On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:21:47 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
>Shmuel characterizes my notion that there is an ineluctable conflict
>between power andease of use as "a copout".
>
>I wish it were; but here the microsoft view that choices are the enemy
>is often correct.
>
>Users do not ordinarily know "what they want to do" in any
>constructive sense. They have global ease-of-use and performance
>goals, functional objectives. They seldom have even a vague notion
>what processing strategies are in use and what effects the
>parameterizations/choices available to them will have on performance
>or resource use.
> ...
http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html
-- gil
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