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Sorry to be totally naive here. I love the design but i don't totally get it — what would I use something like this for? Like hosting widget-related jobs for my widget aficionado forums?

I'm sitting in a room full of synths from 1971 through 2017 and I still think my OP1 is one of the most delightful, amazing things in here. You can find them used for around $600.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted and I completely agree. Twitter as a platform continues to give voice to mis-(dis-?)information.

Except that it's only newsworthy in a recursive way. They give him a platform to break their own rules and be controversial. The simple fact is they want him to be controversial on their platform, not someone else's. This is a dangerous game.

Yes, what people are upset about, myself included, is that Trump is not held to the same ToC and https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu... that everyday users are held to, because his batshit craziness is "newsworthy".

You mean like threatening nuclear action against another nation?

"Examples of what we do not tolerate includes, but is not limited to behavior that harasses individuals or groups of people with:

violent threats; wishes for the physical harm, death, or disease of individuals or groups;"

i'm with timc3 on this one. at this point every dude with a beard and a modular suitcase has a standing gig in the park making gurgly noises for people, and every gamer who watched deadmau5's twitch has a bunch of mutable instruments modules. it's folk music for the 2010s. and the music of the 70s wasn't, for the most part (yes we can point to the exceptions but that misses the point), bleeps and bloops, it was keith wakeman in leather pants. by the 80s these were collecting dust (so that we could buy them for cheap in the 90s!)

That's exactly it. The whole point of YTK was to protect our kids from the fire hose and provide a trusted safe space. About a year ago it was. Our son was watching Blippi and videos about banana slugs. We deleted the app once we saw the dark shit slipping in there and it was clear YouTube was not acting to address it.

I don't think you are familiar with the content. As a parent, I am. We've reported them to YT and they don't act. These are videos that pretend to be about spiderman or peppa pig but involve blood, violence, sexual themes, dismemberment, etc. I understand what you are asking but it's irrelevant here, this isn't an intellectual exercise where we decide "hey, this isn't so bad after all."

read receipts + link tracking. if you use it for work, it's incredible. all the other solutions are heavy-handed CRM style plugins for gmail.

canned responses + simple mail-merge style things

downside:

because it's not gmail, search is...not as good as gmail. nothing is.

I hear you and appreciate the reply. I do agree, in that one minute of meditation is better than 0 minutes of meditation, just like 7 minute workouts are better than 0 minute workouts. So any effort to encourage folks to pause during their day, no matter what their motivation (even "hey, a new app!"), is net positive.

I'm not yunha but i'll reply and hope it helps.

Guided meditations are substitutes for traditional group practice. Distributed group practice, if you will. The goal is to think of them as training and lessons for your own excursions into non-guided practice, just like taking swim lessons or spanish lessons may help you improve your practice on your own.

And like both of those examples, the real work is in the solo practice, venturing into your own struggle with your noisy brain, instead of relying on the soothing, centering, encouraging words of others, relying on yourself and training your own abilities.

and i have so far to go myself, but even then, i can tell you, guided is just a reminder of what i'm really supposed to be working on.

+1000

kabat-zinn guided meditations with lots of silence, free

body scan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oKWQiEWYs

10 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYLyuJZKno

40 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQkzhyXEc-0

(many others, search kabat-zinn on yt)

you don't need an app.

there is something very weird to me about calling someone a "hardcore meditator" for meditating >5 minutes. It takes me 5 minutes just to get my brain to shut up. Listening to someone else put words in my brain for five minutes isn't meditation. It's not mindfulness. It's training towards the two, but it's not a substitute for either.

Just came here to say that too. There's a fair amount of hubris in the founder/ceo promising things they cannot promise. I realize bthdonohue is doing it for the sake of employees and their enthusiasm to continue with the acquisition, but making claims like this undermines your credibility when you EOL the product in two years.

(I was part of one of these acquisitions and thankfully our founder made no such promises, and instead told us "nothing is going to change right now, but I can't tell you what the future holds for us")

Theranos' relationship with GlassDoor is rich. You should have seen the posts up there before Theranos went after them with lawyers.

This is a fun conversation and I feel I may be too ignorant on the topic to hold any informed stance. But my feeling is the problematic issue has a lot less to do with the producers and a lot more with the consumers. As in, you're right — the intention may be there, but the result is misguided since the audience can't appreciate it. Well, I appreciated it at least.

