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> and when it comes to being price 1/3 = 4 is always going to be easier to put your finger on than 1/3 = 3.333.

Am I missing something? Wouldn’t it just be putting your finger on the 10 cm mark? This is approx 4”.

I realize this is not exact conversion, but it’s trivial to come up with examples where metric is easier: say you have a piece of wood 7 7/8” long that you want to cut in half. Is it easier to put your finger on 3 15/16” or 10 cm?

Unless I misunderstood losteric, it sounds like all the names of people on a mailing list were automatically added as “signatures” to this letter even if they didn’t agree with the letter contents.

That sounds pretty unethical.

Can confirm it’s still similar. Went through the same process 2 months ago.

Could you clarify? Is this markup only on card present transactions?

I can’t speak for others but I personally find driving a manual does help prevent accidents. Driving an automatic feels a bit mundane. Just hold the gas pedal in the same spot the whole time. It’s easy to slip into a boredom state (zone out) and not focus on the road. Even more so when tired.

A manual car sort of kicks you in the butt every now and then: “hey, you’re in the wrong gear. Stay sharp, and upshift!”

You just need to look for flight sales (like you would for an economy ticket).

Example:

JFK to FRA, business class, A380 lie flat: $1,996USD

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premium-fare-deals/1894422-s...

That’s only a 2.3x multiple of the $875 economy fare.

Wow I never would’ve thought this. As a Canadian, when I travel to the US for work / vacations I sometimes get my passport stamped with a B1/B2 visa (it is very common to cross the border with no Visa stamp in your passport).

I found this stamp more of an annoyance!

Seems I paraphrased the article poorly, here are the actual key points:

1. Never assume you know more about a design than the company that made it.

2. You don’t know the problem that the design is solving.

3. Don’t jump to conclusions until you have data to back it up.

4. You don’t have to be right to be a good designer. You just have to listen when you’re wrong.

5. Always test. Always.

6. There are no UX best practices.

In general I tend to align with you though. Do right by the user, and its probably the right thing for your company too!

I read a good article once (can’t seem to find it, I’ll link it if I do) where a UX designer had a similar reaction to a website. He was angry that he needed to provide an email address to access the “show me what this tool even is” part of a website. He concluded it was bad UX and wrote an angry tweet.

Turns out the UX of the website had been user tested extensively. The design they chose was the most successful at achieving their goal (new user signup or something).

The learning lesson was you may not be the target user for the design. Or you may not realize what the primary goal of the design is.

Edit: This was the article I referenced https://medium.theuxblog.com/there-are-no-ux-best-practices-...

To clarify I wasn't trying to defend dark / grey UX patterns. Just thought I'd share as it helped me look at (what I consider) bad UX in a different frame of mind.

Precisely. I wouldn’t doubt there are algorithms that take into account general tone of tweets and news posts (using some sort of NLP) into a trading decision.

Yeah it probably is.

I wasn’t commenting on the dark pattern though. I was surprised to hear that “common users” don’t just auto dismiss pop ups.

I never realized this. Any sources?

A quick google brought me to this aritcle (https://sumo.com/stories/pop-up-statistics) which indicates a conversion rate of 3-9% for pop ups requesting info / sign-up. So you may be right!

For free?

If true, wouldn’t that just be a sign that AWS is not reinvesting fast enough?

I don’t think you have an understanding of the complexity behind Netflix. Their tech blog is a great resource that provides insight into some of their engineering challenges. I’d highly recommend.

Edit: just realized I duplicated scarface74’s comment. My bad!

But a lot of super heroes are just regular folks who gain their special abilities (super powers). Granted after being bitten by a radioactive spider (or something of that nature).

They shouldn’t. It was an unintentional bug

For what it’s worth Amazon HR specifically chose the term “superpower”.

Not sure it needs to be replaced.

I remember seeing a notebook form of this:

https://wipebook.com

+1 Hahaha! This made my day.

What tooling are you referring to? I skimmed through other comments and didn’t notice any concrete examples?

Do you envision something like project planning software?

I think a key point of a good manager is also people development. But I imagine engineers could self-organize mentorships.

I am not sure I understand the proposal, it seems that you’ve categorized managers into 2 buckets:

1) Managers who add little to no value.

2) Sr. Managers who do add value (big picture roadmap, headcount balancing, etc.

I don’t think you are suggesting (or even can) automate the tasks managers from bucket #2 are performing. As for bucket #1, if they aren’t adding value can’t you just eliminate this unnecessary layer from the company? Fire the manager and the team will presumably be just as well (or better) off? What is there to automate / produce tooling for? The non-value added tasks?

How do you know? :P

Never knew about the Cadillac. Very cool, thanks for calling it out.

I wonder how to truly tell if a driver is attentive? The Cadillac indicates it uses head tracking technology. I wonder if that is sufficient? Seems you probably need even eye-tracking: an attentive driver keeps looking around or something.

Regardless of whether or not paid time off is an incentive to vote, it seems crazy to not be part of the law. In my opinion paid time off to vote, regardless of which day you go (early voting, elections day, etc.) should be allowed. Period.

I 100% agree on the cultural shift. I suppose Hollywood has been trying more recently to get people out to vote (at least I’ve noticed it more this past election).

I didn’t know this was not already mandated by law. I wish I could say I’m surprised, but it seems to jive with the general theme of other US policies.

To contrast, in Canada:

“By law, eligible electors must have three consecutive hours to cast their vote on election day. If your hours of work do not allow for three consecutive hours to vote, your employer must give you time off.

Employers cannot impose a penalty or deduct pay from an employee who is taking time off to vote if required by the Canada Elections Act. An employee must be paid what he or she would have earned during the time allowed off for voting.”

[Source] http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=faq&doc...

Edit: happy to see similar laws do exist for some states!

I think you even cut the quote short...

> In business, its not 11 abreast pack-em-in which is what the 787 has done

“In business” as in business class? Most 787 I’ve been on are 1-2-1 reverse herringbone in business.

Yes I should’ve mentioned this. Thanks! Love my yubikey and would reccomend it to others.

I believe the following security advisory applies to anyone interested in starting to use GPG + Yubikey:

https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2017-...

Seems the recommendation is to ensure you generate GPG private keys off the YubiKey (if you have an affected device).

I know next to nothing about browser plugin development, but my guess would be the logic around preventing bots and click fraud? Maybe this wasn’t achievable without forking the browser?

I’m curious because the plugin path sounds like a good idea.