I agree. I search for products or utilities looking for the official download page and included in the results is the CNET page. I always have to ask...why is it on some other website.
Then I remember years ago the discussion of bundleware and how it was placed right into the installer toolkit. And that people were making a small beer money by taking shareware/freeware and repackaging it for a few bucks on the side. Like those who copy YouTube videos and place their own ad accounts into it - hoping you'll view their copy over the original.
I always avoid downloads.com. Which makes you wonder if CNET is culpable with infecting others with scammy (at best) software. They must know this happens - and probably make a buck off it too. However I tell everyone I know to stay away - so this dilutes (or strengthens?) the brand.
A rather interesting Adobe Flash Pro installer is making the rounds through ad hacking. It contains a webpage that looks and smells like a Real Adobe web page and an installer.EXE starts to download automatically in Chrome (without any clicks required). The web page suggests it is Adobe Flash Pro.
It has the most honest small print. "This is not Adobe, rather an improved video streaming software that is better than Flash...this also installs ad viewing software to help pay for this free improved video experience...software will track what you're doing..."
However the first webpage is a total Adobe knockoff - including graphics and fonts. But the EULA tells the true story.
I have a pessimistic view of this and suspect that many companies are hacked and just silently sit on it because - well - they don't need to tell anyone.
This sounds like a plan to bolster the US Mail system by causing 10 pounds of mail weekly to each constituent alerting them to a recent data breach. Or we'll all need fax machines with an endless spool of paper. Oh wait - it was called a ticker. "...today your account at ACME XYZ was hacked at 9:43 AM...."
If I notice that my twitter account was hacked - so that mean twitter needs to send me a letter?
yes it should. My laptop has a Wifi and ethernet connection (I won't get into why). I figured out years ago that iTunes and iPhones need to be on the same Wifi Ghz channel to work. Maybe this is a bonjour problem? My laptop can do both 2.4 and 5Ghz - my WAP can do simultaneous N on both channels. And there aren't any subnet differences between devices on each channel. DHCP hands out addresses in order as devices request them.
So why won't my Apple TV talk to my laptop if one is on 2.4 and the other 5? I don't know. Should I have to care?
hmm... I'll have to see how many mp3 files I have - it'll be interesting to see if that fixes anything. Thanks - never heard of this idea as a potential fix before.
I still buy CDs and rip them to Apple Lossless format. So building a list of mp3s should be straightforward. And what few mp3s I have I purchased through iTunes. oohhh could be my podcasts...although I do compress when syncing to my iDevices, maybe the cache is bad. I leave the lossless for Sonos to play through my bad-ass stereo:-)
I've read through the logs and it seems to be a Bonjour level error. But hey - I'll try it. As the next commenter says though - it should just friggen work. Do I need a degree in CS to make iTunes work?
Oh no - another app I won't be using. Why an app and not just a mobile web page?
Obviously this is just grandstanding
Honestly - will anyone notice that this app isn't available? Who is the target customer - and how many people will be searching the app store wondering "now where is that darn EFF app I've heard so much about?"
Of course if the app really is popular then customer demand will drive them to swallow their moral values and succumb to the license agreement.
hmm.. I wonder if that's my problem with my Dell XPS i7 laptop. It just randomly reboots once a week. I'm sure it's a hardware problem - but maybe turning off the "turbo boost" function would make it more stable.
Wait - iTunes used to sync properly for you? man.... it has never worked for me.
I'm in the large camp of those who see their devices appear in iTunes and then immediately disappear with a message "this device no longer exists or is offline" (WiFi sync). And this has happened for years.
Then again - iTunes has never been known for its quality.
iOS on the other hand....I have been using since v6 and am no longer satisfied with it's quality, at least on older devices. My iPad "3" is now miserable with all kinds of strange issues occurring (I can't watch a streaming movie from iTunes - it stutters and freezes... but downloading same works fine). My iPhone "5" has intermittent problems where it loses network "data" connections and all apps fail to make network connections. Rebooting the phone is the only solution.
Granted each version of iOS has had problems. However the impact has been low. And I for one don't see what the wonderful features of iOS8 are. My wife still has iOS 7 on her mini and frankly I can't tell the difference between our iPads from a functional point of view. Although her's works better.
