It's interesting that two of the six things that the author suggests negatively effect mental health are social media. I think that a better understanding of the impact of habits driven by social media will be a great step forward. Of course, they've hardly been such a pervasive force for very long, so the long-term effects could not be well understood at this point. I see this generally negative sentiment increasingly often, though, and I definitely think there's a lot of truth to it.
Yeah, I find this particularly odd given Palantir's founders... You'd think they would care more about maintaining the current pathos of Palo Alto. Then again, I found out recently that Thiel is a financial supporter of Ted Cruz, so there are always surprises in store.
Solid analysis, your guess makes a lot of sense IMO. I suspect that these kinds of "breaches" take place far more often than is reported -- I think until people are better educated about the importance of using unique passwords for their individual online accounts, it's an uphill battle.
I agree, it seems a bit like link bait. From what I understood, though, the author's point has some merit -- in stocks, you are at least always able to cash out, to change your mind, to have new priorities. In the modern form of start-up investing, your fate becomes inextricably bound with that of the start-up, with your only options being an eventual pay-out or loss of your investment. I'm not saying I think this indicates anything about a "bubble," just that (if I understood the article correctly) there is a distinct difference between the value modern start-ups provide and the value that a public investment provides.
That's a great point, good IT would definitely help. But it doesn't seem like we're making any real movement towards replacing the current bureaucratic mess with well-designed systems. Then again, I didn't know there were alternatives to the DMV until this very moment.
My thoughts exactly -- I would much rather be helping raise awareness of government surveillance and developing measures to abate it, instead of giving them even more technological power. The front-end of services like healthcare and immigration can be improved all we want, but that doesn't affect any fundamental change in the way things are done (it's a fancy website, but you'll still be waiting 5-10 years for your green card). I struggle to see why anyone who is technologically savvy would want to do this.
Interesting. Is there an existing standard for what everyday goods are used in determining inflation? I understand the usefulness of a "quick 'n dirty" gauge like this big mac index (or the iPod index you mentioned), but I'd be surprised if there isn't some standard set of goods which are watched as general indicators of inflation.
Absolutely. As a vim user, one of my favorite things about it is how it is on virtually every platform -- it's similar to what the article says about Netscape. Is the code pretty? Probably not. But I would rather have my text editor be compatible with any OS I may need to use it on than it have a readable codebase.
This is an amazing pursuit, and I wish you guys the absolute best! Unfortunately, I think public adoption of encryption will continue to be a problem until there is absolutely no barrier -- both in knowledge and UI design -- between the average user and encryption. This is a huge step in the right direction though!
Yeah, that's totally true. As another commenter pointed out, it's more-so the case that I only feel qualified to comment on American mentality (and even then, I don't feel especially qualified). This is particularly problematic here since the article pertains to both U.S. and British governments, and the quote itself was from a British author (as another commenter thoughtfully pointed out). I don't rescind my statement, but I definitely acknowledge the ignorance/cultural arrogance that comes with a comment that invokes the context of a single country -- in a lot of ways, it's this very ignorance that I attempt to combat in forums like this, by reading comments like yours :)
That's an interesting take... It's like the perfect storm of our collective tendency to shirk responsibility, our tendency to generalize in search of a single unifying class, AND the tendency for powerful bodies (governments, corporations, or individuals) to re-contextualize any issue in a manner that validates their operations.
That is a spectacular quote, and really embodies the impetus of the American people to not only blame excessively when things go wrong, but to place blame in a manner which absolves all parties of any (perceived) responsibility.
This is awesome, thanks for the github link! I wonder what service is providing the data -- the lack of back-end in the repo and need for Web Workers makes me think it's something external. A brief tour of the source makes me think that the clue would be somewhere in satellites.js, but that is a doozy of a file.
I agree, seems like it's just some hype. It would be pretty damn surprising to see AMD sell off given the various contracts in play (as others have commented).
Awesome tool, thank you for making this available to the community! I'm going to take a crack at integrating this into our ember application and (hopefully) cut back on some of the support. Is there any formal ember-cli support in the works?
I agree with this sentiment, but I do think that there's validity in the claim that the disruptive nature of startups can have negative consequences for uninvolved parties. I don't think it's a matter of "blame," though, so much as a matter of responsibility -- it is the responsibility of those pushing these disruptive technologies to simultaneously incubate and encourage the social reform necessary to prevent such situations.
I agree; with vim as well, gVim isn't much help to those who still want to use a mouse / don't know the keybindings. Atom is really the most versatile open-source GUI text editor right now IMO.
I can see how my claim comes off that way, but I really just meant "better quality" as "adhering to the basic best practice principles for mobile," not as a claim on design quality or usefulness. A ton of apps on the Play store really don't even function correctly.
This is completely true. Apple's absolute control over their ecosystem is not just a drawback -- it's also a significant benefit of them. There are far fewer apps in the Apple store than the Play store that are DOA, and the general quality of apps is far higher. Although it's somewhat contrary to the modern spirit of development, Apple's policies have proven to be a very good method of quality control.
I do something very similar; use master for dev builds that can be shared (since it's the default branch) and something like 'deploy' or 'deployprod' (which on second thought is a bit redundant) for release. Then, using a CI tool, you can have master go to a staging environment and deployprod go to production.