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The Apple Watch is "ok" for running. Especially with the sports rubber band.

Activity tracking like walking or cooking, gardening will also show good to excellent readings.

But you should try it in cycling on roads. Pebble stones, bumps, traffic, sudden stops. Readings are inaccurate, especially if you are reading fast (!= commuting)

The worst inaccuracies I saw was in martial arts and bootcamps. Those are when you move your hands in unpredictable speed and directions. I think readings would also be quite inaccurate in most racquet sports. I'm not sure I have seen any reviews about the Apple Watch in these conditions.
Curious how such a service would qualify the users.
yeah it should do as bettter and faster iit needs one.. a vernacular internnet
That's the opposite of what I'm claiming so maybe you should work on your reading rather than science. Our understanding changed over 500 years. And in another 500 years some moron will be saying the same thing you are, that we've always had perfect and final knowledge of science, and it will be just as stupid then.
You're describing a performance marketing agency/freelancer. This already exists.

And thinking a good price is irrelevant until you have a product. Some products you supply at $0.70 others at $1,000+
Even the most energy efficient home needs a heater in freezing conditions.
It's a little repetitive and slow in places, but I wish more people read that book. It outlines some big issues with AGI. Changed my outlook on AI for sure.
Whenever I'm dealing with something that is serious to me, I always clearly first state to myself 1) what I want and 2) what do I do if I don't get what I want. For example in this case, it could be: 1) Jack told me this and that and I consider this is inappropriate. I never want to be told that again in this company 2) I leave.

What I do next is that I make sure I communicate clearly those two points to whoever I think should get me what I want. For example, in that case, I would go see my manager and say: "Jack told me this and that and I consider this is inappropriate. I never want to be told that again in this company. If it happens again, I quit. Have you understood? (wait for his answer) What will you do to make sure it doesn't happen anymore?" (it is important to ask if he has understood, it forces him to go right in the middle of the circle you just draw on the floor, that put him in your territory, right under your guns).

Sometimes, you will have to apply 2). For example in this case, your manager would have to tell you something substantial about what he gonna do to stop that. If what he tells you is not substantial, tell him you are not satisfied and ask him again the same question: "what can you do to make sure it will stop?". Don't quit on that. Keep asking. Only apply 2) if he don't answer anymore. It's typically a situation where "you don't leave the shop until...". If your manager tells you to go see the HR department, tell him clearly again 2): "if I don't get what I want I will leave. Do you still want me to go see the HR department? Are you sure?". Apply pressure, at every step.

Do not have a discussion. Don't discuss the problem with your manager. Don't talk. Ask your question and wait for an answer. If he want to discuss, make him understand you won't.

It's crucial to apply 2) right away when you don't get what you want. I've found it's rarely the occasion to make a deal and make a compromise not so much because the deal is bad but because by doing so, they will start kidding you again.

I'm super happy so far with the result of this method. I get fantastic results from my family, employers, friends, from everybody. At first, you will feel like a freak. Then you will notice the others won't think so much that you are a freak but will think you are a strong person they should not kid with. You end up being respected.
That first video is so inappropriate I can't get my head around it. I thought it was going to be an augmented reality game like Pokemon Go. Turns out it is just a regular game. I can't get back to the website to try it though, the promotional page sucks!
Most people work during the light cycle.

Would this smart grid require that people only ever wash clothes on days they don't work?
What year do they think this is that there is no Android version?
I'm not a gamer but I'm sure they're asking: Is it a side scroller? Is it AR? What are the mechanics? Will it be choppy/graphics intensive on my 2 year old phone? MMO? PvP aspects? Leaderboards? Pay-to-win or subscription? FFA or teams?

It was a 120s video. Showing gamers 5 seconds of game play would have told them about 70% of what they'd want to know.
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It wasn't sexist for a man to jump to her defense. Sometimes people defend other people, irrespective of gender. Had it been a woman who'd come to her defense, that too could be criticized. Her department likely has more men. Blame statistics.

Edit: Actually, OP characterizes gesture by the dude defending her as "sexist".(Above opinion stands.)
They are a bad idea. Netherland recently banned the use of voting machines. The main problem to me is that to most people, voting machines are a black box. You can't verify that your vote was correctly cast and correctly counted. And if the voting machine or the count can somehow be compromised, it can be compromised on a large scale, unlike with paper ballots, where it would be a hell of a lot of work, and easily detected by layman observers.
Your brain is wired to seek meaning everywhere. But meaning is a human thing, the universe has no intrinsic meaning.

For some people the idea of a purposeless universe is unbearable, so religion and philosophy were created in order to fill the gaps (I really like Taoism).

