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> UI redesigns, in my opinion, are a waste of time 95% of the time.

Probably 90% of everything is a waste of time, the trick is knowing in advance which 10% won't be. I don't really disagree with the overall premise of the article though.
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>As far as I know, no one is trying to force the flu vaccine.

Yet.

What do you thinks going to happen once they get the precedent set?

Give it another 5 years or so.
I don't think many pay the single paper price at IEEE, which I agree is outrageous. I pay a annual membership of around $300 for unlimited access to all the important papers within my field of interest. They recently introduced a reduced rate membership for developing countries as well.
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> To preface the article, I primarily work on, and prefer, back-end code. I've been involved in both web and software development for over 4 years now

Cool, cool. To preface this comment, I'm a user experience designer, and I've been doing web software development and design for over 20 years.

In reality, your conjecture turns out to be largely untrue. Visual design quality does have an impact.

Main principle you want to look up: the Aesthetic Usability Effect. Basically, users perceive your product to be more usable if it's aesthetically pleasing.

> Summary: Users are more tolerant of minor usability issues when they find an interface visually appealing. This aesthetic-usability effect can mask UI problems and can prevent issue discovery during usability testing. Identify instances of the aesthetic-usability effect in your user research by watching what your users do, as well as listening to what they say.

From https://www.nngroup.com/articles/aesthetic-usability-effect/

See also: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/perceived-value/ (other ways users perceive value based on the UI)

Of course, this has limits. A rebrand or redesign that, all other things equal, is mostly the same quality as before probably won't get much benefit. I've seen many redesigns and that tends not to be something people do—there's usually a good bump in visual quality in the process.

So, regardless of whether you, personally notice the different functionality, many redesigns are actually a success at improving the perceived value, perceived usability, and overall evaluation of the brand, company, and product.

People aren't idiots. They don't do this work for no reason. Try to understand and respect the work outside your own department and specialty. Building respect across those boundaries is a rare and valuable thing.
General Motors has built 2 data centers. Each one costs about what Lyft spends per year on AWS (https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content...)

Article says it takes 20 people to run. GM hasnt turned into a datacenter company...

Is a century old car manufacturer in Detroit able to do what a startup in Silicone Valley can't?

Interestingly enough, GM owns 7.8% of Lyft.
So did your company pull itself out of the brink or did you just make people work harder to prolong the inevitable? It sounds as though you hid a truth from your employees, you didn't tell them that the work they were doing possible wouldn't be paid. I was in a company that did this, they laid off entire swaths of the company including new hires. They pretty much only survived because nearly the entire company walked out after that. They cut the sales team, marketing, engineering, and finance teams. The CEO also left and a new one was brought in. They are still struggling years later and have never pulled themselves out of debt except for shady dealings that diluted the stock. Most of my team works weekends now if required, not because anyone asks, quite frankly most of us in leadership positions just want to be available and we truly love our team, I'm also salary and paid very well for the amount of work I put in.
If you were committed by the state for mental health reasons, and in certain cases, forced to take neuroleptic drugs, some of which are injected, would you consider that tyranny? I definitely would ...

But I concede that's a pretty hard problem to deal with. I don't have any answers.

I personally know someone who is wrongfully convicted and serving a prison sentence. Maybe my mind is corrupted by movies but I've seen enough films where people are wrongly committed for political or revenge reasons that I would be hesitant to support that and give them the power to do it.
The "marketplace" analogy is comically flawed. The actual marketplace works only when it's tightly regulated, from anti-trust to consumer protection to standards and on. When disputes arise, the totality of civil law and the court system serves to adjudicate them. Institutions such as Bloomberg are basically deputised to be trustworthy intermediaries collecting and verifying market data.
React and redux are nice but I'd never use it for native again personally. You update it to fix one bug only to get 2 more in its place, after you spend a day updating and fixing your app. I've spent less time coding entire Android apps than I have hunting bugs down in rn apps.
But is it an authoritarian solution? Does that terminology make sense outside of the sociopolitical context of government action? I feel it really diminishes the meaning of the word, "authoritarian" when you throw it around to describe the rights reserved by a non-government entity to police its own platform.

A private company has a platform, and they can choose what content to allow on the platform. If you don't like it then enjoy your content elsewhere.

