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Ask HN: How to get your designer to design for mobile and react-native
There is a constant issue that we are having where the designer is going to come up with a screen but while translating that into code for mobile in React-Native we end up having discrepancies on different screen sizes.

Also our designer is not familiar with DPI so when it comes to font sizes etc we are having issues finding a font size that will work well with different screen sizes.

My question to you is: Are there any tools for the job?
We've tried some of them including Sketch and exporting to react-native but it seems a bit premature.

Are there any courses or books that we can recommend to our designer in order to make sure that his design can be translated and scaled into react-native?

Thanks for reading.
25 days is, admittedly, longer than I expected him to try, but I still have trouble accepting the conclusion that it’s just not right for the author. There are many reasons touch typing is the preferred method and why it’s taught in schools and typing speed isn’t necessarily the most important.

As someone who does touch type and has tried to switch from QWERTY to DVORAK it’s also widely advocated that you switch entirely, even if you’re dirt slow at first, because the real gains come after your brain finally switches over and it truly becomes muscle memory, not actively remembering where keys are in whichever layout you’re using at the time.

In another 10 years I wonder if he’ll regret not switching to get that decreased muscle strain benefit too...
Retries, Timeouts and Backoffs – building resilient systems
I bet the owners of those houses could sell them to IT/steaming/gamer minded folks for a higher price than average.
>Many formerly communist countries, e.g. Vietnam, have unleashed the purest form of capitalism possible.

If you had an abusive ex you'd pick the exact opposite for your rebound too.
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To your second point, my assumption as a non-pilot is that a symmetrically balanced glide is more controllable than lopsided thrust that could put you into a spin?
Yeah I think you are right about shaving costs. From the business perspective, you shave off 5 cents, times 10 million sales.. you got some serious $$$ there
When I teach BDD classes I sometimes joke that we might not need acceptance tests written in G/W/T if the biz people could read programmer tests.
I said it okayish because this post is for learning purpose and not any advanced stuff. :)

In my view, it all depends on what one creates. I agree that some of today's chatbots may not be the best but that's okay. Maybe we will be able to do better.
I would love to work 4 10 hour shifts. Same amount of work weekly but an extra day to rest and do stuff.
Fair enough, I see your point.

But, I'd argue the use of "legal" was to make a real point: We assume this isn't legally possible today, and the article is showing how it is. So I'm not saying you're wrong, simply that I disagree.
Making a chatbot that’s useful is more impossible than you think.
First, the game is funny and entertaining from moment to moment. Second, games were a lot harder back then, so players expected to fail repeatedly - although Hitchhiker's Guide is particularly sadistic
Not true. Google started negotiations with Louisville in 2015. The city passed the ordinance in February 2016 to become more attractive as a Fiber City candidate: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/metro-go... (“Tonight's vote puts Louisville one step closer toward becoming a Google Fiber city.”). Google made the official selection of Louisville as a Fiber City in April 2017, and as of that date had not even applied for any work permits: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-fiber-officially.... The lawsuit was resolved by August 2017, four months after Google made the official selection and two months before Google started construction.

Google was right to lobby for the law—it’s a good law and there is ongoing work to require similar laws at the federal level. But as far as what happened in Louisville it’s a red herring. It was a theoretical fight over what AT&T theoretically could have done to hold up deployment, had Google theoretically chosen to deploy over poles. (Note additionally that AT&T proposed a compromise in the city council that would’ve allowed Google contractors to do the make-ready work, but they would have to file work plans in advance and give the equipment owners 60 days to object. So the actual fight was narrower than “one touch make ready,” and far narrower than “access to poles” at all, as stated above by OP.)
>all other things being equal, the worker will choose to go the the one with more favorable work conditions.

Assume the cow is a sphere.
> Given that slaves built most of America

Where did you learn that?
32, American, was forced to use cursive almost exclusively through I think the 8th grade. After that, everyone stopped caring what we did.

Most students switched away from cursive almost immediately, though a few adopted a mix of print and cursive letters.
News: Zuckerberg is a thieving lying snake. Facebook is cancer. As long as these snakes don't go to prison, this will not stop/end.
To;Dr, given-when-then can sometimes obscure requirements rather than illuminate them. Use Excel or other tools to document such scenarios, as everyone in the software design process can understand Excel formulas.
> Finally, all the arguments you make for charging more apply equally well anywhere in the world. So why doesn't Apple charge India prices everywhere in the world already?

They kind of do, except they're slowly easing into it. First iPhone was 499 USD for the base model. iPhone X was 999 USD for the base model.

