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The article touches upon something I've thought about - and the reason I don't really believe in the Apple Watch: A phone is something you pick up, work with and then put back - in the pocket, on the table or similar.

A watch is something you choose to wear. That'e the reason that watches have almost always also been seen as a fashion accessory. And you choose to wear a fashion accessory because of the statement it implicitly make about you (for wearing it). And that statement needs to be highly individualized exactly because you choose to wear it.

When everyone wears the same, we call it a uniform. That goes counter to the inherent desire to express our individualism through what we choose to wear. While a specific accessory may signal that we're part of a certain group or belong to a certain segment, few modern people want to be viewed as primarily uniforms. A uniform is something that some of us accept to wear in certain situations, under certain circumstances. But it is generally taken as something that erases individualism. Indeed that is the purpose of a uniform.

There is a risk that the Apple Watch will be viewed as a uniform - something that signals lack of individuality rather than ideals about independence and confidence. If Apple Watch become something that is perceived to be worn by people who are seeking acceptance from belonging to some imaginary club, it becomes a uniform. And a uniform will be shunned by the fashion-aware who want to express ideals such as individualism, confidence and freedom.
Why are expensive things described as cool?
Getting out on the street by foot would seem to be a good way of deterring and clearing up a lot of petty crime and anti-social behaviour?

It would save a fortune on transport costs too.

PCSOs are just pointless.
It's usually bad-tempered or band natured.

EG "a right mardy mare"

Probably NSFW for language http://www.townx.org/blog/elliot/insulting-british-colloquia...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mardy
Exactly. This is one reason why things like this should begin from our homes. One cannot expect such measures to come from governments or such establishments, as they would naturally prefer people to be vulnerable to such tactics.
The descent into lawsuits is pretty sad. When customers hate your product (i.e. the ADP front-end) so much that an entire company forms around making something less terrible, you really have to look at yourself in the mirror.

I continue to be amazed by the horribleness of benefits web front-ends. I recently did a simple task in our Hewitt system, and it required five pop-up windows. It's just so, so terrible.
The author kinda hints at the key right here:

"They’re interesting for a while, but they’re also the same self-inflicted wounds everyone seems to deal with — why is this slow? why is this broken? how can we keep this old code limping along indefinitely without having to rewrite it? how does this thing a former employee wrote even work? They’re cute puzzles, and I can get into solving them for a while, but I don’t care about them. Because they aren’t my problems; they were just dumped in my lap, along with a canvas sack with a dollar sign on it."

Companies that write their own software create something where nothing existed before--and so by definition, all of their problems are self-inflicted.

Shit gets old, fast.
I am currently in Uruguay learning Spanish and Duolingo is one the the 4 tools I use on my phone for it. The other three are:

Ankidroid: A flashcard app for adding vocabulary I need and phrases I want to come more fluidly.

Spanish Trainer: A spaced repetition verb conjugation app as Duolingo doesn't give me enough practice with this.

Google Translate

What would speed things up for me is the ability to easily import translations from Google Translate into my flashcard app.

Duolingo needs to provide better user control of the spaced repitition input and some setting for the skills practice sessions. I would love the ability to make a certain drill or word as Finished or Very Confident so I don't have to waste time practicing stuff I already know. I would also love the ability to mark certain words or drills as important or useful so that they get repeated more frequently when practicing skills.

(Edited for formatting and the friendly grammar red cross :))
Duolingo is my best tool to learn English <3
I posted a link to this after reading it because I'm trying to see where do people think Swift is/can actually go.

Beyond Apple's walled garden to make systems level applications? Are they putting this up as a C/C++/Go/Java replacement, or just "we're awesome" hyperbole?

It's confusing because I am both intrigued by and super wary of diving into Swift personally.
Technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces.
technology has become a kinder, gentler variant of so-called trickle-down economics.
Technology — even when it’s equally distributed — isn’t a bridge, but a jack. It widens existing disparities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/us/taking-a-tire-iron-to-t...
Yes, I've read those and all the others. I don't see your point. Did I say that I know more about it than them? No. Did I say that I know more about it than you? Yes. Should you get all defensive about that? No. These things happen.

Did I say that tourism was some kind of magic bullet? No. I'm saying that the place is not some kind of vast, elaborate stage-show being run for the purpose of giving tourists something to look at. That's what I said.

I wish more North Korean apologists understood this.

To be fair, you didn't actually call me an apologist (which is nice because that's a astonishingly offensive thing to call someone). I think I was pretty clear in my earlier comments - grotesque, deprivation, malnutrition and so on. I have said here before that the continuing existence of the nation is a stain on the soul of humanity. There is a huge difference between presenting fact, and being an apologist.
Uh, what about Dropwizard[1]? By Github stars, it's 50% bigger than Spark, the most popular in this writeup.

