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by signal11 7y ago
This is a good example of Godhart’s Law (“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”) in action. There are better ways, but it requires enlightened management.
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by signal11 7y ago
As of now, in the UK, LG’s TVs are fairly up front about automatic content recognition, and it’s off by default. But I agree, we need a consumer-electronics company that uses privacy as a competitive advantage the way Apple does for phones.
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by signal11 7y ago
Poor contrast (gray on gray) is a big problem, as is tiny text. Not everyone has 20/20 vision -- many people, even with glasses or contacts, don't, because they have uncorrectable vision difficulties -- their doctors will not reco
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by signal11 7y ago
Modern day tools such as Slack, VS Code and other Electron & browser based apps do bring a fair amount of lag into day to day work. The common denominator there is browser tech & I think that will improve with time. And network-deli
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by signal11 7y ago
This rule works well for some people if your manager and coworkers buy into it: Emails where you’re cc’d or bcc’d end up in a “quiet” or “lower-priority” folder. A slightly expanded version of this is described here: https://www.
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by signal11 7y ago
I don’t get targeted ads. They’re quite dumb. If I look at product X, ads for product X follow me around the web, which isn’t that useful because I’ve already done my research and am not quite ready to hit “buy” no matter how many ads you s
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by signal11 7y ago
> Oh you wanted one with 512GB of memory instead of 768? Too bad. I believe Enterprises are (slowly) learning this lesson. If nothing else Pivotal Cloud Foundry and various on-prem k8s solutions are softening them up.
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by signal11 7y ago
nc was awesome — it still lives on in a way, as inspiration for Midnight Commander[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
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by signal11 7y ago
This is just my first impressions so it may be wrong. Looking at their blog - their proposition appears to me to be, AWS, Google and Azure can build and manage their systems better than Random Corp. trying to build and manage their own serv
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by signal11 7y ago
I tried this just now and this particularly seems to be a problem on Firefox. On iOS (WebKit) and Chrome, Google’s search results can be copied just fine - there’s no redirector because Google uses hyperlink link auditing (<a href="
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by signal11 7y ago
Yes, I've been doing that increasingly (and taking photos) or using an iPad + pencil -- tbh hand-drawn + photos is just faster. But sometimes photos or exported illustrations don't work e.g. when someone else (remote) needs an edi
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by signal11 7y ago
If the "hand-drawn diagram" look appeals to you and you're a Visio user, you can get this look in Visio 2016. Design tab > Themes > Hand-drawn.
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by signal11 7y ago
Not sure when they added it, but you do get it with[1] the $99/year plan. It's a more restricted version of a feature they used to support with Outlook Premium in the past, in that the domain has to be hosted with GoDaddy for no
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by signal11 7y ago
Indeed the offering is more than an Office Suite. You + 5 family members each get * Office Apps -- install wherever you want, including on web, iOS, Android and Android-capable Chromebooks to get native apps on Chromebook. You can install
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by signal11 7y ago
It's not just the web versions of Office that work on Linux. On Chromebooks, the Android runtime ensures that the Android MS Office apps run full-screen and take advantage of the large screen and keyboard[1,2]. [1] https://i
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by signal11 7y ago
I think the recent Joker movie was a good counter-example, of a comic book character study that was not comfortable to watch. Most people I know left the theatre with a lot of questions and/or a sense of unease, not with a spring in
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by signal11 7y ago
It’s a little more than just auth. Websites have different codes of conduct, different attitudes to humour/off topic content, and crucially different moderation and user safety policies. Remember on most random web forums you have no i
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by signal11 7y ago
> Travel along an Indian highway and try to find your standard roadside motel as you would in US ala Best Western. There are no low-mid tier chains. I agree with you, and I was very bullish on OYO precisely because of this opportunity. H
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by signal11 7y ago
> Dropbox... is friction Yes, completely agree. Dropbox sync has lots of gotchas and edge cases, and was particularly bad if you edited files on multiple systems (my workstation and laptop, for instance -- I use both interchangeably depe
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by signal11 7y ago
Among professional authors, John Scalzi has said many times that he edits as he goes along[1]. For shorter academic and work pieces (and back when I blogged) I’ve done this as well, but I do an outline for longer papers first, and then edit
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by signal11 7y ago
Great point about powerful/expensive laptops. A problem I've run across is that machines with small SSDs are often not suitable for Visual Studio (the 'real' VS, not VS Code) if you want to do certain kinds of native dev
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by signal11 7y ago
I'm not very sure about Word, but Excel 97 onwards, Excel's story around forward and backward compatibility has been very good -- the Excel equivalent of the scenario you describe wouldn't happen, because of the introductio
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by signal11 7y ago
Indeed, new joiners in investment banks these days are increasingly expected to know Python at least -- and not just for technology roles, but junior traders and managers as well. For financial services it's the new VBA, but better.
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by signal11 7y ago
This is very true -- there are also echoes of how politicians prepare talking points in response to journalists' questions these days. The person being quizzed isn't actually prepared to answer questions, they come prepared with a
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by signal11 7y ago
Yes, and Amazon.
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by signal11 7y ago
> There is ZERO reason a large company with resources can't make sure that things like this don't happen IMHO, large companies don’t always work in perfect, laser-focused speculation. As a result lots of big companies have comp
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by signal11 7y ago
The history of Windows 95 is fascinating. The Mac had a GUI, but overall the penetration of GUIs was very low. Windows 3.1 was getting popular, but Microsoft knew they had to something special to make GUIs mainstream (remember, DOS still ru
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by signal11 7y ago
My advice to people who want history-tracking but don't know how to use a version-control system is: use Dropbox or OneDrive (I think Google Drive has something similar). You get 30 days of history for every file in Dropbox (120 days f
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by signal11 7y ago
This isn't the US -- these grades are from the UK. Although yes, the UK too is in this hybrid world where gas (petrol/diesel) is in litres, temperature is in Celsius, but vehicle speedometers are in miles per hour and feet and inc
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by signal11 7y ago
New grades are introduced all the time e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Seconda... > In 1994, the A* grade was added above the grade A, to further differentiate attainment at the very highe

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