This is one of my favorite brain hacks: since the universe is meaningless, you can give it any meaning you want. Invent a positive one and you will be happy. The Tao we talk about is not the real Tao.
It's almost always a mistake to assume a tone for a comment on the internet.
I'm no marketer but nobody want to read an ad for fun. You have to shove it onto their face. Even if you are angry, now you know about the product and the idea of buying it might get to you later on. I guess it is something along those lines.
There are definitely multiple sides to this, like any story. Your imaginary account of the other side does strike me as presumptuous. You were not there, but you do feel entitled to paint a picture of what could have happened.

It's like saying to somebody who said they got beat up in the park, that there is another side to their story: they were provoking the other party, and when they got into a fight they didn't run.
That is a quote from the article, not a claim by the commenter
https://xkcd.com/1053/

You mind sharing the knowledge that is so "well-known here"? We aren't all part of a hive mind.
I was explaining why fact checkers appear to be left-leaning, but OK.
What made you choose Material UI over React Toolbox?

I'm starting a project that is more or less material, and this post of making me realize it could definitely use a number of material UI elements.
"Why is it stupid, dangerous and short sighted? People say those things about cloud vendor locking like it's a obvious truth. I really annoyed by this arrogance among my systems minded peer group."

It's not arrogance. It's decades of experience in this industry, and simple business reality. If you let yourself get "locked in the trunk", you've made yourself vulnerable to whoever owns the trunk. If an entire industry gets locked in the same trunk, the only sensible decision for the owner of that trunk is to raise the rent. What are the people in it going to do?

Most recently the industry was here with Microsoft Windows. Our whole industry was so beholden to Microsoft that we basically danced to their tune. Computer manufacturers didn't sell "computers", they sold "Windows machines". Microsoft could move in and take over entire sub-industries with impunity, like the spreadsheet industry and office suites in general, networking software industry, the browser industry, pretty much anything that was software and they decided they wanted.

Yes, there are entities that are too small to be worried about this. If you're a five-person startup, you've got bigger problems than whether or not your cloud vendor is going to become a monopoly in five years and jack the prices through the roof for your services. But larger entities need to be more careful.

There's other cases too; you can end up over-exposed to Oracle databases, for instance. Some small-medium companies end up designing custom hardware for some purpose and end up overexposed to the only people willing to make that hardware at a price you can profit from it. It's not a good idea to be stuck to one entity like that, and even if you judge the benefits to outweigh the costs, that doesn't mean the costs don't exist and you can just forget about them. It's something you need to constantly reevaluate.
On your remark on the enbedder api: work is underway to define an engine agnostic C api for node.js compiled addons.
See https://github.com/nodejs/vm
I think one advantage of things like ANTLR is that the grammer is described in an abstract fashion and that you can then generate parsers in multiple target languages with it. With a parser combinator library you are only targeting a single language. I also think that for project outsiders and beginners it's easier to look at and understand a grammar instead of a parser in combinator style.

I personally have worked with parser generators (Irony for .NET) as well as parser combinator (fparsec) and enjoyed both a lot.
Unfortunately it's a probably in many industries. I just read this article about the National Park Service yesterday

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/park-ser...
Without a doubt you can improve your coding ability really quickly. Lots of great courses and resources out there and you can be building things in no time.

What I would say is do you actually want to do that? Long term, do you see yourself in that kind of job? If that excites you then great! If not, ask what kind of lifestyle are you trying to work towards.

It sounds like Music Tech and teaching are great skills you already have. Is there a way you can put those 2 study days into building your own business in that space instead? If you can see which way the industry is headed, perhaps you can get ahead of the game and offer things of value from your existing wealth of knowledge.

That way you are adapting to the industry and learning new skills - not just to prepare you for a new job but so you can actually work on something you enjoy.

I would suggest to build up from your existing foundations if it is something you actually enjoy.
I suspect many already do that. From experience, it's still easier to develop on and deploy to the same container host OS. Ie: Docker on Ubuntu for both is best. You'd be hard pressed to do development on CoreOS/Container Linux.
> I was getting preferential treatment because of my “cuteness factor”

> Indian women being subservient

I agree that these comments don't belong in the workplace. I have seen similar ones lead to people fired on the day and escorted to the door. Thankfully it's relatively rare but some places do take it very seriously.

Apple was wrong. In Australia the law is clear and they've breached it. Take them to court and get your payout. It's annoying that the victim has to do that but it's possible.

For other parts of the article I put myself in her shoes and didn't find management's treatment of her particularly different from how I (a male) would be treated after complaining about the actions of anyone else (male or female) in the workplace - which is why I don't. HR is ineffectual and the company is against you regardless of whomever is at fault. It just wants one or the other party gone so things can go back to normal, so if it's you versus five other people it's easier to fire and rehire one than five.

