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I could see a very similar article written for "please stop letting users resize the window" or "please stop letting users change font size"
> The kind of sameness you want in design is a different kind than in code.

Maybe me, as a user, don't want your sameness. Why are you arguing that users should use things differently if they're happy with their own way, even if it's suboptimal in your opinion?

It's completely fine to hide certain configuration flags in "dev mode" sections and put warnings that you don't provide support for anything but default configuration of them. If your users want to be on their own, you have no responsibility to solve all their problems as long as you are explicit with what you support and not.
>The reason I have the XS was mainly because I wanted more screen space for things that fall in the “toys” category, things like hackernews, and I’m certainly looking forward to playing the Harry Potter Pokemon go. I also wanted the better camera to take better pictures of my newborn, that I share with our family in Tinybeans.

So which phone does Apple make for people who don't want more screen space for toys then?

The XS is already a $250 premium to get a smaller screen than the XR.

As you point out, the iPhone 5 was plenty big for not playing games on. And the SE was fantastic, with the same processor and camera as the flagship 6s.

So naturally Apple killed that product line. Tim Cook talks big about Screen Time and giving people tools to manage their time, but the hardware team is working against us. They must not have got the memo.
It isn't really a problem. Attacker would probably not run it on their own computer but some other compromised computers instead. It also doesn't have to be full NFS server but only the minimal functionality to deliver single file.
Don't confuse a deficiency of a wikipedia article for the definition of that thing.
Yes, I was asking for actual evidence.
DIN connectors are not expensive, nor fragile (too young to have used cassette players with them?). They are however big. Which is why the industry started using mini-jack connectors. They are now officially sanctioned:

https://www.musicradar.com/news/mini-jack-connectors-are-now...
Indeed. Centralized crypto and "stablecoins" (lmao at you, Tether) are ridiculous concepts that belie the entire purpose of the invention of Bitcoin.
To try to be balanced, maybe internet does bring a different space to discussion too (ignoring the extreme rot that can happen on twitter youtube and others). Kinda like letters, people speak and think differently when writing things down.
Yes selling weapons is profitable.
But if your own country is at war with an equally strong opponent, then its not.
Economy is in shambles for both players no matter who wins.
Also tax rates during war time are really high.

Wars and other catastrophes are equalizing wealth distribution and are not distributing wealth to the top.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/scheide...
I haven't really been following the Huawei story too much, but I find it ironic they are handing them out as part of what people call the "Obama Phone" program. Looks like May 2018 [1] they were banned from using gov funds on Huawei. Someone I know in the middle of a divorce who recently got one around December. She was asking me for help with hers since I'm a tech geek. It's just basically a cheap Android Phone.

Maybe they just have a bunch on hand they plan to get rid of and then find a new supplier but might depend on the county levels too... Not too sure how that works, just find it odd the gov themself are giving out a phone they are banned from buying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund#Concern...

Edited: Oh looks like the concern is spying...

Makes me wonder though... Many American phones like the iPhone is made in China too, why don't they ban chinese made iPhone's too then, what stops the factory from slipping something in those products?

Also looks like Android updates and Google Play might quit working too at some point... Be interesting if Google could release something to turn those existing phones into a "Pure Google" type of experience.

It seems like having all these unpatched and no longer supported Android phones in itself seems like a security risk.
Why does only the right-most slider not seem to rotate, but instead changes the shape?
(Very cool btw)
The blogpost says MB, not GB.
I think a dark theme is the one thing Gnome supports aside from the default.
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That paragraph continues. The letter is absolutely also aimed at end users:

> If you like to tinker with your own system, that’s fine with us. However, if you change things like stylesheets and icons, you should be aware that you’re in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.

Just not with the same vehemence as its message directed at distros.
And yet, once the technology is mature enough (it may already be, just not that cheap too deploy yet), I'm sure the government will integrate CCTV cameras with microphones that can listen in on private conversations between individuals and analyze that in real-time.

I'm also sure the government will shamelessly make the argument that because you're telling something to a friend in a "public place" it means it's not a private conversation, so it's fair game for mass-collection and real-time analysis. It may have already made this argument in some court cases, but I don't recall exactly.
I agree that DSLs can work for non-devs, and Excel is a good example of this.

SQL though, I'm less convinced about - while I've known business people to use it for basic queries, many devs struggle with anything more complex.
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What does that mean? Would you rather it were Cambridge Analytica?
Spreadsheets are about thinking inside of a lot of little general boxes, instead of just one big particular box.
So the choice is enjoy life or drag it out when you're falling apart.
I'm talking about a round trips of course... so you have to cut that in half if you can't or don't want to charge while on your trip (if you want to be able to come back home).

Most of the car trips that I do are round trips... and I would guess that yours are too?

