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He praised them then damned them in the very next sentence. "Less would be better everywhere". Funny how that is quoted far less often on the internet. Now it's certainly not just Apple he's criticising but the excess of replacing everything on one, two or three year cycles. He then criticised them more extensively in a more recent interview than the heavily mis-quoted documentary.

Apple? Ive manages to directly copy (iPod, webcam, podcast and calculator app etc) Braun, or parody them. He was infinitely better whilst Jobs was still around to keep him on a very short lead. That shows through in every product in the current Apple range.

The stupid people who wrote the article? Well, Tog is the guy who wrote Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, and created a good chunk of the Mac and other UIs. Don Norman is the Norman in Neilsen Norman group, as well as writing the book others have mentioned. Far more respected in the field than most authors on the topic, and both did lengthy stints at Apple.
You learn by doing problems, even in the humanities.
It's not trivial if you don't know what to look for, and I obviously didn't.
Yes, exactly. The MAX "stab trim cutout" simply disabled the trim motor altogether. Everything you describe appears to have happened in the Ethiopian flight report. A 737 pilot also tried to run the same flight in simulator and had his arms wrapped around the control column trying to hold level while the copilot failed to move the trim wheel.
Firstly, gambling companies shouldn't be allowed to market to kids at all, full stop.

Secondly, Jake Paul appeared to do the bare minimum legally to post the video (a small, singline-line "Sponsored by Mystery Company" disclaimer note is displayed towards the beginning of the video.

What was particularly heinous in this situation was that Jake Paul spent a lot of money betting on certain boxes and wound up winning a handful of high-priced items. They did not make it clear in the video that what they were doing was actual gambling, instead choosing to focus on "winning prizes".

Another YouTuber, Ricegum, even went as far to claim to the effect that this was like investing your money and watching it grow. Absolutely unacceptable language in any advertising case.

Here's one specific perspective of what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ewyEF3Wd9M
Mostly for business. Maybe some people are comfortable to Whatsapp you, but it's inappropriate for a lot of situations.

Also, in a lot of places you need a local number to get things done. Like when making reservations at restaurants or you leave your number in the POS to have them text when a table is ready, etc.

As it is, I have a dual SIM Android phone as well as an iPhone and have 3 postpaid plans in different places. Massive pain.
> To prevent bottlenecking, the stairs should be wider than the walkways they connect to.

That walkway does look ridiculously narrow, though. Seems to be just one person wide.
> I don't think "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" romanticizes mental illness, for me it is about demonizing institutionalization.

Intent is one thing, effect is another. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the book and movie, broke ground upon its release, but one of its secondary effects was to establish the mid-20th-century mental hospital as a gothic setting, akin to the ancient stone manors of old, full of terrible secrets -- not to mention bizarre characters -- that are ripe for literary exploration. Today it's been almost completely tropified, especially since in the current era Great Literature is by definition introspectively psychological. An easy way to establish that your play or movie is "arty" is to set it in such an institution. One of the weirdest instances of this was in The Great Gatsby (2013), which wholly took place in a mental hospital (the plot of the novel being Nick's recollections to his psychiatrist) and implied that Nick admired Gatsby almost to the point of a crush and was so devastated by his death as to need psychiatric attention.

I do recommend you read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the novel. It is written from the perspective of Chief Bromden, and his mental illness helps intensify the themes of subtle control, exercised by tyrannical people and institutions, with specific delusions he has that make him sensitive to that control.
When I was a just getting out of being a teen (17-19 ish?), I started a challenge (ideology? creed?) for myself. It was to "never be wrong". To do this I would have to be realistic of my certainties, be brutally honest with myself about what I thought I knew, how I knew it, and the likelyhoods of each. I had hoped I'd build up over time, a blurrier, but more accurate view of the world.

I learned this lesson myself, people interpret uncertainty as simply "not knowing", if you "not know" enough you're considered not knowledgeable. I had thought stating my certainty would mean when I was very certain, people would take that information seriously. It was the exact opposite. Simply being uncertain means you arn't reliable and can't be trusted.

I've mostly abandoned this way of thinking now. I don't even think like that internally any more either. It was not a useful challenge/ideology/creed for me. I take comfort that I'm at least no worse than anyone else.
I live, and am sitting, less than 500 feet from several trains right now. I can hear one rolling on the tracks. I can hear the ding-dong noise they play before they close the doors on another.

It is noooothing compared to the honking of any driver who feels like anything in the universe costing them more than one half of a second deserves an airhorn blast. Its nowhere near as annoying as the beep-beep-beep of trucks backing up. Its much fainter than the blasting ambulance and fire truck sirens necessary to pierce the bubble of car drivers attention. Its also much less than the idling engine noise of the delivery vans.
I'm not buying that explanation. Hearing, just like seeing, is something that you need to practice. If it's the first time you're hearing a specific sound then you might not notice the intricate details in it. If you stick around those sounds for long enough then you'll hear the details as well.

