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Google's userinterface, in gmail.com, at least, has gotten progressively worse, and worse, and worse, and worse since its inception in my experience and everyone I've asked about this.

... don't know what else to say. I question if their designers use their own products.

Latest bugs worth mentioning: Chrome still has an issue that can cause microphone to not work in Hangouts. Gmail.com has added a "Your plug-in google talk will no longer be supported soon" ...
"Acting like you need his expert lessons" is not the same as "wanting to help in any way they can".
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I wonder if a few e-ink displays on the outside of the cars could be used to smooth out these interactions by conveying actions and intents in plain English. I would be comforting to see 'Stopped, waiting for bicyclist to pass' flash up on the front display when I bike up to a 4-way stop.
Did they? I'm under the impression that most vacuum geeks prefer Miele. Till recently, Dysons weren't even sealed, so they leaked quite a bit of dust.

They are OK machines. I own one. Mieles are much better built and do a better cleaning job overall. Same applies to old Nilfisk models. Newer or flashier is not equal to better, always.

They outsource production to China, which doesn't seem to give them the same quality as Miele or old Nilfisks (made in Denmark).
Google maps is incredibly frustrating to use. I can't understand what user testing they do.
The only solution is to formalize everything.

"Hello, may I speak further words to you?"

"Hello, would you be comfortable if I help with your project? Also, I do not want my help to be construed as condescending or demeaning or belittling you, but I have been doing this for 20 years and you seem to be stuck on an introductory problem."

Then you have both parties sign an official collaboration and non-harrassment document, get it notarized, then 6 to 12 days later you may begin working together.
Freedom? It will be part of the past, if they don't erase the past.
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The six-year-olds I know have a better grasp of grammar.
Well, really we should use the World Calendar, as specified by the League of Nations, or the Hijri since we're discussing Islam, or good 'ol ISO 8601 as this is Hacker News.

Heh, yeah, it all does become a little silly.

The important thing is communication. Using Christian dates is needlessly upsetting when discussing world religions. Upsetting people disrupts communication, so I avoid it.
And in style to the 'new' eBay logo.
It may be a distraction from the larger, quite-real problem of sexism in tech, but I do wonder if there are sometimes perceptual misfires of bias that are byproducts of generalized arrogance. I have a bad habit of overexplaining or talking down to people in general, because it can be so hard to guess what people do and don't know, at least until you've spent significant time interacting. If I do this to a woman, she may perceive bias when I would likely have talked down to her even if she were male (which is still not okay).

There are obviously still gender-centric issues at play: men who are subconsciously trying to impress women with their knowledge, and/or "bro cultures" that are intellectually hostile and competitive by default. (And of course, no shortage of just plain ignorant sexism.) As with Smokey's forest fire advice, we all bear responsibility to improve our own behavior, make work/learning environments welcoming, and to assume that everyone has knowledge and skills to offer, regardless of their genetic details or background.
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I'm sure Groupon will be just thrilled to see all the Google app icons updating to contain a bold, sans-serif letter G.

http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/nexu...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.groupon
This is a very good point.

I'm drawing on a few cues here that raise my antennae, e.g. the conflict with scholars of Islam, the strength of the assertions compared to the shoddiness of the evidence, the promotion by a particular source (News Corp., which has an unabashed record of Islamophobia), the prolific use of A.D. vs C.E., etc.

Particularly, the assertion that the Quran predates Muhammad seems absurd given the evidence, and leads me to believe that this is part of a pattern of anti-Islamic articles I've noticed recently.

Take my comment for what it's worth. Your conclusions may vary.
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I used to attend a friend's women's coding club. There were usually a few men in attendance, and generally three behaviors tended to occur:

1. The dude in question would quietly work on his own project, and occasionally ask if anybody needed help, and otherwise be unobtrusive. This was generally the most helpful behavior.

2. The dude would (as an older techie, and an abrasive one at that!) hold court and fast-talk and denounce other languages and help-but-butt-in and be loud and act like he was some ancient wizened wizard handing down carefully guarded pearls of wisdom. This behavior was disruptive and annoyed everyone regardless of the practitioner.