So over 10 years, they slowly raised their prices 100 %.
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It was kind of the point. His other Infocom game was called Bureacrary, so you can see the theme developing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)
Interesting. Hope it will run on mac (should be). Got a ti1080 and a vega 56 to compare.
Political ideologies are for the masses, not elites.
The problem I see with that argument is that it dismisses what all sorts of other upmarket brands are doing in India.

Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and others are making essentially the same play. They must see a valuable enough market to warrant that kind of investment.
The main difference is a freelancer is only responsible for one person. If you are an Entrepreneur, usually that means building a team and being responsible for a group of people that have put their trust and future in your hands.
I'll have to check that out, I do have one question tho (maybe someone asnwerd it already somewhere?)..if everyone knew soil was underneath then wasn't this preventable ? or was it one of those..well we can't get the money to fix it until after something bad happens? I'd say it's pretty obvious soil erodes by now, and that having it underneath large structures alone is not a great idea.
Computer Shopper magazine in the early 1990's was a huge magazine about 3cm thick printed on cheap paper (like a phone book if people still know what that is...)

It was probably about 95% ads and just a few articles. Before comparison price sites it was a good way to find cheap prices for computer parts
This is not an article but a cold war style capitalist sermon.
>An example would be how there is a financial incentive to not work employees over so many hours since that can decrease their efficiency.

Why does their efficiency matter if they're at the office for 10 hours anyway?

I've never seen evidence of the invisible hand helping anyone but the owners.
In the face of uncertainty after this tragedy, I find some comfort in knowing this data was collected and can be used in efforts to rebuild and restore.

Some of the techniques and materials may be lost to history, but the detail is perfectly preserved so at least there is a path to follow.
Study finds no benefit for dietary supplements
American Airlines Devising Extra Simulator Training for Boeing 737 Cockpit Crew
The great con: In missile defense, nothing succeeds like failure
What Is Team Augmentation?
That's like something out of The Onion.

"Newspaper's 'good news' section shuts down, cites lack of good news"
Yes, the people who created DEXes do know about and advertise this issue, because this is work we've been doing since early 2017 and discussing with them even earlier. In fact, I advise a lot of those projects, and many consider me the SME on DEX frontrunning. I'm also the reason 0x e.g. released a bot to explicitly do this.

To claim this is what they were designing for is just ignorance of the space though. None of them knew about or even anticipated this issue; just because it is obvious to you does not mean it was obvious to them.

Just because DEXes are only for regulatory arbitrage (your words, not mine) doesn't mean that we should stand up crappy market designs.

The majority of the paper is about the formalization of and data on PGAs and miner OO, which was also not known in the blockchain community until now. If you point me to a reference to the contrary, or that contains the same results as e.g. Sections 5-7 of our paper, I'll gladly cite this and reduce my claims of novelty. Otherwise, this is something I've been working on for years, I'm going to stick with it, and it's up to peer review in the scientific community to decide :).

I hear what you are saying, but your preconceptions about Flash Boys being a bad book seem to be severely coloring your understanding of the work!
Ask HN: Which is easier to do NLP with, Chinese or English?
I’m curious whether there is a significant difference between approaches for NLP in different languages. In some ways, generating “correct” Chinese text seems easier because the grammar seems less particular and more statistical, but parsing seems difficult due to the lack of “spaces” between words. Does Chinese require a different theoretical approach than English? What about other languages?
I agree and that’s why it was framed as an anecdote.
So you're saying chatbots aren't as difficult to make as you think?
Does Calacanis do anything beyond hop on the occasional podcast or talking head show? As an investor his fortunes are tied to making you work the maximum while paying as little as possible. As an employee your fortunes are tied to your physical and mental health. Both objectives are only aligned under creating a product that sells.

I also don't take anything Jack Ma says seriously. He is a member of the CCP. The CCP determines who the winners and losers are, rarely is the market consulted.
I cannot understand all that amount of excitement. Are we under heavy fanbot attack or am I missing something? If the whole thing is that, is faster than grep and "in Rust we Trust" then please feel free to ignore my comment.

I would use OSX's slow grep every single day to find things and I never had any of the non-problems problems which ripgrep is trying to solve. About recursive, case insensitive and search and file number just use grep with the flags "-Rni", so I don't get in which aspect is superior. I never ever had half a thought about grep's performance at the systems I use it (already faster than my cognitive bottle neck). If I ever would need something better than grep I would try to move to the next level or deal with lots of unstructured data I would perhaps move to a local search engine using indexes.

