richforrester

Had a senior exec pick up his phone, punch some words into AI, then as-it-was-generating-a-response flip it around and put it in front of me.

This shit has progressed well past seriousness and into the absurd

Great.

How do we fix this.

It's like we know things are destined to go down in a flaming pile, and we're just watching so we can change it AFTER that happens.

Soz. Kinda a "dear diary" response, but am frustrated.

That has little to do with what I said.

A third of the world lives in poverty. That's the fault of capitalism.

Literally the most overwhelming thought, reading this, is "man, capitalism is a mistake"

The amounts of money circulating whilst some of us struggle to make rent ...

Nothing fair, or just, about this world we live in

As someone who's worked in UI/UX for 2 decades, I feel this too.

Recent developments have made me feel a form of guilt that's new to me. As though we've all had it too good for too long. Which is probably at least in part due to working for organisations that only care about the bottom line.

In short; all of this boils down to capitalism being simultaneously a drive and a drain on society.

It's impressive how much worse MS Teams has gotten. Genuinely baffling decisions on every single level in that UI...

What I love about these types of questions is that they come completely out of the blue

Like someone will rock up and ask for some stat that's completely irrelevant to the story, just "to make a point", without looking it up first themselves, just to imply something

And then later backtrack with "I WAS JUST ASKING" or something

Nah, go look it up yourself. Define successful for yourself, look up the statistic

Look for things like "happiest countries in the world", "GDP per capita", "life expectancy" or even "Big Mac index". Heck, make up your own index from a mix of them

Plus a lot of it has been about semantically correct formatting of your content and code.

It's a moving target in that a lot of orgs try to "game the system", or at least exploit it as best they can :)

Good content will mostly rise to the top because that's what search engines strive to optimise.

Nothing really changes that much probably. Just semantics.

I'm not keen on Apple's products. Getting their watch to go with my Pixel phone seems kinda ... no.

So, this product is for the part of the world that doesn't use iPhones, I suppose.

I'm kinda keen. Awaiting a MKBHD video, as per.

.edit: Guessing that feature's locked because it's part of FitBit, which was purchased by Google but probably still functions a bit separately.

Also literally has a link to "conclusions" :)

Because it leaves to the imagination, probably.

Worked in eye-tracking research for a bit.

Things you learn;

- Small text is hard to read

- Making things hard to read means they get missed sometimes

- Making it the only thing on the screen makes people try to read it really hard

- Which makes them more likely to remember it later

I work in UI/UX design and this f*cked with my brain for a while. It's counter to everything we're being taught.

Human brains are fun.

Glad you're able to work like that. A lot of people aren't though. For them, there needs to be a different solution.

This is a problem with how employment works, more than anything.

I've always "hung out" with colleagues after work hours. Because we're all in the same boat, and have more in common with each-other than anyone else, because we spend 40+ hours a week in the same room.

It's a failure of HR and management, imo, when that doesn't happen. And it can be increasingly hard to fix.

I think "personality" deserves its own category + percentage.

Unfortunately, management roles are often inherited, instead of being earned.

Yup.

Google Keep for anything fleeting.

Evernote for keepers.

Google Docs for structured stuff.

That's embarrassing.

Our HR department wouldn't let me give proper feedback. Even though I've had some people that, with a little tweak to their knowledge, or a slight shift in thinking, could become great hires.

There's tonnes of candidates out there that just lack something small, or are slightly less ideal than someone else... yet still have all the raw talent and potential in the world.

But you can't always hire them because you don't have the resources to up-skill them efficiently. Or you need someone that can more readily contribute to a project.

I've certainly got some people in mind whom I'd love to contact as soon as I start at a different employer, to drag them on board if said employer had the resources to properly develop them.

Ah well.

"this one algorithm" -> 6000+ words

No proper headings.

To hell with that. I won't ever know what they're on about.

Just got my WASD in the mail today, been explaining to people at work what mechanical keyboards are, and showing them this:

https://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/12/an-introdu...

(some REALLY good animations in there that show off the different switches!!!)

Also purchased a set of sample keycaps from them separately, and regret not getting that exact sampler kit for the switches.

Total tangent. Amazon Prime's video library here in Australia disapointed me to such an extend that I unsubscribed within minutes of subscribing.

The dashboard has recommendations. In those recommendations, on this single page, Twilight appeared 26 (TWENTY SIX) times.

Any other page I'd go to would also have several instances of it recommending me a Twilight movie. I literally couldn't find enough decent movies because almost every other movie was from that series.

It was the shortest lived account I've ever owned.

Apologies for the rant. Am disappointed.

This is a real, relevant and scary thing.

Very real, even for huge content creators, that can - on a whim - get their butts handed to them.

I want 7 extra hours in a day. 4 for of those would be allocated to sleeping.

Yeah, you really have to develop a personality that's able to deal with the interruptions. From both sides: you need to change, and you need to change others.

Besides that part, there's plenty of roles where you can negotiate time to work from elsewhere on the odd occasion. At that point it becomes a time management excercise that's mostly not too difficult to solve.

Oh, and take these types of situations into account when discussing your KPIs, if they affect them. Always have KPIs because they're not just there to help your employer - they're also your leverage in negotiations. You did better than your initial goal because of [X], but you can also be worse than your goal because of [Y]. This means [Y] needs to be adjusted. Or your KPIs.

I'm not suggesting it's the right thing to do. I don't decide on what's wrong or right. I'll let people that do on their own.

For the people who don't give 2 shits.

I realize that sounds like a meme, but it's kinda true, isn't it?

Might be better to have kids so you can rease them as super-heroes that fight the planet-killers?

This is a very un-ycombinator feeling thread.

Some logic (be it faulty or not) brought me to wonder; isn't Google's lead in AI a direct result of sitting on figuratively all the data in the world?

That must account for a huge portion of their advances, right?

Just for the record; your lawyers are other people's other people's lawyers.

There's different types of advertising though. And it's not necessarily blatant advertising that's the issue.

A lot of ads are designed differently. Article form. Informative video content. A promoted Facebook post that ends up in your feed. Really any type of content that's pretending not to be an ad.

That's advertising too. And that too, influences people. About tonnes of things. Not necessarily products.

And think about it inversely too. If there's 2 groups of people posting ads: if group 1 has more money, they can effectively push group 2 out.

These too are part of the problem.