Maximin is probably better for avoiding those pesky "torture/enslave half of humanity" scenarios.
Yes, a utility monster is conceivable under both theories. It's amusing how a utility monster represents a serious objection for utilitarian philosophers, but is a total non-concern for people that solve optimization…
> See, in this family, we DON’T just want to maximize the overall quantity of individual happiness (like Bentham). No… In this family, we want to maximize the overall quantity AND the quality of individual happiness…
I'm pretty confident that Pynchon, in Gravity's Rainbow, composed the greatest single-sentence ode to toothpaste ever written: "In the pipefitters’ sheds, icicled, rattling when the gales are in the Straits, here’s…
In a banal sense, it's correct to say that there's no searcher, no goal to evolution. As far as we know, "natural selection" isn't "real" in the sense that electromagnetism is "real"; natural selection is just a…
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that evolution is a tautological collapse of the "why" in "why do we exist". Let me explain: evolution is a massive, groping search in the ultrahigh dimensional space of…
I think I was addressing attitudes towards new technologies, rather than their actual impacts, which you quite rightly focus on. I'm less convinced that the impacts of these new technologies are as pernicious as you…
Virtual reality is perhaps an unfortunate moniker, because it encourages a dichotomisation of reality into the "virtual" and "real", and conceiving of these as opposing, or at least orthogonal forces. Thought of in this…
I think societal condemnation is inconsistent, poorly calibrated, and largely rooted in exogenous/historical factors. The outrage over isolated killings of charismatic megafauna is matched only by the indifference to…
I'm baffled that this sort of discourse is considered acceptable. Not in an "I-feel-appalled" sort of way, but in a very literal, "why doesn't society treat this like racism or sexism" sort of way. If someone wanted to…
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You're implying that if something can be outdone it doesn't have a purpose, which seems to rule out purposes for pretty much everything. I'm sure there's always someone that can write books or maths papers or symphonies…
Voting is compulsory in Australia.
I find this is one of the biggest problems with object-oriented programming. The object is a terrible unit of abstraction, because it forces you to carve up your domain into rigid chunks which might map to your domain…
Fair enough, but I think that's a separate issue. If we go down this path, we'd be diluting the term "UX" to homeopathic levels. I wouldn't criticize an iOS-only app for bad UX because it ignores half the market.
Fair enough. Do you think informal discussions benefit from a focus on thematic engagement, rather than logical minutiae?
Virtual reality is perhaps an unfortunate moniker, because it encourages a dichotomisation of reality into "virtual" and "real", and conceiving of these as opposing, or at least orthogonal forces. Thought of in this…
Why not? That's a very strong statement. I could think of a countless number of bets that trivially match your criteria (i.e. even odds Facebook will not stop selling ads this year), that you'd be crazy not to take.
Yeah, this article reads like someone was forced by their employer to write a blog post. If it was for self-promotion you'd think they'd put a bit more effort into it. Would be better if retitled to "10 things that just…
In theory, the only irreducible UX distinction surrounding logically separate pages in a traditional website vs a SPA is that the SPA doesn't do the full postback, which is arguably a better UX. Sure, in practice many…
Fair enough, you meant to refer to a subset of web development, rather than the entire field. It's a significantly weaker claim, though. I could pick out subsets of any field of work, and declare them non-transferable,…
Saying an application has a "horrendous UX" because you refuse to run its code seems strange to me. You could disable CSS and images and call the result ugly, but I don't think that entitles you to call the website ugly?
Really? Functional reactive programming, immutable data, unidirectional data flow, application state as a fold over a stream of actions... it seems like web development is seeing a really high uptake of valuable,…
SPAs don't need to have horrendous UX?
Yeah, the YouTube is better quality, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti_3SqavXjk&t=55m50s This link will start playing as Carmack tells the "broken Netflix engineer" story, while recounting how he finished the…
Maximin is probably better for avoiding those pesky "torture/enslave half of humanity" scenarios.