Maybe they have switched to "get it out there first" since Android is a few steps ahead of them these days. Or stop providing iOS updates for old devices.
The local museum here offered a series on "Science of Food & Brew" - one night a week during the summer they had different presentations on how to make beer, it's history, different flavors (and how they are made), and basically food & drink pairing. I think Mead and Cider were also covered.
And of course - each night included samples by local companies.
I returned to college several years ago after a 20 year hiatus (the first 6 years were my creative period). My first time around I studied what might be called pure Computer Science. A lot has happened in the industry after 20 years and I very much enjoyed conversations in class - esp with the perspective of the younger generation. I found it fascinating how many kids of today hoped to enter the gaming industry (my generation - Zork was popular when I was a kid and Myst was a breakout success on a new level). Kids today see blockbuster gaming as an almost make it rich experience - plus a "real world" job that sounds like fun.
But more interesting was the concepts of Computer Engineering vs Computer Science. What is Science vs Engineering? Are software "engineers" really scientists? Do they need to learn all this sciencey stuff in order to enter the business school? I attended a large semi-well-known University. Back in the '80s the CS department was "owned" by the school of business. Programming computers was thought to be the money maker - only business really used them with a strong overlap into engineering because computers were really big calculators. However it was a real CS curriculum with only 1 class for business majors. Fast forward a dozen years and CS is now part of the Engineering school (with Business on its own). The "kids" wondered why they needed to study Knuth et al when they were just going to be programming games. What about art? Story telling? They planned on using visual creative studio tools to create their works. Why all this science stuff? (this in a haptics class). Should a poet learn algorithms in order to operate MS-Word?
Since computers are ubiquitous they are used everywhere. I tell students to get a degree in what interests them - and learn how to use/program computers because...well..who doesn't use a computer? I used to program my TI calculator in highschool to pump out answers to physics & algebra questions (basic formulas).
Are those who program Excel Macros computer scientists? No. Computer Engineers? no. Business people solving real problems? Yes/maybe. The land is now wider. Many people don't care about the details of landing a man on the moon - but they like it when the velcro strap on their shoes holds properly. They receive entertainment via the Discovery Channel and get the dumbed down edition of all things "science."
When creating entertainment - it needs to be relatable to your target audience. The down and dirty details and technicalities interest only a few of us. My wife's eyes glaze over when I talk about some cool thing I'm working on. Retell it as saving the world and improving quality - she gets it (only to politely say I should go play with the kids -- but at least she was listening to that version of events).
I think that the dumbing down of history is... well.. history. There was this thing called World War 2. The details I learned in grade school - lots of details. Each battle, names of important individuals. Today - lots of history has happened in the meantime. WW2 is now a bit dumbed down - still an important subject - but students still only have 8 grades in school with more material to cover.
My brain melts when I watch the Discovery Channel. I'm probably not the target audience. The details of historical science probably interest me. The history of Computing needs to be told like "The Social Network."
Generally I would agree with you. Forking the education system seem extreme. Hopefully it is just social/cultural problem.
In the meantime, until we know different, I believe these targeted efforts could help jump start and make repair for previous sins. Obviously whatever we've been doing has caused a large gap - so we can't keep doing the same old same old.
Is the cause of the gap between men/women the same we see between classes and races? We know (or believe) that everyone is capable of achieving their personal goals - however this isn't reflected in the statistics. And I don't believe that those successful minorities (general use) are somehow Exceptional for their gender/race/class. We like to believe in the USA that anyone with a plan can breakout beyond their environment and rise to any level of their choosing.
The Republicans would say you need motivation and Dems would say you need nurturing.
Thanks - but what is the difference? I don't know.
If somebody broke into an office and photocopied the files in a drawer - then handed them out on the street....what is the legal implications? Sure - the first person who took a copy might not know the origin. But as more people get wind of the situation at some point people know what they have and maybe even go seeking those copies.
But I really don't know law and would like to understand this at a cursory level.
Where does Possession of Stolen Property enter the picture? The data, such as internal private emails, all stolen should have some kind of protection. Sure - probably not much because the cat is out of the bag.
