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When doing design work I usually now start with Ryan Singer's shorthand for UI flows: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1926-a-shorthand-for-designin...

From there I'll dive into hand drawings, perhaps a wireframe (although Balsamiq is a pain to use), and maybe some specific visual designs if needed in Sketch, which may then go into Invision. Basically every step is optional along the way to a fully implemented design, but the general flow can be adapted at length.

This is especially nice when doing client work because clients' needs and budgets are highly variable. If I can get away with just a UI flow and drawings and feel confident that we're on the same page in terms of how they describe the UX back to me, then we're good to go.

The biggest thing is to just get over your own insecurities about scribbling and drawing. I'm awful at it. But when my anxiety or my attention-deficit keeps me from going through the earlier (cheaper) motions, then invariably I suffer in terms of time lost later.
I'd also recommend giving Code Academy a try in the first instance. It's free, there's no set up on your computer needed (it's all done through their website) and it guides you through.

It's how I started learning when I was trying to do it around my job, I eventually left to work on learning to code full time.
I've heard of this concept lately, not sure what to think tbh.
http://www.zero2infinity.space/
I think the title of the article (strike that, I mean the section heading above the title) is a bit misleading because it implies a wider context than was intended.

But in that wider interpretation of the title of course the management is key.

I am wondering though, aren't the most important aspects of managing web projects shared with managing other types of (technology) projects?
> You want a spokesperson for something they better be worthy of respect.

You want people talking with the spokesperson be rather worthy of being treated respectfully by the spokesperson. People who put the medium (Stallman) above the message clearly aren't.
Looking through this, you can see the two big problems that had Edison stumped - plastics and amplifiers. Insulation and phonograph records needed better materials. Plastics and synthetic rubber solved those problem, but not until the 1940s-1960s did synthetic materials surpass natural ones.

His telephony and phonograph inventions all suffered from the lack of an amplifier. He was close. He discovered the "Edison effect", the beginnings of electronic vacuum tubes, in 1875, but didn't follow up. Instead, he developed workarounds - a loudspeaker driver connected to carbon button microphone, the clunky motograph, and a microphone diaphragm driving a needle valve on a steam line, the "steam shout" PA system. None worked well. Not until 1906, when de Forest invented the triode vacuum tube, was there a useful electrical amplifier.

Having all the gain you can use in a small, cheap package was a century in the future for Edison.
Because there aren't any places in the US where you've got 20kft mountains right next to the ocean, on the east coast. The idea is that you launch over the ocean, near the equator so that you're getting the first ~1000mph for "free" since you're launching with the earth's rotation instead of against it. Next to the ocean is for range safety. If it's over the ocean and it blows up you don't rain down parts on populated areas. If you tried launching from the top of a mountain in the Rockies and something went wrong it could theoretically rain down on DC which would definitely get your funding cut.
Is “the theory of everything” merely the ultimate ensemble theory? (1997)
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Nope, this is only an issue on galactic scales and below. On supergalactic scales, where most of our data comes from, the DM distribution is determined by theory. That includes all the stuff I mentioned: LSS, CMB, bullet cluster, etc.
Yet none of those companies cared enough for Java to save Sun, why would they do it then?
That's basically the idea of binary transparency (which is a bit stalled right now, but people are aware that this would be a good move). BT is a complement to reproducible builds, not a replacement.
We live in a world of touchscreen laptops, and you consider 'multiple mice' to be an edge case?

Interesting.
The two sibling comments mention the effects, black markets (trading outside the rules) and production problems. But they don't mention the 'why'.

People who haven't taken some time to understand microeconomics will look at a fiat currency and say "Gee, if I can say this is worth what ever I want, I'll say its worth 10 units", and since they are just paper and ink, if I need a 10 million units to buy something, I'll just print a million of these notes out." And when you do that you get any number of examples of economies that got trounced.

The reason is that while there isn't any restriction on naming something, if it tender for trading goods and services it must have two properties, first it is has limited supply (for reasons that get explained in macro economics) and it has to be hard to duplicate (which is needed to keep the supply in check).

So consider the farmer, the butcher, and the feed store owner. The farmer has to buy feed for his stock, he gives units to the feed store owner in exchange for feedstock. The butcher needs animals to butcher for selling to people who are eating them, so he gives units to the farmer for his stock. The feed store owner is feeding his family so he gives units to the butcher to buy meat to put on the table.

The units (currency) are all traveling in a circle, farmer -> feed store owner -> butcher -> farmer -> feed store owner -> butcher -> farmer ... they don't "mean" anything they are just markers being traded through the economy as it operates.

