toddler

Give me a break - it's like comparing a toddler to an adult - "Oh no!

And if the choices have run out for my toddler when hes ready for school, I will do it myself.

As a parent, you would no doubt freak out completely if you discovered your toddler ate a nail.

Apple is increasingly acting like a spoiled toddler who doesn't like it when he can't get what he wants.

A toddler also can't operate a letterpress, solder, or fly a plane.

Hence my comment was not concerned with designing software interfaces for toddlers.

I've heard parents complain that their toddlers are getting too fat on sugary snacks, complaining about how much sugar is being put in snacks these days.

Not that the occasional toddler didn't try to run away from her parents -- I saw it happening -- but everything was chill.

My guess is that 80% of the parents on Hacker News don't even know that swallowing a tiny smooth round magnet is more dangerous to a toddler than swallowing a nail.

Your point?There are designers who worry about designing for toddlers, but that's a very specific niche, not at all representative of the average computer user.

My wife and I have a small toddler with another kid on the way and couple the current climate with how crappy the public schools are here and it's only a matter of time before we hit the eject button.

Thus I don't actually see them in the "spoilt toddler" mode, rather more like an autistic adult person behaving rationally in a world that constantly baffles them because they have a different internal model of its rules.

Word beats your documents up constantly: splitting paragraphs, applying random styles, auto-numbering lists like a toddler with a calculator, positioning figures anywhere but where you want them, and so on forever.

That toddler has already processed lots of visual image data, examples of objects, nonliving and living, animals, mammals, etc. Don't you think that constitutes a large, important dataset for the problem of elephant recognition?

It's for toddlers to learn to take turns, to accept negative or positive outcomes without stomping off in a huff, and to play a game with a level playing field between the adults and children... and at the level we are talking about, if there is a meaningful choice at all, then the child, or perhaps rather toddler, will simply lose.

We don't consider this for any other thing we do - board games aren't considered poorly designed if a toddler can't play them; music isn't considered poorly put together if it's not in thirds, which young kids are drawn to; food isn't considered poor just because a toddler won't eat it, and neither are the utensils to prepare it considered shoddy because a toddler can't use them easily.