The question I ask - if somebody has stolen something are you allowed to participate? "sorry - I found the store window broken and the cash drawer open...so I counted the money because it was in plain sight. And rifled through the secret employee documents while I was in there."
I'm not sure where they got the idea - but who understand what drives innovators.
I've been using Inbox for awhile and at first I liked it - it solved many of the problems that I have with email in general. I use the Tabs feature in GMail which hides email I probably don't want to read. This cut down the number of times my phone said "you've got mail" -- I can batch read/delete promotions.
Great I thought! Inbox does this better?! After a week of kicking it around the block I started to like it less and less. I'm still 100% eat-the-dog-food on my phone.
Sure it has it little bugs which I can overlook. It is the concepts that I'm evaluating.
First - I'm never sure I've read all of my email. The categories sort in different places depending upon the most recent email behind door #1. If I delete an email - then the whole category slides down and sorts based upon the next most recent email.
Second - Archive vs Delete. They assume that every email you read you'll want again later. Or everything you archive you'll never look at again (kind of the SMS approach - who reads SMS a week later?!) It is easier Done a message - but takes 2 taps to delete. For me - I either want to refer to the email again, or Never see it. "Hi - here are the directions to get to X" - I might need those again. "Here's a discount offer that must be used today" It's like that pile on my desk - either something I might want to read next month - or toss it in the trash. Inbox only has 1 mode of operation --- place it on that pile on the desk.
Third - it is a task based UI design. Most operations require 2 taps to get anything done. The basics are all single taps. But the next most used features are at least 2. Open Tasklist - Pick Task. ActionList -> Action. I've seen UI designs like this before and they become tedious to use in the long run.
Everytime I open Gmail I notice emails that I have forgotten to do something with. For whatever reason I have overlooked them in Inbox. Something just isn't right. Maybe I'm using it wrong. Someone emails me a question - I can't get to it now... Snooze it? Sounded like a great feature. Out of sight out of mind. GMail - it just lingers on my list. Inbox - it can stay hidden behind door #3 such that I forget about it. I can't deal with this Now..maybe later...but Snooze forces Later...and later is defined as "when I have free time."
The zero inbox sounded great. The problem is - my inbox is more a todo list and somethings are never really done. I tag things and then archive them - family photos, cool new toolkits to take a look at etc. A collection of crap all organized and packed away.
I've given them feedback. I go back to GMail to feel relaxed and make sure all of my email is read.
yeah but.... that's where the [smart] people are. Sure they could move to the corn fields of the mid-west. It isn't simply cost-of-living - it's finding a place with enough people who have the necessary skillsets. There may be smart people everywhere, but in a small area there may not be enough of them.
Yes - well... if you prayed to learn how to perform this kind of singing...then consider your prayer answered !!
Actually - I started looking at his whole channel and found his random "man on the streets" of Japan to be quite entertaining. I haven't been back to Japan for over 10 years so I found it interesting and fun to watch. I remember buying hot sake in a can - press a button and it would begin heating. They have such cool soda machines over there. YouTube surfing at its best.
well actually - women are paid less to do the same job as men. Why not hire more women? Not as many women apply for these jobs.
Why? This is where the debate begins. Nature, nurture, environment? An article I read recently on the subject is that women don't want to work in a heavily sexist "man" environment - especially around men who say "there isn't a problem, just need more qualified women, if they existed they'd work here! but they are off pursuing other jobs that interest them"
Another article suggested that it was nurture - they weren't encouraged to follow the same educational tracks. The argument used here is to look at school funding for sports - big money is in boys basketball and football (and hockey up here)...but try to divide that spending up and boost/equalize girls sports is usually stopped. Why? 'cause girls don't play those sports, or don't do it well so nobody wants to watch. However if spending was made available maybe they'd have more opportunity and get good at it...leading to us wanting to watch.
Subsidizing bus fare is seen as a way to make it easier for some people to come to work. Getting qualified people to the office is good for Amazon. Locally IBM has a van that drives across the state. Low income people can't (don't want to) afford the gas to drive to work. However they life so far outside the city area that their cost of living is lower - and they are every bit qualified to do the job. IBM can't find people within 15 miles willing to take the low paying jobs due to cost of living.... so they pay for the shuttle van. Win-win - folks with lower cost of living look at these jobs as good-paying, IBM has qualified folks willing to work at "reasonable" rates. It was good business to get into the transportation business.