If anything, it sounds like a bit of a made up problem to declare Amazon (or another similarly sized tech company) is being authoritarian by removing anti-vaccination videos. I mean come on, we have a rich history of authoritarian governments murdering people for vocal dissent. I get that you disagree with private censorship, but let's have some perspective now...
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I suspect that by East Asia, the comment meant China (or hadn't really thought about it too hard).
> Am I correct in saying your grievance is a lack of evidence that they're helpful?

Part of the second picture that the user has highlighted basically says that said vaccine contains a mercury derivative and that it has not been tested for "carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility". So I would say that this is also part of his issue.
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You don't change your schema to add some json field.

When querying you do something like

select p.name, json_agg(l.value) as labels
from product p, label l
Make a program that converts Prolog queries into CSS selectors. Then add a nice syntax so it can be used as a preprocessor.
I am also interested in knowing more about this..
"Agrarian society" doesn't really exist anymore in the first world, given the overwhelming centralized corporatization of farming.
I'll add that Turkish is also like this.

"with my dogs" is köpeklerimle, dog-s-my-with.

You can make large variety of "word"s based on köpek, dogishness would be "köpeksilik" which would win you some strange looks if you used it but Google turns up what appear to be a few thousand legitimate usages.

It's not quite fair to call köpeksilik or köpeklerimle words though, it's not like you have to memorize them to learn the language. Just as you can build the phrase "with my dogs" out of words you already know, you can quickly construct or understand köpeklerimle from the suffixes it's built out of.

And just like the end of this list reaches forms which a couple Finnish-speakers have said aren't very meaningful, Turkish also allows for some extreme "words".

Here's the longest Turkish word: muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine

It means something like "As if you are those whom we may not be able to easily make into people who make others unsuccessful". It usually takes a native speaker a while to actually understand this word.
I've begun to question how "effective" the sharing of pictures of my family needs to be. I now think that my pictures only being seen by people explicitly trying to see them is preferable - I'm not marketing my family.
Well, it's not always management's fault or due to poor planning. Sometimes you have to come in because client work requires it and the regular shift work isn't enough. I'm speaking about support roles or operations roles that might require extra hands due to specific windows of either extra customer load or maintenance windows. Typically though you give people time off during the week to compensate, but it's not always possible.
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I still find cbmc easier to find exhaustive counterexamples or test cases, because I can do it in straight C.

With ATS or spark/Ada I can also do the same, but much more. I can actually solve the problem, not only prove that it is solvable or incorrect.
You can set it so that you only share with your direct friends.

I'm convinced most of my family doesn't know how to do much more than login to their machine. Without a password, no less. To that end, if I want them to see pictures, I put them there.

There is a chance I could email everyone. I'm honestly not convinced that is in any way more secure. Maybe. Maybe if my family had gpg setup. They don't. And never will. :(
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It's a balance. Banning books has been known to make them more widely consumed, but reading is intrinsically less viral (and more informationally dense, typically) than watching a video.

I think it's easier to attain a critical mass of followers if these kinds of videos go unchallenged.
How about getting a massage? “Wealth transfer”? Or “value creation”?
The same argument could be said that kids born to unwilling mothers leads to social and moral decay. If you are pro abortion/ pro choice you must be pro choice for anti vaxx.
By the way, who wants to sleep close to a strong inductive charging field?
Resurrect a beloved thing that was shut down. Google Reader, perhaps.
> Don't people normally just use separate credit cards / bank accounts for business vs personal expenses?

Every year my accountant tells me to do this. And every year I lose cards and get distracted by promos.
All the ones you named are websites, and user stylesheets are a thing, so if you're sufficiently incensed by a site you're forced to use, you can apply your own CSS to fix what can be fixed relatively easily; increasing contrast, changing colours, and adding borders/delimiting lines is what I most often use it for.

Chances are you're not the only one hating the changes, so sharing your CSS with coworkers (or even the Internet if it's a public site) is also a good idea. I've "converted"/educated a few coworkers just by them noticing "how did you get it to look like that?"

(Sending my CSS back to the original site's owners has resulted in everything from threats of legal action to some actual changes in the right direction.)
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Automatic detection of recursion schemes sounds like it can be great not just for parallelization. HLint is able to detect very simple recursion schemes and suggest the use of functions like map, foldr, and I'd love to have a tool to detect more even without parallelization.

