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"Annihilation" by Jeff VanderMeer and the rest of the Southern Reach trilogy.

The "You Don't Know JS" series was a real eye-opener for me.

The screen stuff has been legit but two things were funny:

1. Eliot, an elite hacker, has a Excel 2014 book in his apartment. Why does he need to use Excel so much? Why does he need Excel at all if he's using Linux? And why would he need a user guide to figure it out? 2. When Eliot has to fix a hack to E Corp at Allsafe his boss gives him a folder of paper logs and says "look through these"

Yet Google has its problems too: younger generations are using social networks to discover content online. AI assistants like Siri are going to become more prevalent and people will more often go to them for answers instead of a search box.

If you've got good content on a website its worth having a website. But if you're a restaurant or hardware store you probably don't need a website because you probably don't have any content worth putting there. Or if you do you're sharing it on Facebook and Instagram instead and making sure your Foursquare and Yelp information is correct.

I really don't think Google is the problem for someone making websites, its Tumblr and Squarespace that make it super easy and inexpensive for a business owner to make something slick themselves.

I don't know why people do this. I guess it gives off the feeling of it being very important like they are rushed and HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS RIGHT NOW.

But it's not shareable unless you're going to retweet 40+ tweets (are people doing this?). You have to wait for someone else to collect your thoughts for you.

And at the same time it isn't as permanent as actually taking the time to write a blog post so it's easy to retract later.

> ps: I'll add that I was somehow afraid to express my views on Freedom of Speech. Funny.

Hah yeah because speaking up against these mobs can lead to getting DOXed. What an insane world we live in.

If you work for a big tech company, try to partner with the startups doing interesting work in your domain. When they run out of money you can scoop up their IP (and maybe team?) for cheap.

There are EHR vendors involved including some of the big players (Epic, Cerner). Ultimately adoption won't be from vendors "doing the right thing" but because their customers and/or the govt. (via $$$ incentives) create pressure.

You're right, I am unfairly generalizing. Not everyone thinks this way. But I read more of these articles regarding JS than any other language.

Yes and no. Libraries like jQuery and Underscore are often the basis of new frameworks and have been solid for a while now.

Like in other languages there's some wait and see to adoption. Going all in on a project that's been on GitHub a month no matter how many stars is foolish. JS devs have to make their decisions this way.

If these JavaScript developers are so gullible to the newest thing it says more about them than the hype cycle.

It's not just that the language sucks in some ways but that the users of it possess so little engineering rigor that they complain about TOO MANY options.

So like everything else in life then? For instance I just saw a TV commercial that said that Miller Lite is the best beer, but my past experience knows that that is not the case. Surely we can recognize hype and advertisements when we see them.

The only valid excuse here is your employer, but in that case you should be able justify why using X is better than Y. If your non-technical manager insists that you use something that you don't want to because its hip you should be running away from that employer as quickly as possible.

I still don't understand these "too many frameworks" articles. Is there some power out there that I don't know about that is forcing devs to use the latest framework?

We're still allowed to use what we want, no matter how new or old it is, right?

And this is why I stopped working in gov.

I believe in developing a product, especially the UI, by constantly getting feedback from the user but I'm racking my brain on how to do that for a product for medical professionals.

I can't observe them when they are with a patient and its impossible to schedule time to get feedback, they are so overworked.

My theory why the UIs of these EMRs are so awful is because of this very reason: there's no feedback loop. And I'm not blaming the doctors, they have no time.

Spot on. And then you get the pessimistic doctor that says you're trying to ruin "the art of medicine."

Couldn't agree more. A middleware layer that exposes something like FIHR would be great but there systemic issues within this generation of EHRs that need to be sorted out too. The EHR must be more than the billing tool it is now.

My credit card company allows me to configure email alerts. Kind of nice actually.

It really is funny. And it's the same dogs in the new article, but noticeably older.

Great idea! The ability to save videos to a "stack" is a genius feature that'll help me mix it up at the gym.

Good luck!

Could someone explain why Uber doesn't have an Android app for their drivers? It looks to me like they are trying to skim a little extra from those without iPhones. Surely they can afford the engineering costs associated with an Android version?

Oh the irony: with so much turnover they work their dependable employees to death.

Mozilla OpenNews, NY Times and Wash Po are partnering to create a new solution. I'm not sure if its exactly what you mention here.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/06/19/mozilla-announces-a...

And yet if I had to buy one every year it would be worth it to me.

Comedians call these "street jokes." The problem is that social media is speeding up the plagiarism process. The good thing is you have a paper trail now.

A friend of mine that is a standup had a joke of his told by The Jokeman Jackie Martlin as a "street joke" and recently saw a poor version of it in a proper for the TV show "Cougar Town." It happens.

I didn't know you can "hack" something by buying a product.

Does it really take that long to learn Angular? Will it really take long to upgrade to 2.0 and will you have to do it immediately?

The web has always changed quickly because that is the only way it can survive. If you think you can write an app and let it sit there for years you're silly.

Technology: there is no end game.

Most of these come down to "give me what I want now for less money!"

Is this all that technology is good for?

"Right now, what you see of the 500 million Tweets published every day is based entirely on who you follow, and that’s a great model for many people. But with that many Tweets every day, there’s no way even the most avid Twitter user will find everything that’s relevant to their interests in any particular moment."

Is it just me or is this a crazy thing to say? I wish I could opt-out of the additional tweets that I've been getting lately (I don't mind the ads). I get why they are doing it but I enjoyed having control over the content I get. If I wanted stuff pushed at me I'd try any other media source.

This one "feature" is causing me to check Twitter less than I have in the past and I wonder I'd that's the case for anyone else.

Their app is full of hilarious bugs and hacks. But I guess that money can buy them a real dev team?