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> found myself naturally adjusting to a morning-biased, 24 hour schedule

So have you stuck with this? Or do you prefer the excitement of not knowing?

I think I may - possibly through my own hyperbole - given the impression that I'm some sort of narcoleptic unicorn that can sleep on command, but really that's not the case at all. I've experienced plenty of trouble sleeping at various points in my life, but very rarely was it because I was 'a night owl' or 'a morning person', but more that I was stressed, or drinking too much coffee, or too much alcohol, etc., etc.

But, like you, I've got it under control mainly through common sense. At no point did I ever feel like it was my employer that had the problem because they expected me there at 9am.
One of my "when I have some time" projects is to make a 'better' (in that it fits my usage case) scanner for all my notebooks, I want something intelligent that I just put a pad under and it takes an image, converts it to pdf and stores it and that detects when I turn the page and takes the next image rather than having to press a button (though that's an option with a floor button).

I have the design in my head I just need to build one.
Indeed, I was not really talking about the vision pipeline. But once you decouple the problem (use ML for vision, planning for the trajectory, controls for the rest), you'll get much more stability, guarantees and insight into how to improve your problem. These kinds of end-to-end approaches are very hard to evaluate, they have zero educational value, are not parsimonious and tend to reduce people's analytical skills.
You need an app to give your seat up to a pregnant woman?! WTF? What happened to manners?
It was only a factor after the case had been partially damaged. Let's hope that the testing procedure will start to inflict similar damage to catch this sort of failure more quickly.
Congratulations, you're in a nice spot but your situation is extremely unusual. Most people do not have jobs just being offered to them out of the blue, so not sure if the advice is really that usable.
that was the first thing that popped in my mind when i saw those notebooks too... so much nicer looking than what I was working with.
people think they want "no haggling" but it actually results in worse prices for all. it's usually just a few "suckers" who pay a lot and subsidize the cheap rates hagglers get.
Exactly. Where does this leave Allo? Is GVoice + Allo the intended product combination?
The "Joint Doctrine for Targeting" would be a another source of information:
https://www.aclu.org/files/dronefoia/dod/drone_dod_jp3_60.pd...
I didn't try the presentation -- but checking now, it's broken for me, too. I just read the text below.
See the API link at the bottom of the page. Anything not documented there isn't supported. To do what you're asking, you may need to iterate over all 13M comments.
I agree with almost all of this, but...

> - you can't easily move virtualenvs;

`virtualenv --relocatable`, though it's weird that it's not the default, yes.
> Treat your employees like adults.

Adults get up and go to work.

I do treat my employees like adults, but I expect them to act like adults. Like making a decision to join the rest of the team in the office for an agreed set amount of time.

Our official policy is it's up to the Manager. I prefer a team, and not just someone who produces code. So I prefer people to be in the office.

Children expect the world to revolve around them. Adults do not.
That's what people failed to understand about Apple Watch. Everyone else makes wrist computers first, watches second. Apple Watch is the other way around: watch first computer second. It's not quite there yet as a watch, but it'll get there, probably this year. Jony Ive is a watch nerd, he knows it.
You have to remember that this is a British app and we're probably not the best at things like asking for seats. As somebody who has been pregnant twice (and in the UK),I still can't really see what improvement this is over the baby on board badges. I don't think it is something I would have paid for - sometimes people just don't notice you certainly, but the chance of somebody having it installed in the same carriage seems pretty remote.
I kept waiting for a resolution to his anecdote about waiting for his boss. It sounds like his boss was doing work. How was that an example of a bullshitter?
I've been a Google Voice user for 6-7 years. It became more important to me 5 years ago when I moved to the UK and ported my mobile number to GV.

It's not been very pretty. We were thrown a lifeline with the Google Hangouts app taking over for the absolutely-awful Google Voice app.

One of the most frustrating things about GV is that for certain SMS providers, it fails the "is this a USA number test" or "can we SMS to it" test (it's unclear which), thus making it not work with my USA bank accounts, and I can't register for Lyft, for example.

I wish they'd fix this, but what I really wish is that they'd make it a real product, make it cost a few bucks a month, and have a team working on it.

I was actually quite annoyed by the cheeky little "tee hee it's been 5 years + plus emoji" talking about their total lack of updates (both software, and well, actual communication around the service). It just comes across as contempt for the customer. Doubly so when they then throw everything into confusion at the end of the post by hinting that Hangouts may or may not be the future, and perhaps we should switch back?

