<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: richforrester</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=richforrester</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:07:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=richforrester" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richforrester in "Don't be a meat proxy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Had a senior exec pick up his phone, punch some words into AI, then as-it-was-generating-a-response flip it around and put it in front of me.<p>This shit has progressed well past seriousness and into the absurd</p>
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<p>Great.<p>How do we fix this.<p>It's like we know things are destined to go down in a flaming pile, and we're just watching so we can change it AFTER that happens.<p>Soz. Kinda a "dear diary" response, but am frustrated.</p>
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<p>That has little to do with what I said.<p>A third of the world lives in poverty. That's the fault of capitalism.</p>
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<p>Literally the most overwhelming thought, reading this, is "man, capitalism is a mistake"<p>The amounts of money circulating whilst some of us struggle to make rent ...<p>Nothing fair, or just, about this world we live in</p>
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<p>As someone who's worked in UI/UX for 2 decades, I feel this too.<p>Recent developments have made me feel a form of guilt that's new to me. As though we've all had it too good for too long. Which is probably at least in part due to working for organisations that only care about the bottom line.<p>In short; all of this boils down to capitalism being simultaneously a drive and a drain on society.</p>
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<p>It's impressive how much worse MS Teams has gotten. Genuinely baffling decisions on every single level in that UI...</p>
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<p>What I love about these types of questions is that they come completely out of the blue<p>Like someone will rock up and ask for some stat that's completely irrelevant to the story, just "to make a point", without looking it up first themselves, just to imply something<p>And then later backtrack with "I WAS JUST ASKING" or something<p>Nah, go look it up yourself. Define successful for yourself, look up the statistic<p>Look for things like "happiest countries in the world", "GDP per capita", "life expectancy" or even "Big Mac index". Heck, make up your own index from a mix of them</p>
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<p>Plus a lot of it has been about semantically correct formatting of your content and code.<p>It's a moving target in that a lot of orgs try to "game the system", or at least exploit it as best they can :)<p>Good content will mostly rise to the top because that's what search engines strive to optimise.<p>Nothing really changes that much probably. Just semantics.</p>
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<p>I'm not keen on Apple's products. Getting their watch to go with my Pixel phone seems kinda ... no.<p>So, this product is for the part of the world that doesn't use iPhones, I suppose.<p>I'm kinda keen. Awaiting a MKBHD video, as per.<p>.edit: Guessing that feature's locked because it's part of FitBit, which was purchased by Google but probably still functions a bit separately.</p>
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<p>Also literally has a link to "conclusions" :)</p>
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<p>Because it leaves to the imagination, probably.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:16:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940630</link><dc:creator>richforrester</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richforrester in "Learning needs to be effortful to be effective"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Worked in eye-tracking research for a bit.<p>Things you learn;<p>- Small text is hard to read<p>- Making things hard to read means they get missed sometimes<p>- Making it the only thing on the screen makes people try to read it really hard<p>- Which makes them more likely to remember it later<p>I work in UI/UX design and this f*cked with my brain for a while. It's counter to everything we're being taught.<p>Human brains are fun.</p>
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<p>Glad you're able to work like that. A lot of people aren't though. For them, there needs to be a different solution.</p>
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<p>This is a problem with how employment works, more than anything.<p>I've always "hung out" with colleagues after work hours. Because we're all in the same boat, and have more in common with each-other than anyone else, because we spend 40+ hours a week in the same room.<p>It's a failure of HR and management, imo, when that doesn't happen. And it can be increasingly hard to fix.</p>
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<p>I think "personality" deserves its own category + percentage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:03:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18134801</link><dc:creator>richforrester</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18134801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18134801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richforrester in "Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' queries to work out what was nicked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately, management roles are often inherited, instead of being earned.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:13:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18028084</link><dc:creator>richforrester</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18028084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18028084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richforrester in "Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup.<p>Google Keep for anything fleeting.<p>Evernote for keepers.<p>Google Docs for structured stuff.</p>
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<p>That's embarrassing.</p>
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<p>Our HR department wouldn't let me give proper feedback. Even though I've had some people that, with a little tweak to their knowledge, or a slight shift in thinking, could become great hires.<p>There's tonnes of candidates out there that just lack something small, or are slightly less ideal than someone else... yet still have all the raw talent and potential in the world.<p>But you can't always hire them because you don't have the resources to up-skill them efficiently. Or you need someone that can more readily contribute to a project.<p>I've certainly got some people in mind whom I'd love to contact as soon as I start at a different employer, to drag them on board if said employer had the resources to properly develop them.<p>Ah well.</p>
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<p>"this one algorithm" -> 6000+ words<p>No proper headings.<p>To hell with that. I won't ever know what they're on about.</p>
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