When I was younger I knew a girl whose voice I did not understand when I first met her. It took me some time before I was able to understand what she was saying, because I hadn't heard a voice like that before. Based on that event, I think that the reason people can't hear the specific details of pronunciation is because they're not used to it, but they can learn with more experience.
I think you just need the right teacher. It's true that some people (such as myself) can perceive and imitate a large variety of sounds and therefore 'sound native' in any language (which isn't actually indicative of true language ability in my opinion - one might just know a single phrase), but for the people who can't do this, you just need the right teacher, someone who will take the time to drill with you over and over and also provide the right type of instruction for the student (such as curriculum learning to move towards producing difficult sounds).

What may be special about kids learning a language (or anything, really), is that they have no preconception of a 'correct' way to do things, including how to move their tongues.

That being said, I can't whistle to this day.
Regarding the missing $851 million tied to Cryto Capital, nobody know exactly where they are.
Fossil fuels burn cleaner and if we run out of those we'll be dead. There is way more available carbon than we could release without having much bigger problems than finding more.
Why Do You Grab Your Bag When Running Off a Burning Plane?
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I think the 737 MAX should be properly re-certified as a new airplane once the "fixes" are implemented. The whole idea that you can significantly alter an existing airplane by mounting larger engines more forward, add new automatic systems, and still pretend that it's the same airplane, is flawed.
No British Prime Minister has lost a confidence motion since 1979, but I think it's worth noting that a) a PM with a majority can only block a no-confidence vote with the support of their party's MPs and b) the threat of a no-confidence motion is frequently sufficient to force a resignation.

Callaghan was the last PM to lose a no-confidence vote, but that's not the full story. Major and Brown resigned after losing an election, but Thatcher, Blair and Cameron all resigned as PM. May is expected to resign before the next general election. No US president has resigned since Nixon in 1974, which suggests a marked difference in security of tenure under the different systems - we might not kick our prime minister out of office very often, but they usually leave office of their own volition.
I think it has more to do with old people being more stubborn. I've noticed that often it's not that they're unable to learn things, but rather they're unwilling to learn.
“conviction to achieve a smoke-free world through socially responsible practices.”...? Why do they even do press? I'm honestly confused by the drug dealer saying they are trying to help the problem
I can help with that -- the MAX is suffering hull losses per flight completed at a rate about 100x that of comparable planes like the A320. Totally off the charts.
It also reinforces the point that there is a trade-off between reliability and security. When you encrypt something you are slightly increasing the chance that you will lose access to that data.

Our accounting software offers end-to-end encryption, but it's not enabled by default. When the user tries to enable it they see a bold message saying, "Warning: In this mode we cannot reset your password. If you forget your password you will lose access to your data. Are you sure you want to continue?"
There are studies that say that EVs are worse than Diesels as well.

http://brusselstimes.com/business/technology/15050/electric-...
I help B2B SaaS companies scale their marketing. I can't really directly help you without knowing what your product is. I'm going to assume it's https://courseroot.com/ since it was a recent submission by you. In this case, it's a B2C product.

Upon landing on your site I immediately see typos / grammatical issues. I suggest you get somebody that's strong in english to help you proofread.

There's a lot of suggestions in the comments to go to your target audience and ask them. That's pretty solid advice but I don't think it's nuanced enough. It's super important to also consider at what stage of the funnel a potential user is at.

For instance, say I run a cloud CI service like Travis or Circle. You could naively say that I should go talk to developers / engineering teams because it's a tool for developers. While developers are the correct target demographic, you have to think about the funnel.

Do these engineering teams even know what CI is?

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Do these engineering teams currently researching different CI tools?

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Do these teams already use a tool like Jenkins?

Marketing that targets people that don't even know they need a CI tool is far, far, different than marketing that targets teams that are currently looking for a solution and far, far, different than teams that have a solution in place and have to go out of their way to switch.

Does that make sense?

So if we're talking about courseroot, I suggest you think about what stage your ideal user is at.

Do they know that they have a problem? (e.g. Do they know that these online courses can help them advance their careers?)

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Do they know they want to take online courses?

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Are the already taking online courses?

If I told you to talk to your target audience and you just talked to people that are already taking online courses, already know what set of courses they plan on taking, it might be hard to extract useful feedback. But if you talked to the same demographic but they know they already have a problem (need to find online courses), that's where you'll get the most useful feedback right this moment.
Are you talking about Sag-AFTRA? It's a labor union.
I gave up my car more than a decade ago. I spent nearly six years homeless. I have lived in an SRO for about 18 months or so.

