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swesour··on The AirPods Effect
Walking around cars or in cities, especially in New York, is incredibly loud. The ANC protect my ears on the subways and streets.
swesour··on A software conference that advocates for quality
> which is not so much concerned that their software might be buggy as that it might be lame

This is not at _all_ my interpretation of Casey and JBlow's views. How did you arrive at this conclusion?

> They're more concerned about user experience and efficiency than they are about correctness.

They're definitely very concerned about efficiency, but user experience? Are you referring to DevX? They definitely don't prize any kind of UX above correctness.

swesour··on Pa. House passes 'click-to-cancel' subscription bills
> Tennessee

Rare red state w.

swesour··on Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer
> uxers have to balance business and user needs.

What does this mean? It seems that compromising the UX for a "business need" is just lazy user experience design.

swesour··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
Why is this comment so similar to this tweet: https://x.com/peruvian_bull/status/1866213955687022656

Are you a bot?

swesour··on Ask HN: What distinguishes 10x engineers from 1-1.5x engineers?
- An allergy to complexity

- Appreciation for software craftsmanship and a hunger to constantly learn how to write better software

- Does not follow dogma, but instead understands when to strategically apply or not apply certain processes and tools

- T shaped knowledge graph that's ever growing

- A strong intuition for what actually provides end-user value, but also pays attention to and cares about the finer details that most overlook