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I recommend reading The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr.

I found it to be a pretty well researched look into the way heavy internet use can change our brains.

Although the book was good on its own, I also found its references section helpful as a launching point to discover other interesting books and academic papers on related topics.
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I agree with your first points about segmentation, personalization, and differentiation, but sales and marketing are fundamentally different disciplines. The ideal is an organization where there is trust, communication, and accountability between the two roles. It’s hard, but it’s absolutely possible.
Taking the one bit you want to argue with but ignoring the meat of my point certainly isn't something I'm finding useful. I'll take my leave here.
'Clean room' development doesn't necessarily absolve them of
IP issues, and of 'nasty tactics' that may not be illegal but which would be hypocritical of a company trying to promote a specific image.
This story been around for decades. When banana yields start materially dropping and price goes up from $1.39 per bunch at costco, then maybe.
You can't have a Lego thread without someone who hasn't touched Lego in 20 years declaring that Legos are morally bankrupt and no longer "creative," ignoring thousands of awe-inspiringly creative efforts made with a variety of brick types. Do an image search for "lego moc" (My Own Creation) for some lovely examples.

I think nostalgia is fooling you anyway. Even in the '80s, the big brick boxes had plenty of angle bricks, headlight bricks, wheels/axles, and so on. Use BrickLink to compare their parts inventories to the ones you linked to, and I think you'll find the ratio of basic rectangle bricks is similar.
Right, but to be pedantic, the OP's original statement was ambiguous.

"more thant[sic] #333 on white"... You could interpret this many ways.

A) You could interpret "#333 on white" to refer to the contrast ratio of "#333/#fff", which according to this calculator [1] is 12.6. In this case "more" is referring to a higher contrast ratio. "#000 on #fff" would fit - even though "#000" is less than "#333" - because the contrast ratio of the two colors is 21.

B) You could interpret the statement as "(more than #333) on #fff", e.g. increasing the numerical value of "#333". Something like "#444 on #fff" - which actually has a lower contrast ratio of 9.7 - fits, because "#444" is more than "#333".

This is dumb, I'm just pointing out that it can be important to be precise with your language.

1: http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/#%23333-on-%23fff
This might be a really interesting read for you in your quest:

By Hand and Eye by George Walker and Jim Tolpin
https://lostartpress.com/products/by-hand-eye-1

It's by a couple woodworkers who have been learning about fundamental design principles that used to be used extensively before the introduction of tape measures, calipers and tools that have served to drive design almost entirely into imperial or metric measurement systems. I don't think it can address all of it (e.g. kerning), but some of the things I saw in the guide relate directly (1.2x/1.5x spacing, typeface sized in multiples, etc. I found it fascinating. They have a couple other books about it now too.
A lot of folks don't seem to know that there is more than one type of banana. The Cavendish is routinely all we are presented with in the UK. People have usually heard of plantains, but outside of the communities that have them as a staple, most folks think of them as a savoury cooking banana, and go no further.

The banana cultivar complex is massive, and full ofninteresting varieties. In certain parts of Oceania and the South Pacific there is a banana called the Fe'i which is used in stews or cooked in coconut milk as a dessert. Ive tried these and also apple bananas and ladyfinger bananas. I'd love to try red daccas, ice-cream bananas and all the others.

"Plantain" is almost as bad a descriptor as "banana" AFAICT with dozens of cultivars, mainly concentrated in East Africa, but also in parts of Asia and Central America.

I find the whole thing fascinating. While I enjoy a Cavendish now and then, I do wish we wouldn't standardise quite so much. But then we have industrial-scale production to think about.
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"On a different philosophical note, the real number line is nothing but a sorted array, and every equation solving problem is thus analogous to a search problem. Since binary search happens to be an excellent search algorithm, we can use it for all such problems."

The example in this article isn't about searching the real number line - it's about searching for the solution to some real-valued function, whose values aren't guaranteed to be "sorted" (think of sin(x), or sin(1000x)).

There are functions for which this algorithm may not work - I'm guessing that the algorithm requires the function to be continuous, and possibly differentiable. For example, what happens if the function goes to infinity in the middle of the search range, like f(x) = 1/x between -1 and 1? And what if it has no real solutions at all, like x^2 + 1 = 0?