Since getting divorced, I have mostly not owned a TV. I think I have been to one movie at a theater in the many years since my ex moved out.

I'm aware it is a classist, sexist, racist system in many ways.

I also seem to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leaderboard of Hacker News. I hit the board under my original handle of Mz about a month or so after finally getting off the street, so a lot of the upvotes that got me to the leaderboard were gotten during the years I was homeless.

I bitch regularly about the classism and sexism both in the world and on HN. But I'm not really the right person to aim your remark at. Because if you imagine you are "talking about me," then you have absolutely no idea whatsoever who the hell I am.
I think that's the stuff that never made it onto the bin -> garbage truck -> landfill path. The main constituents are stuff like cigarette butts, laundry fibers, fishing gear... Stuff littered on land or at sea and stuff we just flush downstream
The biggest hurdle to conversation I find in my experience is that people who have never been there find it difficult to comprehend the mental state you're in when you're depressed. At least in my experience, social media would have been just a drop in the sea. In a way, suggesting social media is a problem just reflects how little understanding people have over what is going on inside a depressed person's mind.

The moment you wake up in the morning, you have some idea whether you're going to have an 'easy day' or a 'difficult day'. From that point on, it's a constant battle against your own mind, trying to avoid letting things become a 'bad day'. If you stub your toe on the door frame leaving your bedroom, your day is now a 'bad day' and you have 12 hours of mental struggle to look forward to. You haven't even had the opportunity to find out the clothes you wanted to wear aren't clean, that you're out of milk so you have to have toast for breakfast. You haven't had a chance to drop your spoon on the floor, or accidentally slam the cupboard too loudly. You haven't made it to work or school yet where you'll have to deal with all your least favourite people. And every one of these things makes your day harder, and harder, until you can't hold it back, and all of a sudden you're being held hostage by your own mind. Shit is already hard before you get to social media. Sure, social media probably contributes, but so many things contribute, you cannot eliminate them all.
Revenge of the Coastal Elites
While typing, a GitHub username that contains my surname showed up. That isn't all that unlikely -- my surname is among the top 50 in the US -- but it makes me wonder to what extent genetics determine similarity in typing patterns. Maybe I can use this to find some long-lost relatives. ;)
Same. You can standardise equipment allowances but you can't standardise co-working costs, especially if you have international workers. Wework cost us roughly USD 700 per head in Sydney, USD 500 in London and USD 300 in Madrid.
> JS is not a real compilation target for compilers like LLVM [...].

> JS is a transpilation target

Transpilation is a subset of compilation, so if it is a transpilation target it is, by definition, a compilation target.
Every time we visit the relatives in London we end up talking about the air pollution and noise pollution. It's the noise or light pollution that stops us sleeping though. Then we sometimes talk about it again when we're far enough north to be away from it. It's so nice to have quiet, dark nights again, and the first sleep once back is incredibly refreshing.

We both think the relatives are certifiable to not have moved away. :)
There will be a large number of people that rationalise producing far, far more waste than they would otherwise because they falsely think it isn't harmful.

This, of course, is by design.
Correct pitch accent and intonation is quite hard to acquire. Congratulations, no small feat.
That's cool, thanks. I learned something.
A lot of this has to do with learned tension. You've literally taught your body to be stiff by staying in a limited number of different positions for hours a day, whereas children still have good mobility. If you fall due to passing out, unless you hit your head on the way down, you're likely to find that you don't hurt at all afterwards.

Fix your hypertonicity and poor mobility, and you could fall like a child again :)
> There's no fundamental design flaw, the aircraft is sound.

From what I have read, the new aircraft design had a habit of raising it's nose when engine power was applied, which put the plane into a situation where it might stall.

The MCAS was added to automatically detect this behaviour and stop the nose lifting.

So basically, without the MCAS, under certain scenarios the plane had a tendency to want to stall.

That does suggest the aerodynamic design of the plane is less than ideal and this could even be considered a design fault.
yeah, I always wondered if it's something to do with type of personalities too that typically go into sales/marketing vs. engineering, extroverts vs. introverts type of thing (I am simplifying here greatly).
Because I don't even understand how it can come to these situations, when me and my team drink together we just talk about science/tech stuff or something dumb like, does a bagel qualify as a sandwich.
I remember reading that you have 2 years max to make money and get out before your guaranteed to get busted. It was a fun book. Personally I wouldn't recommend the lifestyle choice.
You think old people are more stubborn than little children?
What are they monopolizing in social media? People? Are we going break up Facebook by telling Jim and Dan that they have to use two separate social media sites and can no longer communicate via the same social media site?
Demand must be a lot higher than it used to be, or we wouldn't have been able to sell the reserve fast enough to deplete it. As the price rises, some uses of it won't be worth the cost, and critical uses will have to become more efficient. I doubt demand will drop so much that there will be a large reserve again.
Woof. This is how you continue to expand technical debt until it destroys the project. I'm hoping it is a smaller time window for projection, so you can ... never mind. I see there are no tests, dev environments, docs. Just make sure the check clears while you fly this pig all the way to the crash site.

