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Interactive Design: How to Make Animations for Mobile Apps
And Microsoft is 'unmaking' many of the mistakes it made in the past two decades
Feel stands next to those facing mental health challenges. Enter&win
Funny you should mention a banking app. The ING banking app on Android is dreadful! It is mostly because it doesn't adhere to any of the standard Android conventions such as a toolbar, sliding left-hand drawer for jumping to different sections, the "back stack" is well handled, etc. It makes moving around a pain. You can't easily jump between your accounts or cards, pressing back after viewing your balance takes you right back to the start, and so on.

Another bit of anecdata is the Android ebay app. It used to be an OK not-really-material app, probably iterated on since the Gingerbread days, then Holoiefied. Then about a year ago they updated it to be (I think) more iPhone-like and the fans really hammered it in the Play store. Lots of "what the hell have you done, 1-star" type reviews. I didn't like it much either. The problem was again that navigation was weird and non-standard. Everything was light-grey on white too, which didn't help. Then they updated it again fairly recently to be what you might call a prototypical Android Material-design app, and it really was a relief to see. Now it works great, there are far fewer weird mystery navigation parts and the reviews are picking up.

I get what you mean, that apps can add things outside the norm, but they really need to get the base layout right. If you have a few odd/power features, that's great, but don't make the whole app some weird Homer's Car-style monstrosity.
How to Accurately Estimate your next digital Project
Well, Microsoft will parade you mum as part of the great success of the adoption rate and popularity of Windows 10!
11 Strategies to Boost Your App Ranking‎ in 2016
The Holy Grail of Crackpot Filtering: How the arXiv decides what’s science
>It's all very depressing.

It's not if you don't think about it. And given how it's not personal, that can be done.
I am certainly in agreement. From what I can see they used social engineering for a few months, then dark patterned it so users would install. (Im referring to users being slowly trained to close the window saying upgrade, then that same click agreeing and installing).

Which in my opinion is exactly that. Social engineering to get them use to it (same action over and over), and dark pattern (doing something do so they would agree to something they didn't necessarily want to).

Very scummy in my opinion. I wish I could change but I am very much stuck on Windows (my only product uses windows voice recognition engine. . . .I don't have the knowledge to wrote my own).

Edit: typo
Can you really do a driving holiday in a Tesla?
I'm not really sure that after the fact is the right time to work out what on earth your goal actually means.

To be more constructive, I'd recommend a short term goal on the lines of

Identify 5 areas which could see significant improvement to the lives of people within 10 years with the concentrated effort of openai.

This kind of mid goal (work out a plan) feels fairly sensible, and should lead to research into how tech interacts with people (or doesn't yet) and how open or underfunded areas may be. Maybe you'll find a big bottleneck that would help but isn't that commercially viable to investigate.

Now with some identified areas to work in you can make more specific plans or goals for those. What's the first step?
Is the data compressed and piped into a known compression algorithm, or is there some other technique used? I'd love to know how the actual program is run. Side note... the visual output is really interesting to see, and I'll admit I crossed my eyes at it to see if I could see some sort of pattern (read: there was no sailboat).
After Tens of Thousands of Pigeons Vanish, One Comes Back
Obvious reading comprehention failure is obvious.

DanBC didn't write anything which could imply he believes that "If you want privacy, you must be a child molester or a terrist".
"As long as we are programmed to compete with each other"

Are we?

Most of our greatest achievements seem to have come about through collaboration rather than competition.
Use it as an opportunity to teach English. I started out with translated manuals (Norwegian) as a kid, but quickly "ran out" and had to work my way through English manuals and picking it up as I working my way towards some other goal basically snuck a lot of English learning in under my radar - I didn't really realise how much English I was learning until later.
This is exactly how I see things too. I'm pretty amazed by the naivety I see around here. None of their open sourcing moves are immune to a complete 180° turn on their part, making the move effectively void. On the contrary, all their recent moves look like they are just after getting all those devs that use Linux and OSX to move to Windows.
Can anyone comment on ansible for CIS hardening (and docker CIS benchmark). If not, perhaps other tools?
Most of what I've seen is in English but there are some second-level services popping up that promise an API for chatbot translation, e.g. Cyrano (http://cyrano.unbabel.com/).
Spammers often strip dot aliases in my experience. This doesn't seem like doing anything to solve that problem. I mean, if citigroup.joe gets dot-stripped, then citigroup@mailhero.io gets that spam instead of joe, but odds are joe will just end up getting somebody else's spam anyway, so it's not really much of a win unless you're careful to pick a username that won't be used as an alias, and then you have the problem of having to give out addresses like citigroup.rkcj92o8I@mailhero.io.

Not seeing the value prop over Mailinator.
> The only reason the author gives for taking this position is that "Participating on someone else’s operating system means you’re on their turf.

Maybe the point is too subtle?

