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That is false. The suppression on Twitter was based on the argument that the data was allegedly hacked, was not verified and they were being cautious. You are also ignoring the fact that even conservative leanings sites like Wall Street journal passed on the story.

Finally, Greenwald published his resignation letter. Intercept also published their letter to him. It was never about news worthiness. It was a debate on ‘what’ the content was as I mentioned in my earlier response

The argument was never about whether a story like that was news worthy or not. The argument was - if your article is saying/implying that the then former VP was complicit in a financial scheme to benefit him after publicly saying he wasn't, then you should show proof and not innuendos (leave innuendos to tabloids). Or if you are saying journalists are choosing to ignore the story, then show how

While I understand the points being raised, I disagree with the proffered solution

1) Some folks build a small SaaS product to sharpen their skills, learn new things and as a strategy to position themselves for a higher paying job (they can put it on their resume and discuss it during interviews)

2) It also depends on your target market. Some folks convert to paying customers (huge paying customers) because they have experimented extensively with your product. Take Google App Engine (GAE)- folks use it extensively for small websites, and then when they have something they think can be commercialized, they become paying customers.

3) You can do like GAE and have a daily free quota which is basically a freemium model

4) Regarding the complaint about the headache of supporting free customers - you can make it clear that the free plan doesn't come with support or it comes with limited support

>>> Oops, thought this was a Show HN. <<<

If you don't mind, can you explain the difference between this type of Post and a 'Show HN'? Is it that this one was not submitted by the person who built it whereas the requirement of Show HN is that the submitter must be personally involved in the project?

I held on to my Q10 for a long time. That feeling of being able to type text with one hand because of the physical keyboard was so awesome. Alas, I finally had to drop it when an application I basically couldn't live without stopped supporting BB platform and I needed the latest version of that App.

You're right. It is still not clear to me what/how this will be used (I think I have an idea but not sure; the front page should have made it quite clear).

It would have been great if they had described a target use-case right there on the front page.

The writeup seems to be targeting developers but it looks to me like the product is for the public (end-users). The site doesn't seem to have done a good enough job linking both of them.

>>> with engineers directing the process

This is usually not the solution. You have to understand the requirements/know your actual users. Engineers don’t necessarily do this well. They build with the latest tech but as you see in this example, the primary users are older people who can’t use latest tech

Probably not true. It means blocking them from using the site because they only have 1 or 2 devices and those are running IE.

The article talks about the fact that a lot of the seniors get help with their online stuff from the libraries (which are currently closed). What is the probability that folks like these have multiple devices at home and/or they can use them?

Years ago, a lot of my bosses at work (in Tech) still used IE. Lots of our clients used government issued computers which were locked down to IE, sometimes several versions behind.

At the end of the day, it boils down to - know who the actual users are.

>>Internet Explorer has less than a 2% market share in the US, so under normal circumstances (given the sacrifices you’d have to make everywhere else) not bothering to support is is often a sensible decision. When it’s an access to healthcare issue though you can’t really exclude 2% of users.<<<

That thinking is exactly the reason why this system turned out to be problematic. Even if it wasn't for healthcare purposes, bottom line is - you have to know who your 'actual users' are. Elderly people (60s and above) are still heavy IE users and so are quite a few government offices. If these 2% of overall browser users are the majority of your users or your early users, then not supporting them becomes a problem.

After reading the article, I think it boils down to

a) Poor/lack of understanding of who the actual users are e.g. these are systems that will be used by both the young and old people, especially older people in the early stages since they are the ones at the front of the vaccine line; worst case, the system should have been optimized for them.

b) bullet a then leads to poor requirements e.g. given that most libraries are shut down (lots of elderly people get help with online stuff at community centers/libraries), requirements should have included less rigidity (on errors) or a module that is fun and friendly that walks people through it, system should be designed with 'plain' mobile first in mind, and account for a person being both a patient and an admin, etc

This is not a 'software engineering' thing. If you look at it from a software development POV, then the issue is more of not having 'product managers' whose job it is to - understand the requirements, write the specs, basically champion the POV of the end user (after actually identifying the correct end user). Examples

a) The article talked about the software not working on Internet Explorer (IE). Older people still use IE. Software Engs with fewer years of experience tend to optimize for FF, Chrome and latest version of IE.

