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As a UX practitioner with engineering experience, I'm happy to see an article like this, but also a bit disheartened that in 2021 it's still a revelation for many that frustration, satisfaction, and cognitive load are key considerations in prioritization in addition to raw efficiency.

This service doesn't prohibit decentralized services from existing and evolving? Cue why not both gif.

Well you can't really tip with a payment system, realistically, right? If I want to toss someone 50 cents Visa or whoever takes a fixed amount plus a percentage, so there are usually minimums.

This is a cynical stub of a thought if I've ever seen one. Say more?

It seems like your rule is a lot of complexity all to say you don't like push notifications, toasts, or modals that are advertisements.

Amazing product idea, solves a real need. My biggest concern would just be remembering you all exist when needed since this really is not a 'category' so to speak.

Anyway just wanted to chime in that "Switcherland" would have been a funny name given your sensical positioning as neutral. Current name is great though! "Bringing Switcherland in to facilitate" is just something I'd love to say at the office.

Sort of disagree... It's a misleading title but the fact that it's self-driving is what makes this story interesting. Title should have added 'after human intervention' for more clarity rather than less.

There is some nuance here you're glossing over.

First, someone can be offended but not targeted. My dad's racist rants offend me, that's not cancel culture. And it's not on behalf of the group he's ranting about, it's because he's a savage. I'm offended by his lack of effort, empathy, and curious conversation.

Second, surely you can appreciate the difference between master in a master-slave configuration and master as in, good at something. A masters degree doesn't imply a slave degree.

Hydrohomies, at least.

Reporting on averages is fine but you've made the mistake of thinking that average is representative of anyone. In all likelihood salaries are not normally distributed around that average, and we'd instead find a low hump (rural) and a high hump (urban, suburban).

How is this true for generally appreciating assets like a house? It makes sense for commodities but until location and style don't matter I'm unconvinced there's a such thing as cost driving price in the housing market on any timeline.

Centralized and decentralized are far too broad a term to make a sweeping generalization at that level.

I won't presume to know if there's a real use case for #1 -- I agree that a centralized blockchain likely makes little sense, especially in this moment in time. But I would absolutely not be shocked if there is a use-case for "a database with bad performance" that's governed by one, or a group of, entities. A way to maintain transparency, vote on improvements, etc but only within, say, automotive, or whatever. There are only going to be growing use cases for data, ownership, privacy, and transparency use cases.

For #2, I think you're missing the point but apologize if you're not. However, I didn't say, and very few are saying, that blockchain sidesteps government and regulation. What I and many others are saying is that it sidesteps the additional layer of government that is a business entity. If you want to earn yield on BlockFi or Celsius for example, you are beholden to TOS and decisions in ways that are critically different than engaging similar functionality via a dapp.

My core point is that both can and likely will co-exist, because one is not inherently better than the other; the pros and cons will hit differently depending on the use case.

First, you're assuming everyone is out for the same thing. There are and will be centralized blockchains and services that meet specific needs. That's okay.

Second, it is not always a bad thing to have one fewer level of government, which is what centralization brings. A decentralized platform still operating within national regulations is like not having an HOA on your home. Not always a benefit, but usually, and especially over time.

You sound like my dad watching car commercials. If you're a power user, the trailer isn't for you. You'll find what you care about; spec sheets, etc.

I feel like you have a point to make but I'm missing it completely.

Leaning tower of JS just hit me in the soul after two full days of composer and npm dependency hell. I'll have to give Hugo a try for my next fitting use case.

The attribution effect is implied, is the point the parent was making, and while it's good to be aware of your point, I personally feel like the title is the least important part to critique given the obvious implication. If your point carries into the analysis or synthesis, that is a problem.

Agreed. SSO is what would allow a bit of organic use in many organizations and create the demand needed to get a business to spend.

Three comments so far that highlight the exact point the parent was making, a true lack of empathy. VPN alone is enough complexity for most... it's hard to find one that doesn't have comments calling it potentially insecure, questioning the owner, nevermind keeping tabs on if it sells to another owner.

Makes sense to me too. Given all the attempts at alternatives that don't quite work, I'd fully support an evolution of what headless means and hope to see other libraries about it. The context makes it pretty obvious.

From my experience this is a function of client side libraries not having an "owner" in place to refactor. Marketing often doesn't know or care about performance, so of course they'll just want to add over time if it makes them more effective at their job.

When businesses invest in caring about this (and it can even be just one headcount for the biggest of businesses) there's opportunity to reign it in and maximize the value from a given platform, reduce it the need to add others. That helps with security, governance, and adoption of what's there.

Nevermind more forward looking solutions like server side which gets these injected scripts off your site completely and greatly improves security.

Agreed. The take you're replying to is logical and true but with sympathy and not empathy. In practice, the kids making these decisions have no business making them, full information or not. The numbers are so foreign and the outcome so distant, while they haven't even ever left home.

Further, not all kids making these decisions have strong families or networks that can help set them straight. Instead, all they hear is "college is critical" and accept on faith there's an ROI.

Share this quote with someone in Venezuela with a straight face. Or the countless unbanked that have access to a divisible digital gold but not stocks, bonds, gold, or enough to direct invest.

I don't see it yet so I'll add another: UX Architect. With your frontend knowledge and potential interest in a product role, the UX space might be a good fit. It's a great space for not getting bored because it's not super well defined and is pretty large in scope. One say you might be broadly looking at a problem space, and the next you might be working on a nuanced solution with mocks and prototypes.

While I appreciate all backgrounds, I'm a huge fan of UX-ers with engineering backgrounds (vs, say, design backgrounds).

Everything's a bit in isolation, that's how they get ya. Easily to bulk up, hard to trim back down.

I don't think it's elitist, it's really just HCD, no? We know that users are great at helping engineers hone in on their problems, but not so much their solutions - the whole "faster horse" thing.

There's more than one problem here, but one main one seems to be that users don't understand that incognito is more about your own computer (cookies, history) than the web's ability to do its thing.

Solutions could be anything, from do not track toggles and added incognito funtionality, to a simple visual indicating the point of incognito, to some trivial copy/branding changes.

By your definition Google Analytics is not tracking because they disallow PII.

Why broken up vs users migrating to a competitive service? Seems like a very simple facet to compete on.

I know the general feel with Google is "they'll shut this down too" and correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks to be more of a rebranding/merge save for the one click to port everything and lose nothing.

If that's true I just wanted to call it out since comments so far read like they're deleting content you've purchased with no recourse.