As for the article in question in this thread post - it is very opinionated and not scientific at all "as I go around town I see the ratio of men to women as..." Really - all of his conclusions are based upon what he sees out the window? How very...uninformed this article is.
Look - its an opinion piece - and you're welcome to yours as well. Try to do better than the original author.
This is the second video from her that I've seen. I really liked this one because she explained what she was doing. The first was just her singing and I didn't "get it."
Look in the suggested links on YouTube - you'll see one from "Yuichi Tuba" who goes into the basics. He talks about where to put your tongue, how to shape it, and how to practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Something fun to go home and try. Better than teaching the kid how to make farting noises under his arm.
Is writing a web page just simply a "Trade?" You go and mentor with a master and get a job as a junior web page coder. As technology advances it's level of entry should drop.
If you remember during the last bubble that bunches of non-IT folks started calling themselves Web Designers (and still do) - they were simply setting up web pages and helping to "code" content, pretty much graphic designers who learned HTML. They weren't exactly building the infrastructure that we would leave to Software Developers.
We have this discussion a lot. A team just needs a bunch of beginner coders and a senior person to play architect - and you'll have a product. I'd argue you'll have healthcare.gov - but that's a discussion for a different thread... I think. Oh why not have it here...!
I read that too with some surprise. I don't agree with your definition of landlord and tenants - that payment must exchanged from the customer. First - define who the customer is. A Landlord simply owns the property, who then rents or leases it - in this case the advertisers pay your rent. Although another way to look at it is like a grocery store where the advertisers pay for shelf space and "we" the public browse for content? Stores don't stock the food - the advertisers do. The shelves are rented - so that you the customer can enter for free and make purchases.
As for the physical premises comment. We may use the term "the cloud" - but the cloud is a physical thing for which FB does indeed own. More interesting is "where" the cloud is and whether such data is available to US warrants.
This thing, the cloud, is new and I think maybe this is yet another case of technology moving faster than law can.
I thought the same thing. If the number of users is dwindling - then hosting it on "github" is for posterity only. Maybe somebody in the future will be able to use the code and do something "new and improved."
It seems that the power of capitalism is what plays here. If nobody uses it - then put it out to pasture. Hanging the code out in public may help a future generation in an unknown way. Maybe it will have a revival. Who knows.
Think of all the books that have gone unread (or lost) because of old age. Either the language is unknown today or there are just too many modern books to read. Some research scientist will look it over in "20" more years and write about the golden nuggets found in that old project.
Scaled Agile Framework or Unified Process?! Some people might call it Scrum-fall.
Working in a big org on a big product I can see why somebody would suggest mixing both. The problem is - taking the "good" things from both rather than the bad things.
For example, If you want telemetry data sent back to a repository (to track feature usage) - you might want the architecture of that figured out "up front" rather than retrofit. I say "you might." In Agile it might be an important spike to get closed up front. You have to think beyond code design and think about the whole business - when you have 200+ people working on code there are some things to take care of earlier rather than have them happen organically. Agile says that the architecture can morph and be refactored - true. But I've seen projects go into extra innings because the architecture needed to be refactored for a must-have feature. Why? Because the feature is structural across the tiers and the organic architecture didn't have this in mind.
Agile trainers would say that in Scrum you do more planning than waterfall. Waterfall you control the plan, in Agile you're always making a new one up. It is finding the time to breathe in Agile - you can't just have 200 people start coding next week. Esp if there are "big" architectural questions that haven't even made it to the drawing board - somehow you need to turn "hey - that's a good idea would should do it" into something that people can understand.
Best advice - define what "always shippable code" means to you. And do it. Every feature needs to track usage? Or be scalable? or be secure? or....? This is your Definition of Done for a story and your "control."
Of course not every good idea gets done. There's always next time.
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I agree. I search for products or utilities looking for the official download page and included in the results is the CNET page. I always have to ask...why is it on some other website.
Then I remember years ago the discussion of bundleware and how it was placed right into the installer toolkit. And that people were making a small beer money by taking shareware/freeware and repackaging it for a few bucks on the side. Like those who copy YouTube videos and place their own ad accounts into it - hoping you'll view their copy over the original.
