Writing documentation of all kinds seems like it would help a great deal. I would be hesitant to file UX complaints, because those tend to be ignored by programmers who focus their limited available time on fixing defects and shipping features.

Where are all the programmers who enjoy improving UX and enjoy the challenge of changing legacy code? 😉

Oh, great! It’s the bean police!

Omnibus. Ten Percent Happier. Madigan’s Pubcast.

Maybe it’s the best they know how to do.

Disrespectful or not, if you don’t like it, then you don’t like it. You might just email them about your experience and tell them what you want to have happen. Give them a chance to do that for you.

And ultimately, which do you value more: the season tickets or your preferred way of buying them? As far as I can tell, there’s no wrong answer, but merely your preference.

Good luck.

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Thank you. I know of it, but haven’t read it. I probably know a very superficial version of the argument, but I might find a full-length description of it more credible. Even so, it seems more fortunate than inevitable to me.

On one hand, yes, absolutely; on the other hand, when the chips are down, we seem to choose violence over compassion and cooperation. Given how difficult living likely was in the distant past, I would have guessed that compassion would have died in the crib.

What kinds of questions would your ideal system help you to answer?

Compassion. Its existence is most improbable.

That’s probably not how you meant the question, but it’s the meaning that comes to my mind.

I was tired of Windows, so I tried Linux for a month, then switched to Mac OS for a decade.

When Mac OS started to become iOS, I started leaning towards Linux.

When my MacBook keyboard caps started falling off and Apple told me to replace the entire keyboard, I left them indefinitely.

And now I’ve been here for a few years. So far, so good.

This reminds me of my first week running Mac OS and searching increasingly frantically for an uninstall script for an application I’d installed.

Oh.

Drag to trash. Really? OK.

I find that I prefer a graphical environment to understand what’s going on, then a keyboard-focused environment (usually text based) once I reach the point that I know what to do and want to increase speed and repeatability.

I don’t ruthlessly reduce mouse use, but I prefer to stick the keyboard for a handful of reasons: speed, comfort, reducing the likelihood of repetitive stress injury as I age, and flexibility. If my trackpad fails and I can’t find a mouse, I can still do what I need to do.

I suppose it depends how you think of being an adult.

No-one is going to save me. I am huddling with my family for warmth and hoping we all make it to death without disaster striking. If disaster strikes, our survival depends on us and people will be looking to me to take charge.

That sounds like adulthood to me.

Another Canadian. I don’t know the gun laws well, nor do I shoot, so I judge mostly based on the consequences.

Yes, we have gun violence, but it doesn’t dominate the headlines daily. Homicides are still remarkable and mass shootings are still shocking. I suppose this means that we haven’t made guns too easy to acquire, at least relative to the wishes of our population at large.

I don’t think I need stricter controls, but I wouldn’t support looser controls. I support things as they are, largely speaking. I’m prepared to be schooled by a fellow Canadian more in the know.

What I dearly wish to avoid are the conspiracy fantasies of the government coming to take our guns as well as a retroactive insertion of the myth that our country was born in, by, and through guns. It wasn’t. As long as we avoid those two things well enough, we don’t seem to need urgent change regarding gun controls.

I struggled early with meditation because I kept remembering things I needed to do and coming up with ideas. I had to keep a notepad with me in order to let my mind quiet down.

The secret is pretty simple: move the problem out of your working memory and wait for insight to come.

Let yourself be bored. Daydream. Look out the window. Do nothing. Try to meditate.

Connexions seem to happen when we try less, and connexions lie at the center of creativity.

I routinely use Kill the Newsletter to convert email subscriptions into RSS feeds. This increases the chances thst I actually read those newsletters.

This Country (UK) is so charming and painful at the same time. Even if you don’t like Welcome to Flatch, you might still love This Country.