Makes more sense?
I've been thinking about doing the same myself but with a direct tie-in from Node.js to MySQL to grab the post objects via mysql2... did you ping the WP JSON API for generating posts? I'm just confused as to how that would break things unless there's a serious bottleneck somewhere.
> Trying to explain to hardcore techies the value of consistent design and workflow is fruitless in my experience.

Theming doesn't even affect workflows. Since not all applications use GTK, it's necessary if you want a halfway consistent design. Respecting applications' branding is just the opposite of consistency.
I came to say that exact thing. Good DSLs are almost unnoticed, because they are frictionless.
Do not disturb on iOS let’s repeated calls through for emergencies.
I can see why the Electron-haters are downvoting you, but you're completely right. Don't build your apps in GTK if you don't want to have overridden GTK configurations affect your UI. I would really like Electron to add an on-by-default standard interface to override CSS rules for Electron apps, though.

(I don't have a horse in the Electron-is-great-or-crap race)
If the signers of this open letter did not care about quality, they wouldn't have signed it.
Jetbrains, makers of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, have a DSL-creator tool called MPS [0]. It looks interesting, lets you include language and "non-textual" elements including "math notations, diagrams, and forms." I'd like to apply it in some context.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/
The verbage is 'use or promote'. The US Army literally blew up civilians with bombs for years after 2001.

I see why they'd be excluded from this rule. And I don't really care to put my opinion forward here.

Perhaps other verbage in their TOS excludes entities like the US Army.
When I read Game Engine Architecture[0] I got the impression that DSLs are pretty effective in that industry. Anyone have war stories of game DSLs gone horribly wrong?

[0] https://www.gameenginebook.com/
> In Europe it's more common to have an EC card, which doesn't have any necessary secrets printed in plain sight

This is not true. All you need to do online transactions is the number, expiration and CCV, all of which is printed on EC cards.
The US makes living difficult for the poor so that they think joining the military is a good choice. If homes were affordable, if college was affordable, if healthcare was affordable, nobody would want to join.

We force poor people to join so that we'll have a military. We have wars to justify having a large military. We have a large military so that we'll purchase a lot of military equipment. We purchase a lot of military equipment to fuel the economy in specific congressional districts. We prop up those districts so that the people there have jobs and will reelect their representatives. Even the politicians who seem to support the "socialist" programs have no intention of following through with their promises.
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It will not make much difference if it's reflected to space or not, though.
Software is not "the encoding of human thought." It's the encoding of instructions for a computer. Big difference.

Like everything about ETH, this post relies on far-out fantasy concepts and wildly overblown declarations of success. The most popular dApp of all time is Cryptokitties.

Solidity is full of conceptual holes and has massive security risks. And Buterin, despite his personal wealth, refuses to hire and pay developers to fix bugs. These problems make ETH entirely unsuitable for financial transactions, a fact borne out by the lack of any real present day use case.
I mean, you either want artistic control, or you want a consistent theme across apps. They want artistic control, thus would be better served by Electron.
The issue that I've seen with Excel is that it's often seen as the hammer -everything is a nail- for people that are less inclined with technology / set in their way.

They will use it both as intended, a spreadsheet for calculations, usually for reports.

But also as publishing software (think InDesign) and format their spreadsheet to look like an invoice / quote, a hand made Gantt chart (yeah with arrows as delimiters, as opposed to filling the cells), etc ...

It's both a fascinating and horrific thing to behold, something that wouldn't be out of place in a H.P Lovecraft story.

We're going to try to get the Gantt folks to modernise a bit and use a dedicated tool for planning but we already know it's going to be complicated to get the senior folks to even consider it.
Or you use the extra distinct highlight or background color the system theme specifies.
Depending of what you call "conspiracy". Does US Government promoting disastrous nutritional advice for decades and pushing the food industry to produce what we now recognize as extremely unhealthy products qualify as "conspiracy"? Does reluctance of the industry to recognize just how bad those are because they sell extremely well and some are likely to be physiologically and psychologically addictive - constitute a "conspiracy"? Maybe not, since it happens in the open and evidence of it is literally in front of our own eyes every time we go to the supermarket. Does it make anything better if it's not qualified as "conspiracy"?
That's much higher than the inflation rate (which never was over 2% and often around 0).
"rational" "securing access to ... resources" "opportunity cost"

All this phrasing hints that human beings are, or should be, purely rational and profit-driven robots without any social, ethical or moral value.

There's a word for this: sociopathy.
Disclaimer: Austin Cheney works for the US Army.
> some arbitrary number of days you made up

As a separate datapoint, Google's Project Zero has a default 90 day public disclosure period too.

