of course we’re trying to find good abstractions to package away as much of the nitty gritty details as possible, otherwise you can’t make/build really big interesting stuff.”
As a user, when chrome wheeled out it’s new “you can search bookmarks from the same place you type URLs” “feature” the first response was “where can I disable this in settings, when I don’t want it on”. When it became apparent they didn’t do that, the second response was “how do we change what shows up in this manner”—it may be useful to bookmark this page, for instance, but we might not want it showing up everytime we start typing in lesswrong, and just want to go to the main page. When it became apparent they didn’t do that, the third response was “let’s try some other browsers”.
Users do want to be able to crack open the hood in at least one place—settings, or advanced settings.
As a user, when chrome wheeled out it’s new “you can search bookmarks from the same place you type URLs” “feature” the first response was “where can I disable this in settings, when I don’t want it on”. When it became apparent they didn’t do that, the second response was “how do we change what shows up in this manner”—it may be useful to bookmark this page, for instance, but we might not want it showing up everytime we start typing in lesswrong, and just want to go to the main page. When it became apparent they didn’t do that, the third response was “let’s try some other browsers”.
Users do want to be able to crack open the hood in at least one place—settings, or advanced settings.