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Although at first glance this sounds like a no brainer and a little confusing why we are not given the power to have a whitelist system on our phones I think this feature is a terrible idea. This is the same as saying, why can we not bounce all emails that have not been stored in our email address book. This one feature has the ability to destroy modern communication as we know it.

Hear me out. If you all have noticed, with every privacy feature released a significant amount of people migrate to it full-time. I currently cannot recognize my phone ring, because from the day I bought my last phone I switched off the ringing and never bothered to turn it back on, not because I hate ringtones, I just forgot and also there have been no dire consequences to do so. Someone on this thread also said he/she set her phone permanently on "do not disturb" and just deals with notifications when they want to. This is all well and good cause anyone who has tried to reach us has successfully done so and even if they did not reach us, we have evidence that they attempted to.

Having a whitelist system is VERY different and has many unforeseen consequences. From as little as, your mother got a new phone and soon she cannot reach you, you got a beautiful girls number and want to ask her on a date but cannot reach her. To bigger issues like your teenage child is mad at you and deletes your contact from their phone. Job offers will be missed, you will become unreachable in emergencies etc. The short of this is, the best case of such a feature is that you don't need to install a third party app to block spam calls, the worst case of such a feature is people can literally die cause they cannot contact you or vice versa. If I was a phone manufacturer. I just won't even allow this. There are easier ways to solve the underlying problem without opening the door for worse outcomes

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It is great that you are thinking of this and from my experience, it will continue to come up even after you have solved this one and you become more of an expert in the path you have chosen.

Something to help with the paralysis is to note that you are in a very privileged position. Majority of the world is not plagued by this issue because the problem they have to solve is how to survive. So, in other words, there is no wrong answer here. Whatever you choose will bring positive value to the world. Do not get paralyzed on if it is the most value you can provide because there is no way you can foresee this or measure it.

I will advise that you pick the one that seems to generate the most passion in you, not in the follow your passion sense, but more of the fact that there will be HARD times ahead when solving HARD problems and only the love of finding the solution is gonna take you through it. If you pursue a path for any other reason (except survival), when the going gets tough you will always measure if it is worth the trouble. In your case, your heart seems to be in Energy and AI, while your practical side tells you Healthcare is very important to the world. I will say go with Energy and AI cause who the hell knows. Where I live a major problem health centers have is consistent energy and who knows you may come up with some AI that Diagnoses better than a human can for a specific disease. My point is I have found that following where my interests really lie always lead me to where I am supposed to be. You may start in Energy and AI and somewhere bridge the gap into healthcare or you may jump in and solve problems you never imagined and be fully self-actualized. The most important thing out of all of this is that you start.

Tesla offers other EV manufacturers the ability to be compatible with their superchargers... so far no takers

The developer evaluation process is broken, sometimes because the people hiring you do not even understand what you do and sometimes it is because what the interviewer is testing for is not properly communicated to the candidate for various reasons. The best way to get a job is to be in a developer community where you get referred to jobs and not by job searching online. This is how top-tier candidates get jobs in every industry, referrals, it cuts all the bullshit. So your goal should be to get to that level which means upping your social skills, that being said we all need to start from somewhere.

I wrote a post about this a couple weeks ago, on the disconnection between what an employer is looking for and what you (a developer) think they want. I hope it helps someone

http://blog.adimofunne.com/coding-interviews/

The article is asking what is the point? Why make cities compete for your presence. Amazons presence in a city brings along with it all the good things you mention above, as the richest man in the world and one of the richest companies in the world, the article is asking why be greedy and make cities grovel at your feet for the "good" you can bring, why doesn't Amazon just be an agent of good and bring good to the city? Not only because it is the ethical thing to do (doing good and not asking for repayment) but because in the future it will have positive repercussions for Amazon, rather than having people strike "bad" deals with Amazon cause Amazon has the upper hand now but then later on someone else uses it (The deal) as a campaign point to witch hunt Amazon cause the city made a bad deal. He is asking Bezos to Just be generous, everyone will gain.

Windows Phone is a platform that died cause developers did not get it. I think the issue I have with your PS3 example is that it is PS3, PlayStation was already on its third iteration. With PS2 being one of the most successful consoles of all time, companies were baked into that ecosystem. Whatever Playstation gave them, they had to work with, they fed their families that way. But I agree with the comment above. Developers support platforms (That are not yet popular) because they find it inspiring, they, in turn, give feedback to what they dislike about the platform, and if the platform has good management and responds quickly, developers work to grow that platform out. All great platforms I know today are because the company behind them inspired developers on what they could achieve using it.

