steve kwan user experience designer

A bit more clarification

(January 19th, 2005 - 9:28AM)

So I'm not living at my place anymore. I'm staying with my folks until the pest problem gets resolved. The landlord has called in an exterminator; someone has to synchronize with them to determine when they'll show up. I also gave my notice (I don't want to deal with problems like this, or with leasing the entire house), so I'll be moving probably at the end of February. If anybody's looking for a roommate, let me know.

I had my first Human Interface class last night. I'm hoping I can learn something valuable in this class that I can apply on the job, but I've got a sneaking suspicion this might wind up being a "fluff" class - that is, a class that costs time and money but has no real educational value.

By the way, if any of you are software developers, please don't use poor variable names and then reuse the variables, like this:

TEMP = GETSOMEVALUE(SOMEPARAMETER)
VAR = TEMP<2>
TEMP = TEMP + 5
VAR = TEMP

Also, it's REALLY not necessary to pass the same information into a function four times, as I've encountered at work. Granted, the data being passed in wasn't exactly the same each time, but it was more or less so related that it could have all been derived if only one value had replaced the four being passed in.

For example, change:
MYFUNCTION(FOO,FOO,FOO,FOO)
to:
MYFUNCTION(FOO)

Makes life easier for the rest of us programmers.