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>How often does desert sand end up on beaches?

Well, it feeds the Amazon from the Sahara. https://www.wired.com/2015/02/sahara-keeps-amazon-green/
Unfortunately Ada isn't as trendy.

So we need Rust for younger generations.
The way I read it - she was being not-so-subtly hinted to search for another job.

No way in hell the management wouldn't realize how refusing a 4-year old employee any options would look on her end. Zero is zero. It's like leaving a 1c tip at a restaurant. So this was most certainly done on purpose.
You also need to be able to change the knobs while it is running. I have one of these which has power and time knobs (encoders) with less common buttons inside door - great UI: https://www.breville.com/content/dam/breville/us/assets/micr...
>In fact, if it wasn't for the coloring, they wouldn't even have noticed

I have. MMS always has problems, and can result in extra charges from mobile network if it’s an international number. iMessage or whatsapp gives me confidence that it’s using data only and I won’t experience any charges, I can use it via WiFi without a mobile network, it’s not tied to my phone number for when I leave the country and change SIM, and delivery of messages is confirmed.

I also prefer iMessage due to Apple’s stances on privacy, and integration with macOS.
One problem being (badly) addressed in the images, in my unskilled opinion, is that is it possible to finish the transaction without replacing the nozzle in the holster (and then, presumably, drive away with the nozzle still in the car). While no kind of UI expert, I do believe that good UI should guide the user into a correct flow of actions and make it difficult to make a mistake.

I have a hazy memory that in the field of ATM design, the reason you don't get your money before you take your card back is to ensure that people take their card back; because people were focused on getting money, they would leave the card behind as soon as the money was in their hand. The solution was to make getting the card back a necessary step towards getting the money.

The analogy doesn't quite hold; people want the fuel, at the point they have the fuel (and are effectively done getting what they want) the nozzle is still in the car, but is there a way to make finishing the transaction more difficult without replacing the nozzle in the holster? Perhaps if paying by card, the machine could hold onto the card until the nozzle is replaced, or in some other way make payment impossible without replacing the nozzle. That would work where I am, but for all I know there are systems out there in which people complete payment in advance, get their card back, and are then dispensed a pre-agreed amount of fuel.
Looks really nice. Thanks!
Well, pessimistically it might not matter much either way. The employees with stock currently will likely be subject to a six month lock-up period after the IPO date. And it’s quite likely that the house of cards that is WeWork won’t survive that much scrutiny as a public company, and the price might be so low by the time anyone below the executive level can sell.
The design inconsistency makes it looks like the machine has been hacked, would make me nervous about putting my card in it.
> I truly believe people should be free to move wherever to realise their maximum potential.

Why? Why not improve their local environment to better help them "realise their maximum potential"? (I put your words in quotes because it's not a phrasing I like very much).

Why create a world where people have to move to have better opportunities rather than creating a world where there are better opportunities in increasingly more places?
Good catch! I didn't check the logo well enough. I regard it as homage, not as trying to "appear as the real thing".
I think you miss my point that the accountant is part of your team. They are doing more than just the job of accounting and help build the company culture. The culture, teamwork etc. are intangibles that will make a big long term difference.

You are certainly within your rights to decide to keep all the equity to a small number of people but you'll be building a very different company than one I would want to work for.

For example, I am very happy that my Executive Assistant has options in my company. She's an integral part of my success and doing my job every day. There were lots of candidates for her job but we chose her. And I'll be ecstatic if one day she sees upside from having taken the job working for me.
What's unappealing about HTTP and JSON? What's better about having a completely custom protocol and format?
Yes, the executor will use whatever io multiplexing the platform provides (and it’s been coded to support).

If the executor is Tokio, it’s built on mio which will use one of kqueue, epoll or iocp depending on the platform: https://docs.rs/mio/0.6.19/mio/struct.Poll.html#implementati...
Which can still be done via java.util.concurrent (Callable, Futures, Promises, Flow) until Project Loom arrives.
I don't get why US gas pumps are so complicated at all. Here, I drive up to the pump, grab the right nozzle, fill up, go inside to the cash register and pay. There are literally bo buttons on the pumps. Fiddling with the pump UI in the US has always been a slower process for me.
The alternative is to use public private partnerships for doing projects. The costs are higher interest rates that companies have to pay for getting a loan and having a part of the project money set aside for the profit of the companies.
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At the moment, my digital identity is entirely dependent on a "@gmail.com" address. Bank accounts, social networks accounts, digital services - all of them tied directly to my gmail account.

I'd like to slowly start untangling the mess. The plan is to register a
.com domain, and start routing my emails through that instead.

My main concern here is losing my domain name. If I lose my domain, I'll likely lose access to the various services tied to it, with no ability to recover access.

