jkoberg

there is a difference between silos and domains. It’s great for domains to be separated, and independently well-defined. The silos I have seen cause problems are between organizational functions, like “Product” and engineering or “The Business” and implementation teams.

The proper identifier for a rarely used feature is a WORD .

Have you ever run user tests though?

"tiny little cute icons" is already a big problem in UX. Every designer should be testing the success rates of "little icons" against textual labels. If you have to have an animated tooltip on hover that says what the icon does, it's a big red flag.

Don't cargo-cult.

Tiny inscrutable icons are a terrible design fad.

The solution isn't "yet another free icon collection"

Yeah, "Designers" destroyed latency in UX with animation, transitions, and other such noise.

What frequency band are you using? ISM is the only one that permits store-and-forward / automatic operation, as the gotenna people found.

You say a few miles per node - I am having trouble seeing how that's possible without elevating all the nodes

How about the words "body fat" ?

And, these icons adhere to international standards. They are not just "made up" to suit a designer's whim.

The Play button is internationally standardized in ISO/IEC 18035, as well. Using your own icons confuses users.

Have you used Airbnb's apps? They're the worst example of "design" over actual usability.

Why? To tell the user where there mouse pointer is? Is that a problem?

Or are you forcing people to scrub over every element on the screen to "discover" instead of it being visible to begin with? That's annoying as hell and people are probably missing things because you chose to hide them by default.

They had to add settings to turn that stuff off because it makes people woozy. "cute" design with no user goal has collateral damage.

I disagree. In no way does it add to the communication or understanding of the numbers. It just makes it take longer for them to appear.

If people have to mouse over things to see what to click, you already failed. We call that "mystery meat"

And the constant flashing of colors and backgrounds all over the page as you move the mouse is extremely distracting.

Ugh. These do not "delight" me whatsoever.

Animation is more of a tool to stroke "designer" egos than it is useful.

Most animations offer zero usability improvement, while forcing the user to spend battery rendering dozens of frames to the screen, slowing down interactions, and reducing the user's feel of control and "direct manipulation".

More animated "toys" on websites is a lose, not a win.

It's not a big deal now that embedded machines with a half a gig of RAM/multicore processors and open-source postscript rendering software is common, but postscript traditionally came with a heavy price in compute resources and software licensing fees. For a long time the RIP in the printer was a more capable system than the PC driving it, and printers that handled it were correspondingly premium products.

Cool, they'll probably just park down the street, shifting the burden to other people and infrastructure. Another externality the developers can exploit...

> That’s why five years ago, my co-founder Alex and I started a company to prove that holographic displays were possible

This is spam

So, like, Java?

Good, because hyperloop was more of a fantasy than good engineering.

Wait - it's still a giant vacuum tunnel? Well, there's the fantasy

Why go to a theatre when I have a 4K 60" TV at home?

Theatres were a distribution mechanism, it's been superseded.

How will we pay for the military?

How will we pay for the farm bailout?

How will we pay for oil industry subsidies?

Oh, we "just will" ?

Youtube was way better before it was seen as a way to make a living. People did stuff just because they loved it.

Now it's a lot of spam. Every channel constantly begs for "patrons", sometimes for 2 or more minutes at the beginning of a short video. I can't trust any "creator" to be doing it for any reason other than inserting ads.

I paid $10 a month to Youtube to remove ads, and now this is the state of the world. It sucks.

"passing them in" isn't really dependency injection, it's just taking arguments.

> (Comcast still has datacaps. Pricing like it’s 1999…)

That's not how internet was billed in 1999. You paid for the size of the pipe, not how much data came through.

Per-byte pricing is pretty much a cell carrier and Comcast invention

> Are you used to browsing Instagram without signing in to check out what your favorite brands are sharing?

LOL, no.

Holy crap Google Photos is annoying. Would much rather just have a link to a JPEG

You'd be amazed at home much time and how many resources useless UI animations take up. Go turn "Animation Scale" to 0 in the android developer settings page, and it will feel like your phone is 10x faster.