I'm a user that has a hard time with Google apps because I don't use them all the time. If I used them more often, I think I would get used to them, but that doesn't help me start using them.

One thing that does help is by being familiar.

Google might believe that familiarity is damaging to their brand, and perhaps it is, but I'm used to all of the apps I use being familiar, and so many familiar applications juxtaposed next to Google's unfamiliar applications just makes me think that Google doesn't give a fuck about me.
Check out Never 10 from Steve Gibson. Should set you up to prevent this.

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
Writing custom EsLint rules
Do you really need to cover everything in the first compiler you write from scratch or work on?

Nothing stops you from starting with a language that makes some aspects simpler then average (such as Forth or Scheme), before working on a compiler for a language that does require such things.

Or the succinct version, learn to walk before you run.
That's exactly the problem. You're assuming that there is a single metric of "best" that you can rank people on. Even in programming, there are a number of separate skills: algorithm design, systems architecture, debugging, etc. Is a programmer who can sit down with an unfamiliar codebase and be productive with it in a week's time "better" than a programmer who is great at designing scalable systems from scratch? You need a mix of technical skills, not just a team overloaded with whatever people and skills a particular manager finds interesting.

I think the biggest problem with your statement is that you're trying to identify the best people, rather than the best teams.
ConsoleZ is a Command Prompt enhancement tool for Windows
'THE END OF THE ROAD FOR ANTIBIOTICS'
But the web has it's own set of conventions!

Trying to build a native-osx or native-windows UI on the web gives you a horrible user experience.
I find all of the outrage over this to be completely overblown. Everyone complains that OS upgrades are too difficult and so they desperately try to avoid them. This results in running 7 year old code that is going to stop being supported in a few short years.

Windows 10 is a free upgrade to a an operating system that will be supported for much longer than 7. Also, Windows has adopted a new release cycle that eschews long monolithic upgrades for a more continuous and easy to manage upgrade process. This may be the last time you need to hunker down and do a painful upgrade.

I empathize with non-technical users for whom this is a trying experience, but literally every other vendor gets a free pass because you replace your phone every few years, or you've adjusted to a yearly upgrade cycle that is pretty painless.

I feel like Microsoft is trying to give people what they want, and all they get in return is kicking and screaming. Until in a few years when they stop supporting older versions of Windows and your Mom gets infected with Randsomware. Then you'll still blame Microsoft, and won't be able to believe that they want to charge you $100 for the privilege of getting on a supported OS.
It's been around for ages (2011), and I still don't think anything else has it beat in terms of 'get developing an app immediately'. It hasn't really got any magic, and yet it mostly just works out-of-the-box without any configuration. Some of the stuff surrounding it is a little out of date (for example, the Sass package is a bit flakey at times, though that can generally be fixed by just blowing away node_modules and `npm i` reinstalling), but it's used as the frontend build system for the Elixir web framework Phoenix, so it's been getting quite a bit of TLC recently.

It also only got proper, inbuilt NPM support near the end of last year (though that can occasionally be flakey), which I guess is one of the major reasons it hasn't had a lot of love vs Webpack, or Grunt/Gulp (w/Browserify) prior to that.
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> Finally, I will say it bluntly: I am a developer, and I am not paid 40 $ / hour to produce a stupid idea which will change the world.

I don't understand, could you re-phrase? Also, do you see your current hourly as sending a high, middle, or low end signal to clients?
I understand what you mean. Sorry for not being sufficiently clear.

While I understand your point of view, I will not try to argue over whether this is a PR ploy or not.

This announcement is also a surprise meant for us, Gigsters.
And this surprise was a success because I have experienced that when Gigster says they want to do something, they will.

Gigster said they want our happiness, naïve or not, I believe in it and Gigster granted us a real opportunity, I feel happier with Gigster as a freelancer.

So, what I am trying to say?
Basically, a lot of people says that Gigster is like Upwork, that this announcement is not clear, this is marketing.

Please, just do not immediately judge Gigster with the "Upwork" hat, there is a lot of misconceptions about Gigster. :)
Wouldn't a GPU outperform a FPGA in those cases?
>copy/cut/paste (Firefox on Linux notably which is unusable because I cannot copy to/from it)

You just highlight text and press ctrl+c, ctrl+v, etc.

You could also use the right click menu. I've never had a problem like that before.

This works for me on firefox 46.0.1 on Fedora 23.
This is a quite unique take on sorting visualizations:

A folk dance group made sorting algo visualizations via Hungarian / Romanian folk dances :)

https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgoRythmics/videos
And then look around and see the genpops, the non-tech-savvy people who already know they don't want to upgrade to Windows 10. I was really surprised by that initially - it's rare that people outside of tech know anything about any of the bullshit companies pull, but here I suddenly had random people consulting me on the Windows 10 issue...
The problem is when people expect work to be pleasurable. It's good when it is is, and it's something to strive for, but the reality of work is that some of it is unpleasant.

