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I often wonder what the story of Sears means for Amazon. I think at first, my thinking was that what did Sears in was not noticing the shift to e-commerce like Amazon did, and that to unseat Amazon, it will take another shift that an upstart sees that they don't. Then however, I start to wonder what shift might that be? Voice assistants, it seems like Amazon is leading the way, not that it will be taken by surprise. Logistics? Seems like they are a logistics first company. I guess I can't see the future though, like everyone else.

I think for now I've settled on that the similarities are just that, similarities. Two things with some common history don't have to share the same fate. And looking for lessons in the history of one to apply to the other might be more of a false equivocation than we think. The times are fundamentally different, so perhaps though their stories echo each other, they are fundamentally different companies.
Is this something that I want? My gut feeling is that I don't want a brand-new file system...
I work for one of those companies, and you're absolutely right. Our company takes confidentiality very seriously indeed, it will be interesting to see the consequences of this.
Reporting to TfL isn't even the minimum requirement, so I'm not sure how you get from "don't do enough" to going "above and beyond".
Well, some people at Uber are making a lot of money.
#problematic (and, incidentally, incorrect) mansplaining (regardless of your actual self-reported gender)

"stereotyping" is a floating signifier, and arguably in common usage doesn't merely signify hasty generalization.
"The Jacket is designed to withstand up to 10 washes with the Jacquard snap tag removed but your experience may vary by usage and wash conditions"

"Note: You can wear the Jacket in the rain, but if the Jacket becomes too wet it may not reliably detect gestures. Allow the Jacket to dry and resume using. The snap tag is resistant to rain and splashing, but it is not fully waterproof"

Sure it's really "Specifically tailored with the urban cyclist in mind"...that's one wet, smelly, denim jacket after a few rides in the UK.
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The Verge says $350
I think it's part of how we're wired. Some people more than others. To seek that dopamine hit again.
Philip K Dick. Somehow there's a new Blade Runner so he must be alive still.
that's more referring to the other stuff on the site
Extension of the touch sensing aspect of the phone screen, not the display aspect. Extending one without the other leads to over-engineered pause buttons, is what the parent comment was saying I think. When the number of unlabeled buttons get much higher than 1, people start to get confused.

I agree in part, just think that the jacket needs to be paired with a HUD or maybe have control/button labels that can shine through the fabric in order to open up that innovation.
Someone send one to Scoble.
Yes, I have it plugged into a USB-C 2560x1440 27” Dell monitor all day, plugging it in at the beginning of the day and unplugging it at the end. At home I’ve also had it hooked up to HDMI and DisplayPort monitors via USB-C→ HDMI/DisplayPort cables (no docks/dongles). Neither have had a negative impact on stability.
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I'm not sure if this is a serious question or not, but about 75% of the top sites on the Internet use jQuery:

https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery

Perhaps new projects shouldn't be using jQuery, but it's possible that some devs who just churn out code without watching the industry aren't aware of this. Increasing that awareness appears to be the point of this plainJS landing page.
Odd, it took me a single phone call to get my 5X replaced when it started bootlooping. I called Google, and they replaced it well out of warranty after a 20 minute phonecall.

(disclosure I work at google but this was before I started)
It is saying that safari on mac is 4.3x faster than firefox on mac, and also that safari on mac is 4.2x faster than firefox on windows (at executing javascript).
From the book, on the habit loop and why we're using toothpaste every day

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/02/an_exc...
> 007 – formidable (need this)

What does this mean?
Yes, I understand he shuns the spotlight. Too bad, because he was the first one who came to my mind as well.
Interesting. I don't use Safari, and have never seen "try Safari" notifications. I wonder what the criteria for it are.
On the other hand, you could also say that the i7-7740X[1], at a third TR's price, will (significantly) outperform TR in most real-world usage, and even for video-editing/compiling-Chromium type tasks, the $700 difference would probably be better spent on a better graphics card, more RAM or, since we're getting into overkill territory, a nicer monitor. And, in theory, I suspect that a dual-7740X build might match or beat TR in multithreaded, too.

[1] Kaby Lake-X, 4/8 cores/threads, 4.3/4.5 freq/turbo, $329

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11549/the-intel-kaby-lake-x-i...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11697/the-amd-ryzen-threadrip...
I believe there was data that with 64GB of RAM you can expect at least a single bit error or two a month.

Thus ECC would be super helpful to those that expect that most of the 64GB will be filled with bits that shouldn't be changed.

This article by a system integrator is a pretty decent data point: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Advantages-of-ECC...
.gifs wouldn't make a site feel broken. We can't go back to actual .gifs (distinct from the layman's "gif") because they're an inappropriate format for the kind of gifs that people make today.