This brings me to the issue of choosing a registrar I can trust. Registrars have varying track records when it comes to trustworthiness and security. I need a company I can rely on to safely secure my domain. In the possible event of a breach, or even in an identity theft scenario - I'll need a registrar I can work with to ensure my rights are can be restored.

Can anyone recommend such a service for private individuals?
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In other news only 24 english characters give nearly 100% of all the characters in use in English
Funny, Google Maps recently started surveying me about how crowded my trains were.
This is an odd assumption: that the primary (or only) reason people attend is to see the home team achieve a lead that is unlikely to be surmounted. None are fans of the sport itself; none are fans of the visiting team, etc.
Moved on to which alternatives?
Your arguments may be appealing, but looking back at your startups - did the receptionist, tech support or janitor receive options? Were they even employees?
google defined websocket protocol not long ago. We didn't actually need it. They did. With such a huge browser market share, all they crave for is information. All of it. And most of us (developers) embrace this flow because each and every "fault" they "discover" and use to create a new idiotic standard is an opportunity for us to profit. And we feed it.
I don't need jmap, none of us do. They need it, so they wrote 200 pages of stupid, extremely complicated specs with the hope that it will gain traction and we'll start developing.
They can't do it alone. They need us to embrace it. I won't and I hope none of you will. I hope this standard will die with a whimper.
I am doing my best to keep my e-mails where they belong. Far away from browser.
I use SMTP. There's nothing wrong with it. It works.
I use MIME. There's nothing wrong with it. It works.
I personally don't use IMAP. ODMR is all I actually need. But I configure and maintain IMAP servers. I see nothing wrong with it either. It works.
What baffles me is cyrus project accepting this idiocy. I just hope it won't become the new deal and the others (dovecot et all) will stay away from it. Panic and fear can and will escalate the process.

So how long until "everything is JSON"-shit will take over? I'm 40 years old and my bet is I will live to see it happening.
This is actually scary. And not because json or hydras.
This.

I've seen a lot of naive designs where signed data is downloaded via an unsigned control channel. At the very least, they are vulnerable to replay attacks. Beyond that, it enables more selective blocking/filtering to prevent clients from accessing specific data.

Let's not forget the lost "confidentiality" aspect of TLS either. Your request for HP_Drivers_2019_Update.exe is now broadcasting to the Internet: "Hey I'm running a vulnerable, unpatched device! Last chance to hack me!"
The better option is that Denmark buys USA. They could make it a great country. Really, Danish are open for that: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/denmark-offe...
Nobody is denying that async code is faster. But it’s not as dramatic as presented in the grand parent post.

And IMHO the added code complexity is not worth the trouble.
That's what the ircv3 guys did. I think it's a cancerous attitude: you get your protocol implemented regardless of whether it's good or not, since most managers of open source software can't say no to free code
Might look less bad than "we can't fill that order"
There seems to be a certain amount of “Autistic Spectrum Disorder” mixed in with this. I imagine there are a few papers published with this comparison in mind.
> One of SystemD's core contributers was banned from contributing to Linus' tree because his code was sub-standard.

And how many contributors of other projects have even tried to contribute to the kernel. 1 isn't a sample size you can make assumptions based on.

> ...we should then also be able to see the Microsoft Windows operating system is a better choice.

In certain cases it'd be delusional not to admit that.
Active ftp is dead. I wouldn't be surprised if browsers don't support it out at least don't default to it since as you said it would break things for 99% of users. Running a server that's not configured properly for passive transfers is effectively a server that's useless. So if it would make someone sleep better at night I'd be fine with removing active transfer support from browser clients. Switch to filezilla if you're a power user or want to do some 1337 FXP tricks.
As those "people" include basically any European legal practitioner I'm not sure you are in a position to tell all of them that they made such a basic fundamental mistake.
Of course, this makes so much sense, and it changed indeed, hahaha
I agree that people with some Japanese knowledge likely already know this. But out there you will find a lot of marketing material/posts targeting absolute beginners promoting some kind of "Top X% Kanji lists", as if they are a huge shortcut and secret to quickly learning Japanese. So I'm just saying they aren't.

If you talk to people who don't know much about Japanese they often believe that memorizing the characters is the difficult part and doing so will help you understand a large fraction of written text. I think it's quite a common misconception.
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Well the reality seems to be they couldn't 15 good cars.
> She's an integral part of my success and doing my job every day. There were lots of candidates for her job but we chose her. And I'll be ecstatic if one day she sees upside from having taken the job working for me.