> employers also have an obligation to handle the situation with empathy and integrity

And this line stood out at me as being divorced from reality especially at a big company.

I get it that we mostly want companies to be like this but I think it's also obvious that they're not. They are primarily profit motivated and we're lucky if they don't pollute the environment or commit atrocities in the process.

You can look for smaller companies that do it, you can put it in your own company, but if you really felt Apple would be like that then it's being a little naive.

I worked at one mid-size company that was acquired by a competitor who wanted to drive in the boot heel by firing the previous management in as embarrassing a way as possible. My boss was on the chopping block and had false charges levelled at him over email and summarily fired. He took it through the Australian workplace relations system to try to get some closure, until the government advised there's no law to prevent a company making anything up and firing you for it. He could have pursued defamation but that's also extremely difficult, long, and expensive, and he didn't have the money.

It was at that point I grew up in my career and decided you really can't trust any company to look out for you. That's not how it works.
Unless you have a premium account, I think you get like a 3 or 4 stories a month.
We use visual studio team services(previously visual studio online) for all our projects. The main pro is integration with all other MS stuff(something you expect as a MS-based dev).

MS has also been working hard into making it usable with a Git repository instead of TFVC, in fact, there's a lot of features and workflows that only work with Git - e.g. branch for work item, pull requests, etc(I'm debating switching from TFVC to Git because of this).

It has a lot of the features you'd expect from an issue tracker - projects, teams, kanban boards, iterations, a dashboard, the "work item" with all its configurable fields.. since it uses TFS as a backend, there's also the awesome query builder which gives you tons of ways to create queries and filters to dig into your work items - this is probably great for management. There's also a very complex permissions system(I assume, again using the TFS backend).

The main con for me however is the abysmal UI around discussions on work items. The discussion by default is stuck in a tiny part of the already cluttered work item screen(this has changed recently as they introduced the ability to fully customize the layout). There's a single textbox with a "smart editor"(ugh) where you can type your comment, and some limited hyperlinking(you can address team members and link work items), and you need to press "save"(which is actually under the default option "save and close") for the work item to add your comment. It's pretty clunky to monitor conversations(email notifications) vs github's notification hub.

Oh, and they're a bit light on various smaller features, but they've been churning out new updates constantly, so I think they'll catch up.

As a top-down, management-heavy approach, TSVS is probably a fine system. As a collaborative workspace for a small dev team with very little management, I find it lacking the killer feature of rich discussions that Github has.
There's no contradiction. Sexism can express itself both in putting women down and in putting women in a pedestal.

There's no contradiction, if the witch had led an evil and improper life, she was guilty; if she had led a good and proper life, this too was a proof, for witches dissemble and try to appear especially virtuous. After the woman was put in prison: if she was afraid, this proved her guilt; if she was not afraid, this proved her guilt, for witches characteristically pretend innocence and wear a bold front. Or on hearing of a denunciation of witchcraft against her, she might seek flight or remain; if she ran, that proved her guilt; if she remained, the devil had detained her so she could not get away.

From Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld, the Cautio Criminalis ('prudence in criminal cases') in 1631.
So they had mice with a disease that caused early aging and managed to fix that. But there was almost no effect on mice who do not have this disease.

Makes me wonder how overhyped this whole "our children will live for hundreds of years" thing really is.
What I like about this library over Material UI is the complete separation of styling, I really don't like how styles are written and passed as an object in Material UI and the requirement of getting muiTheme() from context for most components is just maddening, especially painful during testing. But what I'd really like to see from a material ui library is one that uses ITCSS for styling, check out the grommet UI library which is just an amazing library to work with, and the ITCSS makes editing and customising components a breeze.
I wonder how successful this game would have been if it was the exact same but with non-mario graphics and without the nintendo hype. I would imagine most people would see "$10 for yet another runner game" and dismiss it out of hand.

I have yet to find a good solution for finding the gems and avoiding the cruft of the various stores.
> By the same token, consider an ultra-relational metaphysics such as that of Bruno Latour, who tells us that a thing is nothing more than whatever it modifies, transforms, perturbs, or creates. If this were true, then everything would be nothing more than its current effects on everything else; the surface events and interactions of the world at this moment would be its only existing layer, with nothing held in reserve and no possible engine of change.

But that is precisely how it is. Things that do not interact, do not exist.
I'm a backer of the Pebble Time 2. I got my refund, so I went to Best Buy (Canada) to pick up a Pebble 2. But they refused to sell me one even though they had some in stock. Super pissed. My original pebble is basically dead with the glitching issue, so now I'm SOL.
I suppose it is possible.

