Honestly hate seeing wsj articles posted in here.
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But don't you think this is the very reason why we need to worry about these issues. Us developers are tired, its not right, this is something we all love doing, and I want more people to love this industry and we cant afford to throw simplicity in the garbage, we need to spend some effort in to making things easier for the people who will come after us.
Garbage journalism on the other-hand might actually have the power to do it.
Just like anything in life when it comes to the internet I think you have to use it for sometime before you can somewhat manage to spot whats right and wrong on the internet.
The author also mentions something about how the internet is eager to help with technical details and is bad for medical advice? Seriously? I mean, I once saw someone advice a guy to place his router higher than his computer, so that gravity will make the internet faster :) and I have seen complete strangers on places like reddit come together to help people who were having trouble with something, genuinely helping and making a better change in people's lives.
The damn internet doesn't care about trolls or there's no ruining these trolls can do to the internet. People are always going to be people, you are going to have to use some common sense when you are living your normal life and when you are on the Internet.
Microsoft seriously sucks. Yes I know, the options to turn these things off are there, but the fact that 90% of the people who use ms windows are not even aware of these options is insane.
And couple that with the soul sucking updates,Jesus Christ windows 10 is just a big no no.
As for the updates, you should seriously consider disabling the windows update service using the admin privileges. Especially if you are using a rate limited internet connection or hate having to wait 10-15 mins for your computer to shutdown or startup.
Alt + Left
to go back :P
Businesses understand this really well and they are using this to their advantage, there's not much regulation around crypto-curruncies as of now, so these companies can operate in a legally gray area. It is the customers of these businesses who has no idea what is going on.
Many are happy to buy and sell the whole utopian view of how the block chain is going to liberate them all, how its going to end poverty and and kill all the evil bankers, but everyone saw what happened then the DAO got hacked, that whole utopian view of the irreversible something something was somehow now the responsibility of a central group.
If anyone wants to see examples of how most of these users have no idea of how to handle money, look at all the ponzi schemes that are build around crypto currencies. Its insane thinking how easily people give away their money for a piece of the moon.
I actually thought they were good, I always loved when teachers/professors took the time to explain things using real world analogies. Something about them just makes me remember things better.
Anyways, http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/goap.html (more from the same author : Jeff Orkin)
has a lot more information about this approach.
https://github.com/stolk/GPGOAP (not mine) for anyone who wants to look at this in action (c/c++ code).
Try installing Ubuntu on a brand new laptop. Its just not something a non technical user can deal with. I am sure a good share of us here on HN has, at-least one relative who calls us because the "internet is broken" imagine them trying to deal with something like ubuntu on a brand new computer.
I like to think this is partially our fault as consumers, we need to actually do more to demand hardware vendors to support Linux. Especially laptop manufacturers.
Can't agree with that. We once had an issue with our code because someone had made a copy of his code base and goimports was importing an older version of a library.
Yes definitely this is something the programmer could have prevented. BUT! "not think about it" is not really true.
So for example, send search requests to google randomly for items like "ducks", "fishing ponds", "banana leaves" etc, totally unrelated nonsense that will skew these tracking giants provided enough people install and run these tools.
There are so many innocent people, who has nothing to do with the violence. Show some compassion towards your fellow man, please.
Just use a strong password ( https://xkcd.com/936/ )
The funny thing with having email as a username is, how sometimes people can use social engineering to gain control of your account, non of that fancy "hoaxer" stuff are needed when your service providers put untrained people in charge of your accounts. Hacking human stupidity is a more effective way in to get in to a secure system.
( as an example, this was on reddit just yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7scxvKQOo )
For instance on locationiq.org
Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses (FOS) World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 Geneva
Does not work.
On maps.google
Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses (FOS)
World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20
Geneva
but
World Health Organization
Avenue Appia 20. CH-1211 Geneva 27
What an incredibly rude thing to even say. While it is 100% the fault of the people who "invested"(if you can call it that) in this. At the end of the day its someone else's hard earned money, perhaps stupid at spending, but hard earned money.
I honestly feel really bad for the people who are loosing so much of their money, it should not happen to anyone. Its a horrible horrible situation for the people involved.
(While I have no problem with people talking about things that would effect every single one of us, I cant agree with the fact we at HN are upvoting an article about an article written by oilprice)