Required reading for everyone!
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This is required reading for you all: "
If some Software Developers built houses?"
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Good Read.
Interestingly, My job is in the home construction industry, so this might get circulated to the developers around here. :)
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Nice reading, indeed. But it forgets to mention something: nobody knows
how to make computer operation intuitive. We are house builders who
don't know what's "normal" for a house, and the various sets of "user
interface guidelines" can't change the fact that humans invented
something almost too complicated to cope with.
Now that's an interesting topic: how to build a "normal", human-friendly, computer. Ideas, anyone?
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It should be designed like a blender [8-|]
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Outstanding! I needed the laugh.
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A Human friendly computer:
No keyboard.
No mouse.
No monitor.
No case.No parts.
You now have a human friendly computer.
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I love the way the piece is about software developers, and then comes this bit:
Things are odd shapes and despite 5000 years of achitectural evolution our designer throws it all out and assumes he knows best and that a lounge room can be long and thin etc.
AHA. It's all the fault of the designer. The developer has just made what the designer has designed. Now this I can agree with. Especially 'Web designers' have a knack of making sites absolutely unusable. But then the are 'balanced', and 'according to the clients styleguide'.
I know that the interfaces to my hobby projects are usually somewhat like the house. Because it's not a commercial product, and I'm not going to sell it to anyone, I believe that is my choice. If I want to make all my buttons doubleclick (which I have never actually seen anywhere), that's up to me. I'm going to be the one using it.
Drak
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House of leaves... a book so bad I resurrected this thread just warn everyone off. Enjoy your weekend.
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@Drak said in Required reading for everyone!:
make all my buttons doubleclick (which I have never actually seen anywhere)
Oh, look at that happy soul who never had to use Lotus Notes!
(unlike me
)
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@remi said in Required reading for everyone!:
@Drak said in Required reading for everyone!:
make all my buttons doubleclick (which I have never actually seen anywhere)
Oh, look at that happy soul who never had to use Lotus Notes!
(unlike me
)He may have, in the 16 years since this was written.
I have been exposed to Notes for the first (and last) time in 2009.
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@nerd4sale said in Required reading for everyone!:
@remi said in Required reading for everyone!:
@Drak said in Required reading for everyone!:
make all my buttons doubleclick (which I have never actually seen anywhere)
Oh, look at that happy soul who never had to use Lotus Notes!
(unlike me
)He may have, in the 16 years since this was written.
I have been exposed to Notes for the first (and last) time in 2009.I extend you my sincere condolences.
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@DogsB I'm mad at Asimov because of his family because of the "Gold" collection because of his family because of his ego this month. Will update.
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I believe everyone should read
Santa Steps Outbut not re-read it. Absolutely no one should read Illuminatus. But what you should read isShadow Of The Torturer.
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@Gribnit said in Required reading for everyone!:
I believe everyone should read Santa Steps Out but not re-read it.
I believe you should re-read it but don't read it.
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@error said in Required reading for everyone!:
@Gribnit said in Required reading for everyone!:
I believe everyone should read Santa Steps Out but not re-read it.
I believe you should re-read it but don't read it.
Can't, it's lost and I don't believe in buying it.
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@Gribnit said in Required reading for everyone!:
I don't believe in buying it.
The exchange of currency for goods and services is a very real phenomenon that occurs almost daily.
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@error said in Required reading for everyone!:
@Gribnit said in Required reading for everyone!:
I don't believe in buying it.
The exchange of currency for goods and services is a very real phenomenon that occurs almost daily.
Sure, but Santa Claus?
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@Gribnit said in Required reading for everyone!:
@error said in Required reading for everyone!:
@Gribnit said in Required reading for everyone!:
I don't believe in buying it.
The exchange of currency for goods and services is a very real phenomenon that occurs almost daily.
Sure, but Santa Claus?
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
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@error at least you stuck to just my first name, but I still nearly shit myself
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@Drak said in Required reading for everyone!:
Especially 'Web designers' have a knack of making sites absolutely unusable.
Some things never change.
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@DogsB said in Required reading for everyone!:
Not sure you were in the target audience. But things happen.
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@DogsB but I already know what evil lurks in the heart of Man.
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@DogsB pass, I've been watching the movie for like 4 decades and it's just a mess.
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@DogsB since it's a serial, is it optional, or can I substitute any installment?
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@MrL said in Required reading for everyone!:
As a trilogy, you might wonder whether the zombie years will be overdramatized, but I trust this author.
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@MrL said in Required reading for everyone!:
Is that a bootleg translation of Ian Kershaw's "Hubris" / "Nemesis" biography?
If not, and while I have no idea about the one you posted, I actually recommend Kershaw's books, they're a very good read.
Although you have to be somewhat motivated to go through 2000 pages about Hitler, it's not a quick read.
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@remi said in Required reading for everyone!:
Is that a bootleg translation of Ian Kershaw's "Hubris" / "Nemesis" biography?
No, author's name is pretty well displayed: Volker Ullrich
If not, and while I have no idea about the one you posted, I actually recommend Kershaw's books, they're a very good read.
Read it. His societal-economic analysis is very interesting, but I find his view of Hitler as a person snobbish and arrogant.
Although you have to be somewhat motivated to go through 2000 pages about Hitler, it's not a quick read.
Only about 1500, plus 200 pages of annotations.
I read quite a lot about Hitler and Third Reich.
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@DogsB beware, the cursed tome
Systemantics, as it goes too far, too far.
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@Gribnit said in Required reading for everyone!:
@DogsB beware, the cursed tome
Systemantics, as it goes too far, too far.I found Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail to be eerily accurate and not too far at all. I wish it was still in print though; it already wasn't cheap when I bought it 20 years ago and it's only gotten worse.
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@DogsB you gotta read the first one or it makes no sense.
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Infinite Jest.
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Amazon.co.uk : chuck tingle