I always avoid downloads.com. Which makes you wonder if CNET is culpable with infecting others with scammy (at best) software. They must know this happens - and probably make a buck off it too. However I tell everyone I know to stay away - so this dilutes (or strengthens?) the brand.
It isn't exactly the Apple App store ;-)
A rather interesting Adobe Flash Pro installer is making the rounds through ad hacking. It contains a webpage that looks and smells like a Real Adobe web page and an installer .EXE starts to download automatically in Chrome (without any clicks required). The web page suggests it is Adobe Flash Pro.
It has the most honest small print. "This is not Adobe, rather an improved video streaming software that is better than Flash...this also installs ad viewing software to help pay for this free improved video experience...software will track what you're doing..."
However the first webpage is a total Adobe knockoff - including graphics and fonts. But the EULA tells the true story.
And it is signed. Yes...signed. By "BEST APP."
I have a pessimistic view of this and suspect that many companies are hacked and just silently sit on it because - well - they don't need to tell anyone.
This sounds like a plan to bolster the US Mail system by causing 10 pounds of mail weekly to each constituent alerting them to a recent data breach. Or we'll all need fax machines with an endless spool of paper. Oh wait - it was called a ticker. "...today your account at ACME XYZ was hacked at 9:43 AM...."
If I notice that my twitter account was hacked - so that mean twitter needs to send me a letter?
yes it should. My laptop has a Wifi and ethernet connection (I won't get into why). I figured out years ago that iTunes and iPhones need to be on the same Wifi Ghz channel to work. Maybe this is a bonjour problem? My laptop can do both 2.4 and 5Ghz - my WAP can do simultaneous N on both channels. And there aren't any subnet differences between devices on each channel. DHCP hands out addresses in order as devices request them.
So why won't my Apple TV talk to my laptop if one is on 2.4 and the other 5? I don't know. Should I have to care?
hmm... I'll have to see how many mp3 files I have - it'll be interesting to see if that fixes anything. Thanks - never heard of this idea as a potential fix before.
I still buy CDs and rip them to Apple Lossless format. So building a list of mp3s should be straightforward. And what few mp3s I have I purchased through iTunes. oohhh could be my podcasts. ..although I do compress when syncing to my iDevices, maybe the cache is bad. I leave the lossless for Sonos to play through my bad-ass stereo :-)
I've read through the logs and it seems to be a Bonjour level error. But hey - I'll try it. As the next commenter says though - it should just friggen work. Do I need a degree in CS to make iTunes work?
Oh no - another app I won't be using. Why an app and not just a mobile web page?
Obviously this is just grandstanding
Honestly - will anyone notice that this app isn't available? Who is the target customer - and how many people will be searching the app store wondering "now where is that darn EFF app I've heard so much about?"
Of course if the app really is popular then customer demand will drive them to swallow their moral values and succumb to the license agreement.
hmm.. I wonder if that's my problem with my Dell XPS i7 laptop. It just randomly reboots once a week. I'm sure it's a hardware problem - but maybe turning off the "turbo boost" function would make it more stable.
"KITT - we need turbo boost now!!"
Wait - iTunes used to sync properly for you? man.... it has never worked for me.
I'm in the large camp of those who see their devices appear in iTunes and then immediately disappear with a message "this device no longer exists or is offline" (WiFi sync). And this has happened for years.
Then again - iTunes has never been known for its quality.
iOS on the other hand....I have been using since v6 and am no longer satisfied with it's quality, at least on older devices. My iPad "3" is now miserable with all kinds of strange issues occurring (I can't watch a streaming movie from iTunes - it stutters and freezes... but downloading same works fine). My iPhone "5" has intermittent problems where it loses network "data" connections and all apps fail to make network connections. Rebooting the phone is the only solution.
Granted each version of iOS has had problems. However the impact has been low. And I for one don't see what the wonderful features of iOS8 are. My wife still has iOS 7 on her mini and frankly I can't tell the difference between our iPads from a functional point of view. Although her's works better.
Maybe they have switched to "get it out there first" since Android is a few steps ahead of them these days. Or stop providing iOS updates for old devices.