You tell the butcher what they have to charge, or limit the number of units a farmer can ask for his stock, and then the market can't adjust to the changes in expense. It breaks down.
> Do you mean that the attacker can force you to wake up and unlock the computer? In that case FDE is not moot anyway, no?

The Windows lockscreen has had a law enforcement backdoor since at least Windows XP. This effectively makes FDE worthless on Windows if you only put your computer to sleep instead of a full shutdown.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13195131
Ubuntu's app crash reporter will happily execute your evil code
Is it just me or does this comment make no sense at all?
Hansmeier actually got into ADA trolling after the porn thing dried up. Of course, he couldn't even do that "honestly" (if there was such a thing): https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131110/23180225191/turns...

Hilariously:

> "We consider ourselves to be an advocacy association more than we consider ourselves a law firm," [Paul Hansmeier] said. "With the porn reputation, I wanted to shift my focus and focus on something more positive. We're really focused on doing it right so anyone who hears about us says, 'Yeah. This is the right way to go about it.'"
Heh, I actually wanted to include something like this in the original site. The very first version of the site we had a massive IA planning doc and guide, style-guides, mocks, prototypes, user-stories and user-profiles (the type of developers we wanted to write for). I've still got all the information.

I don't think we will end up getting this on to our site right now, but I would love to see it.

Edit: Spelling.
Well, there is no difference now. If someone has a big power button, or wants to inject things into the simulation later, or hold a final judgement, that will definitely matter. Not that we can stop it from happening either way. But perhaps we can please the Sim master...?
Motivation is a really tough one. Honestly, I am mostly motivated to go out of my way for delicious food and seeing friends. But if you're talking about motivation for productivity, it's more complicated. I've written about this before on HN:

In my younger and more foolish days, and inspired by Steve Jobs, I tried to literally live life as if every day were my last in an effort to be productive. I discovered that if it were my last day on earth, I would much rather spend the time joking around with friends or family rather than working, and I fell into a depressive funk.

Abstract thoughts about death, while depressive, don't motivate me. What does end up "motivating" me are developing habits. In order to develop habits, I use pathetically achievable goals:

I find goals to be counterproductive unless they're simply achieved and a matter of habit. For instance, "go to the gym and do nothing" became "go to the gym and walk on the treadmill" when I became habituated to showing up at the gym. Now I'm lifting regularly and I feel off if I don't get a chance to go work out.

Audacious goals, on the other hand, are demotivating because there's too much chance of failure. If I hold myself to lifting certain weights, I may even end up getting injured. But now I'm happy simply showing up, doing what I have the capacity for, whether it's walking, stretching, or lifting. I can (and will) come back if I have an off day.

Scott Adams talks about something similar in Goals vs Systems[1]. A goal of writing a book is much harder to achieve than a goal of typing a little bit in the morning. Ironically, the latter may be the best route to the former...as long as you don't think about it too much :)

[1]: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/102964992706/goals-vs-systems
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I like Ethan Siegel's explanation of the Verlinde's paper much more than the article with the "kills off" in the title:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/11/12/ask-e...

"The hope is, with the right assumptions, a full theory of gravity, That's the big hope, and what Verlinde is working towards. (Others are also working towards it independently.) This paper is an update on how it's going. So, how's it going?

"There are some successes given very specific assumptions, but there are a lot of problems. The largest problem, quite simply, is that one needs to make a multitude of seemingly arbitrary "interpretation" decisions to wind up with something other than nonsense. For example: the full motivation for this approach is based in anti-de Sitter space (or space with a negative cosmological constant), but our Universe is observed to have a positive cosmological constant (i.e., de Sitter space), and the mathematics of the two spaces have very different properties. For another, you need the entropy to obey a strict area-based law to get the Einstein equations out, but you don't get a cosmological horizon out if you do. (And our Universe has one.) And finally, if you make all the assumptions you need to in order to get the gravitational acceleration for galaxies out, you destroy all of General Relativity's successes on larger-than-galaxy scales. (Verlinde, on pp. 39-40, makes the argument that it could succeed, but the observations of colliding galaxy clusters completely undermine his line of thought.)"

There's even more discussion in the Ethan's article, which is much more balanced.

And another take on Verlinde's paper by Sabine Hossenfelder:

http://backreaction.blogspot.co.at/2016/12/can-dark-energy-a...

"General Relativity is a rigorously tested theory with many achievements. To do any better than general relativity is hard, and thus for any new theory of gravity the most important thing is to have a controlled limit in which General Relativity is reproduced to good precision. How this might work in Verlinde’s approach isn’t clear to me because he doesn’t even attempt to deal with the general case. He starts right away with cosmology."

