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If a medical doctors classifies himself as world class and then posts articles about medical matters, then my expectation would be his world class-ness is evident.

This guy's not writing an opinion piece about which brand ketchup tastes best. He has published an opinion piece in which he speaks authoritatively about matters related to the domain he claims he's a world expert in.

As for the harmless exaggeration, it's not harmless. It's poison to my chosen profession.

Well, I just looked through some of his commits on some of the repos. Not pretty good. Productive maybe but definitely not good. Commit messages are quite lacking he's hard coding user display strings.

Without spending more time or having some domain knowledge of his problem, I can't really comment on the architecture setup/choices.

That's interesting because I also picked up on that: "I am a world-class software developer living in New York’s East Village"

and I just thought, hmm, here's this guy with ~5 years of ~professional dev(mainly with iOS) and he self qualifies himself as world class.

Looking at his bio, I see he's worked for 3 companies doing quite ordinary things.

I would love to know what gave him the confidence/ignorance to describe himself as such.

comment not related to this article but more of a comment on data-driven user interfaces in general.

Building simplistic data driven UIs is (relatively) simple.

However, the issues arise as these get more complex. Instead of just needing to understand a thing, you now need to understand the engine which builds that thing.

Looking at the react community where the new hotness is also data driven everything. UI definition (incl. CSS) all now detailed in JSON(which each original author custom builds), a lot of time without constraints(..'cos flexibility)

Building a data driven anything without having a very strong focus on debug-ability right from the get go is doomed to fail.

> You might visit dozens or hundreds of sites in a week, and it’s okay if some pages get lost in the shuffle

My opinion is it's not okay. Why would it be?

Having better default notifications on Android would be a start. Everything off(bar calls & messages) unless turned on by user.

every app now wants to notify you about everything.. so every phone i get, i need to go in and turn off notifications for everything bar calls & text messages.

Pity they don't sync your preferences when you get a new phone.

> but I could have just installed a Windows VM, used VNC, shared the VNC session and gotten the same thing

I'm pretty sure there would be a noticeable(couple of seconds) lag between both incoming & outgoing audio to the VM making smooth flowing conversation near to impossible.

sure but it's slowly being eroded by the americanisation of companies & management styles.

salaried workers being exempt from paid overtime in most European countries has turned in to a joke. Instead of just being used to deal with "emergency" situations, it's used to coerce extra work for free.

would this not be better every other day or 3rd day? Every day is just too much and maintaining quality is not sustainable unless there is a team working full time on this.

They might have. No definitive answer to that alternate timeline.

If his name was France, his use of the domain would have been more defensible(depending on what he was doing with the domain).

why? nissan.com is owned by Mr. Uzi Nissan so there is a reasonable defense that he has a justifiable claim to the domain. seems a lot more clear cut than this.

I'm guessing it's more so that there's a lot of traffic coming from that IP that it was flagged as a proxy.

> which was whether developers should be overriding designers and domain experts in matters of design

in matters of UX...

Kind of a pedantic comment given the articles content...

Do designers who design webpages/apps generally call themselves GUI designers?