The algorithm also assumes that it would be possible to guess the range of x values that bound the solution (e.g., low = 1, high = 1000). What if the solution happens to be x = -10000000? This points to a big difference between the finite arrays that binary search works on, and the infinite domains and ranges of real-valued functions.
Can we hijack this loop to create or reinforce good habits instead of selling ad space? Can we use the skinner box to dole out intangible rewards for activities with real, long-term benefits like exercising and eating better? This looks like an obvious opportunity to me, so what work is being done in this area?
I was thinking the same thing. It seems the security team would be made up of humans :)
Excuse a quick aside -- do you know of any good examples of real non-enterprisey apps using JavaFX?

Java desktop apps seem almost universally awful, but it doesn't seem like it has to be that way. I'd love to see some counter examples (IntelliJ's IDEs are honourable exceptions, but they're a bit of a special case).
They could, but the AFP is used by those other countries for exactly this reason. They have frighteningly broad latitude when it comes to breaking laws to achieve their goals. In this case, perhaps it was justified, but the VG article posted above raised some concerns with their methods that I agree with.

Should see what our intelligence agencies are allowed to do. Australia has rather weak protections for its populace, and rather strong laws allowing police and intelligence forces to do this. Despite some large controversies, the public doesn’t seem to really mind, which scares me. My state, QLD, literally became a police state in some ways, under Bjelke-Peterson. I don’t forget that, but often it feels like everyone around me does...
I guess I do that sometimes, though I scroll too quick for pull quotes to matter. Usually I'm going for the comments anyway.
While some have offered token electric vehicles to "ride the wave" or comply with states' emission requirements, the competitive metric for electric cars for most people is $/total range of the vehicle.

Chevy Bolt is the only reasonable competitor that comes close to Tesla, and Hyundai has a chance, everybody else is selling an overpriced toy. https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i8XLJOMH5GF... (the numbers in that figure do not reflect recent price drops on Model S vehicles)
> What duplicate lines are you talking about?

I'd guess that userbinator is referring to the ribbon items "Command", "Memory", and "Source" where the group name on the ribbon has been given the same name as the single menu below it (in contrast to something like Word where the contextual ribbon items for a table are Table, with Design and Layout as children).
>I find them annoying because it reminds me that the content is simultaneously trying to appeal to both skimmers and focused readers but has no idea which kind I am at the moment I’m reading it (I might be either).

This is a good general UI point too I think!
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So? Non-serious bugs are left alone for years on most large software suites if they're low impact.
With few exceptions, don't take a counter-offer.
Any ideas you disclose to your company while your an employee could surely belong to you, that's reasonably standard.

As for 'your partner' - that seems pretty crazy, and I don't understand how that would hold up for a second in court.

As for 'perpetuity' - meaning - ideas you had long after employment? Or - that they'd own the ideas you give them while employed, forever. If the later, well, again I think that's somewhere near standard. If the former, that's beyond crazy and I think not even enforceable.

But the 'partner' bit alone seems beyond creepy because their lawyers are not stupid, they must know it's a pretty wobbly thing not likely to stand up in court, ergo it's kind of a scare tactic.
Why are you so adverse to a little pain and discomfort? There's more to life than being comfortable.
3 co founders , one of them acting as cto for 6 people dev team , other 2 co founders do legal and marketing. Below 3 co founders we have 3 managers managing a support team (they also do support themself). We do not have sales , growing organically for now.
Windows 7 still has about 50 % market share. That's more than just some holdouts, over all.
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mainstream

That's a weasel-word. For all we know, you could be using it as a synonym for a programming language community that's controlled by a corporation. Then your whole argument would be a tautology.
I've used dasgupta in my ug algorithms class at Berkeley, which was actually taught by papaD one of the coauthors. I love the text because it is so concise. A great book to get started on algorithms. A good exercise is to implement them in the language of your choice.
NK seems like a living time capsule of that era.
Running won't damage your joints provided your joints are healthy to start with and you run with proper form.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/well/move/running-may-be-...
> Virtually everyone that advocates exercise as a way to lose weight mentions in the same breath that it has to go hand-in-hand with a diet.

Something must be wrong with exercise then, because that’s not true of dieting at all. Just dieting will do just fine.
We need a cultural shift in this industry away from thinking it’s OK to run outdated and vulnerable software. “Why should we upgrade? $OLD_VERSION works fine!” Yeah, and driving a car with no seatbelts or airbags works fine too... until it doesn’t.
I'd wager that this only got fixed now because some large Oracle customer got bit hard by this bug.
Earning a living by bothering people in their homes and wasting their time is not something I'm sympathetic to.
Windows 8 is a case study in first impressions and how much people hate change. It is superior to 7 in nearly all regards (the app/store infrastructure being a notable exception), and its UI is nearly identical to 7.

But people couldn't get over the Start screen, even though it can be disabled. It's really amazing how much flack it got.
I sincerely wish I could put a bounty on this one, it's highly annoying.
"common among tall skinny men" - 1 or 2 per cent of the population have EDS, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and 95% are never diagnosed. Marfans habitus (tall skinny etc) is typical but not uniform in EDS. Lung collapses appear to be more frequent in EDS, and Esports are more attractive than physical sports for those with EDS because EDS makes sports injuries very frequent. Fatigue, an allergy-like condition, dysautonomia(dizzyness for example), anxiety and flexibility (when young) are common symptoms.

https://edsalert.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/abnormalities-of-t...

https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02938195?no-access...
I don't see where this is catching encoding errors, like overlong forms. That has security implications.

It's useful when there is some assurance that the UTF-8 is error-free. E.g. tdata bundled with the program or otherwise trusted.
I found their top 10 really approachable. Of course I knew some of the more common things such as SQL-injection and knew of other things but didn't know their name such as CSRF.

It was great to formalise independent knowledge into a common language I could discuss with colleagues, and the examples were things you could take straight from the PDF to the workplace. I don't work in infosec and it really helps to have clear guidance to give to less security minded people to say not just that it really is bad if people can inject javascript or cause arbitrary redirects or make arbitary requests from the server, but to give clear indication of how bad relative to each other.

It also gives some ideas for how to find issues which is of use for anyone hoping to bag a bug bounty, although there are some more useful resources now for that such as Yaworski's "Web Hacking 101" [1] which should also be essential reading for any web developers who don't quite understand that security stuff well enough to find bug bounties but still want to keep aware of the kind of ways their platforms may fall prey to security bugs.

Getting back to the top 10, I look forward to it's release this year. It is important to keep up with changing trends in web application security. The release candidate notes that CSRF has dropped because frameworks now include csrf protection configured in the defaults, in part because of the work that groups such as OWASP do.

If you work in web application development you owe it to everyone else to get a cursory education in web application security. If you are not doing that you are an externality cost that everyone else has to bear.

[1] https://leanpub.com/web-hacking-101 (It was available free from hacker one for a while, I'm not sure if they still run that offer.)
Not too long ago, we had this story, "Social Media is the New Smoking" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851057. The mathematician Ted Kaczynski said decades ago, "humans with technology is like an alcoholic with a barrel of wine."
Just to add my own "limited experience" in support of this article, I've ran into the slow text input problem many times, but never once solved it by getting rid of arrow functions in render. It just doesn't seem to matter that much (not saying a dedicated text input component shouldn't try to get all the details right...whatever they might be).

In my experience a choppy text input has actually been a problem with the redux architecture, or layout, or some wild child components, and so on.
I'm paying roughly 3% out of which I get back 2% through cashback on my credit card. For a net fee of 1% I get buyer protection and dispute resolution in case I and seller disagree. The higher the sum, the more likely I am to be interested in such protection.

The move to chipped credit cards (or Apple/Android Pay) also shields my real card number and makes information unusable in case of hacking. I already hide my address by having the card statements go to a PO Box and using that as my billing address, but I know that's not a widespread practice and some institutions forbid that.
One thought regarding monetization:

I assume you're loading ads via JavaScript or something. (I didn't check.) I too saw the notice regarding blocked ads.

It will be a cold day in hell before I disable my ad-blocker, but you can easily manually insert affiliate links as well.

If you sign up for the Amazon affiliate program (which I assume you did), just navigate to the item you're trying to sell, click the "get link" button (or whatever) that Amazon provides for you, and you'll get a nice, shortened affiliate link.

In my opinion, that is a really clean way to do things - you can just create a plain-old HTML list of affiliate links. That gives you a mechanism for monetizing your site, and doesn't require me to disable my ad blocker to support you. Win/win! :)
>Keep in mind that 500 miles is 8 full hours of 65 mph driving though!

Truckers do 700 miles days legally. Your talking 10 hours to recharge on super charger for 500 miles of battery vs a few minutes at truck stop for diesel. Might be ok if they can sleep at super charger, going to be a while before that infrastructure is built out. simply not viable for long haul.

>The engine, exhaust, transmission and fuel in a semi truck weighs several tonnes- at the lower end of range, converting to batteries could even reduce weight.

A 15 liter diesel and transmission weighs 2 tons, 300 gallons diesel 1 ton. it will be heavier, meaning less capacity even with only 200-300 miles of range.