I think people might feel like the browser has "regressed" or "broken" if they have to press "play" on silent, looping videos that they used to expect to autoplay. Maybe broken isn't the right word. I'm just saying that I think many people expect silent .mp4s to work the way that .gifs work: autoplaying.
Feminism. Feminism causes this. Let me explain...

simply, Evolutionary biology suggests women are hard wired to seek certain behaviors And characteristics in a man.

Behaviors that suggest the man has many high quality female options; and characteristics that are Fundamentally manly, (like dominating in bed)

feminists have changed culture to suggest that these characteristics are a bad thing. And most men are blindly following the feminist narrative.

Hence you get women choosing the "safe" option but dreaming about the guy that will tell them "no".

Read "The Rational Male" . Great book.
Have you seen how many silly versions of bicycles and airplanes we got in the early 1900s? Suicide doors on cars and funny little wings on the back?

Things take a while to converge.
Well, who knows exactly how Cthulhu (or K-Thulu) eats souls?
That's the gist of it; tracking position of a long running process by writing messages back into the SQS queue. Any of the numerous edge cases that will cause a dupe record to appear(some of them documented SQS implementation details) would cause the process to duplicate :| Then triplicate :|
jQuery has helped me tremendously in the past and continues to do so. Not everyone has to design a website like google.com and not everyone needs to take into consideration every byte that is loaded in a web page. A library that gives you a single way to do things that many browsers support in a less verbose form is just amazing tbh.

At the end of the day when you need to just get things done jQuery still shines. Does it produce spaghetti code? No, you are doing it. Does it become an enabler in spaghetti code? Yes. But not all the use cases are the same.
On that, if you aren't familiar, the name refers to the Jacquard Loom, one of the first "programmable" looms, perhaps most famous for giving us punched cards! Cute name for a project tying computing and fabric goods!

EDIT: Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom#Importance_in_co...
That's discouraging. MS did a study to determine offices improved productivity, so what happened?
If we must use that analogy, it's more like they answer "yes!" to "are they free?" but then a stalker follows you with binoculars, a camera, and a notebook for months because you took the cupcake, and if you show up with private security guards and ask for a cupcake they say they're free but only for people without private security because they want to have a stalker follow you around, which is obviously a weird and concerning thing for them to require and would tend to make one turn them down for being such creepy/threatening weirdos, and then tell other people that they're creepy/threatening weirdos so those others don't take their cupcakes and get followed around by a stalker as a result.

It would also tend to make one hope the business model of being creepy weirdos is outlawed or otherwise destroyed.
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Upvoted, I'll include The Other Side of the Hill as well.

It's true, he sounds too enthusiastic with the German operations and very sympathetic to some Nazi officers (Rommel and Manstein for example), but I think it stems from his overall enthusiasm with strategy and military operations in general.

While for most people a dead soldier is still a horribly murdered human, I think his view is that battles between armies do not count as atrocities (not an uncommon view) and officers who didn't murder civilians (or allege they didn't know civilians were murdered under their command) should not be tried for war crimes. Of course that's a bit too much to swallow, especially on the soviet side.

By the way, the same argument was applied for scientists as well (see Wernher von Braun and the operation paperclip bunch, who also "didn't know")
It’s in keyboard modifier keys.
The guidelines we're following are at: https://github.com/cncf/landscape#cloud-native-landscape-pro...

The CNCF storage WG is also looking at creating a "zoomed in" version of the storage section with higher fidelity information. That's one model of providing more detail.

We also have an interactive version of the landscape coming that will provide filtering, zooming, etc.
Wasn't the whole article about how standalone podcast apps on the watch aren't possible? What 3rd party apps allow playing podcasts on the Watch without iPhone?
Uber is under obligation to report serious crimes to the police. From their description though, I am not sure it qualifies:

> A complaint was made that, following a trip, a driver got out of the car and hugged a female passenger

I bet it was unpleasant, uncomfortable, unprofessional and a bunch of other "un"s but does getting hugged on a street (not when confined in a car) supports a serious crime claim in the UK or US? This is an honest question, I would really like to know the answer.
The term "launch early" can often get blurred. Dropbox famously had a landing page, and then a video, and then iterated to a product.

Is Dropbox considered a product that "launched early", despite them waiting to receive feedback on a video before building software?

Additionally, what tracks better: a good screencast or a bad useable demo (I imagine a good demo is obviously better than a good screencast)?

