“One customer reported that it took 20 minutes to load his application, but it wasn’t a problem because he would start loading it when he got to work and then go get a cup of coffee and visit with colleagues. He also reported each edit took several minutes to respond …
Yet he was still happy because, he said, he was able to conduct his research and publish his results in half the time it took him previously. His experience motivated and inspired us”
LabVIEW, Jeffery Kodosky
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There’s something about McCoy’s playing that feels like a visit into a more magical world, or a layer of heightened reality that’s normally just out of sight. RIP and thanks for the beauty you left with us
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@Jonathan_Blow For gdb, there are some interesting nuggets in these videos that help get it a bit more ergonomic (curses UI) and powerful (python interpreter, reversible debugging):
15min lightning talk: https://t.co/qyE703xDOZ
1hr full version: https://t.co/ZMlwt6gvm7
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We have to put more energy toward understanding, respecting, and empowering the people we’re building for than we put toward extracting maximum profit from them.
15. autocorrect changing a proper “fucking” to “ducking” is not cute or funny IT IS AN ACT OF FUCKING AGGRESSION
a calculator that changed the value you entered would get thrown out the window
TOOL makers are eroding the basic compact of CONSENT.
9. there is much that is objective about Design Quality - and it’s not stickiness, but successful task completions, time per task, fudging and going back and trying again,
but you can’t get those out of google analytics and that’s why you virtually never hear about it