6/1/2023 0 Comments Textmate flex![]() If a user’s answer getting thousands of views on an answer but only one or two upvotes (a poor ratio!), and if that pattern continues, that’s a good indication that something’s bad afoot with the user. Offending users *will* get banned on Quora It’ll always stay free as a platform, but will show text ads for some popular user searches, like coding bootcamp ads next to the ever-popular “How do I get a job as a software engineer?” question. (As a Quora user, I remember getting an email about this just a few weeks ago, but didn’t dig deep enough to understand these implications at the time.) The policy was completely revamped, and now allows users to submit anonymous answers (all of which goes through a queue reviewed by humans) such that they can’t be traced back to their Quora accounts, thus removing the threat of subpoenas that could tie information back to users. Right now leaders are just randomly scheduling hangouts on the site and times are worked out on Slack, but there must be a better system.) On CodeBuddies, a code learning community and open-sourced project I help maintain, the question of how to most efficiently and helpfully connect two people both interested in studying a particular javascript tutorial or coding exercise together, but who are at slightly different levels of experience with javascript, and live in different timezones, and are available at different hours, is er… still being worked out. Software only knows that you and they are fans, and can’t gauge how your level of interest in football changes over time, depending on your mood, etc. But the other person is a *much* bigger fan of football, and starts to go on and on about it. The example given: imagine you and another person at a party are both fans of football. Software is terrible at explicit declarations (Me: true, I’ve always believed this.) Don’t, as a designer, be drawn into making something more “beautiful.” Instead, try to make it more “useful.” Interfaces have the potential to incentivize people to behave differently. Design, however, is “learning about what you can solve, and then thinking about how to solve it.” Software sucks the most at solving social community problems. (Me: I liked this point I can see how Facebook better walls off separate groups, and Quora is divided into categories.) And users will naturally start to attention-police what others are talking about. Side note: Twitter can be a cesspool of combat because there’s a SINGLE feed for everyone. how humans make decisions in groups and the norms of different communities and cultures. What’s left for today’s designers: social problems! Or more specifically, problems related to the social community, e.g. At Facebook, designers’ often applied platform patterns based on an existing styleguide. ![]() The interfaces for mobile paradigms are already pretty mature in 2017 there’s not really much room for creative invention. Some of my takeaways from the hour-long talk: Mills is a product design manager at Quora, and previously was a product designer at Facebook and a PM at a startup. Really enjoyed listening to talk on Social Systems Design and the Nature of Knowledge at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation in Berkeley, which I went to on a whim tonight. Takeaways from a Quora product design manager’s talk How to start, stop, and check if nginx is ok var/www/cb-prod/bundle/programs/web.browser/app Where to add authorized keys so users won’t need a password to ssh in Ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live//privkey.pem Ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live//fullchain.pem Ssh a new SSL certificate using letsencryptĬertbot certonly –standalone -d -d > Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at /etc/letsencrypt/live//fullchain.pem. DigitalOcean Deployment notes to remember
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