AngeloAnolin

This is a very well written / designed visualization. Very informative.

Working from home contributes to the well being of employees. While a lot may not notice it, that 1 hour (at least) daily you save (from commute / preparing) can be used for activities that can contribute to one's personal health (mental & physical). Remote work works.

This is the type of writing that is thorough and worth your time. Whether you are a founder or not, there are a lot of nuggets that's really for keeps.

I also like the fact that you have been very upfront on what you deemed advantages. Most articles, you can see that the writer is trying to elevate themselves by stretching the challenges as similar to heroic tales.

More power on your startup which is a noble one - extending the ultimate friendship between humans and dogs.

WordPress is synonymous with the progression of the web. It has allowed a lot of people and businesses to have a digital presence on the web and will likely continue to do so in the coming years.

Here's looking for more innovation and possibilities ahead!

Pardon me for stating this but pundits of the Clean Code mantra I've worked with tend to be those consultants who bill enormous amount of money to ensure that they have lengthy contracts which is justified by wrapping codes in so much classes to abstract it and considered *CLEAN* and *TESTABLE*.

They will preach the awesomeness of clean code in terms of maintainability, scalability and all those fancy enter-pricey terms that at the end of the day, brought not enough value to justify their cost.

I think Apple could do a lot of headway to trigger some neuro sensor motivation as wearing the watch throughout the day, then can likely get data and trigger when it knows you are more likely to do even a little exercise.

Two things:

* Apple Watch

* Dynamax Running Pad (Light Run Treadmill)

I started to put more emphasis on my personal health as I noticed that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a lot of toll on both my physical and mental state.

The watch has been quite amazing in tracking my movement, heart rate, # of times standing up in a day and overall, has been quite influential in motivating me to do more physical related activities.

The WalkingPad allowed me to perform a lot of light exercises at home and it has been quite a handy companion in my journey to become a healthier person overall.

Hate it or hate it, Internet Explorer paved the way for a lot of developers to provide web content and applications as it was the de-facto browser used by a lot of end consumers.

It also paved the way for technology to focus on security, standards and most of all, a better and standardized approach for browser technology.

I hope they provided with this update a way to examine the Others category that usually takes up so much space in our Mac devices. I've emptied my documents, removed as much possible clutter I can see and still, that Others space is taking 60% of my storage.

FB executives knows the numbers, and knows how to play them out. They also know how far reaching their platform is, and how well they are able to target the intended customers of the businesses.

They have also proven time and again that their targeted ads generate the results these businesses need. Pausing a month or two of ads does not hurt their bottom line. They could simply take a hit on those months and when these businesses go back, they could (again play the numbers) and charge more to recoup those losses.

The FB platform has grown so big that they know even if they lose one big business, the same could be replaced by 10 or 100 or even 1000 small businesses which will allow them to simply get the same amount being paid by the big companies.

I am pretty sure that nations with the resources are pretty much doing some stealth cyber attack to nations they consider a threat - whether by economic or defence policies.

Likely the scale of the attack happening is something that may have surprised the victim nation that they are calling out the attacks in the hope that it would at least calm down the intruder or even have the government intervene.

On a side note, reading the article in a mobile device was a big PITA. Lots of ads and unnecessary information included. And they had the temerity to tell me that I am using n/3 free articles. I think I would pass from subscribing if on the limited free version and the reading experience was just worst.

I removed Zoom from my Mac following this instruction [0]

Given their security issues as of late, is there further way I could ensure that my machine has completely removed this software?

[0]

I think they're pointing out that some people who got afflicted with Corona virus cannot be completely attributed to the virus alone. There may be underlying conditions which contributed more that caused the demise of the person.

Not a Gitlabber, but they post their openings here [0]

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/apply/

The action that any government should take now is find a cure for the virus. Collectively pool resources, bring up the brightest minds in health sciences and devise a way to remove the virus from the equation. The fact that despite lockdown and other government actions and the virus is still spreading just mean that all this measures would become nil at some point.

It says so on its Github page[0]

abler is free and open-source HTML Dashboard UI Kit built on Bootstrap

[0] https://github.com/tabler/tabler

Hard to give an answer for this type of question. Do you mean to say, like the device altogether with the parts that make up the phone isn't China sourced? Or do you mean to say the device is from a non Chinese company and is manufactured outside China? The answer could be a big NO as China sourced parts or process are involved in pretty much everything that the world consumes in this age.

I think this pertains to the fact of how easy it was for people / organizations to directly contact people inside Facebook to do things at their bidding. FB does hold their staff accountable but the Senator wants more safeguard so that it is very difficult for such an event to be carried out successfully.

Reading your careers page [0] is a total revelation. You provided clear guidelines, as well as a mechanism to ensure the employer and applicant is aware of the status of their application. Kudos!

