calewis

I have spent the last year building sleep tech and I have read 100's of papers on the subject, been to conferences and spent lots of time with academics and experts on the subject of sleep. Screen time matters massively. It really matters for children and every single piece of evidence, bar this poorly written study (two questions), say so. It's a real issue for adults too, and blue light issue aside, the disturbance of your wind down routine is a massive health issue that needs to be adressed. It affects not only how you fall asleep (the marker for which people judge sleep quality) but also staying asleep and the quality of it (a far more important measure).

(Also if anyone is building sleep apps/tech I'm looking for work)

The Roomba is the single worst tech product I've ever purchased, and I've brought a lot of junk. So much more hassle than running the hoover round a few times a week.

I wonder what thier repeat purchase rate is? I suspect it's not that significant beyond a few die hards.

This is exactly the right point to be making.

Wtf is that design, looks horrendous on a high res display. The BBC really has lost it's way with digital design.

I work at a sleep company and reviews are super important for our ecommerce site. We use: https://reviewmeta.com to ensure that we remove fake reviews. Just paste in the Amazon link and it will check all the reviews and give you loads of stats.

Would you not agree that ‘pulling together’ should be the norm for a successful society? I agree that the high levels of stress are unhealthy however.

You need to compare tools in a similar category otherwise a comparative study is a bit useless.

You have to pay to have them removed in the UK now, it's no longer free on the NHS, unless you suffer from 3x serious infections in a one year period.

I suffer from frequent sore throughs, infections and even tonsillitis. My Auntie, who is a doctor, strongly advised me not having them removed. Which at the time is not what I wanted to hear but it seems, unsurprisingly, was great advice.

While I agree I know a few ex Facebook employees and they all, genuinely, believe thst FB cares about user privacy. I suspect they've convinced good people to go bad with some strange coolade and all those free lunches.

Well done to all the smart people involved in making this happen, you're all making such a positive impact on human society, go you!

If it can be done, it will be done. You're correct on every point.

How about they just pay there taxes, then the governments can build the parks?

This has to be a joke? I have no idea where to start. Just learn how to interact with other humans properly.

The UK is in record levels of debt, people are using food banks and the NHS under attack from both industry and government. This would definitely be a good use of public funds. Priorities?

Fascinating and well written. Thank-you.

The fact that the financier wishes to remain anonymous hopefully means they are just humble. Nice to see someone's wealth being put into something we can all enjoy.

The BBC, I can't speak from experience for Thoughtly.

It's a terrible place to work though and they fail to retain good talent through a combination of poor salary, lack of career progression,incompetent management and regular re-orgs.

A "+" icon that has a hover state and an interaction, yet do different things? Good work. Nice quotes are irrelevant if you can't get the basics of user experience right.

Skynet is coming.

G is for tax evasion.

Hack aside, really wonderfully written. Very funny and well explained.

Maybe if they stopped working stupid hours they would stop releasing buggy software.

Time and time again there is good academic evidence that these working hours do not make productive and creative employees, quite the opposite in fact.

lol

The words; Horse, Stable and Bolted come to mind. VC's and their stupid valuations have created this problem.

The idea that a business isn't worth investing in because it's only going to make millions, not billions, also doesn't help. VC's would be better off diversifying in lots more companies that have a better chance of making a more modest profit, than a few that are then pressured to make 10's of billions.

I guess ultimately it comes down to the point in which they exit, the dumb PE ratios of Facebook, Twitter etc allowed someone to cash out nicely when they floated, but for the suckers that brought the stock on the public market have no hope of recovering their cash.

Seems to me like the most sensible tech purchase in a while, PE ratio is a bit more normal and it has massive and sustained traction amongst young people. It remains to be seem if M$FT will fuck it up, but that's a different question.

As industry, we could do so much more for accessibility users.

If you are working on a commercial product that you have to support its very good value for money.

Saved us all time and effort and allowed us to focus on building other stuff, without worrying about IE8 support. This is something which the other free alternatives, generally, don't do very well.

Firstly, there are bugs. In everything, all the time. It's definitely not valid reason to not pay someone. Secondly, it's YOUR responsibility as the client to make sure what's being delivered is what you asked for.

Developers are not mind readers, you need to put yourself in a position where you are regularly reviewing progress, you don't need to be a developer to do this, just sit down with him/her each week and ask them to show you how the functionality works for the user. Sounds like a case of poor product management to me.

I stopped reading after the venn diagram showed that the windows phone was good for experience and customisation, are you joking?