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This applies to much more than product design.

I see many Adwords accounts that are structured based on a best practices boiler plate format...but fail to consider how the structure will interact with decision making in the future, forcing poor budget allocation or worse, making proper optimization unfeasible.

Having a very clear vision from the outset for how you will need to adjust and optimize in the future and building an account structure in format that aligns with those processes is often the difference between a very successful account and a mediocre account that only shows minor incremental growth...

Avinash Kaushik wrote once, "spent 95% of the time defining the problem and 5% solving it."
It was more of a rhetorical question from 6-8 year old me. Yeah, though, and certainly there's other reasons, like distinguishing it from a bunch of dependent clauses. That we elide "and"s when speaking a list is of course a point in favor of the comma being a separator not a replacement too.

At the end of the day it's English; we just do what feels good.
While I haven't read Amazon's terms of use as to whether this is ok from a policy perspective, most back-up services don't check for "files within pictures". In fact, the hiding of data within imagery is called Steganography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

Although the intent with Steganography is (weak) cryptography, the method should work for your purposes; only way to know is to test it! Admittedly until you've tested this thoroughly, I would not RELY on this for anything other than a fun test. Enjoy! :-)
These are great, i hope they'll update as frameworks do.
I quickly hit on the correct theory based on the name of the game, but dismissed it, because the secret rule does not correctly match the name. The problem is pointed out on Wikipedia [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Petals_Around_the_Rose#DE...
Why do you have to transfer your photos to the iMac for back blaze? They have an iOS client. [0]

[0]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/backblaze/id628638330?mt=8
The DMCA poisoned the Internet of Things in its cradle
Do you have a reference for how Android or ChromeOS handles FDE encryption keys? I don't know what the current behavior is. My impression was that they weren't sent to Google (but I don't have a reference to support this).

I think the author of the article meant to compare the Windows behavior with other desktop operating systems, including Microsoft's other desktop operating systems. (I know him and have sometimes talked to him about this topic.)
I played a similar game with some folks once, but I don't know the game's name. The person who knew the rule(s) explained that there was a planet that was like Earth, but it only had a subset of the things that Earth had. We guessed different things on Earth, and the teacher would tell us whether or not this other planet had them.

Some samples include:
Planet has apples, green grass, trees, runners, and cheese pizza.
Planet does not have bananas, plants, people, hamburgers, cats, dogs, houses.

I won't put the rule(s) here in case people want to try it.
Not the exactly the words you want to hear on the freeway from your motorcyclist.
My first thought was that someone got hired as an under cover developer, which would have been kind of a novelty. Still interesting read though.
Anyone heard anything about the work environment for developers recently?
I use Bangladesh as an example because my family is from there--I can easily estimate the difference between what I make having grown up a citizen of the U.S. versus what my similarly-situated cousins make. But more generally, it's an example of a country that provides internal security, but not much beyond that. It you're starting a business in Bangladesh, you can't take advantage of governmental and social capital: educated workers, wealthy customers, research institutions, etc.

The morally fair tax rate is more like 85%--the median U.S. individual income is around $30,000, while the median PPP-adjusted Bangladeshi income is $3,300. But yeah, that's absolutely fair. Just the simple fact of being born in the United States, keeping everything else equal, gives you a huge advantage in wealth.
I currently work at a Dealership and i can second this, well except for the Sales guys "busting their asses".

The majority probably make around 50 K, but they definitely have to stay here late.

Although Saturdays are mandatory, every dealership ive ever heard of still offers two days off a week. A lot of guy's i know come in for deliveries or whatever, but they do have two days off a week.

Sorry for the rambling.
Have you asked your users? What have they said?
I would suggest reading the High Perofrmance Postgresql book. It's one of the rare good PacktPub books: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/...
>I left because ES7 and next year ES8 and year after ES9 are bound to give us what we need from a modern language without resorting to coding in a Lisp-like labguage

I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean exactly. I don't really understand what the "resorting" part refers to here. Clojure is a modern language with that has excellent syntax with tangible advantages over syntax found in most languages.

The syntax is very uniform and follows the principle of least astonishment well. The s-exps provide additional visual information about relationships in code making it more scannable. Finally, the syntax facilitates structural editing making it much easier to manipulate in the editor.

>ClojureScript is extremely expressive but something about the Lisp form makes me spend too much time thinking about the code rather than the problem domain

Perhaps that might have something to do with the fact that you've only used Lisp for 6 months, while you probably have years of experience working with Algol style syntax you're familiar with.