Yeah, you raise a good point here, sometimes enemies of your product can suppress it, so it is more complex than just creating what people want sometimes. To be specific about your product, even though people want it, it feels like it is for the wrong reasons. If your product succeeds it devalues GitHub stars which is a metric taken seriously by the GitHub community. So (unintentionally) you have attacked the values of the Github community and this is why you are getting some backlash. Also, unfortunately, I think many of the people that would love your product are the people I am talking about in my post above, they are not good at selling their product or project so they try and game the system that elevates good projects. So its a short-term solution of sorts, that crowd will be better off actually learning how to market their projects than gaming systems

Hahaha, glad you liked it

I think the first points are the most salient. Developers undervalue the skill of marketing and sales frequently. It is one of the most powerful secondary skillsets a creator needs. If you are unable to inspire, trust and expertise you will forever have a hard time selling your product. I wrote a post on this area just a couple hours ago and what mindset can help fix that: http://blog.adimofunne.com/no-one-gives-a-shit/

I don't feel the author is belittling plumbers or is saying software engineering in 2018 is less glamorous. I think the point he was getting at is that lots of software engineering recruiters and employees treat software like we are making the next PageRank Algorithm or inventing the next rocket. He is pointing out that today lots of what we do is using the already built software to create new things. This is ok, this is still hard, this is still worth a lot but we need to work on our perspective, both for hiring and also for job expectation.

I think what the author is trying to point out here is that in the world we live in today the stock market indexes are less valuable. Stocks used to be able to be bought using technicals like the P/E ratio and other financial tools. As companies like facebook and snapchat and the likes. Companies whose values cannot really be calculated by the assets they hold (land, machines and factories etc). Their value is in their Brand, their IP and other subjective articles. But they are listed in the stock market and they dominate the stock market today. It generally makes these tools weaker in calculating the value of the market using stocks which was created for an industrial age

I totally agree with this sentiment. The auto-generated lists on Apple music suck compared to Spotify. I do think the curated stuff on Apple music is formidable but that's about it. For people who want to discover music...spotify is still the way to go. Apple is just really good at shoving their stuff on people. Spotify has no ecosystem to leverage like apple

What do you mean?

This is a funny post, but it will give you the very basics on cryptocurrencies and set you up to understand the more complex parts as you read more technical documents: http://blog.adimofunne.com/crypto-in-the-hood/

I am not impressed by the website at all. It is very well designed and in some ways pretends to give you a lot of information but I find myself asking the most basic of questions. What is Essential, does it do hardware, software or both? Is it running a special Android or vanilla? What is the screen made of? There is all this hype about how strong the phone is but I have never heard anyone complain that aluminum is not strong enough for their purposes etc.

For a marketing site, I am just not impressed with the amount of important information. Maybe the answers to all of this are in there, but it is so poorly arranged that after checking in a bunch of places I expect it to be. I have given up

Wow why the aggression man? You have a point and it will benefit the community if you spent just two more minutes to educate people on your viewpoint, rather than attack the intelligence or knowledge of others. Links to articles to back up your point will help and advice on how you store yours will be of even more help. Contribute positively. Thanks

Although this could be a factor, I have to disagree on this. Before any foreign student is given admission to an American University you need to take TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). You need this to be a high score to get admitted and depending on the country, you need to show this score at the American Embassy to get a student Visa. Unless it is some exchange program ALL foreign university students can speak English on a conversational level.

I am from Nigeria, where English is the National language. I grew up visiting America as a child because my parents grew up there for some portion of their lives. So even with all my linguistic advantages I still bonded more with other International students faster and better than I did with Americans (regardless of race).

I would say the issue I found was cultural, basic things like sense of humor differs. What a Nigerian finds funny is not always the same thing an American would find funny and vice versa.If you cannot laugh together, you have a problem. Same with etiquette, some things a Nigerian may do might be seen as rude to an American but a sign of love in Nigeria. The second issue I found is that Americans don't have a lot of curiosity beyond their own culture. A lot of Americans have the idea America is the best country in the world, so what could they learn from anyone else when they push the world forward, so there is a lack of interest to understand others perspectives and there is a gap.

I personally worked hard to have American friends and I have life long ones today both white,black, latino and Asian American friends but this did not come easy. This took about 10 years of open-mindedness and extroversion that was not always reciprocated.

Does Tarsnap backup tarsnap?... just curious :)

Honestly, I think he was just trying to illustrate how inexpensive the system is by showing how cheap it is and saying it could even go lower if someone cared enough (Which I don't think he does). That was my take away, not that he needed to optimize it

I like the idea a lot, like the author wrote, he acknowledges there is still a lot of thinking to do but I like the consolidation of Executive positions into three buckets.