The local museum here offered a series on "Science of Food & Brew" - one night a week during the summer they had different presentations on how to make beer, it's history, different flavors (and how they are made), and basically food & drink pairing. I think Mead and Cider were also covered.
And of course - each night included samples by local companies.
I returned to college several years ago after a 20 year hiatus (the first 6 years were my creative period). My first time around I studied what might be called pure Computer Science. A lot has happened in the industry after 20 years and I very much enjoyed conversations in class - esp with the perspective of the younger generation. I found it fascinating how many kids of today hoped to enter the gaming industry (my generation - Zork was popular when I was a kid and Myst was a breakout success on a new level). Kids today see blockbuster gaming as an almost make it rich experience - plus a "real world" job that sounds like fun.
But more interesting was the concepts of Computer Engineering vs Computer Science. What is Science vs Engineering? Are software "engineers" really scientists? Do they need to learn all this sciencey stuff in order to enter the business school? I attended a large semi-well-known University. Back in the '80s the CS department was "owned" by the school of business. Programming computers was thought to be the money maker - only business really used them with a strong overlap into engineering because computers were really big calculators. However it was a real CS curriculum with only 1 class for business majors. Fast forward a dozen years and CS is now part of the Engineering school (with Business on its own). The "kids" wondered why they needed to study Knuth et al when they were just going to be programming games. What about art? Story telling? They planned on using visual creative studio tools to create their works. Why all this science stuff? (this in a haptics class). Should a poet learn algorithms in order to operate MS-Word?
Since computers are ubiquitous they are used everywhere. I tell students to get a degree in what interests them - and learn how to use/program computers because...well..who doesn't use a computer? I used to program my TI calculator in highschool to pump out answers to physics & algebra questions (basic formulas).
Are those who program Excel Macros computer scientists? No. Computer Engineers? no. Business people solving real problems? Yes/maybe. The land is now wider. Many people don't care about the details of landing a man on the moon - but they like it when the velcro strap on their shoes holds properly. They receive entertainment via the Discovery Channel and get the dumbed down edition of all things "science."
When creating entertainment - it needs to be relatable to your target audience. The down and dirty details and technicalities interest only a few of us. My wife's eyes glaze over when I talk about some cool thing I'm working on. Retell it as saving the world and improving quality - she gets it (only to politely say I should go play with the kids -- but at least she was listening to that version of events).
I think that the dumbing down of history is ... well.. history. There was this thing called World War 2. The details I learned in grade school - lots of details. Each battle, names of important individuals. Today - lots of history has happened in the meantime. WW2 is now a bit dumbed down - still an important subject - but students still only have 8 grades in school with more material to cover.
My brain melts when I watch the Discovery Channel. I'm probably not the target audience. The details of historical science probably interest me. The history of Computing needs to be told like "The Social Network."
Now - over at HuffPo they report Castro is still alive. /. vs HuffPo? You be the judge.
Either that or it is the greatest secret ever! :-P
Gosh - this whole thing was a "major fire" back years ago. I haven't heard boo since ~2008.
Generally I would agree with you. Forking the education system seem extreme. Hopefully it is just social/cultural problem.
In the meantime, until we know different, I believe these targeted efforts could help jump start and make repair for previous sins. Obviously whatever we've been doing has caused a large gap - so we can't keep doing the same old same old.
Is the cause of the gap between men/women the same we see between classes and races? We know (or believe) that everyone is capable of achieving their personal goals - however this isn't reflected in the statistics. And I don't believe that those successful minorities (general use) are somehow Exceptional for their gender/race/class. We like to believe in the USA that anyone with a plan can breakout beyond their environment and rise to any level of their choosing.
The Republicans would say you need motivation and Dems would say you need nurturing.
Thanks - but what is the difference? I don't know.
If somebody broke into an office and photocopied the files in a drawer - then handed them out on the street....what is the legal implications? Sure - the first person who took a copy might not know the origin. But as more people get wind of the situation at some point people know what they have and maybe even go seeking those copies.
But I really don't know law and would like to understand this at a cursory level.
Talk about eat your own dog food.
Now if only I could think up a reason to own such a device - and get it past budget approval (aka wife) -- I'd be all in.