For that to happen, there might be a need to teach and encourage it. I don't know how nationalistic India is, and if it would be well recieved. There is apparently an ISO standard for Indic scripts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15919

My own experience is limited to my sri lankan wife who enjoys texting with her friends. Among them, spelling is rather haphazard.
Yes. Once you've stated that you were willing to invade privacy like this, saying "but we never would actually do it!" carries little weight.
Experts explain why the US saw a low tornado count in 2016
> > HR is not your friend; it's one of the stakeholders' defense lines.

> This is a problem that needs fixing, rather than a status quo that needs defending.

Ah, but it's not a gendered problem, and outside of gender laws, there's not much you can do to "fix" something nebulous like this in corporate America.
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Nobody enjoys getting email spam, but it is still very popular.. why? Because it still works.

Marketers aren't dumb.. they wouldn't invest so heavily in this if it wasn't effective.
A huge part of it is you can hire an HTML 5 developer to give you something with all the eye candy users have come to expect for much cheaper, and much less effort, than the native equivalent. Now we even have Electron so you can package your own version of Chrome and reuse your web devs.

It's practically a self feeding cycle at this point, people aren't going to coding bootcamps for WPF/C#, they're going for HTML/CSS/Js, because people hire for that with much less fanfare.

And people hire for that with less fanfare because HTML/CSS/Js is so ubiquitous.

And with the shift to HTML/Js everywhere "who needs WPF but stuffy business types?"

*Replace WPF and C# with GTK,Qt,C++,C, etc. as needed.
It makes me slightly happier for the future of democracy in these dark times when I see that of all places "Teen Vogue" is publishing articles like:

"Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America" and

"The CIA Officially Reports That Russia Intervened in the Election to Help Donald Trump Win"
Cisco spark was a knee jerk reaction to Slack. It's a very poor knockoff (much worse than Microsoft teams).
I explicitly mean IaaS not bare metal as the target. IaaS is portable. PaaS is not. I wouldn't have an ops team.
Going down from a fantastically high return to a slightly less fantastically high return.
> "Who can afford, in our modern society, to master the latest developments of String Theory and what's going on in philosophy with its many areas and subareas, all of this at the same time?"

When science achieves quantifiable improvements to average human lifespan, our take on life too will change.
> I have an Android phone

The majority of us do. Disappointing they launched exclusively on iOS.
The conditional expression or more specifically everything being an expression is my favorite thing about Lisp. I did not know that McCarthy pushed to add it to Algol which apparently today is the ternary operator for most languages.

It is annoying that so many languages (C, Java, C#, etc) have both a conditional statement (if-else) and conditional expression (ternary ?:). Really the if-else should be an expression (I think the ternary operator is hideous).
I almost resisted making this comment because it's not directly on topic, but I feel compelled to say that the notion that present-day Russia is in any way communist is just laughable.
Why would we ever do that?

Remember that the untaxed price of coal isn't a real price for it. Without a tax the market does not take the externality of its environmental effect into an account.

Economically speaking, a high tax on coal/other fossil fuels is simply forcing the market to consider its full and actual price.
Just past data:
an automated transcriber.

Now and in the future:
1. an AI that predicts revenue and then stock market performance for the various companies.

2. maybe a customer service AI.
Reminds me of Ernst Mach's relativism.
Only if they sell power back onto the grid when there's more demand than can be met. Which is a doable thing but we don't have the framework quite in place yet.
Its not a bad idea, but it flirts with unionization which is actively banned in many US states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
I have been in adversarial relationships at my workplace that took a huge toll emotionally and eventually physically, just as you described. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I think it's good that you are talking about it and hope you recover - I still get stressed just thinking about those situations, years later.

I did learn the hard way how to deal with it, which I think is mostly about attitude. I think part of your ordeal was that you had certain expectations from the people around you, and a lot of the grief was having those broken. So first of all, I guess you get a little more realistic (or disillusioned...) about workplace relationships, leadership and company policies. Sad as it may sound, loss of innocence and thicker skin will help the next time.

Second thing is to nip things in the bud and not let anything fester. At this point I will straight up confront anyone if I feel treated unfairly and not let it rest. More often than not this solves the situation. If not, I will move on. Life is too short to stick around and being miserable somewhere, as long as you have the freedom not to.

It sounds from your writing like you've already learned these lessons, but I just wanted to share my experiences.
I didn't even know Cisco had a cloud.
Well, at one time it aimed to be quite a bit more. As I recall there was a lot of envy of dynamic language in general and Ruby in particular when Groovy first got popular.

There was even a Groovy on Rails framework, just to make the longing more obvious. From memory, Groovy only reinvented itself as a scripting language some years later.