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by harryf 9y ago
From one bad upgrade that cost me a bunch of productivity - believe it was Lion - as well as observing the struggles of colleagues, these days always wait 6 months at least before upgrading OSX
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by harryf 9y ago
> The Guardian way looks more like the Wikipedia one Have any newspapers experimented with crowd-funding stories? This Niemanlabs report suggests none of the big names had as of Sept 2016 - http://niemanreports.org/articl
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> The person who most wants to use their phone as a PC is the person who can't afford spending $4000 on the entire suite of Apple devices. I'd love to have just one computing device that covers everything for the sake of simpli
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The only way to have privacy in search is not to give your queries to a 3rd party i.e. you need decentralised search. The basic principle of decentralised search is an individual only needs a tiny fraction of all knowledge available, so the
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Sadly many people behave like that in positions of power, frequently because they are ill equipped to handle the pressure and responsibility. The root cause here is we need to better educate those leading others. How do you feel about it in
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This needs a massive up-voting. In my experience an abusive boss-employee relationship is made of two halves; a) An abusive boss b) A subject who accepts the abuse So what are your options if you don't accept the abuse. Most people say
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Sorry but I strongly disagree with the "it's the parents job" argument. Today on HN there was an interesting discussion on addictive apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15662004 In essence you have pa
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by harryf 9y ago
Paul Graham wrote a great piece on this in 2010 http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html > As far as I know there's no word for something we like too much. The closest is the colloquial sense of "addictive.&quo
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> We make a virtual desktop workstation, the same one we had since 70s! ...plus the QWERTY keyboard design goes back to 1870 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY )
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So Twitters explanation seems to be "Posts related to #PodestaEmails and #DNCLeak appeared to be being generated by automated systems and were therefore handled as spam" > Before the election, we also detected and took action o
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> Samuel Woolley, an information warfare expert who was director of Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Research Team, questioned the timing of the directives, saying they came after he and associates had repeatedly warned Twitt
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He wanted a chance to Tweet about it first ?
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> There's no known mechanisms for long-term adverse effects, there's no experimental data supporting such claims. But that's exactly point - there are no _known_ mechanisms. Just like radium in 1910 we didn't know wha
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My point wasn't about comparing different types of EM radiation - of course there's no comparison. My point was simply about the process by which society blindly adopts a new technology without fully understanding the consequences
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Radium is a great example of society blindly placing trust in technology and corporations as these ads from the 1910's show... - It will cure your hayfever! https://i.imgur.com/yXpONhN.png - Wear a radium pad for great
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Fair enough. Was in a hurry. Was obviously a topic that needs more detail. Have also seen those studies (via HN) - in fact they were what originally got me curious about meditation about 5 years ago. Meanwhile the guru in question is one th
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I can't attest for that point scientifically or even personally. The argument in #9 as I understand it is, over the course of your lifetime, the cumulative minuscule effect of how you sleep relative to the Earths magnetic field can hav
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Fair enough. Can only back up with personal experience at this point. "It works for me"
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It doesn't scale very well though when you're trying to run a large criminal organisation
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By use of meditation and yoga I've found the opposite to be true. The system I've used is described somewhat here http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/lifestyle/health-fitness/10-he... Edit: downvotes why?
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There's also another dimension to this - reports tend to focus on gun related _death_ but ignores injuries where the victim survived. This chart - http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/gun_gray.j
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> consumers fundamentally do not know what they want. From quite some years in software development I've found this quote of that other one about Henry Ford and faster horses is usually pre-cursor to someone about to explain a &quot
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The touchbar on the most recent MacBook Pro wouldn't have happened on Jobs Watch.
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> Without net neutrality, forget about it. Why? I just don't see it. It makes no sense that telecoms companies are going to go after startups that anyway don't have money. But I can imagine YouTube, for example, is another stor
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Exactly! Was just about to write something similar. Going one further, after hearing "ending net neutrality is going to kill the internet" one too many times, I got interested in hear what the other side was saying. Populist argum
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Programming is based on hero worship. Anyone who makes even half an effort to better themselves as a software developer will encounter famous names from the past - those that "made a difference" by creating languages, operating sy
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This looks a little promising https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
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by harryf 9y ago
Ah the two malaises of our age... - "OMG! I'm so busy. Stressed. Burnout!" - "Oh no! AI is taking our jobs" There's a certain irony in that some of the most overworked people in the world are those bringing AI
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Prediction: evolution will solve what humans are incapable of. That means species of fish evolving that specializes in eating plastic. Kinda makes sense. While plastic isn't bio-degradeable in the normal sense, perhaps the digestive sy
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JIRA has some specific UX problems in some of the oldest parts of their product which they've been consistently ignoring in favor of multiple menu redesigns. One example off the top of my head... creating filters (custom lists of issue

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