that limit changes between people, and for each person probably depending on area of intere…
Since it’s a mindset, you can define it as different classes of people.
What I’ve observed is that the ones that are minimizing effort in the area you care about (tech as we talk about here), are doing it as a conscious choice to free themselves up for another area of life they value higher. Could be kids, could be something else.
Oh wow. This hits hard in the feels. Here's my personal submission for "UI problem that has existed for years on touch interfaces, plus a possible solution, but at this point I'm just shouting into the void": https://medium.com/@pmarreck/the-most-annoying-ui-problem-r3... In short, an interface should not be interactable until a few milliseconds after it has finished (re)rendering, or especially, while it is still in…
I dream of making my own OS that would eliminate this completely. It would use a framework of taking turns with the user. When it's the user's turn to provide input, nothing on the screen would change, ever. After the user completes their input, the computer can do whatever and then provide the output when it's done. Command lines pretty much do this all the time. I think there might be an old IBM terminal type that…
No. That’s not how humans interact with computers. It’s not how humans interact with each other either.
Turn based games can be fun. They are not how we want to interact for day to day life.
Sorry but your idea comes across as one that makes the job of making the computer good to interact with easier, but not as one that makes the computer better to interact with as a human.
Please stop over simplifying a complex system. Humans are complex, the solution is t to be less human. It is for computers to become better at human interaction on human levels.
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I dream of making my own OS that would eliminate this completely. It would use a framework of taking turns with the user. When it's the user's turn to provide input, nothing on the screen would change, ever. After the user completes their input, the computer can do whatever and then provide the output when it's done. Command lines pretty much do this all the time. I think there might be an old IBM terminal type that…
Imagine this as a voice chat interface between 2 human beings. This is basically pretending like the interaction of thought and perception of what is on screen is somehow gated by a “I have fully consciously absorbed everything on screen and decided my next action” perfect modeling where both the human ability to perceive and the computer ability to represent information are prefect. No. That’s not how humans interac…
So... it's not just me that see the world as a collection of broken tech/tools that I know how to fix but won't have the capacity to do everything myself and it feels frustrating...! I really liked framing it as "Technical Capability as a Moral Weight"
> I really liked framing it as "Technical Capability as a Moral Weight" I think learned people have this sort of feeling of moral weight about a lot of things, it's why they're less happy than uneducated people.