Are there any good alternatives? What I need is to be able to receive texts from within the USA, be able to access via mobile app and the web, and have voicemail service.
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> If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them

What an absurdly simplistic view of the world you have there, Yan. The real world is more complex, and people are not static things - they change. Your article applies excellently to you as an individual, but you seem to think you are right to generalise things to other people.
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Partly it depends on the kind of writing/brainstorming I'm doing. I make lots of drawings in my notes, which is hard to do with a keyboard only app. Graphics tablets, even my Cintiq, which I use for actual drawing, don't have the responsiveness and clarity for note taking, diagram doodling, storyboarding, etc.

Plus, and this the real killer, the start up cost in time of using a tablet and graphic stylus are enormous compared to having paper and pencils handy on my desk. A cheap memo pad in my brief case is also handy. I've tried using my phone, but keyboard input on a phone, while I'm sitting somewhere away from office requires a minimum dedicated effort.

A lot of stuff gets lost when you have to overcome those startup costs. Even unlocking my phone with the thumb sensor contributes to me _not_ reaching for my phone when I've had a thought.
I like how this story has shot up immediately to the top of Hacker News. Google Voice is beloved by its users, but Google hasn't shown love for it for (as they point out) five years. I'm glad to see the update!

So that's lovely, though overall the PMs and VPs need to reconcile all the apps with each other. A friend recently bought a Pixel Phone and was lost as to what to use. I mean, I can't blame him...

* Phone's generic looking SMS app

* Hangouts

* Voice

* Allo

* Duo
Scientist all arround the world is trying to create artificial life. If they are successfull then we have a mesure for level 4
> Which way is this trending?

I think we are trending backwards. More people are participating due to smartphones and easy to use apps but there is still a huge skill gap.
You can buy a 1Gb SD card for every photo session, and throw it to garbage after it's full.
Don't lie to yourself, you just like film and paper itself, and all that stuff and smells around the process. :-) (me too)
> My main gripe with virtualenv is that it's required at all: other interpreted languages, like node and elixir for example, have figured out how to handle non-global dependencies without a third-party package.

venv is in the stdlib since 3.3. (Though I agree with the annoyance at the need.)
I thought Hangouts only got those features working with Google Voice numbers about a year ago?
I thought the tide had shifted towards active voice as well. However, a year or two ago I looked it up and some well known journals still preferred passive voice.

Here's an interesting recent paper that found that roughly 30% of papers are still in the passive voice (admittedly, I was expecting a higher percentage).
[edit] I guess it's not updated in the play store yet?
I'm actually surprised at the dearth of updates. The cleaner interface is nice for sure, and transcription in Spanish is great (yay internationalization!), but the post is underwhelming overall. There's just vague messaging about future updates. Was hoping for more of a splash (and better app store availability, based on some comments here).
If you want attention, Porshe wouldn't be a go-to. You can spend $200k on a 911 Turbo S and no one will even notice you in traffic, particularly if you get it in black/white/silver.
I'm a fi user and I can make/receive calls and send/get texts via Hangouts on both my phone and on the web/desktop.
I had this problem for awhile. Now I'm using mbasic.facebook.com for a much more functional experience.
I'm pretty sure I didn't sure you're not wrong. I can't remember signing anything like that last time I bought a car.
> Bill Gates, shockingly, built Microsoft without a GTD planner. Trump became president of the united states without one. I don't find this premise at all convincing.

I can walk all the way to Argentina. Does that make planes any less useful?

> Paper, as mentioned by the article, can stimulate different parts of the brain. No app can match that.

Bullshit.

> You seem to react with shock to the notion without addressing the actual shortcomings in any constructive way.

I can't believe nobody has managed to tackle perhaps the most important problem (GTD) using computers. I truly can't accept that this is true. I must be missing something.

You are correct. My comment was not constructive at all. There's nothing I want more than a discussion about making the world better through proper GTD tools.
> From the Christian perspective there would be lots of questions to be asked, like if the aliens have original sin and if there is a duty to teach them the Gospel.

So? Why would these Christians be shaken in their belief, when there were already written considerations about the "original sin" and "Gospel" for the aliens?

I don't understand what your disagreement is.

Note: the "World" of the Bible is just a piece of the Mediterranean Sea and the piece of the Near East. Ditto for Quran. Even the whole continent (America) is not known among the people of these books, so these apparently "eternal" books don't know about that fruitful continent either.

But these faiths survived the discovery of the America. And interestingly, the more "fundamentalist" believers actually left Europe and kept their fundamentalism in America and the effects of that we feel even now.

At least the result was that the modern science (trust what is, not what's in the "eternal" books) progressed in the lands that used the "new" resources.
>>Even projects from hackathons. [Here's](http://helpmehelp.herokuapp.com/) a perfect example. The code is opensource (terrible though :D). The project is old, irrelevent and unused.

