mrpigeonpants

Shocking news. Not as shocking as watching a video on LiveLeak, but still surprising.

haha, also, refuse to use any time increment smaller than quarters. "I need to go use the restroom, but I'll be back this quarter."

It sounds good at first, until you find out the role was filled by a swarm of bees shaped like a human being.

Almost half of all marriages result in divorce, so Craigslist is a good place to start. You'll want to have the item evaluated at a reputable jeweler, and work out a fee in advance, but you can save a fortune that way. I think the mindset for a lot of sellers is that they just want to put their past behind them and aren't concerned with getting top dollar.

This site is just an ad for a book.

I've been using their meat in things like pastas and tacos and it's slightly tastier. The thing that hit me is that we consume so much meat in a heavily processed way that it seems silly a creature should have to suffer and die to make it. I'm all for aged steaks and prosciutto in moderation, but a large portion of the meat is consumed in nugget or other forms that don't really respect the sacrifice of the animal or pollution created.

Why not just troll individual people directly rather than general trolling? You might enjoy it more.

So psyched! Had to leave my billing details in the comments of the reserve page. Fingers crossed.

Finally, someone willing to advocate for the voice of the server rather than the obstinate user!

And this was how Bechtel managed to root out the notorious break room farter, with the Fart Detector 9000.

But did they find out if she was a witch?

Sunk cost fallacy is real, but sometimes ambitious pursuits accidentally end up making the world a better place.

If Product is editing designs, you have bigger problems than money. And there might be some causality there.

> Designers are frustrated because the systems they built are ignored.

Designer here. My experience has been that Figma has done the opposite. It's created a lot of consistency with shared component libraries and standardized type / color styles. Also, the fact that engineers can jump into Figma and inspect CSS has been immensely helpful.

In the design world, Figma is like the equivalent of getting a robust IDE with syntax highlighting, code completion, compilation, and debugging. It's replaced multiple tools and connected people in a way that's never been possible.

Those are good reasons. To add to that:

1) Companies are still paying for office space right now, even though people aren't using it. If they reduce their physical spaces in the future, the capital will likely go into hiring more people, which I'd rather see.

2) It's tricky from an accounting perspective, though I like the one-time stipend idea mentioned in the comments here.

3) Not having a commute saves time AND a lot of money, I've personally spent a few hundred dollars upgrading my desk / accessories to get comfy, but saved many times that on commuting and misc expenses.

4) Adding to the above, there are many things that companies generally aren't expected to pay for, like wardrobe, transportation, food, cell phone, etc. It seems like home office falls into that bucket as well based on precedent. Maybe that will change, but I don't have any expectations that it will.

"How I moved out of a house and learned to live in a van down by the river"

Almost as fast as a car correcting into a telephone pole!

For me, teenage recreational cannabis use helped to cure another severe disease I was struggling with. Unfortunately, since I've gotten older I've had to slow down a bit. Since then, there's been a gradual progression to the point where my Dorkinson's has almost fully returned.

Thats a great point. There's a precedent of them heading in that direction. Although with Apple, they're trying to make keyboards that can be activated by a light sneeze or slightly higher than usual barometric pressure.

I'd expect Porsche to put out a minivan first.

I was just on Seller Central yesterday and the only current barrier to committing fraud or selling dangerous goods on the worlds largest marketplace is a $40 monthly fee, a bank account, and enough creativity to make up a company name.

I hope this will help crack down on fraudulent product listings as well. There are a lot of bad actors. Youtube and facebook aren't the only major players with moderation issues

That's a good point. Often when I see UX this bad, it's also usually the result of siloed teams or designers working on individual parts without thinking about the whole experience, and it all just gets stitched together at the end.

I can see the console designer being like, "Oh cool, steering wheel designer is out of room, so I get to design cruise control buttons" rather than pushing back with, "This is a really bad idea"

Yikes. I see it the opposite way. My title has evolved from UX Designer to Product Designer. A lot of organizations have started to understand the value of design and are now giving us the power to think through everything, rather than just the optimization of a web form.

Technology is evolving and expanding so quickly that there's exponential need for good design. I'm happy to hear you're getting out of UX though. I wouldn't want to go to a doctor who blatantly calls the whole medical industry a sham.

Great points! Those are wonderful design principles, and can really help everyone in evaluating the layout of a table.

Weighing in as a UX designer. I appreciate the attempt to encourage people to think about design, but this guide has issues.

What's wrong with the advice:

-Removing horizontal lines decreases readability in the complex examples given

-Vertical lines are very helpful when there are more than three columns

-Serifs have actually been found to be more readable due to their distinct letterforms and can be comprehended more quickly. San-serif fonts are fine too though. Basically, choose a font that has good legibility.

-Don't rely on light gray lines, because they might not be visible on all screens, or in various environments, and likely won't translate to print

-Double horizontal lines for column headers are fine.

-Overall, if you're presenting important information, usability is much more important than minor aesthetics.

Here are some more actual tips for laying out tables:

-Ensure that if a horizontal line needs to be scannable, that it actually has enough padding, or a horizontal separator, be it a dotted line or some other type of visible anchor

-If columns have a lot of information, a table may not be sufficient. Consider aggregating individual rows into a card format.

-Padding is your friend. Also, be consistent with it. A table with too little, but consistent padding looks better than one with more breathing room and inconsistent padding.

-Most information should be aligned left. One exception is currency. That should be aligned right

My computer wouldn't break down without updates. I previously had windows 7 for years and never updated. And had consecutive months of uptime. You don't get it.

What if I'm about to go to a concert, running late and I need to print tickets last minute, and suddenly windows needs to spend 30 minutes updating, without giving me a choice? The fact that you can't stop it in the moment is infuriating. Also, you can't expect the user to manually configure system updates.

When an author is so confident in their assertions, it always raises red flags. Also, the latter part of the article seems to posit that "in order for the U.S. to win, China has to lose".

That ship has sailed, but they could up their vendor standards from grey-market to perhaps a soft creamy beige.

It just makes you reminisce back to a simpler time when you'd save all of your personal data and key logs to floppies and then mail 'em to Microsoft.

Sigh...I can still smell the sharpie ink and wet postage drying on the back of a manila envelope.