Otherwise, great list, and thank you for putting it together.
As the companies grow they try to build a fence rather than educate people. Many a times asking people to setup a complex password is problematic. While you can enforce it on a company wide system, people will still revert back to default/easy passwords on internal systems. There are frequently cases of Active Directory passwords being very demanding but the internal DB passwords being abc123.
But why not buy a single smart watch and keep your clothes normal?
I mean, it's seems redundant to make every single piece have similar tech functionality when you can have one watch that works with all clothes.
If you choose to have different tech in different clothes, I don't see why you don't want to combine everything into a watch.
Though there are edge cases where you can want to split it up. But then your customer base gets much smaller.
STEAM club -- this is an activity outside of the normal curriculum.
“most of what people do...”

This is almost surely wrong but you made the intentionally vague comment so it’s not so easy to point out where you’re wrong. You might claim, for example, that tasks like email or internet browsing existed but they did not work as well.

Also, we certainly haven’t run out of things to do with mobile. We’re talking watches, phones, and tablets, etc right?
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>And being insensitive to the needs of those different from us is a core part of being human. But there are better and worse ways to be human, and better and worse ways to make metaphors.

This is a really good point, and I agree. There are many ways to use language "correctly" and still end up being unclear. I am in favor of clarity of meaning. Irony/metaphor plays with that but good communicators can use them to have more fun an enhance a message.

I really like your perspective though. I need to fold that in to how I think about this stuff.
This is for favicons, where svg support is pretty spotty.

Even with svg, they ultimately become rasters once they are on the screen. So for favicons it might still be beneficial to control the scaling yourself with a tool like this.
you can do it with the app karabiner elements.

once installed, open the app, and go to the "complex modifications" tab. then click "add rule". then click "import more rules from the internet". on the web site that opens, expand "Modifier Keys". import "Change caps_lock key".

that'll give you a rule to do what you want in karabiner. (the rule is "Change caps_lock to control if pressed with other keys, to escape if pressed alone".)
Except for a few emulations of hardware, most of these UI's don't correlate to a physical panel and the lack of consistency between the various virtual-only ones, IMHO, negates any benefit from a consistency point of view. Having something look like a physical knob is one thing, but when each plugin you have has its own different style of "physical knob" design, I find it gets messy personally.
We get our price and volume data directly from multiple exchanges and use a weighted average to calculate the prices. They are updated every 5 minutes.
I don't now about radically different.. after all a graph is just a bunch of nodes, edges and associated attributes. There are standard alternatives to the DOT/GV graph description language though, such as GraphML (XML based) and GML (others too, but these seem to be most supported).

For graph layout, tools worth looking at include OGDF (an open source C++ library), the commercial yFiles Java library with free yEd editor/layout tool (includes support for GraphML attributes), and Gephi (an open source Java-based graph layout/visualization tool).

If your graph represents some type of directed dataflow, then maybe Google's Tensorboard graph visualizer (intended primarily for neural nets) is of interest - it's open source and very slick (esp. wrt subgraph collapsing/expanding), but you'd be on your own in terms of importing a foreign graph format.
Totally not creepy and totally not classist.

/s
I think you've got Facebook and Google reversed. Facebook is famously all open-plan. Google has a mix of open plan areas and mini 4-person offices with doors, along with other configurations.
Damien Broderick, given his related non-fiction on the singularity and other topics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Broderick
This is the most petty complaint about Windows that I've heard because every consumer-oriented OS has these type of "advertisements".

Heck, on iOS not only am I forced to look at apps that I don't want, I am also forced to use them! On the Macintosh OS, whenever I want to see what updates are available, I have to first look at the featured apps in their store. Even Ubuntu installs a shit-load of crappy programs that I don't want.

At least in Windows, you can disable them and pretty much never see them again. I've been on Windows 10 for years now and I think that I saw a Candy Crush launcher tile appear once and then it was gone forever.
Some research yes. To answer your final question directly - more like hourly.

Google did a big study in 2009 [0] and found error rates between 2.4E-11 and 6.7E-11 errors/bit-hour, or, in more familiar units: about 1 error per 2-GByte of memory per hour.

Obviously most errors go unnoticed, but for anything where random bit flips are unacceptable, ECC is necessary.

Note too that error rates go up with memory density, not down, so things might be worse with more recent chips.

[0] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
It’s full res for your photos, but it won’t share that publicly.
> We often say that a small group of customers who love you is better than a large group who kind of like you. In other words, recruiting 10 customers who have a burning problem is much better than 1000 customers who have a passing annoyance.

How does the possibility of being pigeon-holed affect this calculus, especially where stigmas are at play? My startup's technology is life-changing for many people with dyslexia or ADHD, but is also well-used by skilled readers (for whom it is augmentive, but not life-changing).