And personally I would consider an antipattern to skip the gitignore contents per default. What kind of machines or use cases are hitting the people in the comments?
Nice rant, but how is this relevant to GP's comment?
Are you saying that Forbes shows up significantly higher in search results for highly specific topic searches that you should rank higher in, or for more general searches, or something else?
Not quite an iron curtain, maybe silicon curtain?
Isn't that what Google Adsense used to do back in the day, i.e. show games in gaming sites for example?
I find it difficult to break after 25 minutes when I am too much into the stuff specially in between complex debugging. Then I feel like I am not doing Pomodoro right. Do have a similar experience?
Not everyone is swimming in buckets of FAANG cash and has the freedom to be fired at any time.

The pressure to keep putting food on the table is strong, especially when you have kids.

Many people see nonsense they have no power to personally fix, and in a big bureaucratic organization even making a ruckus will usually get you nothing but shown the door.

So for many, the choice is
1: say nothing, keep your paychecks, and the problem still exists, or
2: say something, possibly lose your job, and the problem still doesn't get fixed because you have no authority.

The only resort is whistleblowing, which may or may not work and is losing its protections all the time.
Depending on your metaphilosophical models, you might also say that both waves and particles have light-like properties.
Can we optimize city transportation better than a museum robber could?
European countries often have a minimum 5 year warranty on electronics sold to consumers, while Apple's extended warranty costs more than 10% for just two years, so that's got to be an important factor too. AppleCare is probably better than what's required by law in Europe though.
consider that many options in firefox are not easily selected in dialog boxes it leaves a lot to be desired.

now what eventually will have be settled is that many sites have adopted the policy of blocking items in turn prohibits use of the site at all. this is the battle I am curious how it will pan out. currently most can be avoided by turning javascript off but someone will find other means to test
If humanity doesn't make it through the crises of the 21st century, I imagine ceteris paribus will be on our figurative gravestones.
I do appreciate how their “Director of Platform Partnerships” was also apparently in charge of killing platforms FB thought had become too popular. Great folks to do business with, I’m sure.
In American public discussion China is "communist" the same way America is "capitalist". You just need to understand what those using the term intend it to mean. (I'm talking about casual, conventional use in everyday conversation and the infotainment sphere, not an academic sense.) "Capitalism" is intended to mean, "the way we do things here in the United States, which is awesome" and "communism" is meant to mean "the way people who aren't like us do things, and which is bad". It's pressure to justify American-style economic policy, while suppressing any discussion of alternatives.
I lasted one semester in Russian class thanks in part to the cursive writing full of what looks like to English speakers as cursive u and w mixed with half-height dotless cursive i's. It was really hard to read and write Cyrillic like that.
My cursive was always absolutely atrocious. I have no idea how teachers could read anything I have ever written.

I couldn't read my own handwriting if I had to write down notes fast or did not 100% focus on the task of just writing legibly.

The result of that was that for better or worse I rarely took any notes in school until University. I think it helped with learning since I was paying attention to remember stuff, but of course I also had to borrow notes from my friends after..

Writing print changed this - my print handwriting is pretty nice actually (I even got some compliments on it) and I never had any trouble reading my notes.

Long story short, I see absolutely no point in teaching something like cursive in schools. It seems like a colossal waste of time.
I recall approaching this game all cocky because I read the book. I left with my tail between my legs.
Not in American schools, certainly.
Those electric Citi Bikes are a lot of fun.
Good for her.
Is there any good modern analogue to Infocom games that I can plan on my iPhone slowly?
I don't think the posting of the source code was meant to encourage you to play the games.
I do agree it is hard. As per usefulness, Customer service industry can use it in a pretty good way. Also i think they are fun :)
Years ago when I thought of Google I thought of their search engine. Then I thought about them in terms of their successful software like Google Maps, Docs, Chrome, etc. Then I started to become more aware of what they were up to and thought of them in terms of their new motto, "Be Evil". Now I mainly think about Google in terms of a company that kills products and initiatives. I can't think of a single other company that has less of an ability to follow through than Google. Their newer motto should be "When the going gets tough, quit."
To workers, the invisible hand is hovering in the middle of the their field of vision, slowly doing the jerk-off motion.
From what I can read in that article, the law will simply mandate that Roskomnadzor gets to control the internet access points, and it's also hinted that services will be required to host their data in Russia, to some extent. That would give them the ability to shut down most of the Internet traffic to and from the rest of the world, while still allowing important services to run without disruptions.