It also doesn't seem to do anything. I kinda expected that though when you said hackathon. :)
> she decided to outsource it to Fiverr

This reminds me of a story from 2013 where a developer at Verizon had outsourced his job to a Chinese firm. He was praised as being a top developer but was eventually found out.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169528579/...
If the universe has an intelligent creator of any kind, there's no particular reason to believe that there wouldn't be more than one species in here with us.

Even from the perspective of fundamentalist Christianity, which I'd hazard a guess many people would tend to assume to be the most hostile to the idea, there's no reason to believe there aren't aliens somewhere out there. It gets more complicated if fallen humanity is allowed to interact with those other species, but even then you can argue either way within that axiom set.

Really, I'd say the reason that most of us, religious or otherwise, believe "we are the only life in the universe" (or "observable universe") is because that's the simplest explanation that fits the facts. It may well be wrong, but at the moment, there's not even a whiff of convincing evidence that we are not alone, even as we must also all acknowledge there's plenty of room in the "gaps" for alien life, even intelligent alien life, even intelligent alien life that spans several star systems. It depends on how far away we're talking, but even fairly close to home it could take a Kardashev level 2.3-ish at a minimum for us to be sure. No matter what your ideological disposition may be, there's just a huge "NO DATA" out there right now.
When falling down actually corresponds to killing a pedestrian, then I'd rather try to understand the complexity of robust walking rather than observing a bunch of humans, mimic their behavior and hope for the best.
FYI,

The permission BLUETOOTH_ADMIN allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices, but Android system services still handle the necessary user interactions to confirm and complete the process.

CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE allows apps to choose which already-enabled medium to send traffic over, but to overwrite settings the app would require WRITE_SETTINGS which is a runtime permission granted by the user.

CHANGE_WIFI_STATE can send the user directly into the "Add network" Wi-Fi settings screen, but cannot change the connection without user input.

Also, in general, the normal permissions are pretty heavily vetted for attack vectors. I would say that if there is a problem with Android's permissions system its that users don't read important permissions they grant, not that apps can get them without consulting the user (they can't).
As far as I can tell LastPass also clears the clipboard after you've pasted a password or something from the app. The other day I had to paste my Google password twice and noticed that it was cleared from the clipboard in the meantime.
Totally. Not only did multicellular life only evolve once, but eukaryotes themselves seem to have evolved only once. And they are 1000x more complex than their prokaryote predecessors. [edit: without any real evidence of anything convincingly between prokaryote and eukaryote]

It's one thing to say there might have been abiogenesis elsewhere that created something like the simple self-reproducing energy machines that bacteria and archaea are. It's another to claim that there is some inevitable progression from that to complex multicellular life. In my opinion this is a very teleological, very 'progressivist' notion of evolution that implies that one inevitably follows from another, and it is not borne out in the reality of what we know so far about happened on earth and what follows from first principles.

There may be a lot of complex, self-reproducing systems in the universe. It's arrogant to assume that any of them have to look anything like what we call "life" unless by life we mean the simplest single cell organisms. [edit: In fact it looks like simple prokaryotes evolved _twice_ on earth a "short" distance in time apart].
Especially now that prolong sitting are stressful on obile or laptop devices often times with uncontrolled radiation coupled with the fact that backache is very likely sequel because of the big weight on it & imagine how many joints are strained in this very common yet vulnerable posture & unwisely used without exercise even within the attic or office!
It's precociously an aging grind we must all review our sitting routines & punctuate it with indoor workouts or simply move briskly within a small space
I'm in this category too though I can be bold to move out JUST TO STROLL half 1km away from my attic that doubles as my lodging after a bungalow opportunity with big lawn & manho tree eloped to someone else!
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So I moved to paper note taking a month and a half ago, and it's helped with work-anxiety. It's not a cure-all either, the hardest part is changing your habits so that you still open the book to look at what you wrote down.
If anyone has received the update on their iPhone, can you say whether or not it now supports CallKit?
If you think they are dumb, that's your opinion. Let them live their lives without your wisdom and you live yours without theirs.
I prefer to lease. Sure you don't get the equity in the vehicle, but many people turn around cars every 3 years or so anyway. I like the peace of mind of not having to worry about mechanical issues due to the age of the car (and most issues that do arise are covered under included maintenance agreements or recalls) or missing out on new features.
What a neat idea. I'll try it out.
That would be great! Both Android and iOS partly implement it, but in each case it's underused.

On Android, an app can send an email just by posting an intent. That will open your favourite email app and create a new message, but crucially, you can check the contents yourself and decide whether or not to hit "send" or not. The app can't interfere and can't even tell whether it was sent (modulo underhand stuff like tracking pixels).

