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I heard an interesting idea today. "Boomers" have been criticizing "young people today" for being "snowflakes". It might be the case that with their fresher perspective on technology and culture, the younger people realized the perilous path involved in taking action now. Older, less savvy people are being caught unaware of the ramifications of certain types of speech and action in the modern world.

That does sound reasonable. People game the current system to the maximum. How would you expect people to game a system of taxing the obvious assets, and what could be done about it?

Bear does it (just less elegantly)

https://bear.app/ does it pretty well.

They use a proprietary library and don't allow local folders of text files, though...

If you have the trailing slash on there, it takes you to the root domain. https://facebook.design/companybrand should work

Google (and similar businesses) get into trouble because they have to do enough surveillance and algorithmic profiling to make their advertising effective. You have to admit that it's a stretch to ask us to trust them.

It is if you're using it to force yourself to do something soul sucking.

It isn't if you are using it to give yourself the discipline to focus on completing a challenge you care about.

That is certainly a defining problem of our era

It's definitely not the right example to give to impress the crowd around here, but she was basically saying in that part of the article that a feminist background gives you a different perspective on technology. Makes sense. The comparison of unpaid domestic work and unpaid online content creation was kind of interesting to me.

Sounds more like alcohol. If you have a couple drinks a week, it's no problem. If you can't stop yourself from binge drinking, you have to stop completely. Sobriety means that you miss out on social activities based around drinking.

It doesn't seem like that is the problem with Apple's keyboards. It's Tim Cook not knowing the difference between aesthetics and the qualities that give a product an overall "high end design" feel. You know, like, how it is to actually use it.

The bean counter issue is causing them to leave out the extender part of the power cord and the basically required USB hub with all the ports that "Pros" need.

Well, sure, but that only works when the leader has a product vision.

We've known that was the ideal structure for a city for a long time. Other than sound insulation, we had the technology to make it happen a century ago. Cities aren't run by a dictatorship that can implement your vision. They change slowly and organically. We should make urban AND rural living more efficient instead of pretending we can create utopian cities that everyone would want to live in.

You get that problem if the paracord isn't pulled tight enough and trimmed.

> "There were a lot of people at the company that were horribly, horribly unhappy… that Ken and management would capitalize on someone as controversial and dark as Daryl Gates. And Police Quest 4 got [a] different name inside the company. We started calling it Rodney King’s Quest."

Pretty interesting read. I was totally oblivious to all this as a kid who loved Sierra games.

I don't believe I meant what you think I meant. I intended to make a comment about our society creating unnecessary anxiety. I hope we look at the cause of the anxiety instead of just treating the symptoms.

I do want people to see mental health professionals if they are suffering. I fear that option isn't available to many people that need the help, so I'd like to see a societal change in the pressures we put on each other and the ways we live our lives.

Many anxious men (and women) aren't suffering from an anxiety disorder. Their anxiety is a perfectly reasonable response to the life they are living. I'm fine with therapy, meditation, and medication as long as they aren't used as tools to make it bearable to stay in a bad situation.

What a beautiful comment

  1. Complement audience
  2. Establish credibility
  3. Set up punchline ("I needed no napkin")
  4. Explain first hand experience to make point
  5. Deliver punchline ("Wipe burrito sauce")

I started using that approach in late adolescence as I was discovering that everyone has an internal world that I can't understand. I tried to give people the benefit of the doubt and operate under the assumption that there is an underlying reason for hostile behavior.

Over the years, I got seriously burned personally and professionally by malicious people that I made excuses for in my head. It hardened my heart and caused me to be less understanding and forgiving of people.

Now I've come full circle. I'm back to your approach, but I play more defensively. People likely have a reason for being malicious that is out of their control. I don't need to judge them, but I do need to protect myself and my loved ones.

Hopefully they go with something this interesting. Moving forward while respecting the past seems like the right approach to me. Even rebuilding it exactly as it was isn't going to please everyone.

Totally agree. The goal part isn't scientific. Our emotions lead us to decide the kind of world we want to live in. I think there is more agreement there than conventional and social media are leading us to believe.

I find is surprising that this stuff gets discussed on HN at all, and then I'm more surprised that comments like your own aren't the highest voted.

Every reasonable person agrees that (lower case) social justice is our goal. Let's use a scientific approach to get closer to making it a reality.

That headline is pretty misleading. The tagline is a little better.

> New research shows that hyper-involved parenting is the route to kids’ success in today’s unequal world.

I get why this was down-voted to the bottom, but I COMPLETELY agree with this person.

InVision seems to me to be a company without a vision. I think their tools are only useful for prototyping things that are so simplistic that they don't require a prototype. I know art directors that like it for sharing visual designs with clients. I despise it for prototyping complicated applications. The workflow is disjointed, confusing, and under-powered.

Hey, I can help with your home sickness.

It's brutal winter here for 8 months followed by a manic, hot four months of summer. No spring or fall. It takes two hours to get to anything that could reasonably be called nature. The people are great, but their main form of socializing is heavy drinking. It's cold? Let's drink about it. It's hot? Let's drink about it.

It's great, but no city is perfect.

It's nowhere near a solution, but it helps a little. Those red notification badges really play tricks with your mind.

Grey-scale + no social media apps + carefully controlling the types of notifications you receive makes a smartphone almost not an unhealthy thing to carry in your pocket.

If you want to delete Facebook from your phone but your friends use Facebook Events, there is a stand alone Events app. That being said, I wish my friends didn't use Facebook for events.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/events-from-facebook-find-th...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.S...

It is very important to make people fall in love with the idea before the reveal. Great example of that.

Less of a risk when you are as established as he was by 1986. I think it was safe to assume that Steve Jobs would appreciate and digest the format. A standard 3 concepts on poster board presentation would have been much more risky, given the audience.

1. It's real 2. No 3. Generally, no