> It frequently counts me as sleeping when I sit down to watch TV in the evening, or read a book in bed. Sometimes I stay up until 1am reading and it always tracks me as deep sleep from 10pm when I got into bed. I usually take it off for my morning shower (It is waterproof, it just annoys me when washing) and it nearly always counts the walking from bed to shower as a few minutes of restless sleep and the shower itself as deep sleep.
Speaking as a Fitbit Charge 2 user, none of that happens with my device. I don't know how accurate the rest of the data is, but it does track sleep only when I'm actually sleeping.
Personally, as an EU citizen, I don't believe that Google is advancing my interests and rights, but I also don't believe that the EU commission dictating what Google can or cannot do based on who is lobbying and how much money is at stake has the consumer's best interests in mind. To me these fines seem motivated by money, not consumer rights.
Excuse me if I sound intolerant but, do kids really need to play mobile games? I don't understand why most parents are happy to hand over an iPhone to their kid, then complain that their games are constantly trying to syphon money. Just find something else to keep them distracted then, get a second hand gameboy for example.
The competitor for Office 365 is GSuite, not Gmail. People that were previously shown ads based on email content are not going to start paying for Gmail.
Because most tech start ups in the valley are funded by private investors, and for them usually the best outcome is either an exit or an IPO. When the industry is dominated and controlled by this kind of funding, these goals end up idolized because that's just what rules the land. The VC wants to flip it to Google, the entrepreneur just hopes that he doesn't fuck up and that his investor gets his outcome.
But that's a different question, isn't it? We are talking about "overclocking" the brain, so to speak, not necessarily making one smarter or dumber. The speculation here (if I understand correctly) is that "overclocking" the brain has a cost somewhere, but that doesn't imply that smarter people are running "overclocked" brains per se.
I also appreciate the fact that it "boots" instantly (i.e. you don't have to turn it on or off like VM) and that it works out of the box with every up-to-date W10 computer (great if you need to get something done on a computer that is not your own).
> ping, traceroute, mtr etc don't work. Neither does ssh tunneling. No ssh server.
These things work, as long as you are not under a firewall. The problem is that currently it doesn't expose anything to whitelist if you do use a firewall, but hopefully they'll sort this out eventually.
DO just happens to be cheaper than AWS for certain use cases, but they didn't get there by out competing on price alone, it ticks a lot of other boxes: it's easier and simpler to understand for a new developer looking to get started, you can calculate and anticipate usage costs with ease, etc. It's not just a good copy with better pricing, it brings something to the table.
Then you have to think bigger. If you are cloning Trello for example, have it have a different UI that is more useful for a particular niche, but that they can't simply add because they would alienate their existing user case. Make it better by doing things that the competitor can't or won't do.
Would be neat if HN allowed inspection of anonymized aggregated vote count per country and timestamp, so that the community can call out the bullshit if there are suspicious patterns.
It's a funny quote, but it's a joke, I don't think the writers of the show meant it to be taken to heart. VR has its share of problems and it won't take off the way the iPhone did for the time being, but it's very tangible, and I think dismissing it as vaporware would be a mistake.
It's an interface, it doesn't take care of email reputation for you. This is for people who want to DIY to have a pretty dashboard on top, but you're on your own for email deliverability.
That's because Bitcoin is still today too cumbersome to be used for anything other than speculation and drugs. No one goes to the grocery store thinking "gosh, I sure wish I could transfer some money to an exchange, buy some BTC, set up a wallet, transfer the BTC, wait for confirmations, scan a QR code to pay, and wait for confirmations again to pay for my groceries". The only people that want this are early early adopters with a large stash that cannot be made liquid easily, but otherwise adoption doesn't seem to be going anywhere besides the existing use cases.
http://phptherightway.com is a good place to start, if you haven't read it before. It's opinionated, and not necessarily a guide follow down to the letter, but it can put you on the right track.
Reminds me of the time when they removed the "arrow" buttons on the scroll bar on Windows, or when they randomly decided to apply a lot more whitespace to bookmark menus. In both cases they had to backpedal, because Chrome is just so essential to so many people that even the tiniest change breaks somebody's workflow. At this point Google should probably just fork Chrome and make another browser where to test all the changes, big and small.
...it's not like you have write assembly to get it done, the native canvas API is fairly straightforward. A game engine is a bit of an overkill if all you want to do is place pixels on a canvas.
> Full on virtual desktop support with floating windows for these devices is being shipped to every Windows 10 machine starting this week via Windows Update
How well will this work though? Virtual desktops exist for the Oculus Rift and the Vive but from what I understand, the limited resolution doesn't make it a great experience, and can't really replace monitors yet for text heavy work.
What the responder was getting at is that despite being able to access only 9GB per frame, it may still be useful to keep more than 9GB of data in there for other purposes, say if you have data that isn't being read/written every frame but is still used for rendering. So it doesn't necessarily follow that memory beyond that which can be addressed per frame is useless.
To be perfectly blunt though, social media is just a medium, what is garbage is what people are putting it in there. Being always connected just amplifies what was already there. So, I would argue that what social media really calls into question is our very society.
I think it's something to do with the rate at which content is being created today. Ten years ago following 10 blogs that interested you was a no brainer, but there's just so much today that it's hard to follow anything in particular when you are interested in everything. Heck, even sticking to aggregators only like HN and Reddit I'm still saving a lot more links to read later than I'm actually reading.