There's absolutely nothing inherent in Lisp syntax that distracts from the business logic. If anything, my experience is that it puts you closer to the business logic as there's a lot less syntactic noise.

>and in the end very few people (Lisp users mostly) will be able to maintain the code

That's completely false. My team has been using Clojure for the past 5 years and we've never had trouble hiring people to work with it. None of the people we've hired over the years had any experience with Clojure or even FP for the most part. The average learning curve to becoming productive tends to be a couple of weeks. We also hire co-op students every 4 months and all of them have learned the language quickly and enjoyed working with it.

A new hire doesn't have to become an expert to start doing useful things. Learning the basics takes very little time, and they can pick up new concepts as they need to. Personally, I wouldn't hire somebody who was unwilling to work with a new language as it implies the sort of rigidity that antithetical to the developer mindset.

> So what am I doing writing a web app in a Lisp like language unless i really enjoy thinking about algorithms more than UX

That's funny since ClojureScript provided the first environment for developing web apps where you could get instant feedback on the UI making it much easier to focus on UX.

Having a live environment with a REPL makes it much easier to experiment as it cuts down the time between making a change and seeing the effect. This is one of the greatest tools for being able to experiment with the UI and provide the a good UX.

>What matters to me is having a good modern language with large enough eco system and that I could use to build kick ass UX

This is precisely why I, and many others, use ClojureScript. If Js is your idea of a modern language I simply don't know what else to say here to be honest.

Again, if you prefer working with Js that's perfectly fine. However, your rationalization of that decision is flimsy at best, and really boils down to the fact that you'd rather use something you're more familiar with.
There really is no ground for any excuses here. Companies like Microsoft and Google doing their part to further the government's agenda for the most complete surveillance and/or control over user data is simply not acceptable.

The only valid answer is to switch to Linux.

(And don't ask the average user to understand or do anything to prevent that. Default matter.)
Well, they do get to the reason it's done this way a couple of paragraphs in:

> Of course, keeping a backup of your recovery key in your Microsoft account is genuinely useful for probably the majority of Windows users, which is why Microsoft designed the encryption scheme, known as “device encryption,” this way. If something goes wrong and your encrypted Windows computer breaks, you’re going to need this recovery key to gain access to any of your files. Microsoft would rather give their customers crippled disk encryption than risk their data.

> “When a device goes into recovery mode, and the user doesn’t have access to the recovery key, the data on the drive will become permanently inaccessible. Based on the possibility of this outcome and a broad survey of customer feedback we chose to automatically backup the user recovery key,” a Microsoft spokesperson told me. “The recovery key requires physical access to the user device and is not useful without it.”

The crux of the matter is that the article is trying to confuse readers of the purpose of the encryption. The purpose of Windows "device encryption" is to keep anyone other than you from using your device or getting data off your drive. If you're worried about Microsoft stealing your files, they don't need your key: they just need to wait for you to log in. The only reason Microsoft has the key by default is because users inevitably forget their password and people would be very, very upset if that meant all their data disappeared, just as the above quoted paragraphs suggest.

And if you're a power user who really knows what you want, then you don't have to let Microsoft have the key to your device.

It sounds like a pretty sane system to me and a non-issue.

> Or a law enforcement or spy agency could send Microsoft a request for all data in your account, which would legally compel them to hand over your recovery key, which they could do even if the first thing you do after setting up your computer is delete it.

> As Green puts it, “Your computer is now only as secure as that database of keys held by Microsoft, which means it may be vulnerable to hackers, foreign governments, and people who can extort Microsoft employees.”

The status quo was that if law enforcement or criminals seized your computer, they by default could access all your files. By encrypting the device by default, they at least added an additional hurdle for law enforcement and made it all but impossible for the common thief.

I don't see much to complain about other than it would be nice if Home users had the full Bitlocker feature.
That's a funny perspective, considering that the greatest physicist in history is well known for mainly considering hypothetical and conceptual structures.
Yet another false dilemma! Racism can both exist and have ineffectual movements (what you are claiming #BLM to be) that use it as a rallying cry.

I think it's folly to talk of #BLM as a cohesive movement, and paint a hashtag's actions with a broad stroke as you have, but saying that "human lives matter" is leaving things at the status quo. And as I've been pointing out all along, the status quo is impacted by the legacy of historical (and on-going) racism. It's not clear to me that we can expect all races to get a fair shake now in a "human lives matter" world, when merely 50 years ago unfair shakes based on race were codified into American law.

