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Yusuf Arslan

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Yusuf Arslan's personal blog at yusufarslan.net covers career, business and programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Commenters on the HN threads discuss the post's subject of UI speed and human-computer interaction, citing response-time limits of 0.1 and 1 second from Miller 1968 and Card et al. 1991.

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  1. Speed, is a minimum requirement of most systems, same as correctness. It seems to me that basically 100% of the UI/UX developers at the big tech companies are woefully ignorant of the fact that there is a massive amount of data and papers written about human computer interaction. I'm guessing that is because few comp-sci programs even touch the topic, rather spending all their time on more esoteric/mathematical topi…

    Comment linking /sites/yusufarslan.net/files/upload/content/Miller1968.pdf

    on “Speed Is the Killer Feature”
  2. Submitted The road to hell is paved with agile intentions as a story · 50 points

    HN discussion
  3. I had written a comparison between server management systems including Ajenti: http://yusufarslan.net/choosing-control-panel-server-managem...

    Comment linking /choosing-control-panel-server-management

    on “Ajenti – Web admin panel”
  4. Submitted Infographic: What is happening in Turkey as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. I stand corrected. I looked it up and it is .1 seconds (100ms) The basic advice regarding response times has been about the same for thirty years [Miller 1968; Card et al. 1991]: - 0.1 second is about the limit for having the user feel that the system is reacting instantaneously, meaning that no special feedback is necessary except to display the result. - 1.0 second is about the limit for the user's flow of thought…

    Comment linking /sites/yusufarslan.net/files/upload/content/Miller1968.pdf

    on “Assembly Hall of Shame”
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  10. Submitted Choosing a control panel for server management as a story · 1 points

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