"I'd say he takes inspiration from models that are best understood in AdS." but "he starts with de-Sitter space which means he assumes dark energy. It doesn't make sense to say that this is a source of dark energy, it's the same thing, period."
I am motivated by the desire to crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their children?
The belief that tomorrow will be better than today. That progress is being made.
I think the study that this article is about looks at lensing data in particular which should explain the bullet cluster, as well, no?
The mistake designers make when designing for the web and application is, the web or application frameworks are not a blank slate. Design without a solid understanding of the limitations of reality should stay in the world of dedicated art and design sites.
So many times have I been shown a fantastic looking PSD that has 100% management buy-in that has to be totally compromised actually implementing it in CSS/HTML etc. We had a word for it: 'PSD.html'. Readers of this thread should check out the grumpy old men threads where 'younguns' argue they know better without having any real experience.
Wowza, maybe they do have a problem. I'm not sure I agree with all of the complaints there but it does seem they have at least some genuine issues that should be addressed.

Just being completely honest, this reinforces my general opinion to be very cautious around females, avoiding it where possible is probably a wise idea.
There's a really interesting open hardware project that's developing a Raspberry Pi competitor, "LowRISC".

If they end up fully blob-less (no firmware blobs, open chip designs, open board layout) they're going to be the first group to achieve that ever AFAIK, so I'm on the edge of my seat for it.
The source ultimately comes from those developers' computers, though. Do you trust those computers not to tamper with the source?

If you do, but you don't trust them not to tamper with the resulting binary - well, that's what reproducible builds are for. If you don't... you've got bigger problems than your build system.
Which leads to the interesting situation that not all Java GUI applications run properly in GNU/Linux with OpenJDK, forcing companies like JetBrains to bundle their own fork for those not willing to install Oracle JVM or another third party vendor.

Because actually OpenJDK isn't 100% 1:1 to the closed source versions.
Meh. You're totally right, of course. What the hell was I thinking? :/
Yes, they keep requesting open floor plans and talking about this book Extreme Programming which apparently advocates for it...
> JDBC is still the gold standard for database connectivity.

The funny thing about that statement is that it's both true and insanely sad. JDBC is downright terrible but having a standard DB access layer has contributed a lot to Java's rise over the years.
Three times throughout the comments on this article, you have referred to the freedesktop/DE/container "boys".

I could be wrong for doing so, but I read that as somewhat derogatory, in case you didn't mean it that way.
The big problem people hit when drawing (esp. as adults) is that they have a well-established picture of the world, built of archetypes and symbols which they impose on what they see. This pattern recognition works very well when you need to navigate the world, but gets in the way when you want to observe it as it is, rather than as you think it should be. In learning to draw you're actually trying to exclude your mind's eye completely (at least at first).

So specific exercises you can try (this is the sort of thing students do in art school):

Draw negative space - instead of drawing a thing, draw the shapes around it.

Draw without lifting the pen - put the pen on paper, look at the object, and draw without lifting or looking at your pen.

Draw textures, curves, colours - forget the class of thing you're drawing (a face, an eye) and try to truly see the specific thing in front of you.

Draw unfamiliar objects - things you don't have ready-made symbols of in your mind's eye.

Copy pictures you admire, and you'll notice how much artifice and craft is involved.

For visual design work, another skill which is very useful and often overlooked is to learn about typographic and typesetting concepts - a lot of those ideas about balance, repetition, rhythm, are very important in visual design.
Curiosity and the desire to do things which I enjoy. I also like learning and 1 year ago moved to Germany. I now speak exclusively in German as an IT consultant here after only 2 years of learning.

That said. I don't put too much pressure on myself. I have goals but I'm also human and don't want to take life too seriously. I don't think it necessarily matters if I reach all of them or just a few. I see them as simply markers of directions I could move in that might make for some sort of exciting experience that lets me experience the joys and sometimes struggles of being alive.
Amusingly enough now I am the one to tell you that Harry Reid did in fact do this in 2013, albeit for lower-court appointments. So I guess it was more of a tactical nuke than a strategic one, but that may well be cited as precedent next month. I think there's a high likelihood of the Senate doing exactly that at the beginning of the next term or soon after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option#Events_of_Novem...
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He's not exactly a crank, but he's not a working physicist either, afaik.
I would strongly argue that the by far most important thing is how the receiver interpreted the actions, though. Of course expanding on the actions themselves might help others understand better, but as far as I can understand, being met with scepticism for what you describe is part of what makes the experience so hopeless after bringing the courage to follow up on something uncomfortable.
I just read the book Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel. I think it does a fantastic job of answering the questions about the meaning of life.

Viktor came up with the theory of Logotherapy which in a nutshell has 3 parts:

- Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.

- Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

- We have freedom to find meaning in what we do, and what we experience, or at least in the stand we take when faced with a situation of unchangeable suffering

https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/...
I think we're on track for delivering that in 2017. We do already have users on Wayland; it's not yet a drop-in replacement feature-wise, so it's up to whether we have the subset you use already in place.
It's all good! Just setting the record straight :)
I'm pretty sure guns have featured large in movie posters long before 9/11 ... and I don't recall there being a big change in that ratio, at least for USA-originating films, around that time. (I'm in AU - but much of our pop-culture comes out of the US.)

I recall on a recent visit to India that movie posters there now seem to include shots of people looking stern and holding a gun -- previous visits (only a few years ago) tended to just have the stern looks, no gun. Presumably trying to compete for an audience that now likes a bit o' shooting.

Back in 2011-ish I saw a poster for an animated sci-fi movie, I think aimed at kids, but sadly can't remember the name of it. A picture of a vaguely humanoid-looking alien, over-sized head, holding a stylised laser blaster, with the tag line 'This is the smartest creature in the universe'. Obviously the film, and the poster, were not made by the smartest creatures in the universe, but the poverty of expectations inherent in the juxtaposition of the words and image were depressing. An Excession quotes is relevant:

"It could see that - by some criteria - a warship, just by the perfectly articulated purity of its purpose, was the most beautiful single artifact the Culture was capable of producing, and at the same time understand the paucity of moral vision such a judgement implied. To fully appreciate the beauty of a weapon was to admit to a kind of shortsightedness close to blindness, to confess to a sort of stupidity. The weapon was not itself; nothing was solely itself. The weapon, like anything else, could only finally be judged by the effect it had on others, by the consequences it produced in
some outside context, by its place in the rest of the universe. By this measure the love, or just the appreciation of weapons was a kind of tragedy."

- Excession, by Iain M Banks
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my only gripe with it is the mouse lag. I have a feeling input is not multi-threaded like in Xorg.
I was responding to this line by the parent commenter.

> Because it IS an entry into a nascent market. Apple sees this as a new IO device, not a "pair of fucking headphones".

It really is just a pair of headphones. This isn't a new market.
The title overstates the results of research work. From the article: "Now, a team of astronomers studying the distribution of matter in more than 30,000 galaxies say their observations can be explained by an alternative theory that does away with dark matter."

Suggest "Astronomers studying galaxy mass distribution say their observations can be explained without dark matter."
2. Changing the world outside myself to have more of what I value.

1. Changing the inside of myself to have more of what I value.

If you're looking for more motivation, start with self-examination of what it is you deeply value.
Lust.
I didn't use the given title because it doesn't convey what the article is about, and it's borderline clickbait. Here's the tl;dr line:

> You can go to Beauty Pie and buy any of the products at retail, or you can buy a $10 monthly subscription. After you subscribe, you can then buy all the products at cost.

If this site does well with consumers, I wouldn't be surprised to see Amazon buy it.
I think "dependence" as described above is a softer way to address addictions. I'm guessing people use it to avoid the stigma of addiction & because so many definitions of addiction (including the one in the DSM) only address drugs/alcohol.

I think that's kind of what the article's looking to address is we need to broaden the definition of addiction.

I don't think what he's saying is meant to be applicable to people who suffer from chronic pain from irreparable/incurable afflictions & so are physically dependent on drugs to alleviate their pain.

I do think there's harm in prescribing drugs to alleviate chronic pain in sufferers whose pain was triggered by something long since treated & now persists as a learned pattern in their mind. Treating that condition with drugs instead of mental techniques to unlearn the pattern is like putting Neosporin on an open wound that won't heal shut without stitches.
I've no idea ... obsessive personality I guess. I don't have a choice but to be motivated ... a bit like dogs and balls.
I'm guessing Apple don't want their customers worrying about the way their computer habits affect battery usage. They sell premium hardware that "just works". Reminding the user they need to keep an eye on what they do with the device seems incompatible with that mandate.
Owner of the site here:

We do need to update the landing page, we've gone through many updates over the two years that this site has been out and I think this page doesn't explain what Web Fundamentals site is.

Our goal with this section is to explain the fundamentals of web development from the platform upwards with opinionated best practice guidance.

We are constantly adding new content for new areas of the web (like push notifications) and refactoring guidance as we learn more of how this is used in production (things change, but we base the initial guidance off how we have used it).
VR Resources? This?

I have an archive of several gig of information, papers, code, software, images - you name it - that stretches back detailing VR to at lease the Ivan Sutherland "Sword of Damocles" era (and actually, before that even - plenty of stuff came before his demos that hinted at things - Hugo Gernsback had more than a few covers of his pulp-scifi mags that covered VR and AR ideas in the 1920s and 30s, for instance).

Do most people think that VR is a totally new thing?