Unless you can give reasons why you think "personal failings" or 'false-flag racism' (as you've described your neighbors or roommates) are greater contributions than past actual, systemic racism to generational poverty, I can't say that I have much more to discuss.
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It's possible that we did it as an intentional Americanism. Which I hear is how we ended up drinking coffee over tea.
A pugnacious case for this position ("doing them a service by showing them how their writing will be judged") was made by DFW in his very long essay on English usage [http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-0...]. See the bottom of page 53, or see just the basic excerpt at: https://www.reddit.com/r/SRSDiscussion/comments/xp3i4/race_a... .

DFW, who of course did teach writing, got significant pushback in the letters the next month. There's no winning this particular debate.
I'm not saying an AI could not have desires. But am saying AI does not have the same sources of some of our desires, which are an expression of the drive to procreate, which is not a mere thought, or idea.

It is possible that simply being programmed to self-replicate is enough to emulate the results of being gene-driven, but I do not think anyone has shown that conclusively. Genes are involved in human development, while a replicating AI has no developmental process: It is a clone, born fully formed. Why would it not instead be jealous of those clones and try to make one huge instance of itself?
The reason a product owner can't handle all conceptual issues in advance is because he speaks english, and not logic

Is there a reason the product owner can't speak both english and logic? It seems like establishing mental models of how the application is working requires at least some level of logical thinking.

In the past I have worked on projects where the product owner wasn't thinking only in terms of output and not how the application achieved its goals. The result was an initial overly simplistic happy path design, followed by developers poking holes in it, followed by the product owner adding a series of exceptions to the design to try to handle the edge cases. Neither side felt ownership of the mental model, and it turned out to be a mess.
I don't see how the risk is relevant. If you lose $50,000 as an investor, you can carry that forward as a loss to offset future gains.
Manufacturing quality time: 4 techniques from DHH for improving your hours
Please don't feed trolls. Instead, flag such comments by clicking on the timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag'. (This requires a small amount of karma.)
I wish Google and or iOS would allow me to tag.
Who doesn't love a good hegemony extension
Articles like this frustrate me because they almost always conflate a bunch of very different things (e.g. being near trees, being away from loud noises, being in an environment that has no deliberate function, increased exposure to sunlight) under the umbrella of "nature", which turns out to be a largely inconsistent and culture-bound concept. There are clear hints of researchers actually wanting to understand the underlying processes or play with other manifestations of whatever "nature" might be giving us, but they're treated like footnotes to the narrative of "Hooray, we knew all along that nature is great, but now science proves it!".

And then there's this:

> “Imagine a therapy that had no known side effects, was readily available, and could improve your cognitive functioning at zero cost,” the researchers wrote in their paper. It exists, they continued, and it’s called “interacting with nature.”

I can't adequately explain how deeply I loathe this kind of claim (free, no side effects, huge benefits; similar claims are often made about exercise, optimism, or just about anything else that an author thinks is wholesome and virtuous). Anything that has effects has side effects. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
There are plenty of great scientists who have nutty ideas about things outside of their specialty. I've only read the OP, but that's the vibe it gives me.
How do we know they don't? But at least with Microsoft, there is a way to remove the encryption key from them.

Few years ago, I helped a person unlock their quicken backup file with help of Intuit by calling their support number. User forgot the password he created for the backup and when he tried to restore, he was unable to do it. Intuit was able to unlock that file for him using a master password...
I found it a nice touch that they'd included 'Art' to turn the rather uninspiring (in my head anyway) 'STEM' into a rather more inspiring 'STEAM'.
The previous status quo was that law enforcement, criminals, or that guy at Best Buy could by default get all the data off your drive without any effort whatsoever.

Microsoft added drive encryption by default with easy recovery if you forget your password - which necessitates Microsoft keeping the recovery key by default.

Power users can change these settings.

There is no "excuse" here, Microsoft has improved the situation. (And unless things have changed recently, user action is required on virtually every popular Linux distribution except Android to get any drive encryption at all.)
>But the brain entire is not consciousness (it's probably in the prefrontal cortex). Some parts of the brain, such as heartbeat, object tracking, etc, are obviously not integrated into consciousness.

So only mammals are conscious? Sucks to not be an Eagle I guess! Beware zombie Dinosaurs!

Sometimes I have distinctly non integrated experiences, like when I speak and the sentences flow from me containing grammatically correct concepts in logical order, and I didn't have anything to do with it, but there it is an argument that "I" made.
To really grasp the full impact of this leak, you need to watch the infrared video (since methane is invisible): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnbcsm0VzQM&feature=youtu.be

It's been literally spewing out of the hillside for weeks.
I think camlCase is stupid. I prefer the traditional c_unix_form. But am I going to go into a camlCase codebase and start putting underscores everywhere because I think they're better?
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I had this problem with the Amazon Music app even though I already pay for Amazon Prime. Every time I opened it, it would be "Hey, want to join Prime Music?" And I would say no, because IDGAF. And then it would ask me a second time, as if it couldn't quite believe me.

