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CREATED BY slauti • LAST EDITED BY slauti 6647 days AGO

The Schachter notes are a very good recommendation. Reading them upside down it first made me pretty happy. As if we had worked by 2 thirds of these notes and then eliminated many of the early mistakes. There is still work to do though. What makes texts like that one so worthwhile is, they can make you see you have not thought of everything yet and forgotten to hold to your own principles here or there.

Of course there are also 1 or 2 points I do not agree on. Most of all the half line you quoted. It reminds me of the second last phrase in Mel Brook's Hitler Rap which goes: "We have ways of making you dance." In my good book that would read, "try to help users get along with the minimum amount of work. But invite them to do something". The tech world is creating enough fears already. With slipping phrases like the one above we senselessly strengthen our own inclination to "code fascism" and even hint nontechnical to users to that. I've seen too many techies making that mistake in the last 20 years.

BTW: The indirection after editing and storing a comment here could be needing a minimum amount of work, if there be time.