Where does Possession of Stolen Property enter the picture? The data, such as internal private emails, all stolen should have some kind of protection. Sure - probably not much because the cat is out of the bag.
The question I ask - if somebody has stolen something are you allowed to participate? "sorry - I found the store window broken and the cash drawer open...so I counted the money because it was in plain sight. And rifled through the secret employee documents while I was in there."
I'm not sure where they got the idea - but who understand what drives innovators.
I've been using Inbox for awhile and at first I liked it - it solved many of the problems that I have with email in general. I use the Tabs feature in GMail which hides email I probably don't want to read. This cut down the number of times my phone said "you've got mail" -- I can batch read/delete promotions.
Great I thought! Inbox does this better?! After a week of kicking it around the block I started to like it less and less. I'm still 100% eat-the-dog-food on my phone.
Sure it has it little bugs which I can overlook. It is the concepts that I'm evaluating.
First - I'm never sure I've read all of my email. The categories sort in different places depending upon the most recent email behind door #1. If I delete an email - then the whole category slides down and sorts based upon the next most recent email.
Second - Archive vs Delete. They assume that every email you read you'll want again later. Or everything you archive you'll never look at again (kind of the SMS approach - who reads SMS a week later?!) It is easier Done a message - but takes 2 taps to delete. For me - I either want to refer to the email again, or Never see it. "Hi - here are the directions to get to X" - I might need those again. "Here's a discount offer that must be used today" It's like that pile on my desk - either something I might want to read next month - or toss it in the trash. Inbox only has 1 mode of operation --- place it on that pile on the desk.
Third - it is a task based UI design. Most operations require 2 taps to get anything done. The basics are all single taps. But the next most used features are at least 2. Open Tasklist - Pick Task. ActionList -> Action. I've seen UI designs like this before and they become tedious to use in the long run.
Everytime I open Gmail I notice emails that I have forgotten to do something with. For whatever reason I have overlooked them in Inbox. Something just isn't right. Maybe I'm using it wrong. Someone emails me a question - I can't get to it now... Snooze it? Sounded like a great feature. Out of sight out of mind. GMail - it just lingers on my list. Inbox - it can stay hidden behind door #3 such that I forget about it. I can't deal with this Now..maybe later...but Snooze forces Later...and later is defined as "when I have free time."
The zero inbox sounded great. The problem is - my inbox is more a todo list and somethings are never really done. I tag things and then archive them - family photos, cool new toolkits to take a look at etc. A collection of crap all organized and packed away.
I've given them feedback. I go back to GMail to feel relaxed and make sure all of my email is read.
yeah but.... that's where the [smart] people are. Sure they could move to the corn fields of the mid-west. It isn't simply cost-of-living - it's finding a place with enough people who have the necessary skillsets. There may be smart people everywhere, but in a small area there may not be enough of them.
Yes - well... if you prayed to learn how to perform this kind of singing...then consider your prayer answered !!
Actually - I started looking at his whole channel and found his random "man on the streets" of Japan to be quite entertaining. I haven't been back to Japan for over 10 years so I found it interesting and fun to watch. I remember buying hot sake in a can - press a button and it would begin heating. They have such cool soda machines over there. YouTube surfing at its best.
Back to work.
well actually - women are paid less to do the same job as men. Why not hire more women? Not as many women apply for these jobs.
Why? This is where the debate begins. Nature, nurture, environment? An article I read recently on the subject is that women don't want to work in a heavily sexist "man" environment - especially around men who say "there isn't a problem, just need more qualified women, if they existed they'd work here! but they are off pursuing other jobs that interest them"
Another article suggested that it was nurture - they weren't encouraged to follow the same educational tracks. The argument used here is to look at school funding for sports - big money is in boys basketball and football (and hockey up here)...but try to divide that spending up and boost/equalize girls sports is usually stopped. Why? 'cause girls don't play those sports, or don't do it well so nobody wants to watch. However if spending was made available maybe they'd have more opportunity and get good at it...leading to us wanting to watch.
