Also, we need personas! Sally the developer, Mark the UX designer, Taylor the manager. Also, we need to build a community, with the help of evangelists!
I wrote a comment on this thread. After reading yours I upvoted it and deleted mine: you clearly gave it more thought than I did and expressed my sentiment a lot clearer.
Windows is 'GUI native', yet manages to be utterly incomprehensible. I'm a technical person and family and friends know it. Whenever someone tells me "you understand computers" and wants me to help them with their Windows, having used Linux for the past 20 years, I mostly cannot get the task done. This has become better with LLMs, but Windows gets zero credit for that.
What is the benefit of 'GUI native' if things are broken and people cannot fix them?
Interesting. Well, I can only tell you that I'm not lying.
I can totally picture and feel how she would feel. I understand the jubilation of falling in love, and I understand the pain of losing loved ones - especially when it's sudden, unexpected, and tragic.
I've felt all of those things before in my own life. We all do, sooner or later.
But pain is also what imbues things with meaning. All of the greatest human stories are about suffering and how we as humans respond to it. That's why it puts a pep in my step - because it's meaningful, provocative, evocative, and inspiritational.
Life would be dull without loss.
It's a radical perspective maybe, and maybe even an irrational one, but hey - it works for me!
>I can totally picture and feel how she would feel. ... I understand the pain of losing loved ones - especially when it's sudden, unexpected, and tragic.
And enjoy feeling pain? Or you just understand but not really feel?
I don't know. I don't get how one can have empathy, feel down because of someone else's misery and enjoy it. Or not it itself, but something having it as a part.
The cure for this is spending an afternoon volunteering in a kindergarden.
> There were the 7 a.m. doctor’s appointments before work; the dozens of days working from home in order to take all my medications; and the many times I reshuffled my travel plans.
Yes I mean just wait until you have kids. It's gonna get tougher.
I used to do backend development in superior languages, and sometimes do hobby frontend in superior languages, but my work is Python now. And it kind of has to be Python: we do machine learning, and I work with GDAL and PDAL and all these other weird libraries and everything has Python bindings! I search for "coherent point drift" and of course there's a Python library.
The superior languages I mentioned... perhaps they have like a library for JSON encoding and decoding. You need anything else? Great, now you're a library author and maintainer!
relax, soon u be rewriting the essence of all these libs into something new. python has its days numbered also perhaps for many engineering decisions that are now cheap via llms.
That's a high bar though. Few things are better than Swiss cheese.
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