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> UI design is basically fashion now

I remember back in the 90's, when Apple and Microsoft bragged about having big UI labs where they tried to take a scientific approach to UI design where they'd try out minor UI tweaks on users and observe what worked and what didn't.

Looking at the designs coming out of both companies now (but mostly Apple) it's extremely clear they they are designed just to look "fresh" and "pretty" with no real justification behind it.

> I wish we could somehow force people to use a standard toolkit again

To be fair, in the 90's, there were plenty of crazily themed programs. Basically any media playing app seemed required to have some insane theme (WinAmp is fondly remembered but that was also a non-standard UI, which was so poorly-designed they needed a button to double the size of it so you could hit some buttons easier). Every PC sound card came with a suite of programs that tried to mimic the appearance of a home Hi-Fi system complete with 7-segment displays and fake cassette tape reels.
Seconded, I even use the Sans version for my system font and the Serif version for letters
No criminal organization is paying 7 figures for serverside vulnerabilities. They're not even paying 5 figures for them.
> I predict the balance we're heading towards for most office jobs is going to be something like 2 mandatory office days a week, 1 optional day, and 2 mandatory WFH days, with "mandatory" really meaning "highly encouraged".

Or a lot of people are going to be looking for full remote jobs and companies which are full remote will be able to get some folks they were not able to hire before.
Works for me in Safari 14.1.2
Raycast (YC W20) Is Hiring React / macOS Engineers to Make Devs More Productive
The data stored in the app is encrypted with a key generated by the security chip on your phone. You need to back up your data with AES-256 encryption and then save it in your U disk or other safe place that you trust, so that you can restore the data to your new phone whenever you need.

As for its security design, here are some examples:

1. The data stored in the app is protected by the security chip, the same chip used by smartphone wallet to protect payment cards. Even if the encrypted data is stolen by means of app clone or phone backup, or the set master password is leaked, your passwords will not be disclosed. Check this out https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/evolution-of-password-manage...

2. The app doesn't have Internet permission, so your data can never be uploaded to the cloud secretly. Your data is totally under your control. This is also verifiable https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/offline/

3. Its autofill can help you detect phishing attack to prevent malicious app from stealing your passwords. It can identify overlay attacks, show what to be filled, etc. Take this video for example https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/advanced-phishing-detection/

4. The design of its desktop browser extension is really nice. The extension accesses the Internet but doesn't store data, and the app stores data but doesn't access the Internet. The two attack surfaces of storage and network are separate. It means browser vulnerabilities can't affect the security of other passwords stored in the app. Check this out https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/extension-security-design/

Thanks.
Does Smart Screen filter email originating from within the organisation that sends it?

My organisation used to self host everything -- wonderful times; everything worked, but with a HTML 1.0 crappy web interface. About four years ago they shifted to Exchange (urgh -- suddenly IMAP errors and some of my message-read state information became lost. I also noted the massive decrease in my Mac's battery life as Mail seemed to have a lot more work to do -- but I digress) and about two years ago self-hosted exchange became O365.

They recently started pushing harder into moving everything into Microsoft's cloud, and my quality of life has massively decreased -- the first time I was driven insane by it was when my colleague's human-written emails to me ended up in my spam folder; and vice versa when I emailed six undergraduate students to set a date and time for a tutorial. I turned up, they didn't, as I'd been shadowbanned from sending a five-line message to recipients within the same organisation -- messaging them all together got it dropped, sending it individually without the CC was fine. I complained and got given the run-around for a few weeks with no answer. The response of my local "IT people" was "not our fault mate".

The other thing I particularly hate about Microsoft 365 is that all the user-facing error messages are "Sorry, something went wrong". I'm not an idiot, please don't treat me like one.
Yep Windows 10 where you better remember the exact name of the app you installed or you’ll never find it again!
Study: One in three middle-aged people has multiple chronic health issues
My university treated stats and probability as separate disciplines, and I didn't have as many empirical examples in stats classes. We did use data sets in exercises, of course, but the focus was on correctly applying statistical methods, not whether the problem was empirically interesting or the answer was empirically correct.

We had a lot more empirical work in probability.

In introductory probability classes we had, among other things, famous examples like the Chevalier de Méré, birthday, Monty Hall, Bertrand's ballot, and coupon collector's problems; and a lot of calculating probabilities involving coins, dice, cards, and drawing balls from urns in various and increasingly complicated ways.