My personal feeling (and one that has been echoed elsewhere) is that unrestricted recursion is like the goto of functional programming. It creates very powerful control flow, but can also make code messy and harder to reason about. Over the years we have gradually eliminated the use of goto in imperative languages and favor structures like for/while/continue/break, and I hope in functional programming we can all use fewer recursion, just to make the nature of recursion more obvious and reduce accidental non-termination.
> Just because we have quantum mechanics doesn't mean we can't make true statements about the world using Newtonian mechanics.

True statements? A scientist would acknowledge them as adequate approximations, not true statements.

And by the way, let's see you build GPS (relativity) or computers (QM by way of semiconductor physics) using Newtonian mechanics.

> More importantly, they were positive statements about the world. You're comparing them to the demand for evidence that vaccinations are harmful, to which the best rebuttal is a counter-demand to prove a negative (that they're not harmful).

That's precisely the point. Science doesn't need self-appointed police squashing silly ideas like anti-vax precisely because science makes "positive statements about the world." Repeatable results speak for themselves.

[EDIT] To clarify further, allowing squashing of ideas because they don't agree with current scientific consensus will just make Planck's lament all the worse. ("A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.")

> What else you got?

After that last line, a slightly lower opinion of your ability to debate in a civil fashion.
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It appears that in China, the state tracks your every move, whereas in the West private enterprise tracks your every move (Google, Facebook, et al).
True. But it also annoys me that people assume it’s 25k jobs no matter what. I don’t doubt Amazon could double it’s executive workforce in the next 10 years, revenues, etc. It still is not a certainty though given we have already had a 10 year bull market run.
I think there are a couple different systems. When I was in school it was primary (1-6), junior high (7-9) and high school (10-12). I think more common now is primary (k-5), middle school (6-8) and high school (9-12), but it might vary from place to place.
Good designers will improve visual systems, usability, task efficiency, consistency, symbolism, brand perception, and more concrete things with a redesign. If they don't, they're artists, not UX designers. FWIW, most redesigns I see in the wild are doing most or some part of these very real improvements.

That said, qualitative value is still value. Just because user feedback on the visual quality is vague doesn't mean that broader goals weren't achieved—users don't know how to evaluate visual quality, but it can still impact their behavior and perception. Good user researchers will look at outcomes and downstream impact in other behavior after a redesign, and those are often positively impacted.

Even if the result is just "users feel our company is more professional and mature," that could be extremely important for company strategy and may very well have been a limiting factor beforehand.
Can you speak a bit more to the privacy policy? If I import my data, pay you $40, print out my report and then say “delete,” will you delete everything?
What some people will think:

"Improving your UI is a waste of time"

"UI is pointless"

What the author is actually saying (imo): "UI redesigns create costs that should warrant them. There are a lot of times when a website makes radical redesigns for comparatively marginal improvements. These improvements are not always worth it for reasons like existing userbase having to relearn the new ui."

This is a fair point and I think a lot of times places rebrand because they want to look like they're doing something even if it comes at the cost of overall usability.
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How would you handle a situation where the underlying data needs to be transformed? For example, converting a text column to an int column?
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Today in 1985 Amazon pulls all videos discussing links between H.pylori and ulcers from its Prime platform. Many HN users laud the decision to remove the content that a "scientific consensus" of the medical community have "proven false".

'This is not about competing markets of ideas', the HN users are saying, "these are real doctors -- real scientists -- saying that the 'facts' in these videos cannot possibly be true. Therefore these are 'false facts' and should be removed."

https://www.cdc.gov/ulcer/history.htm
“During the two and a half decades leading up to the Russian cyber attacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election ..”

You lost my interest right there ..
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Holocaust denial isn't victimless. In fact, I would argue it's far more dangerous than these vaccine hoaxes.

"It happened, and therefore it can happen again" is the motto here. It is the singularity of barbarism that has defined politics in Europe and the US ever since; the crown witness against militarism, nationalism, and populism.
I think that would be someone who secretly loves pedants, which isn't quite the same thing as secretly loving pedantry.

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And yet Germany is nothing like DPRK or PRC. Maybe there exist freedom of speech thresholds in between the extremes of Somalia (where you are free to shout "fire!" in crowded theaters) and DPRK?

