This is excruciatingly difficult. I have no experience with this sort of a test, and the method that I chose (albeit quickly and without a whole lot of thought) was to pick four sides that were touching, and try to find the one pattern that didn't have the same four sides touching.
This logic obviously didn't work, because I got 1 / 9. Does anyone have a strategy for this, or is it pure logic?
Thanks a lot for this link. When I was trying to quit smoking, I would always have a full pack and would rationalize "Well, it would be a waste of money to throw this pack out now."
I knew there must be a name for this irrational thinking, and that article taught me a lot.
For the problems he's talking about, I would make this point:
From my experience, after taking away features and just focusing on user experience, iOS 1.0 beats Android 2.x in nearly every category. Even back then, everything just worked on iOS.
Is it really better to use? HN is incredibly simple, and everything works as expected. There's a few UI quirks with reddit that I don't particularly like. For example: I don't think it's obvious to a new user how to submit a story. Second (and this might be a personal preference) clicking the reddit logo in the header should take you to the main page for that subreddit, not reddit.com. Particularly when said subreddit has a customized logo.
I think this is a valid idea. There's many times where there's things I'd like to discuss that is similar to, or related to, topics covered by Hacker News, but that I don't post here because I don't want to dilute the topics here with things that some people might not want.
A HN subreddit (or a subreddit with this purpose, not necessarily tied to the Hacker News name; maybe there is one already?) could solve this.
I couldn't agree more. Really don't see what the big deal is. In a perfect world, they wouldn't be selling my data, and I wouldn't have to pay for all the services I use.
In the world we have, though, I'll take what I can get.
"Wasn’t it a bit hypocritical of Mr. Daisey to condemn Apple when he continued to buy the company’s products? “There are no alternatives in our ecosystem,” Mr. Daisey pointed out, noting that FoxConn makes more than half the electronics purchased by Americans each year. For all I know, my Motorola may have been made there as well. “What I can do is to force people to wrestle with the reality of how their precious gadgets are made.”"
As far as your conclusions at the end, you're right. You definitely need to be better at letting people know what your app does. It took me until the anecdote about the paralyzed man to even have the tiniest idea of what your app did.
Of course, this also likely wasn't intended to be marketing material, but considering it made the front page of HN, it very well is now.
Could you elaborate on why you feel this way with some constructive criticism? All I see is a father who made something cool to teach his kid some fun things. Maybe you can't understand because your father never loved you enough to do the same?
Hmm, that's interesting. I guess the environment issue isn't black and white.
I guess what bothers me about all the people aiming for their government jobs is the fact that they're content doing menial maintenance of legacy systems in COBOL or whatever the hell they're written in. I know there's probably some brilliant kids in the program, and it seems like they're all convinced that it's the best/only path available to them, and they're fine with that.
This seems like a good insight. It's true that most of the people I'm judging (sounds negative, but I guess that's what I'm doing) are the ones who are quite outspoken. perhaps there are some gems in the rough, just hiding.
This logic obviously didn't work, because I got 1 / 9. Does anyone have a strategy for this, or is it pure logic?