calciphus

Not to defend a giant corporate entity, but can you think of any major operating system that prevents its users from giving away their information to programs they voluntarily install?

Google's goal isn't to prevent themselves from getting your info, but to prevent random 3rd parties from tricking you out of it. That would seem like a high bar to set a decade ago.

It's a little odd that the second paragraph of the article cites how rats "may have transmitted plague" and then links to an article titled "Maybe Rats Aren't to Blame for the Black Death".

Why?

This is my small batch, artisanal data: As an avid baker and engineer, over the last decade I've had two pieces of cast iron catastrophically fail vs one piece of borosilicate. I'm not sure if that makes metal twice as dangerous, or if people maybe report things breaking disproportionately to the manufactured volume...

I will say feeding my future father in law a glass casarole was not a strong move.

Ever watch a bartender ring up a complex order? That's a domain where touch exceeds keyboard / mouse hands down. Digital art, such as drawing (or even just whiteboarding an idea).

There is no one universally great input method.

I can't honestly accept that the transition was "smooth". Devices that used to work and used to get updates simply stopped at one point. Because Apple likes to couple OS updates and app updates, and also believes backward compatibility is for [not their customer], I had to talk a grad student down when he sent his thesis to a department chair who opened it, saved it in a non-compatible version of Pages, and sent it back. He could not open that file without upgrading his...2 year old computer?

The transition wasn't smooth unless you had a corporate backer who paid for your milti-thousand-dollar hardware regularly.

Lots of people refuse to trade land because they think it will be worth more in the future. Look at the housing markets of major cities. And that is when you have a highly localized set of potential buyers.

If that's all it was, it would be easy. The problem is that GDPR compliance is a negotiation with lawyers and an ongoing threat of lawsuits for any precieved misstep. It means maintaining a legal entity (your Data Privacy Officer) who either reviews everything or who sets internal policies (both approaches have risks). For some companies it is worth it. For some it is not.

To clarify - your argument against nuclear energy is that the world is going to collapse in 12 years;therefore something with a 30 year investment and maintenance cliff is foolish? Because it may start post-apocalyptic wasteland fires?

Also what are SFPs?

In fairness, if I set up a bank which, by accident or by design, made it exceedingly easy to launder millions in cash relatively quickly, you can bet the DOJ would have a problem with that.

Transporting millions in cash is risky (either you trust the courier with that and risk their life, or you do it yourself and risk yours), and doing so internationally is extremely challenging and/or expensive. By contrast, doing it digitally is quite easy and fast.

It feels a bit disingenuous to insist the two are the same.

The Gale-Shapley Algorithm to solve the "Stable Marriage" problem. 2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for its wide-ranging use in medicine, education, and resource allocation. It's fairly easy to implement a basic version of it, feels intuitively obvious once explained, and has been applied to everything from organ transplants to student placement in elementary schools. Really, any place you have two groups where individual members have a preferential ranking of the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem#Soluti...

Management. At the C-level were people who got lucky once and were largely inexperienced, unwilling to take input from subordinates, and convinced they knew better than their customers. They were wrong. Within a year of my departure they were out of customers and employees, and ended up sold off for pennies.

Edit: spelling

Sounds like eugenics

I'm a product manager, so I'll vary a bit from the development-specific things already listed. Basically, when I get a new product line (or company), it goes the same way:

1. Gather hate mail. Find whatever complaints you can about the product and team you've just inherited.

2. Use the product. Try and break it. Act like an angry QA engineer.

3. Find the person or people who support customers on the product. Ask them what makes their job suck. Ask what's broken.

4. Ask them why they think it sucks / is broken - preferably outside the office (coffee, lunch, etc).

5. Meet dev team. Ask them why the product matters. Gauge their interest and understanding of the problem and customers. Ask what they think is important to address as a team.

6. Combine answers to 3-5, identify common threads. Look for places where there are common blocking factors (cost, time, focus, politics, history).

7. Find something to work on with the team, that can be delivered fast. Talk about what you want to do with support folks (from q3). Sanity check, make sure dev team understands the value of what they are working on.

8. Check in with superiors. Make sure you understand what's important to them. Talk about what you've heard.

I've found I can't come in and expect to be an expert in a given area overnight. But I can be good at asking questions and spotting painful things.

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Pretty sure at this point it's "commit global war crimes" or "cure aging". Anything short of that and your odds diminish significantly. Even if you create an art-defining advancement in some field and name it for yourself, anything about you will be lost.