Generally, it's highly likely that the (really) bad guys already know about the exploit. Leaving the exploit known only to them and the vendor doesn't help the most vulnerable (ie, those targeted by the (really) bad guys)

~3 months is also a reasonable amount of time for coding, review, testing, QA, etc. I don't know if the author was up front about the 90 day deadline with Apple, and if not, that's not particularly friendly, but it's not out of line with other major players in the space.
It is indeed worth pondering over, sooner we start the better. Its also a complicated affair: there is the aspect of distribution of taxes to cronies, there is creation of artificial demand, there externalities like people subsidizing the war by putting their own wellbeing on the line, may be for a shot at citizenship - thanks to selective service and poverty draft
Tor is another helpful tool for working around NAT.
I had to write quite a lot of messages to icon theme devs to add icons I was missing in XFCE with their theme. They happily added them but from users point it seemed like they needed someone to tell them which ones were missing because they just didn't know. So having a more complete list would be nice.
True. But what about the icon themes major distributions pick?
If you are playing an instrument, eg a MIDI keyboard, I’ve found anything above around 10ms creates a noticeable lag between when you physically touch the key and when you hear the sound.
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There are ultimately "high seas" on both sides of any passage of water connected to the ocean. This argument would seem to imply a territorial straight can't exist.
Yes to both. The isolation was pretty bad because I grew up in a rural area and thus there just wasn't a large group of friends to draw on, much less those with similar interests and drive. So I experienced quite a bit of resentment, and strong feelings of social awkwardness.

For me, "resuming normal life" was going into the PhD program at UC Berkeley at 22. I wasn't the only former child prodigy (hi NJ if you're reading!), wasn't the smartest kid in the room. More importantly, I had peers I could bond with. I keep up with a lot of my grad school friends, not so much from the small town where I grew up.

Btw, here's some publicity from the time (there wasn't much, which I think was very wise of my parents): https://archive.org/details/marybaldwin1980mary/page/9
how many time did these "non-programmers" spend on learning SQL ? wouldn't have they learned basic programming skills on languages such as python or ruby during the same time ? The problem with DSL is the S, they are Specific, and trap the "non-programmers" in a non-programming culture. If they want to do something a little different than the DSL is targeted for, they are unable to.

Excel is good example, it is REAL good tool for what it is meant for, but I seen many people doing crazy thing with excel that can be done with very basic python in a dozen of basic statements. Why ? because they people never learned to do other thing than excel sheets, "When you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail".
Twitter's rule is poorly worded. Violence is one of the most basic interactions between organisms on the planet. Not only between societies (so that an Uber driver earning $30,000 can be in the top 1% globally), but within societies (the threat of violence is what makes everything from paying taxes to policing work).

What Twitter really means to address in its rule isn't "violence" but rather "violence outside the accepted rules for when violence can be used." But fuzzy thinking has caused it to bury the concept in a nonsensical universalism.
Interesting topic. I don't think there is a good tool on a company level for this.
Casual conversation I had with a top surgeon trying to login to an account:

me: It's case sensitive - you need a capital letter.

him: How do I do that?

me: Hold down the shift key.

him: Where's that?
You are both right. Based on a comment, GB was a early typo that was then corrected to MB.
The only egocentrism I see is all in the pompous article requesting that users do not make perfectly reasonable choices on their own computers. Then attempts to justify on some absurdly contrived grounds. Neither reasonable nor sensible.

Imagine if Apple asked users not to apply stickers to their laptop as it denies Apple the possibility to control their brand, or could make the laptop look broken, even unusable - shock I may even apply a sticker that shows a broken circuit board or simulates cracked aluminium. Apple's view is that applying a sticker to the case or keyboard render Appley documentation useless as they don't look like the pictures we screenshotted in moments.

> Even the slightest change in color can introduce friction between UI elements

Yeah, and? They might be the difference between unusable discomfort and usable, or allow ageing eyes to cope with arrogant and restricted developer choices, or missing sense of aesthetic. You might not like the colour car I buy or the decorating scheme I choose for my house. Mind your own damn business.

> On the topic of branding

Yeah, about that. It's branding that has led computer and phone makers to give highly limited theming capability. Firefox or my desktop is no longer my own to adjust and fiddle to unusability (sic) or perfection - as I see fit. Like the paint I use inside my house, mind your own damn business. I might LIKE my phone, Windows box and Linux box to all look highly distinct from each other for my own personal reasons. Mind your own damn business.

It is not another surface on which to stimulate my neurons to be further programmed by the brand. Baa.

Edit: Specifically on icons, I have been changing icons since the days of Workbench 1.3 in about 1986 or 87. I won't stop now. I've chosen wildly different icons for some apps at times - because they worked better for me. Icons as space for a logo is an entirely negative fashion to my mind as I prefer a hint, however vague, of what that a rarely used app does.
Here is a list of engagements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...