In graduate probability classes we studied mathematical models of things like Brownian motion, birth-death processes, and queuing systems. Our work on these was theoretical, naturally, but grounded in empirical problems from the physical sciences.
Some review says that A12x25 + 14cm adapter is superior than A14 for silent setup. I can confirm that since I have both A12x25 and A14. A12x25 is impressive but a bit disappointed for A14's bass noise. dBA isn't a perfect metric how human feel the sound annoying
> If some people are remote, then we have to do Zoom meetings, so I may as well be remote too.

so no reason to go back to the office at all.
I'm self-hosting my mails. Microsoft expects you to send enough mails to consider your mails not as spam. One thing Fastmail does that people who self-host can't is: sending enough mails.

I don't know what other measure they may take but this alone probably goes a long way.

And yes, this is fucking frustrating. I'm not going to send thousands of mails per months just for the sake of it and don't know how I should do that without spamming. This is so fucked up.
Thank you Apple for caring about customers and protect us from all that security and performance nightmare that “standards” forced by google and microsoft intentionally brings in their controlled and spyware infested browsers.
I don’t want any WPAs or webRTC or whatever only made to be cheap and poorly imitation of real software.
It is great to have apple laptops that lasts long and have privacy protection without compromise!
This thing is blazingly fast, a middle finger to all "modern" UI. Is the source available somewhere?
Indian AstraZeneca rejected by EU:
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/indian-astrazeneca...
Are you kidding?

Centari == Franco Roman.

Mimbari == Vague eastern mysticism

Narn == Dark skined prominant skeletal featured war like people

You gotta be really obtuse to not see that plainly for what it is.

The show has it's upsides but let's not pretend what's plain on it's face isn't right there.
Nope, but leaving your current employer is up to you if they are inflexible.
I switched to JetBrains Mono a year or so ago. It's so nice sometimes I even zoom in on my terminal just so I can appreciate it.

I'm totally sold on ligatures too.
The problem, of course, is that Tier 1 support are outsourced and a huge part of their evaluations are how many tickets they close. Escalating hurts their numbers, so it's hard to get cases escalated, especially if you're not a paying customer.
Runs two apps at the same time!
Working for me on Firefox mobile 91
This may just be my experience as a young person in San Francisco / Silicon Valley, but it's very common for office life and social life to be highly intertwined. I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing. Many of us moved here and joined competitive, demanding companies. People bond in these situations. I really look forward to being back in the office and having a significant part of my social life return. Don't worry we still ship plenty.
It’s not time-series data, but my favorite is Pro Football Focus: https://www.pff.com/subscribe

If the NFL made its data available weekly, you could probably join it with PFF data for some interesting insight. There’s a ton of power in joining time-series metrics with purely relational data.
Just as changing jobs tends to boost salary more than getting raises, changing jobs and disclosing all of one's grievances at the exit interview is probably a stronger signal than being the squeaky wheel while still in the company.
That's fine if it's true, if not, why tell lies?

Just tell them you don't like drinking. We organize the same kind of meetings over at where I work, and if someone says they don't like drinking, we tell them that water is fine, if they say they don't want to join for whatever or no reason, then we say fine and let them know that the meeting will be always open to them.
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Foreign capital inflow to Nigeria declines 54% to $875.6 mln in Q2 ~NBS
Since everyone is posting their suggestions, a couple of years ago I settled on the open-source Monoid font with ligatures. https://larsenwork.com/monoid/

I find it that it's very easy to get used to ligatures, and I find them strangely satisfying to look at. They're code-specific replacement characters that combine your == into a single long double bar, or -> and => into a neat little arrow character, and so on (link above for more examples). Monoid also has some useful readability tweaks, like bringing together the // or .. character pairs, which are common in many languages. If you're looking to add some quirk and (arguably) readability to your coding, this could be your thing!
Dense cities with public transit: maybe not the best in times of pandemics
The equations are conceptually simple: Navier-Stokes equations (conservation of momentum) and conservation of mass. The behavior is emergent.
You can also go walking/running if you WFH, which I do. At any time I want. If I'm stressed of work mid day I'll just go running for an hour and will feel super. Couldn't properly do that if I worked from office.
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>You don't need find a meeting room,

maybe it's just because I've never been the meeting room finding person but in most places I've worked it hasn't been a big problem.

>you don't need to worry about making too much noise,

I've never had the problem that a meeting was being too noisy for the people outside a meeting, but I have had the problem that kids in the house were being too noisy for the online meeting and everyone has to laugh and talk about how wonderful having the kids is.