So why don't you give her that upside? As a business owner you can pay her whatever you would like her to see earn one day. Just do it, there's no inherent reason why equity has to be given away. Of course if you prefer to pay her a promise of maybe one day cashing out, but equally not cashing out at all, then I wonder if you really value her contributions today as much as you make it sound here. Honestly, people can run amazing companies and treat their employees really really well from day one, not one day when they win the lottery.

EDIT:

BTW congrats on the IPO!
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I'm just making a point about the abstract argument. I have no idea about whether Homebrew is technically impressive or not, but it sounds like people think that it is?
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When I was learning English, the most memorable/epic lesson of advanced English I ever took was trying to understand what we were told was an "advanced" poem; the Jabberwock!

We were a class of 6-8 students, in pairs making our guesses of what the words that we didn't "understand" meant. We all got pretty advanced ideas and all got to similar conclusions. The teacher would tell us afterwards how those were made up words, and we were all in awe at how much we still understood and agreed upon the meaning of the words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

Sidequestion, is this poem taught in schools in the US by any chance?
What if we don't destroy Greenland ecosystem?
> downvote anybody who speaks harshly about him?

Who said "harshly", downvote anyone who insults randomly, yes.

> That won't stop it, and even if it did it still wouldn't stop 4channers with anime avatars on github from trolling him constantly.

So if 4chan doesn't stay civil then we shouldn't try to remain civil?

> There is no community solution to Lennart getting his feelings hurt.

But the community can be half of the solution, noone said it has to be a 100% one.
Diesel instead of gasoline is almost impossible because the filler necks are different – at least where I live … Gasoline instead of diesel, however, is still possible.
Just to clarify, I did use SRS for all my learning materials, including words and sentences. But I also had decks for single characters (you can find a lot of these online). Over time I found these pure character decks to be the least helpful or nearly useless, so I dropped them. Using SRS for other things like grammar and words/compounds is great.
Drivers have versions in them, it's part of the driver itself and therefor cryptographically signed.

People like to cargo cult TLS as if it's the only option but it's really not, even debian doesn't use https (and gets quite a bit of backlash despite understanding very well their security model): https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/
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> your employer is not on your side

Maybe that's true for most venture-funding backed startups, but it's a bit of an unfair generalisation. There are plenty of employers out there that don't want to suck their employees dry. Some companies have a more long term vision, and the easiest way to retain employees for more than a few years is to not exploit them.
Well you're talking about UX and the article is mostly about UI (touches on the experience here and there). Arguing that the pictures themselves look amateurish.

In Europe most pumps are a lot simpler and the only screen is the segment LCD giving you the price and liters. Sometimes you'll have a couple of buttons on the pump like "30E", "50E". You'd press one and then do exactly what you described with the difference that the pump stops at the preset mount. Other unattended pumps will ask you to put the card in, authorize a payment, the fill up and they will charge based on that authorization and all this using the regular ATM style keypad unit with a tiny LCD (the kind you'd see at any parking, or automatic ticket dispenser).

They are all very straight forward in their usage even when you don't understand a word from the written instructions. Very simple UI that's shared across industries to make sure people have some familiarity. With the downside that the UI looks very '90s, should anyone see that as a problem (Jalopnik probably would).
That's not real, it's meant to be "satire".
I love rails, but I found the wild that the metaprogramming can make things far more complex and unintuitive than they need to be.

Has anyone else thought the same?

Any tools to work around this?
But knowing 24 characters doesn't make you understand 100% of the words. Actually, it gives you 0%.
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Try switching to ddg and append !g every time the results seem to suck. That's how I did it and after about a month it was just fine. In fact over time I felt like I did the !g thing less and less, because you somehow get a feel for when ddg actually sucks or not. Or maybe I unconsciously started formulating queries differently.

But if you really think it would be right to switch away from Google, give yourself a month of pain and then decide if you can live this new life. ;-)
>It could be that that the SMS experience is the reason when it comes to adults who are mature enough to leave the green/blue behind them but have a lot less tolerance for poor UX.

From poor country to rich country, I have never met teens who are less tech savvy than adults. If anything, adults have problems even understanding the difference between SMS, MMS, and other messaging protocols. Teens are the ones using the new features from iMessages, not most adults.
isn't that just your guess though? Zealous over-optimization only gets you so far: illegally extending a monopoly requires active malice and disdain. Really removing users' choice. Forcing them to use your products.

For example one of the things I would do as an evil product manager at Google is introduce active detection of Firefox - even if the user agent string has been set to Chrome to get me to serve unbroken pages. I would have engineers actively fingerprint Firefox, and if I figure out the user is using Firefox, serve them broken pages. (Even if it works perfectly well in Firefox if they pass my detection, and even if they identify as Chrome.)