It amazes me how many Americans religiously believe that their thresholds are the only ones that work and that the only other option is some ridiculous extreme. You can see the same religiosity in weapons freedoms. Somalians have more. North Koreans have less. Yet there are many working thresholds in between, most of which empirically perform better than the US's.
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Thanks for saying mongo sucks. I'll be quoting that.

Brilliant tool. I totally get it.
I use vi on occasion when I'm in a new BSD box and haven't installed vim yet, so there's that.
There's a way around that, too: bully law enforcement. Probably won't work (yet) for teenage kids but the Church of Scientology used it to tremendous success during the 70s and 80s.
>People aren't idiots. They don't do this work for no reason.

Citation absolutely needed. In my experience people are frequently idiots, and work gets done for no reason after someone with authority is convinced that it's a good idea by someone aching to do that sort of work.

If it happens in so many other cases, it does happen in UI/UX as well.
Do you actually use Ed, or the series of other programs that are based on it, like vi(m) and sed?
1. Last I heard, the office responsible for DNC enforcement had literally 4 staff members. The chances of getting caught and punished by the government are minuscule.

2. The rise of IP telephony has made it cost effective to run call centers and bot farms overseas to target the US, making it hard to get jurisdiction over violators.

3. IP telephony also makes it easy to cloak the source of calls, making them hard to trace.

4. Phone companies have been dragging their heels on implementing a validation method for caller ID, which makes number-based blacklists useless.
One way to think about the current state of hardware design is that we are super reliant upon chip vendors. But in this case the parts are poorly documented or require lots of manual work to get the most out of them, or the documentation is only given to some people, and the interplay between these parts and other parts is unclear. So many people who are ignored by the mainstream companies want that same information and once they get it will share with others. Simultaneously the people who get good support from the companies still work very hard to get their idea working. So they are not motivated to give that away. Is there a huge amount of innovation happening? Sometimes, sometimes not.

So I would say having a culture within the HW community that helps support people who want to use chips that are inaccessible to most people because documentation and support is hard for a small company then that is great.

But advocating that somebody who figures out how to make a novel device that uses a complex set of parts that dramatically changes the paradigm and takes years to develop is then immediately copied then we need to protect that. 20 years for a patent? Maybe that’s too long for some areas.. maybe 5 years but then enforce patents more strongly for obvious copy cats?
Yes, its the exact same protocol. Compiling is also just as easy, except you need NASM.
I downloaded the macOS UI Explorer, and it seems to not be using vibrancy correctly.
In that particular example, migra will detect that change and generate the right `alter column` statement with a `using` clause.

It's impossible to handle every case, of course, such as when renames happen or data needs to be moved/inserted.

Migration scripts always need reviewing. Tools can get you most of the way there automatically, and help you test, but not all of the way.
I have an iPhone, so Apple Maps is right there as an alternative (and better, since it's more integrated into things like the Contacts app and auto-recognized addresses). I find its design to be much calmer and smoother, which makes me happier. And it doesn't keep asking me to login to the Googleverse...

There are many reasons I don't use Facebook, most of which are enumerated in countless HN posts, but a big reason is that I get totally frustrated with the interface. I don't know how to say this strongly enough, but the UI literally disgusts me, to the point where I just give up and close it down. True!

Maybe I'm weird this way. But I've been computing since about 1976, and using the web since '93, and I've got no patience anymore for crappy sites/apps.
What's the basis for "the average freelancer finds $12,931 of business deductions"? That sounds mighty generous; I'd like to hear how that breaks down. Do people really spend thousands on flights and hotels and then forget about them?
Depends on your market. Instagram basically gained meaningful traction for years despite completely ignoring android.
As a (very disgruntled customer), I am convinced this company will implode in the next few years.

They treat paying customers poorly, their facilities are nothing unique and they've overextended themselves on a lot of commercial leases in the same cities, right across the world.

They've survived so far off the back of cheap capital.
If/when the tap is turned off and/or vacancies shoot up, they're going to find themselves in a bit of a hole.

I was never a willing customer in the first place (they acquired the office space we were originally working in) and I've put in my notice to vacate. I know a lot of the other tenants are feeling/doing the same.