It's really quite good. Provides integrated, configured libraries for REST, JSON, health checks and metrics. Even supports shaded fat jars (which provide a true single "java binary" you can execute with java -jar). It's really quite nice.

[1] https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard
Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked
The value proposition doesn't seem particularly clear to me. First off, I'm not sure what the website is supposed to be. It looks like just another recipe website.
(Disclaimer: I visited the page before reading any commentary)

It seems like you're trying to do something new - new as in why do I need a personalized meal plan so you will need to educate the user on the benefits of having one. I'd be curious to have a look at your previous landing pages.

The headline "Any food you don't eat" doesn't fully explain what the site is about, what's the purpose of my clicking on the food images and what would I get after all this?

This is an interesting concept and it might be very useful especially for people with strict diets (ones who actually need a personalized meal plan) - I would focus my marketing efforts on those guys. Or athletes. It's too early for the general public I think. Good luck!
I agree with your sentiment. There's no denying that they are a valuable tool for language learners, but they do not have the monetization figured out yet.

Originally they were going to provide translation services, which hasn't worked out. Now they're trying to provide certifications for people who pay a fee. Will that work? Maybe it will. What feels odd is that the valuation is so high for a company that hasn't yet figured out a reliable way to make money from what it does.

If all else fails, they could install paywalls, but a substantial portion of their users might abandon them at that point.
Because I see you attend The Iron Temple, you must also be a worshipper of Brodin. Wheymen.

I wasn't aware of any of the references that you used (e.g., "Brodin", "Wheymen") until I looked them up just now.

I suspect that you're joking, but for the benefit of other readers regarding my intention:

I would personally find it terribly unfortunate if what I've sincerely written in my original post above were to be misconstrued in any way with the Brodin references, which come across as a part of "bro" culture; this was categorically not my intention.

Strength training is for everyone, and both the physical and mental aspects of exercise of any type (e.g., cardio, strength, yoga, etc.) are beneficial to everyone.
Well, they've obviously heavily revising their approach with Windows 10. But Win 8's primary failing is it's learning curve. Once you know how to deal with it, it's pretty massively superior to Windows 7. A lot of the easy ways to get around in it are kinda hidden though.
Is LEGO struggling today? Probably not.

This article is from 2013-01-17.
I kind of know what you mean. But I've noticed a strange thing with the Apple Watch. Going back even 5 years ago it wasn't "will I wear a watch?" but rather what watch will I wear? A digital one with big buttons said I was a triathlete, an elegant one with a simple face said I valued simplicity etc. But then many of us just stopped wearing watches. So now when I see an Apple Watch on someone I'm having two reactions i) Oh, they're wearing an Apple Watch and ii) It's actually so important to them to have an Apple Watch that they've gone and put a new thing on their body that wasn't there before. So it _seems_ more pretentious to me than it would have a few years back. (sorry I don't mean to say you're pretentious because you have an Apple Watch just that I'm viewing it as much more of a deliberate two part thing)

BTW I know 5 years ago many people didn't wear watches then. I'm talking about the relative trend of significantly decreased watch wearing and buying coinciding with the rise of the smartphone.
This is very true. Pretty soon nobody will bother reporting any crime at all and then they'll be able to concentrate 100% of their efforts on preventing terrorism.
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Well, to add some anecdotal evidence, it is my biggest complaint about owning one :P
My whole childhood whenever I would play Lego games, I envisioned something like Lego Worlds, hopefully it becomes competitive in it's own right. I hate that Minecraft has become the center point of all sandbox games. I wonder what kids would say about Garry's Mod? Heh.
They're not "shoving Windows 8 down people's throats". They're just developing software for the Windows 8 and more importantly Windows 10 platforms. And they're giving Windows 10 upgrades out for free to get everyone up to their modern software without costing an arm and a leg.

Whether you like Windows 8 or not, doesn't change the fact that Windows 7 is six years old, and you can't run off an old operating system forever.
It seems to me that being in business for 65+ years and being the undisputed market leader in an industry and then having an incredibly well funded software company with hundreds of employees siphon off only 600 of your customers isn't necessarily a moment for self reflection.

I've used ADP myself as a startup founder. Yeah the interface is annoying. So is Craigslist, whatever. That line of argument isn't necessarily dispositive, both of them have been reasonably adept at solving the problem I engaged with them to solve.
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Didn't Google Glass had the same issue?
That's an oversimplification of a very complex custom. There are no mathematical rules. You need to understand the subtle undertone and leave a margin of error to be sure. By the way, when someone says "Bi Ta'arof migam ..." (meaning "I say this without ta'arof"), it's still ta'arof.

