I would love to know the answer to this question.
141 karma · joined February 14, 2016
If youre listening, Just leave it like this now please.
I like to use the parent/old person test for ui usability(obviously not every old person will do, you know the type tho). I showed my parents reddit and they picked it up right away. Both failed to learn snapchat and struggle through most "modern" websites.
I blew their minds when I showed them if they click the three lines on lpta of websites, really a hamburger menu, they get options and stuff.
Often users are just expected to know these "design paradigms" like symbols(hamburger menu) or which direction to swipe(im still guessing half the time Snapchat). Whatever happened to using words like settings to open the settings menu. When did GUIs' forget to show available commands to users in an understandable format.
I fear they will remove i.reddit.com in the future because it does not have ads. It also does not have their fake posts that are actually ads and mark promoted that
Do you know if anyone is working to implement something like this?
Now im stratching my head wondering how it wasnt more clear to me.
I think I have become too accustomed to a tl;dr at the end to tell me how to feel, that Ive gotten worse at reading comprehension.
The part about how you had assumed expectations for the meeting that he had not been explicitly aware of was a breath fresh air as I read it. We as people often forget others may not be reading a situation the same as we are. To see it from the others perspective is important.
I did get angry reading about you using your "femininity" as an advantage during your recruiting days. And I would like to offer this analogy. A women using her sexuality as leverage over a man for a career advantage is akin to a man using his career as leverage over a women for sexual advantage.
I see them as nearly the same, because men generally hold the chips in the professional world and women hold it in the dating world. And using that as leverage against another is wrong on both sides.
But I kinda got the feeling you were starting to agree with that. Maybe you do maybe you do not. I appreciate the honesty either way.
This feeling that you are not armed for the subject is because there is a lot of dependent information between what you know and subjects like category theory and abstract algebra. Since you just got outta high school, you still have a lot to learn between where you are and where you want to be. Do not let that dissuade you tho, you can learn it, just gotta start.
Both MIT[1] and Stanford[2] have category theory as a graduate level course. I was not a math major but I assume that means you're like 4+ years away from learning this on the college track. Now, do not take that as a personal endorsement for going to college, you do you.
But, you are on hacker news, so I assume you want to learn, Well here is the MIT undergrad pure math major class requirements[3]. Its a good place to start learning an undergrad amount of math, the internet has resources everywhere to learn this stuff, it just takes time. Lots and lots of time.
One more tip, there is a trade-off between how hard something is to learn and how quickly you can learn it [4]. Do not over exert yourself too far in the difficult to learn direction, because you will become frustrated. Try and find a spot that is still fun, but not too fun, because then you are not maximizing your learning potential, assuming that is your goal. Learning how to learn can be very helpful, maximize your gains.
Also shout out to Numberphile on Youtube [5]. If you like math, you will like the channel.
[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-s996-category-the... [2] http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/10-210A/ [3] https://math.mit.edu/academics/undergrad/major/course18/pure... [4] http://fancyfishgames.com/img/difficulty_curve.png [5] https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile