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> a member of the UN security council is apparently running prison camps for an ethnic/religious minority.

You can say the name China lol China isn't scary like voldemort.

In fact, China is a paper tiger desperately trying to oppress its citizens because its economy is collapsing.

China's import fell 10% in january, and expect to drop 20% in february. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade/china....

It is in a long term decline, says morgan stanley, as it will have a account deficit not seen since 1993. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/china-economy-morgan-stanley....

Home sales in January declined 56%! across 14 major cities https://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/218583...

Chinese firms are suffering from a wave of default. The government is propping up state firms and squeezing profits out of the private firms. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-debt/debt-g...

It will continue its internal oppression because it has no chance of winning any war against the West or any of its neighbors. However, perhaps after some building up of its navy and airforce in a few years, it will think it has a shot.
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Ah I see, that's actually a fair point.
> I have nothing but respect for Shoichet and Roth. Didn't ever cross paths with Irwin.

This makes me laugh since Shoichet was childhood friends with Irwin and they've worked together on almost everything together since 2000 when Irwin went to Northwestern to join his lab.
> See Golang package management for a notorious example in the devsphere. You can't maintain dependencies on old package versions. Wtf?

This doesn't necessarily detract from your point, but this hasn't been true since the release of module support in go 1.11 last year.
Don't forget to also fix Beagle 2!
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I find it quite telling that no major takeaway mentioned talking to users or testing the design. This reeks of genius design, which really isn't genius at all.
>This was a weirdly meandering, clickbaity article, because the only piece of news is that they found this building and talked to a few people inside of it.

The article very explicitly uses terminology to imply that the report is about an intelligence community black site. The article says this explicitly:

> Workers say managers instructed them to walk several blocks away before calling for a ride home. Several people who worked here say it’s widely referred to within Apple as a “black site,” as in a covert ops facility.

It says it is widely referred to within Apple as a covert ops facility. (It doesn't say jokingly referred to that way.) In addition it uses the word back door in the second paragraph, which is really evocative. It says:

>From the outside, there appears to be a reception area, but it’s unstaffed, which makes sense given that people working in this satellite office—mostly employees of Apple contractors working on Apple Maps—use the back door.

An editor who didn't want to evoke this would change it to secondary entrance, or simply, "don't use the main entrance". They wouldn't use the term back door. Bloomberg isn't some tabloid.

For better or for worse, people are missing that the article calls this a "covert ops facility" (using those exact 3 words) similar to room "Room 641A" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Finally, the suggestion to walk several blocks before hailing a ride doesn't make sense in any normal employee context. The article is calling this an intelligence community site, says so very explicitly, and puts that term in the title.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site

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VTA light rail takes forever to go places for several reasons:

All of the routes have too many turns. Maybe some are unavoidable, but splitting up into a east west route on the North end, a North south route on first Street / downtown, and whatever makes sense in the south of downtown routes would add transfers for many trips, but also reduce slow turns.

In the downtown section, it stops at too many intersections.

In the downtown section, one direction goes through a paved pedestrian area, which it needs to travel at walking speed while laying on the horn to encourage pedestrians to get out of the way.
Here’s a link where someone much more versed than me explains it. It echoes the other responses to your post.

[1]https://www.quora.com/Can-a-U-S-President-sue-a-comedian-for...
Not really interested in naming and shaming because the lead dev trolls the internet to find people that don't like the framework it so he can publicly mock them.

As for PyPika, I wouldn't be fond of that, but that at least has an ability to get the raw SQL being built. There's no such option in my framework (and I've looked for hours combing the source code trying to find it), so debugging why the data coming out is wrong is kind of a nightmare (especially since the documentation is incoherent).
Because my CTO requires it.
It definitely doesn't do it any favors (although many people will debate the quality of the "serious" side of Buzzfeed) but it's too ironic hearing this from The Guardian, a media platform many people avoid due to an overwhelming amount of stupidity it has published.
I heard. Too late, though. They still have a long way to go with making the UX/UI useful again.
> They don't know what they need or want.

If they're so deluded about what they want what makes you think you can see through that and find a solution more clearly than they can?
Immediately checked out when it mentioned blockchain.
I like to call this "the official's tax" and it comes with any significant money transfer in the Philippines. Everyone needs their cut or you don't get what you want. People come up with creative ways of applying this tax
Not a question related to the post, but a curiosity nonetheless.

Is Hindawi a reputable publication?

They are all about open access and many of their pubs appear interesting to me, but honestly I don't know what experts opine of this particlar journal. Read Hindawi papers a lot as part of my UG research.
> I inevitably “broke it down to pieces” by keeping pointing out all the exact scenarios where the code delivered would fail, ... I felt like a prick and definitely felt resentment from the other party (especially since code reviews are public)

There's the problem, right there. Using a code review to expose a design flaw.

I worked at my first startup starting in 1988, not long after SOANM came out. Most of the engineers at this company read the book. I was struck by the similarity between the situations and dynamics described in the book, and what I was observing first-hand.

Our approach to engineering was academic in nature. This was remarkable because there was only one PhD in the bunch -- me, the most junior person -- and everyone but me had a spectacular track record of designing, building and delivering innovative products.

We started with whiteboard discussions. These would go on for hours at a time, across multiple days. When we had the outlines of a workable idea, someone would go and write a design document. And that got reviewed extensively, over a few days. The "breaker" sorts of analyses got done at this point.

So by the time we started implementing, we knew we had a very solid design. From that point on, bugs were just bugs. They weren't these initial cracks that revealed a rotten foundation.

I thought that this approach worked incredibly well. And I was dismayed to observe that it wasn't practiced elsewhere. I did try to institute this approach a few times, but it doesn't really take hold unless you have other senior people who want to adopt it. And at my last startup, we had smart but young and inexperienced developers who were bought into Agile, and code reviews substituting for design reviews. The predictable (and predicted) hilarity ensued.
Craigslist is _the_ case study on how an ugly UI can survive over a long timeline. There are many techies and UI designers that are just disgusted at the UI of craigslist. For some, aesthetic is more important than usability. Luckily, for most, it's not.
Migrating away from Cognito is hard and involves end user participation as you can not export password hashes.
Avoiding wastes of taxpayer money is a legitimate goal for which to use the powers of government. Penalizing the stupidity that led to it is not, and this distinction matters because there may be other, more effective ways to avoid wasting taxpayer money than penalizing stupidity. (For instance, as the other reply mentions, maybe the government could be more cautious about what they choose to spend taxpayer money on.) So setting your goal appropriately matters.
I don't understand why it's so hard to understand that these people don't want to work in other industries, they want to make games. And thus it makes sense for them to organize and try to improve the industry they want to be in rather than having to flee to another industry, which currently happens all too often after severe burnout.

If it's so bad that many people are being forced out, then clearly it meets the bar of unionization being helpful. I'd rather start organizing than quit the industry I love, as the worst that could happen is I get fired (and potentially get a big payout on a subsequent lawsuit), and if it's so bad that the alternative is to leave anyway, it's the same result.
Indeed. Usually the number of actions to get to something or do something is a big part of UX. It becomes critical when the software is a tool used for repetitive tasks.
This sounds like a project where the users haven't been involved at all, I'm surprised it wasn't noticed earlier.
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Mike Seibert, who was also part of the team, paid tribute to the rover, dubbed “Oppy”, saying “Goodbye old friend” and noting that the rover was the longest lasting surface mission yet
> What’s the lesson here?

> A large business by its nature has massive-scale data and usually thousands of users who directly interact with it—searching, manipulating, reporting, and more. They need to move through that data quickly, without a lot of digging around in the interface.

The lesson here is actually that the designer didn't understand the context in which customers were using the app.

It sounds like s/he didn't talk to customers about how and why they use the app, or show wireframes to them, or even sit and watch them use it for an hour.

If they had done any of the above, they would have had a lot more context about what a good solution looked and felt like.
This was 10 years ago. I hope that USMs are using better tools by now..
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> It seems a lot of UIs these days are designed for beginners instead of people who know what they are doing.

I think the underlying thing is that simple UIs sell better because you're usually presenting it to someone that can't visualize their complex workflow needs up front. The number of times I've seen requirements that are basically sales enablement features that customers would rarely use is not insignificant. Similar to focusing on usability for low-res displays, when the only time the app would be used on a low res display is when hooking it up to a projector in a demo.
No. Just mimic the speed, information density, and task-centricity.
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> But it’s interesting that both Facebook and Twitter evolved into these negative, emotional, politically charged, environments when they moved from a chronological list of updates from your curated set of friends and followers, to an algorithmic one that shuffles in “popular” content.

Because that's where the money is? fake outrage, drama, division and negativity. Reddit is no different. People love dirty laundry and scandals. These social media are the new tabloids, you know, the magazines nobody buys but everybody reads...
There are custom keyboards, they're just hard to find. The Devlin KMX-144 or the Logic Controls LK1800 come to mind. I'm sure there are others. You can use (n?)curses to make a terminal user interface.

I still prefer the web - just with the keyboard as a first class citizen.
This is great. Makes me think of the change from Visual Studio from 2008 to 2010. They made a very good IDE into a slow, unreadable mess with much less functionality just to have a “flat” interface. I still don’t understand that nobody at MS noticed how bad that change was. Or more likely people weren’t listened to. Even after almost 10 years they barely have caught up to what they had with 2008.
It's a privacy thing. I expect we'll see Firefox and Chrome sharding cache as well.
I've always thought of these glorified mopeds as suicide boxes. There's no way you could survive a crash against a real car in this thing.
It was interesting to see a small force of people pushing ActivityPub in the Twitter comments last night.
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I've been letting Chrome/Google generate and save passwords for me the last months - its incredibly convenient. (Only for throwaway kind of sites)
I was left with the impression that if "good" random number generators exist, then this is not a problem: you use your small key as a seed to make the big key. And we do not have a reason yet to doubt the existence of such RNGs. Did I get this wrong?

Edit: I think I was right, as the mathematical term "perfect secrecy" from the theorem is not particularly practical (lack of perfect secrecy does not imply the existence of a way to break the cypher). http://www.cs.miami.edu/home/burt/learning/Csc609.011/Perfec...
I don’t suppose they’ll care to bail the company out with their own finances if the company were to teeter on bankruptcy for the sake of collectivism...
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This could have been written about the redesigned user panel for gandi.net. The old one looked like Windows 95, but it was very usable. The new one seems to be made as a lifestyle site for mobile users on the go. So not me. I emailed them my concerns, as a good customer and citizen. Didn't get a response, why would they bother? So I voted with my wallet and migrated all my domains.
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The industry I worked in was networking (data center products, routers for ISPs, etc), but technical support. I did that for 20 years.

Even though it was pretty high end stuff.... everyone hates technical support and I found that generally companies eventually devalue it as time goes on. I got tired of that system.

I got paid really well but just got tired of seeing the atmosphere at company after company get more negative. Poor management trotted in, just coasting, incapable of making changes and such. Despite bringing in massive $$$ in support contracts... that money was never directed to support and things just degrade over time.

Then companies would outsource to some garbage company and the support there would be terrible so I and others would take the brunt of angry customers. Then someone would roll out metrics that show those folks overseas who just close cases are doing great because ... they just close cases without solving the issue.

The bad stuff just snowballs and there is no going back no matter how valuable you are in support.

When I was in support I worked closely with the engineering teams who wrote the code and who really liked how I worked (they'd ask that difficult cases be transferred to me because they know I'd document things, actually troubleshot, be honest if I don't know). They actually picked me at one point to be able to fast track issues that I saw straight to engineering and they'd pick up the phone immediately, because if I told them "you're gonna see this soon (either from a VP or something) because it is bad, you want to get a head start on it" they knew it was real. So I was already curious about coding in some form.

I wanted to do something new, got laid off after an acquisition, got a severance, and went the bootcamp route. I like making things now and web development is fun for me, I find that "troubleshooting" and "debugging" and such are all the same thing and that has served me well as well as the ability to work independently and learn independently.
From my understanding, that's basically right. The Rovers rely on the heat from their electronics to keep the electronics warm. While it could recover, when out of power the electronics will drop below their design temperature, making it more likely something will break (or already has).
It depends on the load, the surface, the jack, and the overall situation. For sure, many of the spindly jacks that come with small cars could be an issue.

And remember, the jack is only lifting one corner (or side in some configurations), so it sin't the whole load.

Even if it's iffy, I can easily envision a situation where the load is not massive but is still bulky or inconvenient to remove, or impossible to do so without equipment.

So, yes, this feature would give me pause (maybe not a deal-breaker, but...) in contrast to an otherwise fantastic design. If you haven't yet, definitely check it out!
Google is the only (major) cloud provider to suffer global service outages (AWS and Azure have only ever had region-wide outages). They have done so more than once, and they have no notable blog posts that ever explain how they will mitigate it in the future. That's enough from my perspective to never recommend them to any customer that ever needs region redundancy.

