jonheller

It was and still is shocking to me that this isn't taught in school.

What do you see as being the ideal UX for switching between devices?

My sister was sick enough from chicken pox that her doctor told her to take aspirin. She died about a week later from Reye's Syndrome. So no, we were all not well again.

I work at an agency building large websites for a variety of clients, and so far am in love with Gutenberg. The block based approach is huge, especially for many of our clients in the news and editorial space that write long pieces of content with a lot of different components (text and images of course, but also quotes, asides, interactive embeds, donations, related stories, etc).

Nice to see some manual curation in this space. For some reason, I've found Twitch's categorization of this type of stream to be challenging to find (i.e. it's under creative, but hard to filter from the rest of that category unless people specifically tag it things like development or programming).

Surprised to still see so much hardware usage -- I'm curious where people find the advantages there?

I have found over the past few years paper recognition in iOS apps works great, both third party like JotNot as well as what Apple introduced last iOS update.

For workflow I use one of those options and then share with Dropbox, and then store those files in a encrypted disk image in Dropbox.

Exactly. Or drastically changes their pricing model (see: Contentful).

I understand the benefits of all of these individual services, but I also miss the days of the only service I had to worry about when I handed off a client site was hosting.

Now it's often the headless CMS hosting (i.e. Contentful, GraphCMS), actual hosting (Netlify), CDN, Image CDN, Search (i.e. Algolia). So many places for things to break. So many separate charges.

I also love headless CMS's but much prefer self-hosted ones. Directus has been a favorite to experiment with so far.

It is interesting that soda (i.e. Coke, Pepsi) sales took a huge hit over the past decade as people became more health conscious and looked for healthier options, and yet people will still consume 2-4 times that many calories and sugars in a sweetened coffee drink.

It appears I'm the only person so far here who absolutely does not mind a small increase in price for Amazon Prime.

- I still get everything in two days.

- I never get third party merchandise accidentally.

- Amazon has, bar none, the best customer support and return experience of any company I've ever ordered from. Most of the time they just tell me to keep the product. If there were any issues at all, I just mention that and the return is free. Otherwise I will pay the small return shipping cost if I just decided I didn't like something.

Every now and then I have to visit a physical store for something and I wonder how much of my life I've saved ordering from Amazon, especially after I signed up for Prime which made it much more reasonable to buy pretty much everything from there.

This is pretty shocking, more so than any other autopilot related news or videos I've seen. It's something that no normal driver paying attention would ever do.

This further confirms for me the feeling that autopilot in cars won't become even remotely common for another decade, especially in any parts of the country with poor weather.

E = (a + 4m + b) / 6

where

a = the best-case estimate m = the most likely estimate b = the worst-case estimate

That's my favorite, called Three-point Estimation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_estimation

This is also a great article on the challenges of estimating development tasks, from the Basecamp blog:

https://m.signalvnoise.com/running-in-circles-aae73d79ce19

"By 2019, Americans earning less than $30,000 a year would be worse off under the Senate bill, CBO found. By 2021, Americans earning $40,000 or less would be net losers"

Yes. I mean, I still think it's kind of odd to have an entire Instagram feed of just pictures of yourself in front of code. But somehow Instagram's algorithm decided to show me tons of these types of pictures in the "Explore" tab.

A huge amount were, like another commenter mentioned, girls in yoga pants or short shorts posing with Sublime Text in the background. And they're hugely popular.

In no way do I think the original poster's feed is like this. She seems genuinely interested in coding. It just led me into this entire apparent subculture of this type of thing.

I'm shocked that there's an entire mini industry of sorts of pictures of younger woman posing in front of Javascript code. Not just a casual picture but with what looks like a carefully composed photograph.

Tell that to the tens of thousands of streamers on Twitch who have 10 or less viewers, who absolutely are not getting rich.

Like others have mentioned it's a combination of luck to get the initial attention, and skill to maintain that following (either actual video game skill, entertainment skill, or a combination of both).

Me as well. Made it nearly unreadable. So distracting from an otherwise interesting story.

Do you often use your phone without looking at it?

This is wonderful. I just became interested in this subject but had difficult finding resources that weren't simple copy/paste examples, as you mentioned, or semester-long courses. Thank you!

