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It's startling to think of how much money/time engineers save with prototyping and graphical system design software like this, and even though NI stuff powers telescopes and water filtration systems and loads of other important stuff, things like this come out and remind everyone that there's fun to be had.

http://www.techinasia.com/apple-ios-6-maps-china-japan/

Pretty common.

Why can't people just impulsively think that their food is photogenic and cool and take pictures of it? The author has no right to determine what is meaningful because that is the point of the social NETWORK. The rest of the population determines what they think is meaningful, and they shove it down everyone's throats. It's not a status symbol. It's just how people talk on the internet nowadays.

He sold it to me without even really selling it.

The author discusses all these things that would be great and engaging if that content the students are going to be posted to G+. The problem is that it isn't. It's going to Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and adding more pretty features isn't going to change that.

Done. That's why most people go to Ikea. They aren't looking for bulletproof furniture. They're making stuff for people that want to have some furniture for a while and feel no guilt when they chuck it after a year or so.

The designers clearly have some layout and visual acumen, but this redesign doesn't fully grasp the magnitude of Wikipedia. Every layout is modular, and every pixel has to be fully thought out. The result here looks more like the-new-Digg than it should.

Also, don't confuse my opinions about Craigslist's design/UX with an opinion on the case. I've used Padmapper extensively. While I believe that Craigslist has a right to do what they please with their content, I don't see what Padmapper was doing as wholly legally wrong.

If a lot of people INSIST on using it, then that means it has good UX. Complaints with their UX should be qualified.

I think the tech community might gravitate towards these niche solutions, but it'll take a lot of time and poor decisions on Facebook's part to get several hundred million people to forsake it.

Yeah, if you paid for cable. The whole point of Aereo is that you DON'T pay for a full cable service and you get an experience that is more in line with how you watch TV.

I want PadMapper to succeed (it helped me find a place super-quick for grad school in the fall), but Craigslist has every right to legislate their content. We'll see what they do/don't do about it.

Think of how often you have to explain something to someone when they react unfavorably. The problem with the pieces in this collection is that they are lazy. They don't come from a sense of expression; they use shock value to get their effect, and the result is often met with hostility.

I had a similar reaction when I saw a fluorescent light on the wall as a piece in the Met in NYC.

My student loans say differently. :)

But honestly, so many factors go into post-undergrad job hunting these days that it's difficult to simplify the issue into "go to a startup" and "don't go to a startup."

I also wouldn't say that 100K is "slaving your life away" if you want to raise a family and live a comfortable life. I went to a small school in southwest Indiana (Rose-Hulman) and most graduates want nothing more than to work a 9-5 engineering job and find the love of their lives.

And frankly, I can't find the heart to advise them otherwise.

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The author does not provide much evidence for these solutions combating usability problems, but if they did, I would be much more willing to listen to their advice. I would have also liked to see specific examples of usability faults (not just software with poor aesthetics, which is another subjective metric that the author oversimplifies) and instances where these applied techniques were able to solve them. I commend the author's desire to face-off against a problem which is out there and prevalent in the FOSS world, but their claims need to be backed up before I could take them to heart.

At the same time, I agree with other posters. It's low-density to the nth degree. I go to the lastpass web interface because I need to quickly sift through hundreds of websites to find a single password. I don't want to spend my time scrolling and waiting for animations. It looks pretty, in that it looks like 90% of websites shown on HN. That doesn't mean its all that suitable for the task at hand.