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by smag 5mo ago
When your mortgage, everything you eat, the clothes your wife and children wear all come from one company, it is not hard to convince yourself that "this company might not be moral, but if I weren't here, someone else would be.&qu
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by smag 10mo ago
Yes, this is true.
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by smag 2y ago
When I was a kid I discovered ELIZA at a museum and spent hours chatting with her, trying to figure out how it worked. It was a lot of fun. Maybe I'll get a second chance.
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by smag 2y ago
I actually saw this happen at Google: no one could pinpoint the cause of the broken build for a while, and then it turned out to be a UX designer who broke the build. He was apologetic, like McFunley's example. But unlike the example,
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by smag 7y ago
Money Stuff by Matt Levine is a gem. You don't need to work in finance to appreciate Matt Levine's insider take on the people and ideas that are in the news.
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by smag 7y ago
This editorial makes sense: once a company takes outside investment that demands outsized returns not in 10 years, but tomorrow, founders and employees will feel pressure to take larger risks and act in ways that might not be moral or ethic
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by smag 8y ago
About me: Product manager who appreciates design and code. Helped to create successful new products at Google and startups. Looking for an organization where I can help create software that "augments human intelligence." Locat
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by smag 11y ago
This makes a lot of sense to me. Why don't we use this system? The main risk I see is that an individual might lose both the "computer card" (today it'd be your mobile phone) and the backup version of the look up table o
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by smag 16y ago
Here's what it would take to get me to make bring my product design/interaction design skills to open source software: * Easy way to and keep track of 'what projects are underway now and which need HCI or UX expertise'? * Way to speak w
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by smag 16y ago
Congratulations to everyone who helped create Drupal 7. I took a quick look at it, and the Admin UI looked much improved.
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Explain This, crowdsourcing journalistic questioning and answering(explainthis.org)
2 points by smag 17y ago|1 comments