From my experience of being a cloud middle man the only industries left that haven't already migrated to the cloud are the ones that have burdensome regulatory and compliance burdens. From that perspective MSFT is winning. They try the hardest to get all the qualifications, certs, and partners that make Medicine, Finance, and Auto feel safe. Are they the best cloud? Probably not, but they are poised to take what's left of those who haven't ventured into the cloud yet.
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As with every anti-Facebook article I have ever seen, multiple 'like on Facebook' buttons are clearly visible. The first is right under the header. The second is on a sticky div that appears when you scroll down a bit, and which is the most prominent part of the div. Then, at the end of the article, there is a very large Facebook button, which not only has the logo, but the words "SHARE ON FACEBOOK" in capital letters.
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Thank god it isn’t. They sort of tried to do that with 2010 but failed
miserably.
Besides the ego trip it's a pretty eye opening article. I didn't think Google had such internal issues.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a former employee of Descartes Labs.

That being said, Descartes Labs has something very similar on a US-wide scale or global scale, depending on the base layer you select.

see: https://descarteslabs.com/search
The problem is if you want a 4K tv from Sony, Samsung, LG, or Vizio you'd be hard pressed to find any that are not some variation of a "smart" tv. You could go back to 1080 and find some dumb TVs still but then you're losing out on the HDR support.
why they are not capable enough to move for that?
Yes, I often open a document and decide I want to use a Tool. ;)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2006/01/31/flea-mar...
The difference is that as of today most public transport concepts have been tried and evaluated. None of them offered enough advantages to justify the cost of building a new network.

Of course, it happens that new technology makes older concepts suddenly viable. But in public transport, the cost of the track is one of the major factors. The high cost for Maglev tracks killed the technology (yes, it may work in Japan where the geography leads to lines with insane capacity demands). Hyperloop will suffer from the same problem.

The New York subway started with a revolutionary pneumatic railway and some other lines using standard gauge railway tracks. The pneumatic railway was quickly abandoned.
There is a certain irony in reading about wasted screen space on Medium. That uncloseable banner on the bottom is driving me a bit crazy.
> Do you make friends based on their extracurricular activities?

Actually, people very frequently become friends through shared extracurricular activities; existing friendships are also a significant factor in choosing activities to participate in. This is all perfectly normal, and choosing extracurriculars for their own sake is the exception, not the rule. It's important to enjoy the activity yourself, of course, but don't dismiss the value that shared interests and backgrounds bring to any relationship.

> Do you have to check with Harvard to see if a certain kind of music is enjoyable?

I don't particularly care what Harvard thinks because I'm not trying to get into Harvard. I don't think it's out of line, however, for them to reinforce both the academic and social aspects of their culture by selecting for prospective students who already share these values—or at least demonstrate both ability and willingness to make an effort to fit in.
As someone who has spent their entire life on the blue team, I've used some of these red team tools to assess my effectiveness. I can remember using Metasploit to make as much noise as possible to test my team's responsiveness to our SIEM going crazy with alerts. We've used Burp and similar tools to perform security audits of the company's custom code, and audits of software we're doing a PoC with to ensure quality.

I've never once worried that the tools I'm using would end up in the hands of more sophisticated hackers. If anything, I'm glad for the basic red team tools because it makes script kiddies easier to find. They're not going to do custom exploits anymore when Metasploit exists. On the other side, it's almost always a safe bet that the actual bad guys are going to skip the off-the-shelf tools...

... assuming, of course, you have a decent enough security posture as-is. If script kiddies and ransomware and Zeus can get into your network unnoticed, you've got a much larger problem on your hands. Unfortunately, most companies still fall into this category because even companies that spend tens of millions of dollars on security don't take basic security seriously.
I believe that's the benefit. They're symbiotes of a healthy environment. They enter, do something good, then leave. The one's that enter and wish to stay are the ones we don't want in us.
I tried the new interface, and even after a couple of minutes I still couldn't find where my saved posts were. Went straight back to `old.`
Only because it largely sourced its news based on Tweets and Twitter trends. They went for cheap then they are surprised people don't want to pay for glorified tabloids?
That’s the strange thing about reddit’s new design: It not only lacks functionality and performance, but also white space and clean aesthetics. It feels dated already.
> See where you might reduce visual complexity by combining elements — for example, by putting a customer’s first and last name in the same field.

Great, until people want to sort/filter by stuff that is now crammed in to one field. Sort by state? Sorry - it's now "city/state/country/postalcode"

Some people will want things one way, some will want it another, and you'll be tasked with making it work "both ways" - just add a checkbox to check to switch how it works. How hard can it be, right?