[0] https://www.level12.io/careers/

I think at some point, anyone who used a MS-based operating system at work may have indirectly stumbled upon MS Access.

No matter how better other tools can be nowadays, there's no denying the fact that there are businesses who still have smaller MS Access apps that runs critical business processes.

I have helped a small company (~9-10 years ago) who had an MS-Access based application where the source code was locked as well as the database. Took a while to unlock both the source and the database and up until today, that application is being utilized fully in their operations.

I wonder if it is a well established knowledge that ISPs are a profitable business model, why is it that local governments take the cudgels of offering their constituents? Are there legal restrictions in place that would prevent government organizations from doing so? Or is it more on the technical perspective on why this is not being explored?

I see that public services at some point would include providing internet access as something vital alongside use of technology for services.

I'd like to chime in, although may be a bit late.

One book I will never get tired of reading over and over again is:

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

There's just something magical on that book which even to this day brings a lot of essence on how I understand and value life.

This book traverses generations, and is always a good read regardless whether you are at a schooling age or even close to retirement.

Interesting stats (on the bottom of the page[1])

3,000,000+ Users 11,531,321+ Activities Downloaded

Significant numbers altogether.

[1] https://sugarlabs.org/

Navigating to the site[1] and asking me to install it on my Chrome browser without providing any relevant information is a big security no-no. I think the developer should have provided more information on the product and link to a trustworthy site where the binaries could be verified and added (safely) into the browser.

[1] https://liyasthomas.github.io/postwoman/

Maybe you would need help later. At some point. I can help.

These type of behavior has always been prevalent with any for-profit corporation. Generally, companies would try to find loopholes and way around regulations just to ensure that their cash cow is able to fulfill their own bottom line.

Come to think of it - it is always a big news when companies' wrongdoings are exposed. But for companies who've turned around and is trying to make their operations better and abide by regulations and focused on ensuring safety and well-being of everyone directly and indirectly, they never make the news.

I’ve got a beef with this article.

I can probably only consider the end of the beef industry getting near when:

a. There are more people I see opting for the plant based food, instead of beef;

b. When there’s really a shortage of cattle that produces or slaughtered as beef.

There’s a moral aspect of eating plant based foods, but I cannot see anyone transitioning easily from animal based meat products to select plant-based foods as their main source of sustenance. It will take a lot of discipline, willpower and of course, the availability (and affordability) of plant based food products for someone considering the shift.

Not sure if you would consider a two year associate degree in computer technologies as a CS degree because pretty much what I recall from my studies, we were working on understanding the computer parts and components, doing some typing (data entry exercises) and understanding what software and productivity suites are. We did embark on some nifty console programming and writing batch files, but never fully immersing into the bits and pieces of what makes up software (algorithms, binary, lists, etc).

I work professionally as a software developer for quite a while, and what I have seen in the industry is that you gain more merit when you are able to ship product(s) that people will use (or perhaps automate a process that was previously done in a manual manner).

Yes, you can get past the initial gates of hiring qualifications (such as having a CS degree certificate) as well as the coding tests that lots of companies use as a gauge to test your technical capabilities. But no amount of CS degree or certificate would be enough to patch for example when you are dealing with real world software issues.

I think one reason why people like to write supposedly clever code especially on the realm of software development is due to lots of these developers want to get acknowledgement of what they produce. And hearing someone say "Oh, this is a very clever implementation" sort of fix that inherent need to be recognized. I haven't heard (particularly in corporate environments) where a praise in the line of - "wow, this was a very clear and simple implementation" trump what managers and people deem as superior when the term clever was attached to it.

I've challenged far quite a lot of implementations where understanding a piece of functionality has required for the developer to jump between more than 23 files across 8 different projects in implementing a very domain specific functionality. Splitting code into single independent parts introduces simplicity, only and if only you are reading that part by itself, but when you layer it overall to get the functionality it delivers and it becomes a web of tangled mess of code, then that clever solution was not really clever after all.

Lots of comments focused on having a good paying job with comprehensive benefits (insurance). I don’t think that is even the solution here. The main problem is that lifesaving medications have prices spiralling out of control to the point where it becomes unaffordable for people to get it.

Not everyone will be lucky or capable enough to have a job that will allow them access to the medicines they need through some benefits or financial salary.

Will regulations work such that medicines categorized as lifesaving will be capped at a price that is affordable for people? Or is a solution based on ensuring patents are used not as a leverage to gouge prices but to protect the intellectual property and not financial commodity?

Solutions abound but when the greed of a few is being upheld, then it just becomes a reality that people becomes the bearer of bad news and in turn have to swallow the bitter pill of unaffordable medicines.