I think an executive mastering the customer machine, another the company machine and another the product machine, will allow each of these critical areas to sing. There will be conflicts and fight for resources sometimes but understanding you are all three silos that also come together to work for a greater good is a powerful motivator and I think can allow the company to see its mission more clearly. The idea needs to be fleshed out more but I applaud the direction

Something to take note of is that zurb grid foundation has ballooned over the years, it used to be way more minimalistic and more modular than bootstrap. Bootstrap and foundation have stolen things from each other over the years and they are very similar today, but generally foundation styling is more subtle and I think that is what he is getting at. The ability to be unique with less effort than you would need using bootstrap.

Also Foundation has a superior grid layout system last time I checked, but dont quote me, I have not looked into bootstrap 4

Another link that is useful here is how to create a logo in 5 mins by Design inc: https://journal.designinc.com/how-to-make-a-logo-for-free-in...

Yeah I had a similar problem, my cursor was also jacked on the page. had delayed scrolling and could not click on links. Had to refresh the page.

It is amazing to see software that is about 10 years old just hitting 1.0. Never really quite understood that. Is the developer just not confident in it that it is in beta for a while? or is it just a style of versioning? Anyways glad to see development on handbreak.Great software!

I am particularly impressed with this interview. The level of self-awareness of cassie of her earlier self really helps the reader understand what it was like truly as a first employee of Kickstarter. I also really love how she managed explaining that although the founders are awesome, they were not perfect in a very balanced way. A lot of interviews I have read like this always tries to make the founders seem like people who have all the answers, but how she explains it, makes it feel like they were just any other company with a vision trying to figure shit out. Which is inspiring/encouraging.

Question: I get the feeling, Kickstarter feels like a different life for you now. Out of curiosity did your equity at Kickstarter completely vest before you left?

I love the branding on this product, very light and fun, also friendly and catchy. It reminds me of dropbox. Great work, maybe when you make some money you can get a good logo to go with it. Good stuff!

But why? Who made the rule that websites should work without JS? Content being accessible without JS is best practice. I get it and it was very valuable a long time ago. It comes in handy sometimes today but for most of the internet accessing world, working without JS is not a requirement. I do not get why people ding products for not working when JS is not enabled.

I think this might be a cultural issue... let me explain.

I am originally from Nigeria and I just turned 30 but I went to college in the US and ended up living there for 10 years. I have lived in 4 different cities there and have traveled around the US a lot while I lived there.

One thing that struck me immediately after college was how hard it was to make friends. Secondly, I realized a lot of friends I made did not have old friends. Growing up in Nigeria, I still have friends I talk to from elementary school that I catch up with from time to time and still share a deep connection. I have friends from high school I intentionally travel to see and they visit me as frequently as they can and in college I made life long friends who I talk to every day now. Maybe it was the circle of friends I had but with my American friends, it was unusual for them to have friends that ran that deep. They rarely mentioned people from college and I knew of only one person that regularly maintained a friend from high school. After college, they seemed to be only able to make acquaintances and found it hard to make REAL friends.

In America, I feel people are quick to label things that they do not perceive as "normal" interaction and write it off. Like someone randomly approaching you at a grocery store can easily be seen as creepy or weird. A stranger or acquaintance sharing emotionally charged information can be seen as overbearing/burdensome and so on and so forth. Basically, anything outside small talk and a logical approach gets red flagged from my experience.

This is not the way things are in some other countries around the world. Individualism is a strong part of American culture, which can encourage people to create the best version of themselves, but it also leads to loneliness as we start to self-actualize.

My parents in Nigeria still regularly hang out with friends from elementary school and high school and college. They share their ups and downs and life changes and they are still making and losing friends and they are 60. This is not strange in Nigeria.

Countries who have a communal culture do not suffer from what this article is about, they have their own problems but making good friends, or the ability to are not one of the problems. If people opened themselves up to things that are different from them, were open to serendipity and supported strangers and acquaintances emotionally when they can, they would find friends in the strangest of places.

I appreciate posts like this because it gives insight into popular companies that the public adores but might not be so great for the workers or the economy in the long run. Although like you said it could be over-reaching and making the company look like The Dark Side. Like there are people in it conspiring and thinking of the next way to take advantage of it work-force deliberately.

A company like this was born cause Taxi's sucked in the first place. Taxis were inefficient, cab drivers can have racial prejudices and leave someone in a dangerous area cause they don't like the way they look, No feedback on cab drivers etc. So Uber came into a place that needed re-work and instead of people complaining about Uber's world domination and the cost of it, why won't people work to also change Uber the way it changed the world of Taxis?

I think informational posts like this are great, but the tone of it is off-putting.