jrimbault

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Having designed a good number of internal tools for teams of developers I couldn't agree more.

Earlier I had the tendency to "leave the guts" open, thinking my users were developers and would want that. All it did was put obstacles in my teammates actually doing their work. My teammates must use the tools I made for them to achieve work the company needs them to do, they don't want, nor should they want to, fiddle with a little tool they won't find anywhere else.

I still leave a lot of escape hatches, but I try to design the internal tools in such way as to make the users fall into a pit of success.

Edit: also, error messages, error messages, error messages and auto suggestions for common errors

Edit 2: also the number of people only addressing the examples in the post rather than the spirit of the post is... disappointing.

5 dagen geledendiscuss

I love how new people keep discovering Ian's website (cf the xkcd 1053). It's a really well made website, the pictures and animations are very well chosen to explain knots and lacing.

13 dagen geledendiscuss

I notice how the title by Ars Technica is much less baity than Nature: "Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?" vs "Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?"

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Note that for little while now lazy iterators have been available:

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

- Array.prototype.values https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

This addresses a few criticisms here, and the main criticisms I had.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Cheekily, might not the "purist" want a "pot-au-feu" ? (i have a sincere dislike of purity talk, especially in cookery)

The article mentions it, but doesn't disprove it.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

> Of course, there is indeed no shame. There is also no pride.

But there's is "pride" in making tools people actually use without issue

4 maanden geledendiscuss

Couldn't you have used a subdomain "ai.mozilla.org" rather than a new tld? I'm guessing some marketing executives got involved?

4 maanden geledendiscuss

I saw that, but anyone can link to anything. Luckily on mozilla.org there's a link to mozilla.ai, so that legitimizes it a bit. But that is not obvious.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

Sorry, dumb question: is "mozilla.ai" related to "mozilla.org" and to the larger Mozilla organization? Because changing the tld makes this actually non-obvious. I see "mozilla.ai" and I think "someone is trying to phish".

4 maanden geledendiscuss

Except a lot of actual, very smart, economists are for UBI or similar arrangements (it's not a settled matter). And geohot might be smart, but he's just a self described hacker.

If we're going to use authority arguments.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

In C this kind of issue is so common it wouldn't raise to the status of "CVE". People would just shrug and say "git gud".

7 maanden geledendiscuss

When the "classics" were decided to be "the classics" (by who? why? on what authority?) a lot of them were newer than Mickey Mouse is today.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

The quotes aren't in the original title:

> Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting, expert tells BBC

10 maanden geledendiscuss

I used to.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I thought your earlier thread on URLO very interesting https://users.rust-lang.org/t/game-dev-in-rust-some-notes-on...

7 jaar geledendiscuss

It seems to me France also has a comparable surface, although with more concentrated population centers.

7 jaar geledendiscuss

You don't ? And you get paid less by click but you also have more clicks ? (also cf NYT)

This way you also avoid the arms race between ad networks, ad blockers and clickbot farms.