b) The article talked about 'wrong' placement of buttons (probably the software is not responsive or not optimized for phones or older phones)

c) Input fields seem to be rigid (older people will make mistakes)

d) Once you're registered, you can't switch from patient to staff. This should have been designed like a 2-sided marketplace with the ability of one person to sometimes play the 2 roles

If you don't have the right spec/requirements, the output of the engineers will still be bad

...Gordon was happy to settle as being 'just an engineer' hacking away on circuit boards and such whereas...

hmm, not exactly. Much earlier, Gordon had 'followed' his dream and done something which ended up not working out (think of it like starting a startup and it folded). That initiative basically left them broke and they had to depend on Donna's parents or something like that. So Donna/Gordon had an agreement that he would get a 'safe' job

....Seventy gigabytes' worth of customer data stolen from the website of U.S. men's clothing retailer Bonobos has been posted in a hacker forum, reports Bleeping Computer....

....Bonobos confirmed to Bleeping Computer that the data was genuine, but said it had been taken from a cloud backup hosted by a third-party service and not directly from Bonobos' own network...

A lot of these breaches seem to come from 3rd party companies/service providers. Does it mean these companies are not vetted enough, do not bear any consequences if a breach occurs at their site, a combination of these and more?

A 'key' line for me in his speech was -

...They didn’t stop anyone from charging her 169% interest on a loan either...

I thought you could only get charged like this if you went to loan sharks or some 'underground' or informal lender. Is it actually legal for a government registered entity to charge such a high interest rate?

From the piece.

...In a memo to the Department’s Solicitor, she wrote that Oracle’s “real vulnerability” was that the trial would be public and detail how “Oracle and pretty much all tech companies are discriminating against women and Asians.” This would “damage [Oracle’s] reputation in the industry and hinder their ability to retain top talent” and “the most critical part of this enforcement action is the public airing and discussion of common industry pay practices which depress the wages of women and people of color.”....

>>> Do you think there are many people here that would support a breakdown of the democratic process, a coup?<<<

1) Have you taken a look at Parler?

2) The Chair of Texas state GOP has called for the state to secede in the wake of the supreme court ruling

3) Diamond and Silk (and they are famous in the US in some areas) have called for a coup.

4) General Flynn who was once the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency endorsed a call for Trump to declare martial law and redo the election

A) >>>Specific examples are pennsylvania allowing absentee ballot 3 days after the election even though by law any ballots arriving by mail after election day are void.<<<<

That is incorrect. PA Supreme Court ruled that there is no specific law against that ...Pennsylvania Republicans had sought to block the counting of late-arriving ballots, which the state's Supreme Court had approved last month..... [1]

B) >>>poll watchers who monitor votes being counted were not given meaningful access to monitor even though by law they must be given access.<<<

That is also incorrect. The dispute was about how far away they should be. Both Democratic and Republican observers were at the same distance which was at least 6 feet because of COVID. One of the Judges allowed for the distance to be narrowed for everybody

C) >>>Due to the huge number of absentee ballots election counters did not verify ballot signatures as required.<<<

That is also incorrect. Where state law mandated it, this was done.

D) >>>The reason all these lawsuits failed is because there is no real injunctive relief you can seek. <<<<

This is incorrect. The lawsuits failed because

a) the lawyers actually stated in court that they were not alleging fraud but were 'concerned'

b) the lawyers said in court that there were some irregularities but not enough to change the outcome

1. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/922411176/supreme-court-rules...

The key here is that you were venting to 'managers you could trust about feeling burnt out'. If you were talking to a manager who didn't see this as just 'venting', nothing stops them from accepting your resignation.

Technically speaking, how is that a problem? If your theory is right that Google was looking for a reason to fire her, then she shouldn't have given them a 'legal' one. At the end of the day, it boiled down to - she gave them an ultimatum and they called her bluff (this has nothing to do with whether her reasons were right or wrong; if her reasons were right and she really didn't want believe she could work under such conditions, then the focus of her statement and public debate should be about that and not whether Google fired her or she resigned.