Would this attitude be a good fit for a product manager for Google? I'm really evil.
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In motor racing there's a guy holding a sign telling the driver to wait (and to punch it when he lifts the sign up), called the "lollypop man": https://i2.wp.com/f1-grandprix.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/1...

They could have a mechanical version of this, although the placement would have to be figured out, cars have different dimensions and park differently at the pump.

A rental I had required you to use the ignition key to open the inner fuel cap, and you left the key hanging from that cap as you refuel This makes sure you turn off the engine, and it also makes sure you won't leave without replacing the fuel cap (and obviously that can only be done without the pump nozzle in the way).
For the % of people who care about “bloat” and think the solution is hand rolling all their own tools? This train is only going in one direction and that station was passed 35 years ago
The strong suit of JMAP (among other things) is getting access to specific properties of a server side parsed email. It will do the MIME parsing for you; separate attachments and text bodies from each other and for example allows a client to fetch only Subject and senders instead of the entire email. By brainlessly dumping all that into a Maildir you'd be giving up a lot of the benefits of JMAP. I'm a big fan of JMAP but I don’t see it replacing IMAP for (desktop) clients that will keep a fully synced Maildir locally.
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Miguel has given an interview somewhere where he states creating Xamarin felt like a breath of fresh air, finally targeting a community that welcomed his ideas.
Random as in being many many houses with different setups that themselves consume power differently/ have differing logic when to dump extra power. Therefore despite there being roughly same weather in the area each house has different levels of extra power it can dump.
I can send SMS, MMS, and iMessages just fine from my macOS. Never had an issue. I assume SMS/MMS needs a mobile network connection from your phone though.
This is known in the education space, and tests like the JLPT N5-N1 are based on this! Also when learning English, the learning material and exams are based on this. The order of frequency is not strictly followed though, if you have to learn "Monday" now and "Tuesday" in a couple of days, it makes sense to bundle them all by concepts at once and learn "getsukasuimokukindonichi". So in Japanese learning, on a day-to-day it might seem like you learn random difficult-easy words or characters, but overall you only have to _memorize_ the top N characters/words for the next test and you'd be alright.

I made a free website to memorize Kanji that works offline: https://core.cards/. Initially I did maintain a list of the top 100, top 500, and top 1000 (approx) if I recall correctly, extracted from Wikipedia lists, to learn Japanese Kanji. But now I've switched it to just follow the JLPT because they were almost the same.
HTTP is not designed for persistent connections (WebSockets were hacked on later, but JMAP does not use them anyway). This turns a push protocol into a poll protocol, which is a stark regression. It's also got all sorts of other crap built-in which is really not necessary for this use-case but which an intrepid implementer will have to deal with regardless.

JSON does not cope well with binary data, which is common in emails. It fails to elegantly deal with the various email encodings which exist in the wild. Consider as well that all JSON numbers are floating point numbers, despite the fact that floating point numbers provide absolutely nothing of value to this spec and in fact are more likely to introduce bugs than not. And embedded devices can't deal with floats quickly or elegantly, but still need to implement them if they want to use JSON-based protocols. And for what gain!

In short, JMAP reinvents the wheel but worse for the sake of making it easier for web developers to build web shit around email. This kind of stupid change for change's sake is an epidemic in the webshit scene. IMAP is warty but it's fine. Let it be. When your only hammer is JavaScript, everyone else's thumb looks like a nail.
> the irony is that your first sentence is an excellent demonstration of the parent comments point

And allow me to claim that you've actually proved your parent's point! I have no idea what an "N2" is either but from the context was able to accurately guess that it's some kind of proficiency test.
Similar to others — solving your own problem.

But I've recently learned (the hard way after multiple startups) that the key is to validate your idea first before investing too much time in it.

That and I've also found that the best ideas are the easiest. Everything slots into place, makes sense and you get an overwhelming feeling of "why had I not thought of it before". I always start with writing notes and if the ideas are flowing faster than I can write them down, I usually know that it's a good concept.

I hope that helps!
But they have trained pilots and certified airplanes with redundant systems. That means they take all the precautions possible.
The reality is Damore did an excellent job of articulating his beliefs. He wrote carefully, politely, cited his sources, used precise language, repeatedly clarified that he actually agreed with Google's goals but not their methods, and correctly anticipated how people might try to mischaracterise what he wrote. I've seen much much worse essays than that one.

The whole idea he lacks "emotional intelligence" is just a sop to people who went on the attack because he's an ideological enemy. His intelligence is just fine, he simply is less tolerant of unintellectual nonsense masquerading as morality than most people are. And why should he not be? Damore challenged Google to rational debate and too many Googler's completely failed. The lack of intelligence isn't on Damores side.