(We went from the same sad state to having things more or less corrected. Every bit of code we touched, we added sanity testing, automation, etc. It took about two years, however, with 10-20% of the time fixing code/process stink)
Establishing a registered entity to employ in a foreign country is not a few hours advice. It is difficult, expensive and time consuming.
Just about every nation, except the US, signed a legally binding treaty[1] last Friday to not ship it off to foreign countries.

I'd be far happier if we bought into reduce and reuse and bring back deposit/return schemes, but it's something.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/10/nearly-a...
This is huge! Highly recommend reading along to the audio if you can find it.
Reading articles like this always makes me wonder where all this crazy drama is going on. I work at one of FAANG, and I go in each day, code/analyze things from 8-5, chat with some people about their cycling or cooking hobbies, then go home. If people are having affairs and flying to resorts, then I'm just totally oblivious to it. Either that, or I'm the most boring 28 year old that works there.
I was forever cutting a mole on my jaw line while shaving. Finally I had a dermatologist remove it. It was painless and took only a few minutes. Totally worth it.
I wish we would go back to having to bring our own containers and fill them up instead of single use plastics. It's so clearly a terrible thing. Whatever we can do to stop single-use containers we should.
I set the random wiki URL to be my browser homepage years ago, so I get a random page each time I open up a new window. I suggest everyone do it!
Reminds me of when Gordon Ramsey tried to explain to a clueless "chef" not to just give endless options. " Well why are you here then ? "
You need a 1 to 2 week vacation.

Sounds like you have a great job, those are tough to find.

Take 1 week or 2 off, unplug and see how you feel after that.

You can probably recharge quite a bit in 1 week or 2. Vs. worrying about what you're doing next.

If that doesn't work, see if you could take 1 month off paid or unpaid and travel.

It might be a good idea to see a life coach or therapist too just to explore what you're feeling.

Good luck.
I would put like four figures into a kickstarter if somebody would make some kind of solar-panel+webcam+18650+microphones+arduino kit that can be strapped to every telephone pole and traffic light that just feeds back data on what license plates honk when and where to a public dataset.
To my mind, the bigger problem is that when people talk about big feelings, especially in any strongly expressive fashion, people get sucked into talking about feelings as if feelings are the end all and be all.

Feelings come from somewhere. When I try to engage people, I try to address root causes of feelings. I don't try to massage their feelings or something like that.

Most people either try to somehow stop the outpouring of negative feelings or respond by countering it with an outpouring of positives because their entire focus is the feelings. This tends to go bad places for everyone involved and one danger is that if everyone is nice to you when you are openly whining about being suicidal, that may actively "reward" you for being suicidal.

People who are suicidal are often people who are being generally treated like shit on a routine basis by a lot of the people around them. So being nice to them only when they are openly suicidal actively encourages suicidal ideation. Most people are too clueless to make an effort to find opportunities to engage them positively that don't promote suicidal feelings.
FYI I politely asked him, and he snapped ~ "foolhardy" (not directly translatable).
Yes because it is appropriate to have to pay more to have a safe mode of 'green' transit. Loud motorcycles are annoying; when they have a fatality rate per mile closer to cars you be can complain on that basis.
Great answer. Thank you. I’ve never read any Jay-Z lyrics and had always - I see wrongly - assumed they had little to tell. I see a night spent reading hip hop lyrics ahead of me!
Dealing with both regularly, that matches my experience.

But that may be because of a nonrepresentative sample on one or both sides of the comparison.
if it didn't have a propensity to stall, why did they add the MCAS system?
I wonder if they could go after damages from YouTube itself, forcing it to adjust the system so frivolous claims are less trivial to make. Striking back is well and good, but most of the channels that suffer from these claims can't afford lawyers.
I moved into a building that has composting. I've come to believe that recycling was a terrible place to begin environmental efforts, that we should have started with composting programs in the 1st place. Instead of trying to recycle plastic bags and containers, just make bags and containers compostable when practical.
Focus on glass and plastic containers should be on reuse and aluminum doesn't seem to be a problem.
Reduce, Reuse, compost, then recycle.
same, and I can't lie, it kind of makes me sad. Going from working at a restaurant to working at a FAANG made me sooooo bored, the people are all NPCs except for the one time a year they show emotion or communicate about their values