I've seem to have noticed more of my Amazon deliveries being carried by USPS.

Which I wouldn't have any issue with, but I've had the experience that USPS postal carriers are, well, less physically able to handle large packages. We order both Amazon Pantry and Subscribe & Save items, meaning we have 40lb boxes of dog food or cat litter coming in, sometimes several times per month.

I get a complaint almost every time from the postal carrier. I don't necessarily blame them, especially when Amazon puts 80lb of goods in one box. At the same time though, I end up feeling guilty just for ordering these types of items online.

I was going to say the same thing. Just in case you've forgotten or have yet to experience the horrendous food of Applebees or Buffalo Wild Wings, a quick Yelp search will remind you and redirect you to a more palatable option.

(Though, personally, I find Cheesecake Factory pretty darn good from a massive chain restaurant perspective)

Hear hear. I used Angular for about a year and tried to use React for about six months. Then I tried Vue and I couldn't not believe just how much more sense everything made. Give it a shot.

Nothing against this application personally, but I still do not understand the appeal of "personal assistants." If I want the weather, I click my weather app icon and see it instantly. If I want an Uber, I click Uber and request one instantly.

I don't see the benefit of adding another layer between me and my desired action. This is especially the case when the smart personal assistant doesn't understand my request, in which case I'll usually just abandon the whole thing. Only took a few times trying to get Siri to do something and I haven't used it for anything besides timers in years.

Oh, I would not be surprised if my SSN is floating somewhere out there because of something like this. So that's a good point. I was more making the comparison because I was looking for an analogy to something most people at least try to guard heavily.

This may sound silly, but I consider any application that requests full read access to my Gmail account to be akin to asking for my social security number.

I remember when the big wave of smart email apps first came out a few years ago, and the horror was the expressed here when it was revealed that these apps basically route all of your email through their servers in order to do processing on it.

Sadly at lot of the trepidation about services like that seems to have abated -- or maybe the general population just isn't aware of how intrusive these types of services could be. But I would never allow any third party service to access my email.

I consider myself, without doubt, to be an introvert. I hate parties with a passion, and am perfectly happy in my own head compared to even hanging out with a good friend.

But I hated working at home. The isolation was terrible, not to mention the challenges of working on project teams (even with Slack etc). I felt lonely and less motivated.

It is funny though, because my wife is the opposite of me on the social scale. She loves groups of people and social interaction. And yet she's fine working at home. Part of this I think is because she very much goes into her own world when working with how focused she becomes, so she doesn't even notice the isolation.

1 hour 15 minutes each way, but you know what -- I don't mind. I get to live in a beautiful city along the coast in Massachusetts, and commute to a job I love in downtown Boston.

1 hour of that commute is on the commuter train, during which I work for part of and read or watch shows during the other. It also means my in-office hours are 9:15 - 4:15 since I finish the rest of my work on the train.

I tried working at home for three years and hated it. Even though I consider myself to be more on the introverted side, I got quite lonely in an empty house all day, and find it much more exciting to be at an office.

For what it's worth I previously had a job where I drove an hour and 45 minutes twice a week and _hated_ that. I would never do this commute if I had to drive instead.

This makes me miss Steve Jobs, a lot. So much of what he says seemed dead on about the struggles Segway faced. For all his faults, I think he had a great sense about what consumers wanted and loved about a product, as well as what would frustrate them or turn them off, and I think it's been one of Apple's struggles since he passed.

This is one of the best app landing pages I've seen in a long time. Though I have to admit I haven't even watched the video at the top, the rest of the page gets straight to the point clearly explaining and demonstrating the app, and the comics at the end are wonderful.

Also, I can't believe I haven't seen this social network idea executed before. Seems at least like one worth exploring.

I'm shocked there doesn't seem to be a mention of his complete lack of a natural, engaging personality as being the number one reason why he would never stand a chance as a candidate.

Admittedly I haven't watched many interviews recently, but has he improved his onscreen personality at all since the famous D8 interview? Judging by some more recent ones (ex the one with Jerry Seinfeld), perhaps not.

Excellent. I do hope it's better than Hipchat's attempt, which I found to be terrible -- delayed audio and stuttering video.