Unfortunately, the intents for "post a message to twitter/facebook/whatever" are badly designed and don't work well with most apps. So many apps just request direct access to your social media.

On iOS, you can deny Facebook and Twitter access to your photo library, yet still post photos: you just do it in the Photos app itself. Photos gets access to your social media, rather than vice-versa, and that's (probably) OK because Photos is built into the platform, not a third-party app.

Unfortunately people don't seem to know about that, and just use the (admittedly easier) workflow of sharing photos from within the Facebook or Twitter app. And sharing multiple photos from Photos didn't work properly the last time I tried: it creates multiple posts rather than a single post with multiple photos.

So in each case the platforms offer the functionality you're looking for, but apps and/or users are too lazy to use it properly. I don't know what the solution is. Apple or Google could make it harder for apps to do the wrong thing, but that would probably just annoy users ("I upgraded my phone and now I can't share photos any more!")
Well I guess I must be very unlucky then because my experience of the system is that nobody will give me anything unless they are legally obliged to do so.

I never got anywhere near the kind of help that the author described in the article - If anything, I had people trying to drag me down at every step.
Based on the income/wealth inequality statistics, I think that my experience may actually a lot more normal than the one you're describing.
I think that many good, effective managers would end up in the "bullshitter" basket by the definitions of this article: they delegate work (they better!), they do not work themselves if you define work as writing code or spending time in the lab, etc.

IMO effective managers should be doing exactly that -- surround themselves with smart people, delegate and make working conditions fulfilling and enjoyable for their teams.
"Stationery" is probably the term you're looking for.
I mean, I feel like everyone hating on this article either:

1. has never had the misfortune of working with one of these people. "poser" devs who care more about "communicating up" and making a show of their (often quite trivial) contributions

2. has worked with people like this, but doesn't perceive the behavior described in the article, for whatever reason.

A couple times in my life, not just in software, I have worked with people who are _exactly_ like the article describes. The work they do is all perception-management stuff. Shuffling around work tickets, setting up/attending meetings, etc., when they are supposed to be individual contributors. Meanwhile, they contribute nothing. I've even had a coworker -- a peer -- come to me to ask me to do a task when they were assigned to do it. Because they were busy organizing work tickets.

Don't get me wrong. You have to toot your own horn when you do something that should be noticed. Your boss won't always recognize when you've made a meaningful contribution, so saying, "Hey I did this and it's pretty good, and it adds value to our org in these ways" is not inherently bad.

It's when that autotooting is to bring attention to stuff outside what they're _supposed_ to be contributing that it should raise red flags. Or when they start trying to delegate work to their peers. I'm really glad so many of you find this article so awful because it means you've never felt the frustration of watching someone like this get praised for and advance by essentially doing nothing.

edit: I don't know how to explain it to someone who hasn't ever noticed it. The behavior pattern in the article is not something a lot of people notice. But among people who do notice -- at least those I've talked to -- it's very obvious and really bothersome.

That said, most of the time coworkers -- even really smart, kind, hard-working coworkers -- either don't notice or don't care. So it's not surprising to me that commentators here think the article is BS. You've probably sat next to people like this but you didn't notice. Good on you.
That's a little extreme, and it's their loss, IMO. Many good programmers have nothing public on GitHub because they only program for their job. I guess they don't want those people.
I have 3 sons. When they kids, they were mostly homeschooled. I tried to supplement their education in ways that would be interesting to their individual tastes and myself with an eye to their future.

My oldest son is not the kind of person to sit still at a desk staring a computer screen all day, so when he was in high school I got him involved in Fire Explorers through a friend who was fire chief in a nearby city. He ended up becoming an EMT.

My middle son had a strong interest in soccer, so I signed him up for a fairly intense twice a week soccer academy. Within a few months he got really good, much better than the kids he was playing with in the rec league. He had to stop because he realized he wasn’t going to be able to go pro and his academics were starting to take up a lot more of his time. Competitive sports taught him the value of having a strong work ethic. He earned his high school diploma and his AA degree at the same time and a partial scholarship to UCF. He works as an intern software dev at Lockheed Martin and will graduate with a Computer Engineering degree later this year.

My youngest really loves video games. I tried to get him into software dev by taking him to a coding camp one summer where he learned a little bit of Ruby. I also enrolled him in the local technical high school to learn web development.

All of them are good musicians. I provided them with whatever instruments they might want to play. I taught them the concepts behind jazz music theory. They have a lot of experience performing live music in front of audiences at church.
This is really good. Perhaps now they will put some controls in place to try to reduce this. Don't want granny sending money to con artists via Western Union.