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by hrktb 7y ago
You are right that a lot of features weren't brought to current smartphones, just as current OS are not 'productivity' focused the same way windows is for instance. I personally think it's because they just weren't
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by hrktb 7y ago
> PDAs and 'smartphones' didn't become mainstream pre-Apple, but their design was also more productive. Were it to catch on, we'd have better tools. I know a sizeable number of people were extremely productive on thei
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by hrktb 7y ago
I don't know how Marzipan will turn out, but Microsoft has a history of trying good ideas way before they are viable and make the whole concept look unhealthy. For instance PDAs and 'smartphones' where tried and got mild comm
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by hrktb 7y ago
Thanks for the catch, yes I meant physician.
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by hrktb 7y ago
There was recently the John Oliver show about death penalty, where physicists couldn’t cooperate in death penalty settings as it was against their pledge. The result was not that nothing was done, but instead medical substances are used by
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by hrktb 7y ago
Not completely sharing the GP's point of view, but I also think there is more than meets the eyes. It could be a combination of most players in the field being in an illegal state in some way or another (not by accident, just that frau
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by hrktb 7y ago
> the only thing you can do to change things is to go ahead and try to change things. You are describing taking risks and/or being penalized for little to no potential reward in most organizations. You are doing something you are no
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by hrktb 8y ago
I expect a split between very strictly coded and strongly typed everywhere libraries and shared components, and looser high level scripts mix and matching when convenient. That could be the best of both worlds.
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by hrktb 8y ago
It comes to what we call 'crap' Is a building kit with magnets 'crap' ? Is a doll 'crap' ? Is a hand powered fan 'crap' ? Are colouring books 'crap' ? I think a ton of small toys are tremend
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by hrktb 8y ago
Expensive toys also have an exceptionally short life for 99% of them. There will be the three or four chosen, and the rest becomes garbage. Buying cheap crap from the start is just an optimisation of the process.
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by hrktb 8y ago
How do you solve a shop being crowded (= successful basically) ? The uncomfortable and usually unsafe part is something that could be worked on, but otherwise it has tremendous value for single purpose products or appliance where required q
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by hrktb 8y ago
The same applies to painting replicas, and I think most people don’t mind if the original is kept for preservation and near perfect replicas are exposed/sold for viewing purpose in comfortable conditions.
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by hrktb 8y ago
An alternative approach is to rebuild a replica while keeping the original sealed (non visitable) It has been done for prehistoric caves for instance. For a whole building it's more tricky, but it could be fine to have it on a remote p
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by hrktb 8y ago
I seriously think the next several decades will just see elderly left on their own with little to no government effective help. Basically the government raising its hand in the air and chanting “we care about you, we’re working super hard b
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by hrktb 8y ago
It should be mentionned that the jobs these low skilled immigrants are called for are extremely shitty (sometimes litteraly, as for elderly people personal care for instance) and desperatly low pay. It’s become a running joke to call it leg
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by hrktb 8y ago
Aren’t these jobs going to be less and less needed as population decline ? I know there is the wave of elderly people who will be SOL, but to put on my cynical hat, I think the current government has already given up on them, so I see no he
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by hrktb 8y ago
Not disagreeing, but hasn’t the power shifted to people with printing presses either way ? I mean that producers are now strongly bound to distributors, and companies like Disney basically own everything from top to mostly bottom (they’re g
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by hrktb 8y ago
To your first point, I am really curious to see what we will discover once it is widely available. Up until now it was mostly conjectures, and very biased observations only (not only because of preconceptions, but also because the smoking p
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by hrktb 8y ago
To get the full picture you need to shift perspective and see humans more as resources. When a resource doesn’t produce enough anymore it gets replaced.
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by hrktb 8y ago
I think the main takeaway is they found an efficient way to improve spacial awareness. It was known there was a difference, and here they expose an experiment that effectively helped improve that specific skill.
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by hrktb 8y ago
> I don't understand this obsession with attempting to force the idea that men and women are/should be interchangeable. This is not the focus though: reading through, it's more about women having difficulties in a specific
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by hrktb 8y ago
I might be getting old, but more and more I see “vote with your XXXXX” to be the litmus test for situations there is no decent solution left anymore. It’s not even an advice in the end, just a reminder the customer lost the battle, and the
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by hrktb 8y ago
> Error UIs don't need to be beautiful, they need to be functional They need to be both. If it can’t be both, there’s as many arguments for it to be either human friendly or actionable. I think it comes down to it being a human&#x2F
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by hrktb 8y ago
> people incorrectly focus on sprint commitments. I think it's often the over approach from the manager/PM side: they will be looking for a methodology to have estimates and team commitment, and Scrum will be an option. There i
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by hrktb 8y ago
I’d argue that the theatre limitation would be detrimental as it’s a entranched industry that has not been shown to be moving forward for a long time. Cannes’ festival makes it an actual requirement to be shown in theaters, and I think it d
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by hrktb 8y ago
The internet before streaming (when downloading postage stamp clips took 3 hours) was close to that described state, and people just exchanged burned CDRs right and left. Even elderly people were using and watching pirated stuff installed b
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by hrktb 8y ago
It still can become tricky as each team's OKR doesn't have the same weight. It's not unusual that a team holds a requirement for several other teams, but that requirement is not as valued for them as their team mission. Negot
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by hrktb 8y ago
I wonder though if the roadway maintenance would be good enough to have that work reliably. The car would still have to react to misconfigured , misplaced or defective aids. Even if it’s not just negligeance, if an accident were to move the
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by hrktb 8y ago
The japanese article has a definition of how they labelled people. https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASM3R4DZQM3RULZU005.html It’s still pretty vague, my rough translation: “people who didn’t participate in social activit
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by hrktb 8y ago
it must have been, but with the internet remote activities have diversified enough to allow to have what would qualify as part time job without leaving the room/house. For instance blogging, affiliate ads, game streaming, youtube ads,

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