At my last job we had a rule: if someone (usually a new manager) called people "resources", we called them "overhead".

Ex. "I could get more people on my team if we had less overhead".

It helped that our lead Agile Coach was the main advocate of this particular approach.

Articles 15 and 17 (dealing with deletion and access) both contain a provision where if the request is unfounded or excessive, you may charge a reasonable fee. You cannot charge a fee for compliance with standard requests, and "reasonable" is something that would likely be argued in court.

Source: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

Edit: mis-referenced article 15 as export instead of access.

I mean, there's still HSC.

http://www.halted.com/

It's not even that far from Weird Stuff, and unless you work at Yahoo probably a bit easier to get to (being right along central expressway). Growing up in the valley, HSC was my hacker shop and where my love of analog electronics flourished.

If anything, the loss of Weird Stuff (which I am sad about) implies that garage days aren't about soldering resistors to a breadboard anymore. Hardware hackers are few and far between these days.

I'm in my mid thirties. My partner and I have been together for 16 years. At no point in that time have either of us felt strongly that we wanted children. However, there are very good health reasons for us not to have biological children. So rather than risk future-us deciding we wanted biological children despite the issues, we made the choice permanent. Should that change we can always adopt. It's not like there's a shortage of children in the world.

Many scalped & resold tickets are bought with stolen credit cards. Marking up doesn't imply market clearing, and since the buyer didn't spend their own money it doesn't result in a loss to them. Only the venue and fans lose out, as the show has fewer actual attendees purchasing drinks, where venues make most of their money.

That makes total sense. Here, they absolutely care about who worked (unpaid) overtime when deciding who to fire. The people I've seen who are out the door at 5:01 don't survive those transitions.

I'll admit to more than a little envy!

Profiles were introduced in 4.2 on Android, if I recall, almost 4 years ago. Most Android devices in developed countries are above this version. My original Nexus 5 had them, and that's some 4 phones ago.

I'm sure you could find a shipping device that lacks them, but not from a major carrier in most of the world. Of Play-enabled devices, Google puts this at less than 5% worldwide

Out of curiosity - do you work in the US, and are you am hourly or exempted worker?

Here's my problem: I try to maintain a good work life balance. I devote time outside of work to passions, hobbies and relationships. But I am not dogmatic about hours. My company does not pay me to have my butt in a chair. They pay me to get the job done.

Because the question isn't "Is python the right choice in this situation?", the question is "Should I override group consensus to make a subset of the team happy?"

The group made a decision. Someone (senior, but not leadership) disagrees. What do you do?

Would a fact checking engine that allows you to use incorrect information as its source be better or worse than nothing at all?

[citation needed]

When more than 80% of Americans (according to http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364528-poll-83-percent-...) opposed something and you can force your opposition to vote against that majority, you can use that in future elections as evidence that they're corrupt. Especially when there's a money linked to how they voted against their constituents. Why do you think there were so many house bills to repeal the ACA when it wasn't possible with the Senate and Obama in office, and so few once they had the numbers?

Same game, different ball.

This isn't anti-competitive because you're not required to sell your competitors products. I can't fathom requiring the Apple store to carry Amazon Fire Tablets and Android phones.

Sure, this is anecdotal evidence, but the experience my wife and I had couldn't have been more different.

It took her, (in her late 20s) : 18 months, multiple letters from therapists and psychiatrists, some really solid medical reasons, and a lot of work to get her procedure. You want weapons-grade fertility treatments at 19? No problem. But you want to not have children? Ooh, you might regret it!!!

By contrast, my procedure involved a 15-minute conversation, and signing a paper which shortened the waiting period from 14 days to 72 hours. Same age. In San Francisco. At the same facility.

Yep. Maybe it's the hourly posts to HN about how great an opportunity it is. Maybe it's the constant need of every Bitcoin "investor" to talk about the price (not value).

To me its just another way wealthy people increase their wealth and avoid paying taxes. No different then a bunch of hedge fund bros talking about using offshore accounts and fake charities to avoid paying taxes.

Those are both badly copied features from Android. On Nexus/Pixel tablets the top right was used for the system toggle, left was used for notifications. What I'm surprised by is that they didn't copy the "hard press where home should be for home", instead relying on swipe and press. The galaxy s8 supports both and the hard press is substantially more useful.