3. The dude would kibbutz and babble with the women trying to work, and many of them would socialize instead of writing code. The dude was passionate and friendly and outspoken and not very knowledgeable about code or software engineering. But, they went to a lot of meetups, continually proclaimed their novice status, and thus they were able to perpetually distract attendees.

Of the three types, 2 & 3 were actually tied for obnoxiousness and toxicity.

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If people want to learn a new thing, especially a somewhat introverted activity like development, I find it most helpful not to be super excited and energetic and scare them off. Shy new people will be turned off, unshy new people will feedback off of them and continue the group disruption. Calm, friendly, and helpful is the way to approach this, and without badgering to give assistance.

Further, talking about things not related to coding and development serves to undermine the learning and practice process for everyone. Things that fall into this category are: talking about your ex-spouse, talking about how hard it is to find a job, talking about how cool it is to be a minority in tech, talking about how hard it is to be a woman in tech, talking about how tech isn't something you grew up with, talking about how tech was something you grew up with, talking about the weather, trying to pick up men, trying to pick up women, talking about your children, talking about how great the last meetup was, talking about how great the next meetup will be, etc.

None of those are bad per se, but they distract and prevent people from getting maximum utility from the gathering. If they want to talk about non-tech things, they should do so elsewhere--if they want to reaffirm the industry biases against, say, women and technical ability, they should certainly be elsewhere.

I stopped attending these meetings after it was clear that there wasn't really anything of technical substance occurring there.
Nice changes today, google! Really classy retro look! [0]. lol

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/ni6pCdb.png
Many 1-2 person startups use hackerspaces (which have no formal definition) as co-working spaces. So there is a symbiotic relationship there, especially when some hackerspaces cost $100 to $300 per month.

Formal hackerspaces (e.g. have a building, have staff, have policies) are [potentially non-profit] startups themselves.
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Plus the hard drive(s), the space it's taking up in the DC, the cooling overhead, etc.
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That's the whole point of that list. Transitioning from illegal to legal is complicated in ways that don't affect things like coffee that have always been legal - and therefore, many people don't think about, claiming it will be treated "just like legal thing".
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If they are worrying about this, they may have just alienated their old users. I think it is simply the result of a more design-oriented culture at Google. After Google+ tool unification, now a design unification.

I myself do not like this redesign, but I also did not like the old one. I am basically very averse to changes like this (probably a mental issue). I also do not like how Chrome hijacks the window style, or how Android automatically updates to a new Youtube app with a drastically new UI. I am probably a minority though, and still capable to use custom styles to change the logo back to the old "Backrub" logo, but I wonder if there are more who see these major redesigns as an invasion of sorts into their daily routines. Just as you created a mental map of the application, they change the location of the buttons, or show a different favicon.

If it is not too much to ask (or risky to maintain), think of keeping an "old.*.com" domain. There are users who will gladly make use of that. Being able to use your own design, or turn off "with this new logo we save 9999 bytes on mobile" distractions is also UX. And it would be good UX for me.

With this new logo, for me, the counter now starts at zero for Google. A clean slate. For all I care they may be the Facebook they so desperately desire to mimic.
The loading times on Google maps are a lot higher than they used to be, for sure.
1. In my opinion, the primary reason for establishing eye contact with drivers is to confirm they actually see the bicyclist and agree to not get in a collision. Automation-driven cars with good computer vision processing and sufficient sensors/LIDAR have this problem solved. That is, the Google car automatically takes the most conservative and lawful approach.

2. I don't think I will ever understand the rationale behind bicylists failing to make a complete stop at traffic signals and stop signs. I bicycle to work every day; every traffic stop is an opportunity for a slight increase in cumulative exercise. If the bicyclist is in the center of the lane, swerving (I've never noticed this myself) will not be an issue. More importantly, predictably driving a bicycle decreases driver rage and reduces the probability of being hit by a driver who understandably cannot predict what an erratic bicyclist will do next.

tl;dr: if you bike in a predictable manner in accordance with traffic laws, then human and robot drivers will be much less likely to hit you.
>Servers are a different story, we are talking mobile systems here.