Software development in particular is hard. The problem you work on doesn't care about your feelings. We gloss over this fact when we turn our workplaces into creches. Pride in doing a job well is more sustainable than a demand for happiness and novelty.
Delta built the more efficient TSA checkpoints that the TSA couldn't
If you have a significant amount of money, I would suggest a good hardware wallet like Trezor or KeeyKey or Ledger.
> You could also argue that for someone using Google products, it makes sense that they look and behave roughly the same no matter which platform you're on.

That is true if you expect Users to change between devices. But most of the users I observe have only limited amount of devices and typically stay in one camp (i.e. iPhone+iPad) and those care about not having to relearn each UI for each app.

True Google tries to push their design as their identity, but that's Google's interest, not the user's.
She isn't against gay marriage.

She might be more Hawkish then Trump although considering the fact that Trump is making all his nonsense up as he goes along its really hard to tell. He tacks isolationist since everyone is tired of war and then he tacks we will destroy our enemies since everyone hates ISIS.

The Saudis might not be good allies but they are our allies. Considering Trump has talked about retreating from our nicer allies like South Korea and Japan in terms of everyone for themselves I wouldn't be surprised if they prefer her. It's not like they are donating money to her campaign.

Wall Street is afraid Trump will do something crazy and destroy the economy.
When the statistical evidence for Cigarette usage was closely examined it was immediately obvious that there was a link with health.

But we have hundreds of detailed studies of Radio and Health, and no reproducible link has ever been found.

You can't have it both ways. To conflate the two is simply wrong. The evidence doesn't support your argument.
It would be great if sound was added: http://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/
Congratulations to the team. Intel does not have a track record for excellent software unfortunately, but who knows, they seem to be quite serious about IOT.
Are you sure, I can't think of anything where competition was not involved. Can you give some examples?

edit: Big science projects like the LHC maybe?
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>I feel like Microsoft is trying to give people what they want, and all they get in return is kicking and screaming.

They're not giving me what I want. Windows 10 isn't what I want.

We wanted Windows 7 with modernizations, not Windows 8.1 with more spyware baked in.

>Until in a few years when they stop supporting older versions of Windows and your Mom gets infected with Randsomware. Then you'll still blame Microsoft, and won't be able to believe that they want to charge you $100 for the privilege of getting on a supported OS.

What planet do you live on where "supported" means "immune to malware"?
Would they be stripped? The traditional alias separator is a '+' (dijit+hackernews@google.com) and periods are part of email names, thus the address itself: (jan.harasym@google.com)
This looks very useful, I am preparing to be a little shocked by the results. I will probably be buying after the trial.

One thing, this app seems to interact strangely with Spectacle (OSX Window controller) whereby browser windows move very slowly across the screen rather than the instant snap that I am used to.
makecontext/swapcontext was the POSIX approved way to do fibers. It was removed from the last POSIX standard because who uses coroutines or fibers today? Around the same time every other mainstream language was adding support for corutines/generators/fibers.
> I don't understand, could you re-phrase?

I feel like that the guys which handles the project in Upwork are not real developers.
I said: "I am a developer", because I work on fascinating problem, I practice problem solving everyday, we do not do "web scale" (TM) indeed ; but I find pleasure in my work, compared to what Upwork offered me.

> Also, do you see your current hourly as sending a high, middle, or low end signal to clients?

It is rare that developers have direct contact with clients, so I am not exactly sure about what clients feels about our hourly rate. A Product Manager might be more insightful about this question.
Individual users aren't the target audience, though. System integrators are. Your distribution maintainer is responsible for reading the change log and making the necessary decisions with respect to default configuration, notifying users, etc.
There's a small number of people who don't need, nor want, this extra computing power. They were able to send email and read news and write documents in 1986 on a 286. Why the fuck does it take 4 GB Ram and a quad 2GHz processor to do the same today?
Emoji Bible brings Christianity into the digital age
I must say .net is a bit of an exception in this sad sight of microsoft's decay. Pretty much everything they have done in the past 3 years in the .net space makes sense and is nice to Microsoft's customers (open sourcing .net, finally delivering on platform-independence, visual studio community being pretty much a complete and fully functional IDE, buying and making xamarin free, etc).

For the other divisions. Windows has become an absolute shit show. Every time I go on the Azure portal I get lost. My xbox one is blowing like a leaf blower. They stopped developing Office 15 years ago (ah no, they changed the color from blue to green) and my surface pro is reminding me of my Windows 98 BSOD days.

Ha not, their mouses are still pretty decent.
JSON is crap for configuration. Its picky with quotes, doesn't like trailing commas, and isn't as readable as other options.
Wow all that work/configuration just to get a container running? I guess this is why Linux is winning the container wars.