If I focus exclusively on the accessibility community, many people who come across our website will be turned off by words like "dyslexia", and will assume that our technology isn't for them because they read well already.

How do you suggest startups navigate these waters when there is a chance of being pigeon-holed in a way that evokes stigma?
Why was leaving the Sears Tower a bad decision? What ramifications did it have?
More than you want to know about headless Chrome
Ouch - I guess I never expected to see it there!
that'll get you caps-as-control, but not caps-as-control-AND-escape (unless they've added that in high sierra, but I don't think so).
Music plugins have to have skeumorphic UIs, nobody wants to twist generic looking knobs. C'mon man, these are artists, they are not the average muggle.

If designers from this world got ahold of the music scene from that world plugins would get considerably worse, as UI's would be the focus of intense simplification, leaving complex features and their power users by the wayside.
>> Then why are we arguing?

I'm not really sure.

>> All I take issue with is the GP's assertion that polygamy is the cause of the "lost boys" problem. I claim it's not, patriarchy promulgated by high-status males is.

I'd say it's an intermediate cause, or even an immediate cause and the patriarchy is at the root of it in all examples that we have to look at. If, somehow, consensual polygyny became the norm then we could end up with some of the same societal problems re: pools of unmarried/unattached men.

>> Remove patriarchy and polygamy is no longer problematic.

Well sure, no longer problematic in as much as no longer forcing people to marry others, but it may still cause societal problems. I'm not advocating it be outlawed for those reasons, FYI, just looking at possibilities.
I do think it's fairly unlikely that widespread polygamy would happen outside of the patriarchal constraints, and certainly I'm not sure I know of any examples of polygamous societies having existed without such.

Polyamory is a different beast entirely of course.
agree WRT apple, but MS is super aggressive in terms of telemetry (maybe they want to target both groups of customers, advertisers and us)
Yeah, I'm usually pretty quick with my upvote, even for articles that appear interesting at a glance, or articles that might spark interesting conversation, but I didn't do upvote this article. While I found it okay to read, the comparison between Amazon and Sears, fundamental to the whole thing, just feels like too much of a stretch to me.

I think the comparison between car insurance and AWS was the breaking point for me.
You're right, but it doesn't have to.

Switch to rabbit meat, for instance.
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You can hide the notifications until you want to open notification center to see what they are by turning on Do Not Disturb in the settings. (Set it to be active on a timed basis, from say "7:01AM to 7:00am" to cover a full 24 hour spread.)

Alternately, you can totally disable notification center via the terminal: http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/06/disable-notification-center-r...

I don't think there's a way to move them, unfortunately. Or to disable just the update notifications, beyond just disabling auto-download for them.
Suicide doors are back, with auto locking
So is Amazon going to start getting into the housing buisness next?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Catalog_Home
The techniques detailed on the page (reweighting lines, removing fine details) seem like a worthwhile reason to at least use a different file for the "tiny" image. Unless SVG renderers start using those techniques at a small enough size.

It looks like only Firefox or Opera would support an SVG favicon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon#File_format_support
So how many decades are we going to hear about how bad it is that Google knows what kind of toothpaste I like and how important privacy is before we actually see a real world benefit?

Can someone point to any situation in the past where the conclusion was "good thing the ads were less targeting to my interests!"
Yeah I don't really get it either. Why not sell the sensor on its own so that I can wear it on anything I want? What's the added value of having it sewn to your jacket? It's not like it's particularly small or discreet.
Thanks for this write-up mwseibel & Geoff!

A question: What's the best way to keep ourselves accountable to the tasks of "talking to users", "do things that don't scale" and "writing code" every week?

We write a weekly report, and set milestones to go for each week - but it doesn't feel like these things focus us our attention as well as they could be.
Is this really any worse than a denim jacket? I have a levi's jacket and I've never washed it. It's gotten rained on once or twice but I just dry it off. I also believe denim is anti microbial? Honestly, I only wash my jeans once they've had something spilled on them.
This reminds me of the quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

Uber's statement potentially demonstrates the exact problem with self-investigating. Given the negative PR from a sexual assault story, Uber employees have a strong incentive to convince themselves that nothing happened and that it was just a "hug".

Uber's statement would be the third significant moral failure in a single incident.
Yes you can.

Anyway, how many UWP apps are you running? Do you think every Win32 desktop app is now magically tracking you? Nope.

So, let's compare how many UWP apps that you actually want to run (I don't use any of them) and see if they're tracking you as much as all the mobile apps you're running. There's no contest here.