(Banksy's original intent was not to produce camp — read his pamphlets and manifestos from the early 00s. Highly socio-political, black mirror stuff.)

Really appreciate your writing this. While I agree 100% that those realities are unfortunate, I think it's a related but somewhat tangential issue bordering on threadjack due to loud vs quiet, classical vs "garbage", etc. Those are subjective. What you're getting at is the current unquestioned appeal of the shiny and new. Reminds me of a quote I mention often, heard when mentoring a junior designer a few years ago. He said, "yeah I've got a book on typography, but, you know, it's from the 90s."

Jumping in here as someone who has been designing for the web and other medium since 1994 I think what drew the OP to that question is lack of historical context. This site is great. It's clearly 100% deliberate, tongue-in-cheek, like randlet said here as well. Scrolling headers, blink tags, superfluous animation is what dominated the web like drop shadows / leather & satin / "flat" / etc. later, as we found we could use it — then jodi, nn, and other text-only web artists incorporated into their work. This is a nod to both sides.

Fingerprint unlock is good. Material is good. But this part is important: Get search into the toolbar, and out of the menu.

Hi Kyle, thank you for participating in this conversation. I am sure everyone here appreciates it.

It is true that as an android dev one has to implement many things themselves. It's an unpleasant part of developing for Android that Google does very little to address.

The simplest approach you could take would be to copy and implement the design patterns presented in Google's material design guidelines. Yes, it is unfortunate they are guidelines and not SDK. However, there are enough patterns to provide a superior experience to the jumbled mess of an application that it is right now.

https://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduct...

- Use the FAB for "search" since it is the most frequent user action. - Use the navigation drawer https://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/navigation-drawe...

This is just a 1 minute recommendation and of course open to argument. However, simply redoing the app in a generic style adhering to these guidelines would be a drastic improvement.

Thank you in advance for doing an android app in the first place.

Finally, we can keep humpback whales in our starships!

Yes, Brent had a fairly famous meltdown known as his Beastie Boys / To the 5 Boroughs review.

http://bbs.beastieboys.com/showthread.php?t=21070

(retraction info here: http://bbs.beastieboys.com/showpost.php?s=1da97f1e4c1a2a3b6d...)

there's a good chance that absurdity was deliberate.

Git makes git painless

http://vuo.org/ is the emerging successor

more info:

http://vuo.org/qc-remake http://vuo.org/node/64

I have been using this weekly since first getting access. Totally worth it. I've had a magsafe adapter (Staples) same-day delivered when I forgot mine at work, groceries when I wasn't able to swing by the store on the way home that day, etc. One of the best things is how the UI suggests your frequently bought items. This is a better way for me to restock household items than amzn subscribe and save, which has left me (via my own mistake in specifying interval) with enough q-tips to last through the year 3000.

No, you mostly won't even encounter the drivers, they are so busy they're already back in their cars by the time you get to the door!

I know of some currently successful companies whose founders used meaningful, honest, yet vague phrases like "we're trying to change the way people ___________". And they did. And I know of about 5x the startups whose founders used the phrase "we're in stealth mode" whose isolated, protected ideas showed complete mismatch with market need when launched.

Why?

Because that isolation reflects arrogance. You have two options here:

a) say your vague idea and hear from people who care about it, getting more data, more ideas, more market need (or lack of), more competitive landscape, etc.

e.g.,

The line: "We're working on fixing the calendar" Person: "Have you tried Sunrise? It's great, but I can't use it because it asks for permissions my security team won't allow"

This gives you, as product creator, info.

Or maybe the person wants to come work with you, or knows someone who is passionate about it, or knows someone wanting to invest in that, etc.

b) Say "we're in stealth mode"

This shuts down any opportunity immediately.

I guess b) is reasonable when you are disinterested in further conversation (totally legitimate)[1], otherwise it just accomplishes nothing other than providing an air of arrogance.

[1] When I was at Apple in mid 00s, the standard line to strangers was "sorry, we're prohibited from discussing features or future products for legal reasons". This shut down conversation immediately, which was the intention.

I agree with this tactic 100%. It is much more meaningful and honest.

Yes, and then I'd consider arranging them on a grid, with predictable tab order, and then I'd consider remove distracting visual ornamentation, and then...

...we have a usable, familiar, industry-tested form of data entry. =D