>The cost of all those batteries is 200-300k, which is expensive but not unusual for a semi truck.

The whole truck cost 200-300k, now you just doubled it.
This article has had two recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15300547

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14622861
But the point, precisely, is that the amount is actually a lot of money for most countries, never mind a single person. That any attempt at any real economy can't ignore 1 in one thousand - especially if it might balloon 100x. Not sure you really read carefully.
No, I know it's not illegal when law enforcement does it. Very little is!
If you don’t think that your company would counter because they think you will have “already checked out” or “can’t be saved” there is one option you can try. Go out and get some job offers for higher salaries and then decline them all. Come back to your manager after some time has passed and mention that you had recently validated your value in the market and know what you are worth and that though this time you weren’t interested you can’t know what the future will hold. They may see that you can still be retained and make an effort to keep you.
The kid is wearing factory made shoes.
The Cavendish that we eat today wasn't eaten in the 50's. Back then, you'd eat the Gros Michel. I think they were all wiped out so we swapped to the Cavendish some time ago. It is cyclical when we focus on one variety like that. Source: IEEE Spectrum article I recall from a long time ago ~2003?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana
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Would anyone be interested in a platform completely integrating Excel with MSSQL for project finance forecasting?
I'm definitely of that school of thought. I think if you're waiting to the point of a counteroffer to retain talent, you've already lost.

I think part of my job as a manager is to make sure that everybody is paid fairly all the time. For me that means benchmarking the salary structure to peer companies, a good career ladder, regular performance reviews, etc.

If one of my employees came to me and said, "A friend at company X said I could make $Y if I moved there", I'd definitely use that data to make sure our total package was fair. Hopefully we'd find we were already doing things well, but if not, I could easily see that research resulting in raises.

On the other hand, if somebody comes to me and says, "I already have an offer in hand from place X for $Y because I've been secretly job hunting for the last month," then I'd be very unlikely to counteroffer with more money. I'd certainly want to talk about why they were unhappy enough to start job hunting. Maybe there's a problem we weren't aware of or taking seriously enough. (And also I'd want to investigate how we hadn't discovered the problem until it was big enough they wanted to quit.) If we can solve that problem for them (and hopefully for other people, we should.

But if it's only a question of money when I think our pay is fair, then I wouldn't counter. One, I don't think money keeps anybody anywhere for long, so I'd expect the counter to be a bandaid. Two, either I have to change the whole salary structure to match or I've just made things less fair. That penalizes people who aren't as money-focused. Three, there are often reasons other places pay more on a cash basis. If somebody values cash more than other things I like to provide (e.g., working with good people, good work-life balance, more time available for learning, not having to clean up giant messes), then maybe they will be happier elsewhere.

And really, I'm fine with that. If somebody working for me would really be happier elsewhere, I'd rather help them find that next job. And if they won't be happier elsewhere but need to find that out for themselves, I'd rather have them feel welcome to come back.
No, it's not just you. It's been a long-standing "rule of thumb" in typography that serif typefaces are better for longer passages of text (which is why nearly every magazine and book uses serif type for body), but sans serif type tends to be more legible on screen, in part because screen resolution isn't high enough to make serifs look good.

There are always exceptions, of course; Georgia was explicitly designed to be a screen typeface, and there are other serif fonts that look pretty readable once they're at 18px or higher sizes--which is perfectly reasonable as a web font size in today's world, rather than the 13px that everyone seemed to adopt circa 2000. And "high-DPI" displays make even more delicate serif fonts a lot more readable these days.

Personally, I tend to choose serif fonts for body typefaces even on the web nowadays, but tend to keep "UI" elements sans serif.
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This is the way it has always been.

The Valley is a paradox of open/fsf types and mega corps which can simultaneously be very good and very evil.

Google's ownership of the web could enable them to do a zillion evil things if they wanted to, which they don't.

Google could easily control the outcomes of elections.

They could easily sell companies the ability to change how their company is perceived, rankings etc.

Granted some of that may actually be illegal, but I think if G were a regular corp they'd have tried to do some really bad things.

That said, I do think they do some bad things.

So it's a paradoxy kind of thing.
In the future, I hope we can use existing AI to create fake child porn images so these brave officers wouldn’t have to feed these motherfucking-sickshitbag-fuckers real child porns (although the police stated the pictures they used already exist else where).

Bravo to all the people crackingndown in human trafficking and protecting children from harms
Sure that's great, but air bags and seat belts also come with cameras that record your behavior and report back to the auto manufacturer. And ads.