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Brain dead stupid.
Quote: In product design, “user” and the other U-words have been foundational to defining the relationship between humans and tech. The former uses. The latter is used.
But labeling people as users strips them of complexity. It reduces humans to a single behavior, effectively supporting a view of people as more like robots whose sole function is to use a product or feature.
That's a strong hint that he is useless as someone in the UX/Usability field. The entire field is about defining users, and understanding what behaviors they most commonly expose (hint: it's almost never a single one). His writing clearly shows that he did not understand his job, or role in the industry.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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I always thought the word "user" was a bit odd. "Users" to me were drug addicts. Oh, wait...
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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If all you've got is lemons, make lemonade.
If all you've got is junkies, give 'em junk.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When we forget that code is also for humans to read, we end up with scary codebases that make the future maintainers pull their hair out. For those who care
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So he doesn't approve of "code with seething hatred"?
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A study of popular music by data scientists, using the IBM Watson Tone Analyzer, has found increasing levels of anger and sadness in the lyrics from the 50s till now. And I thought it was just me
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Well, that's surprising.
Anyone would think that it were aimed at teenagers, or something.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's bad analysis.
"We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun ..." that's a sad song that would no doubt score very highly on the "joy" scale when analysed that way.
"All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey ..." leads into one of the most insanely happy songs ever written but would tick boxes for "sad".
"I met him at the candy store ..." doesn't really hint at the hero's impending doom.
Factor in linguistic shifts in words like bad, sick and wicked and you've got yourself a whole heap of rubbish research.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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The probably wanted to make angry back music in the 50's too, but without metal guitar it's just a whole lot more difficult.
Wout
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"The probably wanted to make angry back music in the 50's too, but without metal guitar it's just a whole lot more difficult."
Come now, Young Man Blues was written in the 1950's. (Excellently covered by The Who on Live at Leeds).
Summertime Blues is hardly a reflection on a halcyon summer break.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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These so called data scientists they have so much time doing useless analysis...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Security researchers at Safety Detective revealed vulnerabilities in the temperature control systems found in freezers that could allow an attacker to hijack the devices and destroy its contents. But of course they are
Welcome to the Internet of Hacked Things, part way to friggin' many
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It's gotta be asked: Why were they even looking for vulnerabilities there?
I'll go 50c that there has never been an incident of freezer hacking, but that there will be now.
What do you call the desire to create self-fulfilling prophesies?
Kent Sharkey wrote: part way to friggin' many
I see that the o-stealing hackers have found your IP.
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Or you can just leave the doors open...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Welcome to the Internet of Hacked Things, part way to friggin' fridgin' many
FTFY
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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This report is a case study on upgrading a C# 7 class library to C# 8 with nullable reference types. string? int? Hansel?
Sometimes I can only think of stuff that makes me smile. I doubt it will mean anything to anyone else. Sorry.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Hansel
As I learned actually yesterday playing WWF, "hansel" is word meaning "a gift given for good luck at the beginning of the year or to mark an acquisition or the start of an enterprise."
I guess Scott Hanselman has been a real hansel for Microsoft. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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A new user verification system for phones relies on the unique way a person moves his or her lips Read my lips: let me in
I was thinking of going with "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow", but I'm not sexy enough to make that one work.
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I can just see the first planning session:Fat Manager says: OK, Boys!
Our new project is going to be based on one of my fetishes!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Read my lips: let me in
How about saying "open sesame"? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So after dentist it is not only two hours without eating but two days without phone?
I may buy it...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I may buy it...
For your kids?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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FAAAARRRKKK OFF!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"Artificial Intelligence Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor; The genetic footprint of a 'ghost population' may match that of a Neanderthal and Denisovan hybrid fossil found in Siberia" [^]
I find this fascinating.
Quote: In this case, machines were set to work analyzing the human genome and predicting human demographics by simulating how our DNA might have evolved over many thousands of possible scenarios of ancient evolution. The program accounted for the structure and evolution of DNA as well as models of human migration and interbreeding to try to fit some of the pieces together in an incredibly complex puzzle.
The researchers trained the computer to analyze eight different models of the most plausible theories of early human evolution across Eurasia. The models came from previous studies that attempted to come up with a scenario that would result in the current picture of the human genome, including its known Neanderthal and Denisovan components.
“With each of these eight models, we calculate over weeks of computations how well they are able to reach the actual, present genetic composition of humans,” Bertranpetit says. “Every time we do a simulation, it's a simulation of a possible path of human evolution, and we have run those simulations thousands of times, and the deep learning algorithms are able to recognize which of the models best suit the data.”
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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> The researchers trained the computer to analyze eight different models of the most plausible theories of early human evolution across Eurasia.
I wonder if it would be possible to then compute probable evolutionary trends in the future to get an idea of what the human being will evolve to in a few 10's of thousands of years?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
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