Subsidizing bus fare is seen as a way to make it easier for some people to come to work. Getting qualified people to the office is good for Amazon. Locally IBM has a van that drives across the state. Low income people can't (don't want to) afford the gas to drive to work. However they life so far outside the city area that their cost of living is lower - and they are every bit qualified to do the job. IBM can't find people within 15 miles willing to take the low paying jobs due to cost of living.... so they pay for the shuttle van. Win-win - folks with lower cost of living look at these jobs as good-paying, IBM has qualified folks willing to work at "reasonable" rates. It was good business to get into the transportation business.
As for the article in question in this thread post - it is very opinionated and not scientific at all "as I go around town I see the ratio of men to women as..." Really - all of his conclusions are based upon what he sees out the window? How very...uninformed this article is.
Look - its an opinion piece - and you're welcome to yours as well. Try to do better than the original author.
This is the second video from her that I've seen. I really liked this one because she explained what she was doing. The first was just her singing and I didn't "get it."
Look in the suggested links on YouTube - you'll see one from "Yuichi Tuba" who goes into the basics. He talks about where to put your tongue, how to shape it, and how to practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Something fun to go home and try. Better than teaching the kid how to make farting noises under his arm.
Is writing a web page just simply a "Trade?" You go and mentor with a master and get a job as a junior web page coder. As technology advances it's level of entry should drop.
If you remember during the last bubble that bunches of non-IT folks started calling themselves Web Designers (and still do) - they were simply setting up web pages and helping to "code" content, pretty much graphic designers who learned HTML. They weren't exactly building the infrastructure that we would leave to Software Developers.
We have this discussion a lot. A team just needs a bunch of beginner coders and a senior person to play architect - and you'll have a product. I'd argue you'll have healthcare.gov - but that's a discussion for a different thread... I think. Oh why not have it here...!
I read that too with some surprise. I don't agree with your definition of landlord and tenants - that payment must exchanged from the customer. First - define who the customer is. A Landlord simply owns the property, who then rents or leases it - in this case the advertisers pay your rent. Although another way to look at it is like a grocery store where the advertisers pay for shelf space and "we" the public browse for content? Stores don't stock the food - the advertisers do. The shelves are rented - so that you the customer can enter for free and make purchases.
As for the physical premises comment. We may use the term "the cloud" - but the cloud is a physical thing for which FB does indeed own. More interesting is "where" the cloud is and whether such data is available to US warrants.
This thing, the cloud, is new and I think maybe this is yet another case of technology moving faster than law can.
Why not meet in the middle - 30 minutes permanently.
Does 30 minutes really make a difference?
I thought the same thing. If the number of users is dwindling - then hosting it on "github" is for posterity only. Maybe somebody in the future will be able to use the code and do something "new and improved."
It seems that the power of capitalism is what plays here. If nobody uses it - then put it out to pasture. Hanging the code out in public may help a future generation in an unknown way. Maybe it will have a revival. Who knows.
Think of all the books that have gone unread (or lost) because of old age. Either the language is unknown today or there are just too many modern books to read. Some research scientist will look it over in "20" more years and write about the golden nuggets found in that old project.
Scaled Agile Framework or Unified Process?! Some people might call it Scrum-fall.
Working in a big org on a big product I can see why somebody would suggest mixing both. The problem is - taking the "good" things from both rather than the bad things.
For example, If you want telemetry data sent back to a repository (to track feature usage) - you might want the architecture of that figured out "up front" rather than retrofit. I say "you might." In Agile it might be an important spike to get closed up front. You have to think beyond code design and think about the whole business - when you have 200+ people working on code there are some things to take care of earlier rather than have them happen organically. Agile says that the architecture can morph and be refactored - true. But I've seen projects go into extra innings because the architecture needed to be refactored for a must-have feature. Why? Because the feature is structural across the tiers and the organic architecture didn't have this in mind.
Agile trainers would say that in Scrum you do more planning than waterfall. Waterfall you control the plan, in Agile you're always making a new one up. It is finding the time to breathe in Agile - you can't just have 200 people start coding next week. Esp if there are "big" architectural questions that haven't even made it to the drawing board - somehow you need to turn "hey - that's a good idea would should do it" into something that people can understand.
Best advice - define what "always shippable code" means to you. And do it. Every feature needs to track usage? Or be scalable? or be secure? or....? This is your Definition of Done for a story and your "control."
Of course not every good idea gets done. There's always next time.