>you don't need to worry about adding one person from another location suddenly changing the entire dynamic.

Why wouldn't this affect remote meetings?

Obviously there are any number of things that can affect remote meeting quality. I would think for meeting quality an in person one is likely to work better as a meeting, although people might prefer the remote one for all sorts of other reasons.
> People in Europe are using public transportation to get to work from the edge of the city with no problems.

In theory. When there are no strikes or public transportation issues.
Search for dopamine detox. I believe the issue is bigger than the phone itself and it's coming from our body. We need to understand our brain more, why it's always seeking for phone.
It's seems to be on your end, works on FF@WinNT.
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That motherjones article says pc gaming consumes 75 TWh per year while just bitcoin is estimated to use 120 TWh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952
The bathroom part rings true. I've been in so many offices where they make it hard to use a stall.

Are all the stalls busy? Yep.

Did you go across the hall? Yep.

Did you go to the floor above or below you? Yep.
I forget are we thin or thick clients these days? I guess you have a thick thin client - you need decent specs to run a browser, but then you just show whatever the mainframe serves up.
Yes and we should also ban televisions and automobiles and espresso machines and loud music and nighttime lighting and virtual reality and air conditioning a room to below 74 degrees.
It is not surprising to me that there is no text support yet, given the issues of integrating 3D (batch x sequence x features) RNN support (for CUDNN). This issue has prevailed so long that I came to believe it is impossible to integrate with the current Flux.jl stack.
To remote work vs in-office: why not both?
oh hi Jeff! shall i pee in the bottle?
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Haha I just finally splurged on that $0.99/mo iCloud storage, after just not backing up my phone forever :/
Not the OP, but some people are offended by the mere mention of drinks, and that looked like the case there. I personally don't like to go out for drinks, and this can be detrimental to my career, but I wouldn't impose my preference on others.
Yes, working from home is much better than working at open office. However there is some scenario where middle manager can make WFH as hellish as working at open office: by mandating everyone to install invasive spyware so they can "manage" you remotely.

Bonus point if the company didn't want to give/loan company devices, so you have to install it on your own personal devices.
Intel renames process nodes to mirror Taiwan’s TSMC
It is a custom Linux distribution, not Android.
Yeah he admits as much, he didn't do any software work. He 'just' a sales guy

Got 150k seed, landed a 40k contract without a product. As for team, he convinced a potential cofounder to sell his house and move across the country and hired his ex-boss, just to start
> Not to mention the consistent 20-30% productivity drain working in an office seems to have across the board at most tech orgs.

I don't think it's so clear cut.

In less collaborative environments, nobody interrupts you and you can bang code all day, close many tickets, etc etc.

In highly collaborative environments, people will talk to each other all the time. You'll me interrupted and you will write less code and close less JIRAs but you're more likely to find issues with code, design and requirements earlier in the process, solve misunderstandings easier and faster, and you get that free flow of information where everyone knows what is going on and share knowledge easily.

So you might have lesser "productivity" but you're more likely to deliver high-quality product.

Now saying that, both WFH and hybrid and office can be both highly collaborative and not. But WFH makes is really easy for people to check out of the information flow (even by accident) and be angry they're not getting informed, or promoted or whatever.

If you want WFH to work out, you need to come up with a strategy how to make that highly collaborative.
Well yes it's great for Indians / Africans. For people living in U.S, U.K not so much.
I think it also means people should go deep, way deep in their stack. Don't switch too much. You know PHP? Become great in PHP. Know Ruby? Stick to Ruby and become a real expert. Generalists may become a commodity...just my personal opinion. You will have to set yourself apart somehow. What is your strategy in this brave new world?
Massive regression compared to Windows 95 - there's no minesweeper or freecell.
You never know what life may bring. Try it for a year. Life is what you make of it.
Do we need swear / curse words in titles? I know it’s a minor point, but I think it’s a regression away from thoughtful expression
> Google's big insight is that how other people talk about a website is more important than how the website talks about itself, and its ranking algorithm weights accordingly.

I'm having trouble believing that seeing how top results on opinionated keywords are all SEO spam of websites no one visits by themselves.
Co-pilot like tool hooked-in to guess meaning of reverse engineered code would be awesome ;)
I miss being able to tell if I'm interrupting a coworker's state of flow or not with a quick message.

When everyone's in the office, I can _see_ when they get back to their desk and haven't gotten into anything again. I can see that my question isn't going to interrupt them.

