Hey this is Brian from Gain Compliance, we've had success hiring out of a hacker news thread before, so let's give it a spin again.
We are a small company that builds financial reporting tools for the insurance industry. While the domain might be foreign to most, we are having a lot of fun building modern web software with React, Python and Node running on GCP infrastructure. You'll be joining 7 other engineers split into two full stack product focused teams.
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I don't believe that the author is saying that minimal is the same as undesigned. Rather if minimal is your goal, then your design choices will be different than if you try to design toward simple. In fact you may sacrifice great design choices that would lead toward simplicity in order to remain minimal. Minimal speaks nothing to: clear or obvious, both of which take a serious complete-product focus and choice to obtain.
I'll admit that I find metro a lot more compelling on Windows Phone than on a desktop OS, but as a visual language I still thing it's an improvement over Aero. Things look less cluttered, it's higher contrast, and interface elements are obvious.
What they haven't done is reorganize how you interact with the desktop OS. And I think that's a deliberate choice not to redesign the mouse/keyboard model for using toolbars, icons, and all the stuff people are familiar with in Windows. The full metro tablet apps are perhaps more clear and obvious, but that seems like more a side effect of the "poke things with your finger" interface than any defficiency of desktop Metro. It's more intuitive.
It would be a much better read without the attitudes declared through statements like "The horrifying existence of abominations like Hulu and the iTunes Music Store..."
I get the technical details, but the attitude is obnoxious at best and diluting the point at worst.
People seem to like Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, Youtube, etc.
They haven't stopped the internet from the 1990s from existing, its still there and available. Most people just seem to like this other corporate internet a lot more.
It seems to me that in many arguments, it isn't about whether it's possible for people to have their non-corporate, idealized internet (because it is), it's about not allowing others to also have the internet they want (Hulu, iTunes, Facebook, etc), because ultimately people aren't visiting the idealized, non corporate internet, and aren't going to -- because the majority of people prefer the other one.
Ultimately, it seems to be a disappointment rooted in the behaviors and wants of the majority, tho its rarely ever framed as such.
People don't always choose the things that make them happy, especially collectively. If we step back a bit from the internet, this point is obvious: the people of the US, for example, collectively chose to have the Civil War and then abolish slavery, when abolishing slavery without the war would have been a much better choice; and alcoholics who die of exposure in the street would probably have preferred, in retrospect, to never start drinking. Some of them will tell you that explicitly even before dying.
So it's not really disappointment. It's advocacy: there is a better way, a brighter future. And I have a selfish interest in telling people about it, because despite what you say, it's not a choice I can make entirely on my own.
> They haven't stopped the internet from the 1990s from existing; it's still there and available.
In the 1990s, I could email my mother from the mail server in my house; I could walk to the local bookstore and browse the books on the shelves; I could chat online with my friends without giving Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook minute-by-minute updates on when I'm at my computer; I could read and post to Usenet, which had useful discussions on it, without broadcasting my reading habits to whoever was wiretapping (because my ISP had a local news server); and I could run years-old software on my computer without becoming a victim of the latest worm.
So the two internets you're talking about do not exist independently of each other. They interact in a lot of ways. Sometimes the interference is constructive (internet access is available in a lot more places now, and bandwidth is cheaper), and sometimes it's destructive (Usenet is dead.)
I don't think the problem is really even the wants of the majority. I think the problem is that the majority of people are getting tricked into choosing things they don't want, both because they aren't aware of the implications of their choices and because there are prisoner's-dilemma games going on. (Recruit all your friends to Farmville and your farm will be bigger!)
Part of the reason for stating my values so clearly is that the primary audience for this post is people who share those values. I don't want people who share those values to misattribute my conclusions to a conflict of values.
As for people who don't think Hulu and the iTunes Music Store are horrifying abominations, they probably already think ADSL is fine and dandy, so there's no point in tailoring the article to them.
Interesting. I wonder if Android users see more ads per use-hour based on the Android eco system's revenue model than other mobile os's. ...I have no data to back up my proposition, just a thought.
Hey this is Brian from Gain Compliance, we've had success hiring out of a hacker news thread before, so let's give it a spin again.
We are a small company that builds financial reporting tools for the insurance industry. While the domain might be foreign to most, we are having a lot of fun building modern web software with React, Python and Node running on GCP infrastructure. You'll be joining 7 other engineers split into two full stack product focused teams.
We've been around over 8 years and value empowering our customers to breeze through their boring compliance tasks, building great teams that focus on outcomes over features, and work place stability.
We wrote a lot more over at https://join.gaincompliance.com if you are interested.