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by alankay1 3649 days ago
It doesn't suck "getting old" -- and you only find out about stamina by trying to do things ...

(We are fortunate that most of what is "new" is more like "particular 'news'" rather than actually "new". From the standpoint of actual categorical change, things have been very slow the last 30 years or so.)
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olantonan 3649 days ago
About categorical change, I agree... seems like everybody is just busy optimizing stuff invented in the 70s.
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alankay1 3649 days ago
Or less -- I think UIs have really gone downhill.

But, it's also worth looking at places where there's been enough change of one kind or another to constitute "qualitative". This has certainly happened in many areas of engineering and in science. How about in computering?

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phantarch 3649 days ago
Can you explain more about what in UIs you think has gone downhill? I've seen you refer to this idea in quite a few of your comments and it would be great to get insight on what aspects you think need improving/exterminating/rethinking.
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alankay1 3648 days ago
I should get you to articulate this yourself

But let's see -- how about UIs giving up on UNDO, not allowing or not showing multiple tasks, not having good ways to teach how to us the UI or the apps, ...

And a zillion more ...

Yikes!

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