Yes, a utility monster is conceivable under both theories. It's amusing how a utility monster represents a serious objection for utilitarian philosophers, but is a total non-concern for people that solve optimization…
> See, in this family, we DON’T just want to maximize the overall quantity of individual happiness (like Bentham). No… In this family, we want to maximize the overall quantity AND the quality of individual happiness…
I'm pretty confident that Pynchon, in Gravity's Rainbow, composed the greatest single-sentence ode to toothpaste ever written: "In the pipefitters’ sheds, icicled, rattling when the gales are in the Straits, here’s…
In a banal sense, it's correct to say that there's no searcher, no goal to evolution. As far as we know, "natural selection" isn't "real" in the sense that electromagnetism is "real"; natural selection is just a…
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that evolution is a tautological collapse of the "why" in "why do we exist". Let me explain: evolution is a massive, groping search in the ultrahigh dimensional space of…
I think I was addressing attitudes towards new technologies, rather than their actual impacts, which you quite rightly focus on. I'm less convinced that the impacts of these new technologies are as pernicious as you…
Virtual reality is perhaps an unfortunate moniker, because it encourages a dichotomisation of reality into the "virtual" and "real", and conceiving of these as opposing, or at least orthogonal forces. Thought of in this…
I think societal condemnation is inconsistent, poorly calibrated, and largely rooted in exogenous/historical factors. The outrage over isolated killings of charismatic megafauna is matched only by the indifference to…
I'm baffled that this sort of discourse is considered acceptable. Not in an "I-feel-appalled" sort of way, but in a very literal, "why doesn't society treat this like racism or sexism" sort of way. If someone wanted to…
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies (Ranked 1-3 experience [3 is highest]): - Web: React/Redux (2), Angular 1x (3), Gulp (2), protractor (2), HTML (3), CSS (2) - .NET stack:…
You're implying that if something can be outdone it doesn't have a purpose, which seems to rule out purposes for pretty much everything. I'm sure there's always someone that can write books or maths papers or symphonies…
Voting is compulsory in Australia.
I find this is one of the biggest problems with object-oriented programming. The object is a terrible unit of abstraction, because it forces you to carve up your domain into rigid chunks which might map to your domain…
Fair enough, but I think that's a separate issue. If we go down this path, we'd be diluting the term "UX" to homeopathic levels. I wouldn't criticize an iOS-only app for bad UX because it ignores half the market.
Fair enough. Do you think informal discussions benefit from a focus on thematic engagement, rather than logical minutiae?
Virtual reality is perhaps an unfortunate moniker, because it encourages a dichotomisation of reality into "virtual" and "real", and conceiving of these as opposing, or at least orthogonal forces. Thought of in this…
Why not? That's a very strong statement. I could think of a countless number of bets that trivially match your criteria (i.e. even odds Facebook will not stop selling ads this year), that you'd be crazy not to take.
Yeah, this article reads like someone was forced by their employer to write a blog post. If it was for self-promotion you'd think they'd put a bit more effort into it. Would be better if retitled to "10 things that just…
In theory, the only irreducible UX distinction surrounding logically separate pages in a traditional website vs a SPA is that the SPA doesn't do the full postback, which is arguably a better UX. Sure, in practice many…
Fair enough, you meant to refer to a subset of web development, rather than the entire field. It's a significantly weaker claim, though. I could pick out subsets of any field of work, and declare them non-transferable,…
Saying an application has a "horrendous UX" because you refuse to run its code seems strange to me. You could disable CSS and images and call the result ugly, but I don't think that entitles you to call the website ugly?
Really? Functional reactive programming, immutable data, unidirectional data flow, application state as a fold over a stream of actions... it seems like web development is seeing a really high uptake of valuable,…
SPAs don't need to have horrendous UX?
Yeah, the YouTube is better quality, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti_3SqavXjk&t=55m50s This link will start playing as Carmack tells the "broken Netflix engineer" story, while recounting how he finished the…