On most Linux machines you can spin up a container as simply as

sudo lxc-create -n [name] -t [template]

And start using it:

sudo lxc-start -n [name]
sudo lxc-attach -n [name]
It's in addition too, open source components. If people want the commercial support, fast bug fixes and other benefits you get by buying these components why not?
I could make an equally valid one-sentence comment.

"Historically, cooperation is what drives humanity forward."

What I'm pretty sure about is that simplified-to-utter-uselessness statements are NOT what drives humanity forward. Lots of empty meaningless phrases here.
If work was that much fun, they wouldn't have to pay us to make us do it.
From the paper a sample of 90 control rats had no cancer found while the groups (90 in each) of rats exposed to radiation had between 0 and 3 instances of cancer being found. I would have though the odds of it coming out like that by chance would be fairly high.

I also note the control rats seemed to have survived less well "At the end of the 2-year study, survival was lower in the control group of males than in all
2 groups of male rats exposed to GSM-modulated RFR" which shows these things are a bit random and would probably not justify saying cell radiation makes you live longer.
setcontext was posix until POSIX.2008.
Yes. Copyright is essentially a settled political issue; both sides, as a matter of platform, seem to believe it should last as long as possible and reserve as many benefits as possible to its creators. Of course, this is not what the public believes, but since copyright legislation is usually labeled something emotionally manipulative and dishonest like "The Mickey Mouse Protection Act" and since the media has an interest in presenting that legislation in the most favorable light possible, no one ends up opposing the specific bills.

As such, all current candidates, with the possible exception of Sanders, would probably consider signing a copyright bill routine (Lessig isn't a candidate anymore).
Or animate them with step-through?
This is using docker? Did you forget to install docker?

You're comparing apple to oranges.

The equivalent of yours would just be using Windows Containers, not docker.

I suspect you are not here to provide an accurate comparison, but to shit over windows at possible opportunities.
It seems to me that, historically, it is simply adversity in a general sense (be that other humans or not) that has driven humanity forward. "Competition" per se is not the motivating factor, it is just that there is a problem that needs to be solved. When the necessity of problem solving diminishes, so does progress.

The competition theory of social organisation tries to stimulate this by creating artificial adversity through (typically non-violent) competition between people. I speculate that one of the key issues with this approach is that a lot of the problems that you create are not bounded by "underlying reality" as such - they emerge from the competition itself, and so we end up spending a lot of effort solving meta-problems which, if you stripped away the competition, aren't really "helpful".

Further, it seems difficult to distinguish which problems are "real" problems, and which aren't, because the competition does exist - what we end up with is a pervasive sense that a lot of what we're doing isn't useful, but we can't work out what or why.
A personal AI to help in decision-making
Opposite!
I wanted to write the same line. Mint looks, feels and works as a good windows XP, but with up to date security and drivers, and is perfect for anyone who's using their computer for generic activities, eg. browsing, watching movies, etc.

Add a Google Chrome and you have Netflix & the rest, Skype works out of the box on Mint, and it has an 'app store' - also known as package manager for a decade in linux terms -, so there really is nothing missing from Mint for generic scenarios.

( No, you really don't need full back-and-forth MS Office compatibility in generic life and Libreoffice is doing a good job on compatibility. You also don't need Photoshop for generic, everyday users; there is Digikam, Gimp and Inkscape and countless others for the non-professionals, all of them are more than enough for someone who's not making a living of this. )
For profit companies doing business for profit is not that shocking imo. The holier-than-thou attitude like the don't be evil motto is a bit rich coming from a company that participated in the prism program the same way as others and one of its main revenue source is selling ads. I mean, I don't get the special/fan treatment for some companies, Google included. Unless I'm a shareholder I don't believe for a second there is a Big Corp out there looking out for my interests.
Must be something with my environment; i'll remove it as apparently it's just me. There are more instances I ran into that, but my example of the non standard file explorer is more annoying usually anyway.
Automatic for the Sheeple
My main concern is that this whole situation will not include only chat bots but it will also trigger a demand for crawling bots which could put a lot of stress on web sites. Then sites could adopt aggressive captcha schemes which will hammer usability and make the life of legitimate crawlers a lot more difficult. It’s a lose-lose situation , until the industry comes into its senses and realize this whole thing is a fad.
I don't think it's the same "evil" Microsoft at work here - they got burned really badly by WinXP's "never upgrade" long tail (and the fact that people tended to just disable or infinitely defer Windows updates, so you also had a huge base of machines with targets painted on them), and are swinging the pendulum HARD the other way to do everything in their power to prevent that.

It's probably not going to work out for them, given the number of issues people still seem to have about 10 even after using it for extended intervals, but I think it's fear of another XP, not malice or anti-competitive practice, that's driving this.
Great idea but what happens when the site runs out of funds and shuts down? Now you have all of your email bouncing and no way to know and/or fix it easily?