OP, I feel your pain. There is no easy way around this.
I try to read them and think about where in my life they apply and then internalize them. The hard part is to avoid reading advice and thinking "Hm, that's a great thought" and then never thinking of it again or never applying it in your life.
The device that screams "I'm a nerd (with $600)" causes people to notice that you have it? The same one that required preordering that is just being finished now, months later? And on a product that is, by definition, meant to be seen in public. Yeah, who could have seen that coming?
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Disingenuous comparison is disingenuous.
> It's funny how when we're young we'll look at a job like that with a sort of scorn as if we've got better things to do, but then as you get older you long a little for those nice summer days of cruising up and down the fairways, just you and your machine.

Totally... also, there are some places that hire summer students and pay kind of lousy money and have rough conditions. But there are other places that will prefer to hire someone older, stabler, long term, and recognize that they won't be able to hold onto such a person without at least paying a living wage. That could be alright. More like $15-20 an hour for relaxed, reasonably well respected work with plenty of exercise and outside time.
thanks!
what about volume mounting and port forwarding,
are supported already?
Bret Victor: Killing Math
As folks have already mentioned, have a chat with these organizations and really understand what they are struggling with in their day to day tasks. Technology is just a solution - but possibly they need help in creating awareness and a website/social media presence could be a small part of the solution.

As a former consultant, we advised non-profits on their organizational structure, helped them eliminate inefficiency and built a business case to raise funds for their initiatives as part of our volunteer work.
That's what I believed, they added a lot of surface curvy pieces. But the article mentions complexity, and indeed, some sets are HD when the one I grew up with were 360p (70s being 16 colors VGA as everyone knows).
A non-profit with a cool $1 billion in turnover according to this dodgy looking site:

http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/21-0634479/educationa...
What do you like that others find hard / What do you know that others don't?

It sounds simple, almost akin to PG's essay on What Doesn't Seem Like Work http://paulgraham.com/work.html

But I don't mean it to be so deep.

There are a lot of things around you now / experiences you've had that (using 'you' in the 3rd person) that you probably underestimate others have.

Blogging about used to be the thing. But then blogs exploded with 'content' and little substance.

What do you like / appreciate, that others have complimented you on?

I have a little thing for clothing accessories. Made a website, had a try, and is now a little extra income.

Don't create a grand plan. Just do something simple, see if others like it, and build from there.
I hope they succeed in taking away some market share from TOEFL. The TOEFL test is ridiculously overpriced for what they provide and your results expire (no joke) after 2 years. Since clearly you will have forgotten everything you knew about that language in 2 years time... Go Duolingo!
Tesla's Elon Musk expects self-driving cars in 3 years
Again, because you don't seem to read what I'm typing:

Not all modern work, just all the work that has directly or indirectly to do with money and jobs that come forth out of that (like the cleaning crew or receptionist of an insurance company or bank).

We do a lot of redundant, unnecessary work, just for the sake of working, without ever consciously asking ourselves what the use of this work is and who is actually helped with this. Unconsciously this question comes by a lot, and that makes people burn out in the long run.

Drop your assumptions and prejudice and read my posts again. We are actually able to make our lives easier and more comfortable, but instead we let ourselves be fooled and forced into doing robotic labor, never-ending jobs, and repetetive tasks. Just because we are told it's necessary and makes our lives more comfortable.
> too much of a gadget

I thought about it quite a bit before the launch and decided against it. The reason is the same reason I haven't gone for any of these: AW is putting all its effort into being something that it's not (a fashionable watch) instead of being the best of what it is (wearable arm tech).

The watch started out as a utility on the arm and evolved into the time masterpiece or fashion piece that it is today. These 'watches' are attempting to skip all of that evolution instead of defiantly re-evaluating what a modern utility on the arm could be.

I'm personally in agreement with the author but not for the same reasons. I think the AW, Android Gear and what-have-you are definitely going to fizzle out in face of some future revolutionary device, possibly before then: people are going to grudgingly realize that they have a phone in their pocket and that they don't need another one on their arm.
Great feedback! I wonder if you might be interested in contributing this to bud? This thing will be very valuable addition!
This probably depends greatly upon whether your machine has discrete graphics or not. On Macbook Pros with nVidia graphics like my 2014 higher-tier Macbook Pro, there is a dramatic loss in battery when the discrete graphics kicks in. However, most Macs sold now don't have discrete graphics because the Intel integrated graphics is honestly pretty decent nowadays for most tasks. The difference is 3 hours of battery and 8+ for me.

