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Dark patterns 12 months ago

Open question: if a bartender greets you with a compliment and a wink, and then proceeds to sell you a cocktail, is it a dark pattern?

Mac OS 9 4 years ago

It's a great reminder of how well MacOS 9 UI and UX were designed, and how space efficient the whole OS was on screen.

Even the window handle bars were subtly shadowed, the window shadows evolved when they were collapsed. Like Windows 95 at the time, Mac OS 9 was a beautiful work of interaction design.

It does not have an ability to independently think and imagine/dream

We neither if we're not supplied with energy. By the way, haven't we tried to replicate an inner dialogue by prompting the AI to recursively converse with itself? This could resemble imagination, don't you think?

It suffers from catastrophic forgetting under certain internal circumstances (in addition to changing what dataset we trained it on)

I believe that the persistence of previous answers is what currently distinguishes us the most from the "AI". As soon as we're able to make the realtime discussions part of an ever evolving dataset constituting the AI itself, the gap will get thinner and thinner. But even then, are people suffering from Alzheimer sentient? I believe they are. Isn't it comparable with what happens when an AI catastrophically forgets?

This is genius ! Congratulations for the idea and the execution. It's been a while since a tech product amazed me that much.

To be honest and having been there before you, it's not a good idea. You entered a crowded space with a product that do not yield blatant differentiation. Your marketing, brand image and storytelling are the only things that will lead users to your app.

I don't think web developers will elect a newborn CMS, trust that it doesn't fail for the 5 or more years, if you don't convince them your CMS and the company behind it is future proof. And on that matter, your landing page and your documentation matter more than everything else. Invest time and money in it.

Hey there, congratulations for the launch. I just wanted to give a quick hint that bothered us a lot. I see in this screen (https://www.uxtweak.com/statics/overview/rpl-record.png) that you provide a script tag with data attributes. Don't do that! You'll notice that a lot of your potential users are using a tag manager like GoogleTagManager. Those platform rewrite JS on the fly and do not take these attributes into account. Good luck!

Looking directly at the stars will only show you white dots. Astrophotography requires long time exposures to reveal the colors and details of outer solar system objects. That's what Stellina is for :-)

Hello everyone,

A month after our french roll out, I come here to present you our last product. It's called Axeptio and it's basically reCAPTCHA for user consent.

Backstory:

In november we were attending a conference about GDPR and we learned that opt-in and personal data collection was about to change, a lot. It was pretty obvious that no one except the GAFAs were to be ready on time and we saw it as an opportunity to create a new niche. We came up with the idea of a "consent-as-a-service" platform.

Technically, it's a iframe served upon HTTPS, displaying a form that follows the guidelines of the regulation. When a user checks to give its consent, we store the event and take it as the "proof". We don't know anything about the user and just store the information of acceptation.

If you have any question please leave a message here!

Maybe because when you ask a user what he wants, it turns to be a freaking bloated nightmare ? And we tend to use the word "tool" to describe software but I think it's misleading, Photoshop is not a hammer... it's more of a car factory.

We should keep in mind that most software replace tasks that are too complex or impossible for a human to do!

Node v9.8.0 8 years ago

You're absolutely right about the backward compatibility. If you're still learning and not on a production server, no need to rush on the latest release.

Node v9.8.0 8 years ago

I'd say it really depends on what you want to to do in the next months ! Node can be a very productive environment for web APIs and applications (with great frameworks such as Express or Koa and amazing libraries such as PassportJS) and I personally use it this way 95% of my time. But in its heart lies the event-loop, the streams, the pipes, its functional programming capabilities and all of this makes it a simple and very pleasant way to script, transform, to build algorithms or neural networks! Plus javascript is becoming a very friendly language as Node and ES6 leveled the browser inconsistencies that turned web developers crazy in the past.