JJ Wolverine @jjwolverine@computerfairi.es
There are interaction designs with severe discoverability problems (tooltips, the clipboard) that were so useful that users overcame their drawbacks. Your new UX idea isn't one of those.
i regret my choice of checkout lane
@hellamander yeah :( I want to be nice and help as an alum, but these things inevitably fill me with rage after the fact. "Guys these are unsolvable problems, this is why I quit..."
ugh my old job called to "get my advice", but it turned out to be another attempt to drag me back into the same tired old regulatory fights they've been chasing their tails about for four years. And now i can't sleep. >.>
tbh these days my standard for being impressed with a banking or e-commerce website is "Doesn't have Javascript bugs which actively corrupt basic address, phone, and credit card information as i'm trying to type"
LOL TurboTax, how do you get these wacky ideas in your little head...
When I am emperor there will be mandatory genetic testing to screen out of the population whatever it is that might cause a human being to purchase a chrome Panamera: https://computerfairi.es/media/1Lxhn2oi7bAEUWpTS_w
@werecupine personally i intend to ungracefully struggle against it :P
The city of San Jose would like to remind you: never play near a Medusa. https://computerfairi.es/media/PV2sd3LKLDmdkMhUnao
since a certain someone was unable to distinguish delicious salted almonds at the store from the HORRIFIC UNSALTED almonds that they also sell for some reason, i now have to put salt onto my own almonds LIKE A PEASANT
"It is difficult to get an ML researcher to understand that his model is not good enough to be useful to real users, when his salary depends on believing that it is already good enough and he just wants to publish a paper." -- Upton Sinclair
Technical writing pro-tip: an "example" in your docs should be an *actual example*, with concrete details, not abstractions and conditionals. If you write "if entity A and A' are found with GC configuration B", that's calculus, not an example. Try mentioning cats somehow!
I made the wah watch Run Lola Run tonight. Holds up pretty well for a 20 year old film!
I finally processed some photos of our trip to Maui! I hope there's not like, a statute of limitations on photography...
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOc0Ogmyo6ToQqpx1j__uUMACY-iYaNmuvuHLRLvpif9FmrPUy5IRQFt3RdJOQ8GQ?key=dUItUGZxSkllWEFOS2RzYVljSUJnd0VpT3ZIWWdR
my employer's HR goblins are EXTREMELY concerned that they may not be getting credit for my "diversity". Their plan is to ask me for a shit ton of highly personal secrets, non-anonymized, to see if I'm an interesting deviant. LOL no, also get fucked, jerks!
Lovely bluebird day at San Gregorio beach. https://computerfairi.es/media/Ptb_6HqorG5AwA_s44g
