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Patrick McElhaney
Nov 29, 2021 19:17
In 7th grade I answered that the square root of -1 is i. It was marked incorrect because “you’re not supposed to know that yet.”
 

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Patrick McElhaney
Nov 12, 2012 19:12
LOL. So are you throwing out the new CAPTCHA or making "one thousand" a valid answer?
Patrick McElhaney
Nov 12, 2012 19:06
The keys on a iPad have 0 feedback. ;-)
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 20:55
Guess I should spend more time in YouTube comments to reframe my expectations. :)
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 20:52
I've had several phone screens go this way. So bad that I've started to wonder whether my interview style is somehow at fault.
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 20:48
I would hate to think that people can be that dishonest and actually expect to get away with it.
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 20:45
No. I forget what he said, but it wasn't even close. He was guessing.
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 20:44
It was at the end of a series of basic programming questions he couldn't answer.
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 20:42
Yes. Is that a hard or esoteric question? Should he have been able to answer that?
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 20:41
It wasn't relevant, but just for fun, I threw out a question I thought would be related to his degree. In the context of HCI, what does the word "affordance" mean?
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 20:41
I was interviewing someone for a programming position, and this person recently completed a masters degree in Human Factors / HCI
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 20:40
Hey guys. Before the festivities start, I have a question for you:
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 6, 2012 15:51
@Rahul Thanks. It was flagged as advertising and I didn't bother to verify.
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 23, 2012 20:04
UXC Live!!!
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 23, 2012 19:52
Let me know if you think of a more exciting name.
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 23, 2012 19:51
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Q: Put "Chat" at the front of the <title> on chat

Patrick McElhaneyInstead of User Experience | chat.stackexchange.com can you change it to Chat - User Experience | Stack Exchange or something like that? I often keep the home page and chat open in tabs. This would make it easier to distinguish the two.

feature-request chat
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 23, 2012 19:51
Changed the room name to address this:
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 23, 2012 19:50
room topic changed to UX Chat: User Experience (ux.stackexchange.com) community chat room: talk about user experience design, user interface design, visual design, usability, accessibility, and any related topics. [ui] [user-experience] [user-interface] [ux]
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 5, 2012 15:26
@Incognito Oh, missed that. Well, in that case, the most professional thing to do is tell the truth. It cannot be done.
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 5, 2012 15:23
@Incognito If their argument is they can't trust 37Signals, why don't you just make an in-house tool that's a clone of Highrise?
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 5, 2012 15:11
headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/02/…
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 5, 2012 15:11
"List all customers." I doubt they really want a list of all customers for it's own sake. It's a means to an end. Find out what the end goal is.
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 5, 2012 13:31
Yes
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 5, 2012 13:24
As opposed to direct traffic (10%) and referring sites (23%).
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 5, 2012 12:57
Just noticed that 66% of our traffic is now coming from search engines.
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 4, 2012 19:30
I have invites for Careers if anyone needs one.
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 4, 2012 15:49
@BenBrocka Do we need a general reference close reason? I don't remember ever closing a question because it was too simple. The closest one that comes to mind is the floppy disk icon question (but it's not closed, and no one has suggested it should be).
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 4, 2012 14:30
@BenBrocka Yeah, I think that was back when SO had 2-3 employees. I understand why this was a low priority back then. It deserves another look now.
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 4, 2012 14:23
@dnbrv I flagged that request and asked the mods to remove the status-declined tag. The devs should have another look at it, and if they want to decline it, fine, but they should at least post a comment explaining why it was declined.
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 3, 2012 15:09
ewww inline styles
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 3, 2012 15:05
Isn't one box the same style across all sites?
Patrick McElhaney
Jan 3, 2012 14:35
@Rahul What? We have moderators? You'd never know by the looks of this place.
Patrick McElhaney
Dec 20, 2011 02:58
Yeah, all the information is probably on the site already. I think we can put together an answer that supplants Nielsen as the go-to resource for questions about how to visually distinguish links.
Patrick McElhaney
Dec 19, 2011 20:00
@Ben The issue is distinguishing links (visited links in this case) from the rest of the text.
Patrick McElhaney
Dec 19, 2011 18:10
This question needs a good, canonical answer.
Patrick McElhaney
Dec 19, 2011 18:04
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A: How to determine whether links have enough contrast?

IzkataI'm pretty sure that this is an intentional part of the Stack Exchange UX. Answers are supposed to be standalone, because external sites may go offline, or rename/take down the page linked to. If they primary content of the answer was a link to another site, then that answer is now useless. Th...

Patrick McElhaney
Dec 16, 2011 21:48
The question strikes me as absurd: I don't have to learn, but I want to know everything! There might be a way to edit it into a useful question about inspiration and galleries, but I would first check to make sure a decent list can't already be found on Google.
Patrick McElhaney
Dec 16, 2011 21:44
@BenBrocka Yeah, it's not literally an exact duplicate, but I figured closing as a dupe of the book question is slightly more helpful than just shutting it down.
Patrick McElhaney
Dec 15, 2011 17:29
Yeah, StackExchange is built on crowdsourcing. I think it's generally a good thing. It's just not good for evaluations.
Patrick McElhaney
Dec 15, 2011 17:10
In addition -- that's fine. But I don't' want it to supplant what they're doing. (And I'm a little concerned they're just trying to crowd source the work.)
Patrick McElhaney
Dec 15, 2011 17:09
Yeah, I think it's like conducting usability tests on our own work. We're too close to it to be able to do it well.
Patrick McElhaney
Dec 15, 2011 17:06
Yeah, maybe not the best analogy. Okay, thanks.
 

 UX Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat

meta.ux.stackexchange.com/q/744/3108
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 22:11
Okay time to go home. Good night/afternoon/etc.
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 22:10
@BenBrocka @Rahul It's been a pleasure and an honor.
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 22:02
Thanks to all of the candidates for volunteering, and thank you for the work you've already done to build this awesome community!
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 21:56
Yeah, apparently she's done this before. :)
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 21:37
How do you deal with someone who seems to argue with you no matter what you do?
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 21:23
What I'm hearing from all of you is that a moderator should stick to "janitorial" duties (although you don't like that particular term). Does anyone think that moderators are obliged to be involved in "decision making process" and "promoting the site"?
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Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 21:08
thanks
Patrick McElhaney
Feb 22, 2012 21:08
Where's the nomination page?