bbarn

31 ms·

481.
by bbarn 8y ago
We all know it's bad. We pay hundreds a month to insurance companies because it's a law that we have to, and our employers pay even more. The health care industry is massively profitable. There's simply nothing we can do a
482.
by bbarn 8y ago
I am invisible in my mind when I'm riding. In fact, the one thing that catches me off guard is people yielding when they shouldn't be yielding - drives me crazy, and throws off my game.
483.
by bbarn 8y ago
Modern bike seats pretty much eliminate this issue.
484.
by bbarn 8y ago
The worst part about the USPS is that it occasionally contains incredibly important correspondence. So you can't just bin the whole thing, instead you have to sort through a pile of garbage on the 1% chance something critical is in the
485.
by bbarn 9y ago
On a related note, I'm seeing lots of ads in meat-space here in Chicago about how much better Facebook is going to become at filtering fake news and fake accounts from you. It's a sign to me they're finally worried.
486.
by bbarn 9y ago
Not a MOOC, but I loved this: http://www.statsoft.com/Textbook/Basic-Statistics/button/1
487.
by bbarn 9y ago
Real estate isn't a problem if it's institutionalized by the city. It can often become a boon to retailers if there's a dock right outside. That, and, they are on sidewalks that the city generally owns the rights to.
488.
by bbarn 9y ago
There's also the well documented impact of blue/led light on keeping your brain awake. You definitely get into chicken/egg scenarios with playing games all night, but having a clear screen time cut off every night helps me a
489.
by bbarn 9y ago
To add to that - cut out screens at a specified time. 8PM, 9PM, whatever makes sense an hour or two hours before going to bed. It has a drastic effect on sleepiness.
490.
by bbarn 9y ago
I don't know. Good-guy recalls on things that are largely unimportant sometimes can end up creating good will and customer loyalty. The part in place seems to only matter in very specific scenarios and is largely an inconvenience, no
491.
by bbarn 9y ago
Because each of those is trying to profit from it, not just pay for the storage. Thus, branding, and thus, they make them private and proprietary. Is it right? No.
492.
by bbarn 9y ago
It pretty much is a standard part of the OS. iCloud, OneDrive, etc. It's the "non-proprietary" part you're not ever going to see. Someone has to pay for storage.
493.
by bbarn 9y ago
Ah yes the ever present "it could be worse". It can also be better.
494.
by bbarn 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. I do think there's a sense of competition that can breed that working all night/available all night mentality, but I find that if I can actually focus 6 hours a day on being productive I'm outperfor
495.
by bbarn 9y ago
You're missing the point. Slack was one of those programs until this retroactive privacy policy change.
496.
by bbarn 9y ago
The difference is their privacy policy has been changed retroactively against the good faith their users had. That's the problem. Of course if it's corporate it's usually monitored, but when Slack championed the user and on
497.
by bbarn 9y ago
Well, on the other hand, some of us checked, read the privacy policy, and found it acceptable. Compliance reports came out, with the caveat that that was from point in time forward, and that was also acceptable. This is rewriting the priva
498.
by bbarn 9y ago
1. Wouldn't the pedestrian have to walk through said car then? 2. Quite plausible, especially trying to heft what looks like a pretty heavy loaded bike onto a curb.
499.
by bbarn 9y ago
Attention everyone's smart friend or family member: Now is not the time to scream "DUH!" or "I told you so!" to people who in the past have not grasped just what they were agreeing to. Now is the time to help your
500.
by bbarn 9y ago
It was a sad day when Virgin was sold out from underneath Branson, because of this very regulation.
501.
by bbarn 9y ago
The plane shouldn't be leaving the gate if it's not planned to depart in the next half hour. Shuffling passengers from "relative" comfort in a terminal vs. putting them in a hot box for hours without the ability to go t
502.
by bbarn 9y ago
Yeah, in general I agree here. I wonder if the payout is at the time of the report, or at the time of a conviction or even indictment? It would be quite easy to plant some pictures but another matter to build a case solely on the existence
503.
by bbarn 9y ago
That happens every day, in every industry. That's why selecting managers is so important.
504.
by bbarn 9y ago
I find it interesting the one outlier in this is in "digital technology". Is that the age difference in action?
505.
by bbarn 9y ago
I don't think the "rockstar" act is a millennial thing. There have always been people like that in any field, or social group. Some people will always compensate for their flaws in ability with their strength of personality
506.
by bbarn 9y ago
> But if you dropped me in a new job with a new language, I could be delivering business value and clean code inside of two weeks This is one of the things I consider to be a trait of a senior developer, when making hiring decisions. I
507.
by bbarn 9y ago
So what stops me from creating a device that registers itself as a webcam natively, but just puts a loop of a pre-recorded video that satisfies the face recognition software? Stop trying to find solutions to problems that aren't real.
508.
by bbarn 9y ago
Bicycles are traffic.
509.
by bbarn 9y ago
It's the same as when driving a car. The real time savings of acting like a jerk is so small it's just not worth it.
510.
by bbarn 9y ago
I have been doing it for ~15 years, and hit 4 times. I'd say if anything it's more common in your first year or two before you gain the experience to be able to predict driver actions by subtle signals.

More ›