After months of this, I said yes just to get it to shut up, which meant that any attempt to listen to my music would it involve displaying lots of things that they could give me for free, none of which I wanted. Eventually I just stopped using the Amazon Music app.

It amazes me how much large company product design becomes about what companies want the users to do, with so little attention paid to what users actually want. I already had to uninstall the Amazon app and block notifications from the Kindle app because they insisted on chirpily notifying me of exciting special offers. By which they meant their various attempts to get me to buy crap I don't want.
There's no way anyone can actually work and read 2 books per week. I call bullshit on this one.
> I'm going out on a limb and suggest that Micah Lee understands why Windows works this way

Which he states on his own, and with a quote from an unnamed Microsoft representative, starting on the 7th paragraph:

> Of course, keeping a backup of your recovery key in your Microsoft account is genuinely useful for probably the majority of Windows users, which is why Microsoft designed the encryption scheme...

But, I agree with you. This is pretty much a non-story. One might have to jump through one more hoop to setup BitLocker without sending the key to any third party, but it's essentially the same as the default of sending your FileVault key to Apple for the easiest backup option.
Ending up being tech support for a lot of my family, I tend to agree with you. Microsoft is likely holding the keys to be able de-escalte users who forget their key. I doubt many home users understand that encryption keys are not like online account passwords (you can't reset them).

Since Microsoft presumably doesn't have the data, they get little value from holding the key. However, I would never copy a key without telling anyone.
Or rather, this is what you will find if the company in question has amateurish procedures and doesn't use automated build tools and continuous integration.

Then yeah, you might very well find some guys /home/ path in firmware running on production basebands.

(Hi, Dojip Kim! https://www.linkedin.com/in/dojip-kim-7b0b1b6a)
The "real world" of journalism is now highly globalized and casualized. Young journalists should expect to work for a large number of publications as interns, freelancers or short-term staffers. In this climate, adaptability is a core skill.

It is perfectly appropriate for an instructor to specify a style for an assignment and grade accordingly. Dogmatically teaching only one style is outmoded and actively harmful.
But society provides an unfair distribution of the benefits of society. A black male born in west Oakland doesn't receive nearly the societal benefit as a white male born to a family a couple miles away in Peidmont. So why should we tax the first guy at the same percentage of the second when the second is receiving extremely more than the first?
I think to get a complete picture we'd also need to consider the relative prevalence of firearms in the US versus the UK. There are fewer non-lethal options for dealing with someone armed with a guns as opposed to other weapons.
It seems to me you don't have a good understanding of the amount and kind of people doing web development.

Either that or your comment is not in regard to web development at all?
Wayback Machine automatically displays the closest matching date if it doesn't have a page available for the specified date.
Not at the moment. Good question.

It'd be easy to whip up a migration script; I just would need to be familiar with the structure of the incoming data.

What format would be easiest for you to have your historical stats in? CSV?
My in-law were dealing with the grandmothers Alzhiemers for 4-5 years. Basically stuck in their house for the whole time to take care of her. No travel or vacations. None of their sibblings wanted to help and they just disappeared once the duties were passed to them. No public support structure for this illness in their country even.
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I have heard the claim that this style dates to the introduction of typewriters, which required an ordering of the characters. Beforehand, it was customary to print the quotation marks over the period,which can be done on a printing press.
great effort, great work!
What defect is that supposed to introduce?

If you get a different result when you ignore the 1-face dice on a roll compared to when you don't ignore them, then the algorithm as you understand it doesn't match the algorithm that's the key to the game. In other words, you misunderstand how the solution works and haven't actually figured it out.
Are you totally sure that you're an indivisible whole?

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/
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Probably a lot of reasons but I think they clung to their scheme of letting drivers set their prices which I believe they both thought might be preferred as well as "more legal". But it was generally a worse experience.
1. I don't care who he is, and nor should you, this is science and not the middle ages. I will not bow to a Barron, and I will not accept what an MIT professor says without applying my critical facilities to it.

The paper is extremely difficult to read and extremely long, very few people will have the time or comprehensive knowledge required to read it completely. This is a fault of the paper, not the readers.

2. Theorizing is great, ideas are free, but that is because their value is very low without proof.
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