I'm talking about the similiarities between the two, and how one can solve the others problems. Creating arbitary divides based on name alone is the core crux the problem I'm attempting to address.
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I think you have too much faith in humanity. Your average citizen is poorly educated, ignorant of basic economic principles and is too certain of their often incorrect opinions. This is why communism happens. It's easy to see the appeal of fair distribution of wealth, is harder to understand why that's a doomed economic model. Yet look at Venezuela. With nearly a century of counterexamples, the government there continues to destroy the economy because that's what the mob wants. Now the mob can't buy toilet paper or baby formula.

I object in principle to elitism, which has its own shortcomings, but let's not pretend the mob would make good decisions. They'd ignore minorities and make seemingly smart but ultimately foolish decisions again and again on emotional grounds instead of from a position of logic and knowledge.
Ah legacy enterprise software/hardware, it keeps me employed and insane.

Where i currently work we have a system which was originally designed in '69(coding started in 75) running on an ibm iSeries. It's old old tech and most of the system is cludged together so poorly that instead of being able to write patches we just write wrappers around the applications(micro services really) that modify the program as its running. Yeahp.

We have a system written in something called "Workstation Basic" which was designed/written in '79( a decade before I was born). The original author no longer works for us and can only be contacted certain times of the year because he's a snowbird.

Millions of dollars of business is done in access databases and custom made excel workbooks.

It's a fun time.
Either way, is really the best solution that women create their own hacker spaces where they can avoid the guys? Surely interacting with your fellow human beings and letting them know how you feel is a better solution?

Now, I come from a European country, where things like wolf-whistling at a pretty woman on the street is an unthinkable act for a sane, sober man. And I sincerely believe that increasing, not reducing, the interactions between girls and boys, men and women, is the key to reducing gender inequality.
I never had any issue with Google maps apart from slow loading maps (which is probably my connections fault). What issues are you experiencing?
I maintain one at http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt

My resume has a "note to recruiters" attached. It is very clear if a recruiter has made any effort to read any of that. The clueless ones end up in the list above. http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html
What changes would you make to Google Maps, with a basic set of assumptions? (let's say, you can't dramatically increase the cost, you can't hurt Google revenue sources, and you have a team of ~20 engineers to work on the changes).
While not a poker player, I can't help respect the why-the-fuck-not? aspect of this. Very cool.
Wonder how far this space is from having to deal with micro-aggressions, triggers and safe zones. Look, empathy and compassion are incredibly important, and we should require those in spaces that are possibly unfriendly to beginners, but there needs to be a line somewhere.
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This implies that you believe that there is a global elite and there has always been a global elite and that they are all related and there is no way to become a part of that elite.

Because if you say that "if you restrict that to only those who are already well-off", their parents probably weren't or their parents' parents etc.

There are many occupations that really only require hard work and little risk that has big payout.

The end result here is that no, life isn't "fair". But by and large, a person that has the ability to take risk, does and succeeds will create that ability for others to do the same in the future.
This is so good, I got it working in less than a minute. My team is going to have a blast with this.
Looks like it uses this internally: https://github.com/keybase/kbpgp

Also, what's this? https://github.com/keybase/kbpgp/blob/master/LICENSE
I found this article from Wired earlier this year: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/air-traffic-control/

It doesn't specificaly mention vacuum tubes, but it does explain why it's entirely plausible that they're still around:

>This technology is complicated and novel, but that isn't the problem. The problem is that NextGen is a project of the FAA. The agency is primarily a regulatory body, responsible for keeping the national airspace safe, and yet it is also in charge of operating air traffic control, an inherent conflict that causes big issues when it comes to upgrades. Modernization, a struggle for any federal agency, is practically antithetical to the FAA's operational culture, which is risk-averse, methodical, and bureaucratic. Paired with this is the lack of anything approximating market pressure. The FAA is the sole consumer of the product; it's a closed loop.