That's the theory anyway. In practice, I assume Russian web services are just as dependant on third-party providers as the rest of us are.
Well certainly the slave and cotton trade was a dominating part of the early American economy.

>The average slave owner held almost two-thirds of his wealth in slaves in 1860, much less than he held in land.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers...

"America was built on slavery" is obviously a bit of hyperbole, but given the economic boost to agriculture in the south built on the backs of African slaves, or the literal building of the east-west infrastructure on the backs of Chinese ones, I don't think it's an unfair claim.
Nah, that's how I'd do it, too.
> Any company over size x is, by definition, staffed by average people.

Average for that company, not average across profession.

> What, then, would lead anyone to believe that a sufficiently large company could possibly be full of geniuses? It just can’t happen.

It absolutely can and should (though it's another question why it rarely does). It requires expending continuous effort though - effort to bring in above-average people, to raise the level of people on-board so they stay above average, and to get rid of people that are below average.

This is actually what life itself does. The default, lowest-energy state of matter is a mixed and utterly uninteresting soup of everything. Living things continuously expend energy to maintain an organized, higher-energy state against the threat of average. They continuously pump entropy out.
Perhaps not literally built but built off the backs of slaves, definitely.
> please don't perpetuate the delusion that users actually want "relevant" ads

This seems really short sighted. Why wouldn't folks prefer relevant ads? I certainly do.
I've been one place that I thought was really good at software estimation. Their system was:

Everything gets a T-shirt size. Roughly, "small" is no more than a couple person-days, "medium" is no more than a couple person-weeks, "large" is no more than a couple person-months.

Anything beyond that, assume the schedule could be unbounded. Figure out how to carve those into a series of no-larger-than-large projects that have independent value. If they form a series of iterations, don't make any assumptions about whether you'll ever even get around to anything but the first one or two. That just compromises your ability to treat them as independent projects, and that creates risk that you find yourself having to worry about sunk costs and writing down effort already expended when it eventually (and inevitably) turns out that you need to be shifting your attention in order to address some unforeseen business development.

At the start of every quarter, the team would commit to what it would get done during that quarter. There were some guidelines on how many small, medium or large projects they can take on, but the overriding principle was that you should under-promise and over-deliver. Lots of slack (1/3 - 1/2) was left in everyone's schedule, in order to ensure ample time for all the small urgent things that inevitably pop up.

There was also a log of technical debt items. If the team finished all their commitments before the end of the quarter, their reward was time to knock things off that list. Best reward ever, IMO.
Thumbs up. It not just easy to write, but beautiful, and there are research that tells that it is easier to write in a mix of connected and unconnected letters than exclusively cursive.

BTW, taking notes by hand is better to remember: https://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/474525392/attention-students-...
The amount (edit: percent) of GDP directly allocated by the Federal and State governments in the U.S. is greater than it ever was in the Soviet Union or China.
> Accepting the terms of engagement by your so-called opponent is a basic, rookie mistake in any form of strategic out-maneuvering.

Not only is copying the Chinese work ethic a rookie mistake as a strategic generalisation, but 996 is a completely flawed strategy for cognitive work - it's a relic passed over from manual labor - treating programmers as cogs in a cotton mill is not a good long term strategy, they will create a world of shit for themselves, I think this fact is probably intuitive to any programmer reading.
Use case: grepping (big) repos. Rg is great for that, and grep, because it is much slower, almost not usable.
> pip install chatterbot

well yes but
In the long run, the lack of a core mechanism to accurately price externalities will perhaps be the dominating failure mode of capitalism.
The National Geographic article from 2015 [1] was pretty interesting at the time and has been getting passed around again in light of the fire. But I had no idea that Prof. Tallon passed away from cancer just last November. A bit of an extra pang on top of the tragedy, though what an immediate extra bit of legacy to leave behind too.

I would love to see that kind of fairly automated 3D laser scan tech become more affordable and systematically used though. I worked at a firm that did some historical restoration work on a 19th century building, nothing remotely on the scale or significance of Notre-Dame but still beautiful in its own right. At the time I looked at this tech, it would be useful both as a backstop in case of disaster but also for better CAD work and even as VR to give another option to view wonderful architecture to wider audiences. Nothing beats going in person, but not everyone can go (even ignoring travel cost, there is wear and tear to think about) and I don't think it's bad to have another good option. It might be an efficient use of resources for nations to fund a set of systems for national historic societies or the like that could then lend them out for a few days to a week at a time systematically to recognized registered historical landmarks, and then have the resulting raw data be available as a public resource.

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1: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150622-andrew-ta...