As it stands, I interrupt everyone and they interrupt me. I haven't been able to get into flow during office hours in 18months.

Code review discussions which would take 5 minutes take 3 days. You have to write multiple paragraphs instead of walking over and saying "dude, look at this right there, like _seriously_."

Nothing like a little pair programming to work through a code review.
Note that these numbers are from Italy, which is known to have extremely low intergenerational income mobility. See https://voxeu.org/article/intergenerational-mobility-across-...
One key characteristic of high mobility countries is the availability of high quality public education (primary, secondary and tertiary). High mobility countries (eg Denmark, Canada, Australia) tend to have a large, low cost tertiary education sector where admission is strictly determined by independent measures of academic achievement. The old school tie counts for little or nothing in these societies.
Lucidchart has been my go to. Allows multiple users in the same whiteboard at once. Legible text as opposed to whiteboard scribble. Easily rearrange block diagrams. Permanent record of a diagram session that can be thrown in a design doc.
Visual Basic was incredibly successful. From VB3 adding database support until VB6-ish started integrating with .NET, 10s of millions of developers built applications that you've just never heard of.

What killed RAD tools was the web, not them being a failure.
I think my employer has something similar, but it ties in with the no-compete clause. That said, there's more of a gentlemen's agreement in place, and if you verbally mention it to the boss it's fine in most cases.

But having a job in industry X and a side gig / personal project also in industry X is dangerous.
Thanks, I will definitely take a look :)
Surely no more complicated than it is for hourly workers to keep track of their shifts, or for college students to keep track of 5 different full-day schedules that change every few months. "Come in Monday, stay at home Tuesday" is not exactly the peak of complicated scheduling.
Completely agree. I'm actually working full time in the office just so I have a working environment that's actually optimised for focusing on work, even though it's primarily empty. There's no way I'd work for a company that insisted I work in the same space I live in.

I cycle in and my commute is one of the highlights of my day. When some colleagues are occasionally in the office they all comment on how much being back in the office makes them realise what they missed about it.
An Analysis of Japanese Books about the Amish (2017) [pdf]
I already knew the definition, I was asking for examples. Were they sexual, anatomical, scatalogical, combative, suggesting one person was someone else’s toy, something else, or all of the above?
I definitely have much more time to myself with WFH, by orders of magnitude.

I can even get things done on public transit at a reasonable time when I have important errands to run! Because half the city isn't taking the train into the peninsula for no reason other than micromanagement. Honestly, this is the more interesting part to me. People that absolutely can't WFH by nature of job duties have much less traffic and craziness and delays to deal with as a side effect of the majority of the city WFHing - this greatly helps people that can't afford to live in the downtown CBD zones of major cities, for instance.
For those of you distracted by the office chatter, me too: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php?l=...

I use this speech noise-jamming page a lot at work, someone walks over near my desk and starts chatting, I wear my headphones and this goes on. I don't have any downtime in the office anymore because of this.
This has been bandied about since the '90s. There might be drastic hiring of people outside of the tech hub area (Midwest, Canada), but offshoring beyond North America is hamstrung by linguistic, cultural, and time zone differences.
It's more like you need to have cut your teeth before on SW development and RE since you need a good gut feeling of what bundle of assembly lines/C code correspond to what kind of functionality the developer had in mind.

Trying to RE production SW without any prior development experience is brutally hard.
I have several colleagues in the same situation (first job, never been to the office).

As much as I love remote work, a word of caution: don't take this text too seriously. It's just the ramblings of a very immature engineer.

Form your own opinion rather than using a second hand toxic one. Try it out. It turns out different people like different things, and also circumstances are different. If something doesn't work, try to change it. If ultimately you hate the office as well, then feel free to look for other opportunities.
It is purely a contractual question. So if your contract states rules like this - you are right. But without written agreement in the contract your employer has no rights to your work done during your free time.

At least, as far as I understand after reading up on the regulations and the text of the respective laws.
What could this be useful for?
I find you don’t need to. maybe tabs would work w the right editor.
Instagram Will Make New Kids Accounts Private by Default
I think Patreon works because people don't expect something in return by default, they just want to support someone or someone's work they're a fan of. It becomes one of those background / thoughtless payments, something left on until the person paying needs to save money or doesn't like the creator anymore.

It's where the business market is at as well, allowing e.g. Microsoft or Adobe to no longer have to force themselves to release new versions with stupid features to make more money than they ever have.