Taking "2017 Shayrat missile strike" as a random example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike) shows that specific mission had at least 9 civilian casualties.

So even if not intended, the US army are in fact using violence against civilians (like probably most armies in the world)
It is no secret that foreign actors (including Russian and Chinese military intelligence) are employing “active measures” to influence political changes in Western countries. Additionally, information operations are now a part or modern warfare, in much of the current conflicts.

The US military is interested in mapping these activities and developing countermeasures.
Thanks for clarifying! I knew I wasn't very far off.
I read the first line of your post and I seriously expected the YouTube link to be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evHVh4bqaOQ

All controlled by MIDI, unsurprisingly.
"...warned against drawing conclusions based on simple correlation."

Can we just do this, in general?
> I would really Electron to add an on-by-default standard interface to override CSS rules for Electron apps

That's a hard problem to solve, since there are many ways of styling Electron - Bootstrap/Bulma/Material Design/custom stuff. So it's hard to just override CSS rules.

On the other hand, it's the kind of problem perfectly suited for Machine Learning - just take the whole screenshot/image of the app and use a stylistic ML to change it - make it Dark Theme/whatever...

I suspect in 10 years OSes will support ML-based automatic themeing/customization of all apps, regardless of what they are written in.
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First of all, you only need to be successful once. Statistically, most successful entrepreneurs start in their late 30s and 40s.

Secondly, I don't know you but your 2nd line of text tells me almost certainly what you're doing wrong - Spend less time building and more time launching and trying to get initial users. If they never saw the launch, you made a mistake from day 1.

Think less about startups and more about the sort of stuff you see on IndieHackers.com - Bootstrap, launch quickly.

Since you've been doing this for 10 years, be careful not to fall into the trap of assuming you know the fundamentals and that other factors are causing your failures. Instead, Challenge your fundamental assumptions, go back to Lean/MVP thinking and consider what you need to relearn.

I hope it helps. If not, another strategy I'm personally using is to buy a cheap product which has some minimal proof of value (For example, a productised service or SaaS business with 10 customers) and growing it from there. I discovered I wasn't very good at getting through the launch stage (and it wastes months of time), but Im much better at growing an existing, proven business.

Avoid hustle porn, startup culture (moonshot shit) and lose the anxiety over time - People like you and I are not retiring at 65 to spend our time golfing and in the sun like the previous generation - We live longer, our career prospects are a new paradigm and most importantly, the internet means you can work as long or as little as you like to...

Consider: If you get a 6 figure job age 60, you're fucked for retirement anyway.

If you stumble upon a low-maintenance 10K/month business opportunity at 60, then you're laughing all the way to 100. Invest the profits? Grow the business? Just live off the dividends for decades to come?

My point is, remove the anxiety that your time is running out and that you need to hit X age/financial milestones to be successful.

You have at least another lifetime (I.E another 30 years) to get it right, and you only need to do it once.
History shows that many people made rich by war were able to buy their way into a neutral country and live safely.

Borders do not apply to very rich people.
The SQL example is rediculous. I wasn't a programmer when I decided to use SQL, but learned it to be better at my job. After I learned it everyone else thought what I could acheive was magic. I only had read access so I had to be able to perform advanced subqueries, windowing statements , etc. After a couple of years my skills could embarrass most programmers in the company (minus the Oracle dbas). This is because the programmers wanted to write SQL in a proceedural way using plsql and were never very comfortable with set theory.

This knowledge expanded my power within a mutibillion dollar company and I went from temp analyst to director of supply chain business system and informatics within 3.5 years. I also decided to learn python due to the data libraries, and my power grew more as I automated most routine processes in my department. I required every employee of mine to learn SQL and gave them 3 hrs every Friday for self study. Our supply chain went from being ranked 340 in the country ( for our industry) to the within the top 10.

Don't tell me non programmers can't learn SQL. Also these DSL get people like me that should of gotten a CS degree the experience and confidence to get deeper into programming. Now I write python and clojure. In fact, because I have deep domain specific knowledge in supply chain I can apply my programming in ton of different ways. I find most corporate programmers have all these skills and either don't really know how to apply it to really help the business, are too lazy and think of the business stakeholders as a annoyance, or just do their job and go home.

I think it is going to be hard to bea white collar worker in the future if you don't know how to program.
> far-out fantasy concepts and wildly overblown declarations of success

Much like the tech industry unicorns then.
> use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes

Last week's tl;dr:

Iran should be wiped off the map
-- President Trump

I'm pretty sure genocide falls under violence to further his cause
There's also Serveo[0] which I use pretty often:

[0] https://serveo.net