Google Chrome, similarly, tends to drain my battery a lot, and that alone has encouraged me to go to Safari on Macs.
I still cannot believe Zenefits' "integration" with ADP was actually screen-scraping. No wonder ADP's servers were overloaded.
What Apple News means for journalism
He mentions some more details here:

http://librelist.com/browser/attic/2015/3/31/comparison-of-a...
Easy solution: boot the guys out of the lab. They can clean the hallways.
I don't know about the US, but internationally it's not a monopoly by TOEFL. When I was looking at foreign uinversities for my Master's several programs were accepted. For Sweden it's: TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge Michigan Language Assessments, Pearson PTE Academic, University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations and possibly more (I got accepted with an old IB A2 degree).
Absolutely the problem. Google+ currently causes Firefox to hang for five to ten seconds. (On my less core-gifted machine, this locks up the entire machine for those five to ten seconds, but in most cases, just ALL my Firefox.)
I've had terrible anxiety at certain times in my life. I've found that it doesn't just 'go away' on its own, so it's great that you're asking for help.

Two things have helped me quite a bit: Exercising and meditating. Exercising helps flush out nervous energy, that knee-tapping, pencil-chewing, frenetic buzzing that tends to keep me up worrying at night. It also helps get me on a regular sleep schedule, and I tend to stay calmer when I'm well rested. Meditating has helped me quiet the noise. When I have a lot going on it can become hard to even decide what to focus on...meditating helps me clear that up and set my mind on single objects/tasks at a time. It also helps me accept the things that I can't change, and learn to acknowledge and move past my own failures (like missing a deadline) without freaking out or panicking.

Hope that helps.
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Mercedes will offer self-driving car in 2016
Long-form in a information rich ad ecosystem
Well, that gives me a little hope. Consumers don't part with their money as easily a business does. People want technology to change education but they don't want to spend any money.
He's still paying a significantly higher tax rate on that dollar than if he didn't earn it this year.

If he is not hurting for cash and he could defer it until next year (or year after that) with no penalty at all and (arguably) negligible risk, thus paying the lower personal income tax rate on that dollar, why not do it?

I don't see what part is misunderstood. If you're being paid by your employer, obviously you want to take the raise regardless of higher taxes. If you are your own employer, both entities are paying taxes and each dollar of taxes paid is coming out of your own pocket.
> I gravitate toward clothes that are not identifiable by season or designer and do not appear in any advertisements I have ever seen.

I don't understand why someone who goes out of their way to find unidentifiable things would even consider buying an Apple Watch.
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Re: how they operate, we have one in the conference room near my desk. It's fine for projecting small meetings, the touch functionality is occasionally useful (but I don't think I'm the target audience).

The biggest issue for me is that while a projector can generate a much larger image and a whiteboard can provide a much larger single working space, scaling sufficiently to match either of those would be tricky.
I also have yet to find a UI designer who doesn't pitch a fit when you dare question the usability of their design. I'm sure they're out there, but my carefully constructed explanation of why a UI makes something harder to use has never been well received.
Mortgage is tax deductible if you are itemizing, which most people in the US do not. He's almost certainly not going to be itemizing if he doesn't have an income any more.

Additionally, you probably can do better investing, but we don't know when he took out his mortgage. I got a mortgage in 2000 and the rates were much higher. A guaranteed 6.5% return on my investment? Not too bad. Refinancing can be expensive, and depending on what remains on the mortgage it may not be worth it.

So really, it's almost impossible to speculate on whether paying of the mortgage was a good idea until we know more of the details. I admit I would be inclined to pay it off just for the certainty and the immediate lowering of expenses. Investing can take time to return, possibly more time than he has.
It claims to be "standard C", which usually these days means ISO C rather than ANSI C. For details about mbstowcs, see the C99 standard, section 7.20.8.1.
Ratpack - http://ratpack.io is another interesting Java micro framework.
Whoever told you that, it is incorrect information. There are remote workers at all levels of the organization.

You should not confuse that with "every position is open to be hired remote". There are teams that are setup for that, others that are not. Even for the same position, it depends a lot on the candidate.

About telecommuting, we call that home-office and has nothing to do with "remotes". It only applies to people working in office locations (obviously). You can work from home if you have a reason for it (something delivered, big cold but feeling well, sick child, etc.), but it is not like "I am not in the mood of going to the office today so I stay home".
>Unless Yelp has a toxic work culture

Yelp's business model is quasi-extortionate. Even if the work environment itself was OK, writing code all day for that purpose would certainly leave me feeling pretty crappy about my job. That kind of thing doesn't wash off very easily if you have a conscience.
Actually most of it is talk, then a hastily pushed through bill, then a technological measure, then a pile of consultancy, then a pile of tendering, then armies of consultants filing expenses for 5 years, then a royal fuck up due to nothing been delivered, then some resignations and reassignments, then a sudden declaration of success based on something purely coincidental that looked like the first grand idea was the answer.

That is literally every government project here in the UK.