Note: This is for US residents only

Personally, I like these types of interactive journalism (simple interactive tools). Another one from NYTimes that I liked was the tool for figuring out whether it was better to buy or rent (can't find the link right now)

For democrats who chose him during his primaries, his #1 quality was that he was a moderate/centrist. The democrat party isn't only made up of leftists/progressives. There were a considerable number of democrats who were scared of Bernie and turned off by his supporters.

For GOP/Independents who voted Biden, his #1 quality was also that he was moderate and a close second was that he was not divisive.

They did pick someone - him. Let's not forget he was the nominee because he won the primaries meaning he was considered the best of the contestants. Not everybody is as progressive as Sanders and not everybody liked Sanders tone

His campaign was 'not vigorous' as you called it because of the pandemic

>>>nobody I have talked to seriously voted for Joe Biden on his own merits.<<<

On the other hand, I know lots of people who voted him on his own merits which and they listed them as - he is centrist, he was a senator/VP which means he has the experience and knowledge to navigate congress, he has good ethics/morals (which means they could tell their kids to look up to him), he is a Christian, he believes in climate change.

I know lots of Democrats who are moderates/centrists and preferred Biden over Bernie and Warren.

Personally, I also found him to be a good candidate and not a 'he is not trump so automatically he is better'

The key bit in the article

....To help drive the idea home (pun intended), we’ve reimagined our approach to compensation in the US. To support employees to live where they want to and do their best work, we are eliminating geographic compensation zones in the US. It means that our US compensation will be tied to pay ranges of high-cost areas such as SF and NY, regardless of where employees live. We believe this is the right balance of flexibility and support for employees, recognizing the varied tradeoffs people consider when deciding where to live. Internationally, we have had one pay range per country, and now the US will be consistent with this approach.....

>>>Facts Are Overrated <<< I believe I get the point being expressed but I think the title or the summary is wrong.

The issue is not that facts are overrated or that humans tend to make decisions based on emotions (true) but rather that humans tend to find it easier to understand if you explain logically to them how you are solving a problem they have before you get into the 'hard data' or logic.

For example, you have data that says building feature Y is better than building feature X because you have data from the number of support tickets and the fact that the tickets are growing because support is spending more time responding to this other issue leaving other tickets dangling.

An easier (IMHO) way to sell this would be something along the lines of - a) We see your stats are getting bad. I have a way of fixing this (the person is interested cos you are going to make them look good) b) I can see your people are getting burnt out, we can fix that issue for you

This gives an instant/emotional connection and gets the person's interest which then leads you to say - X% of the issues your team is dealing with is A and building this feature 'Y' means we automate that stuff and you no longer have to deal with it.

I guess the theory would be that - if the body was never discovered, the police wouldn't be able to prove a crime occurred. They would simply have questioned a couple of people and if none of them 'broke', they would have been let go

You have no evidence for this insinuation.

1) For one thing, he was not the only running a well funded motorcycle transportation business in Nigeria.

2) He had already pivoted into last-mile delivery and again he was not the only one running a well funded one

3) Let's even assume his motorcycle transportation was disrupting a dangerous market, it is basically the same market that Uber and those before Uber disrupted in Nigeria and nothing like this happened

...On a side note, it is a little shocking to me that so many support a decision in favor of a man who was convicted of sodomizing a 4 year old child.....

I do not believe people are supporting the 'individual' in question but are focusing on the principle that was argued. In addition, this person can be retried in Federal courts

Actually, for years, Oracle had only 1 CEO (Larry). The CO-CEO thing happened in 2014 when Larry stepped down as CEO.

Larry has been quoted as saying in this year's Oracle Openworld conference - “I believe in a dual-CEO structure. The normal case would be dual CEO here for obvious reasons. That it’s good to have capacity and good to have specialization. And then, God forbid, if something untoward should happen, you have capacity; you are not incapacitated.” [1]

1 - https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/18/former-oracle-co-ceo-mark-...