Alterlife

The wording of this is so off.

Hackers stole personal information stored by FACEBOOK not 'people'.

It sounds like they are creating a new way for their company to avoid responsibility, just like banks created 'identity theft'.

I live in Bangalore and it sounds like this is out of some kind of paralell reality.

KFC/pizza hut/dominoes don't set up shop in remote places 'without infrastructure'. It doesn't make "business sense".

They are mostly limited to cities. They don't deliver long distances, food delivery in general is limited to 2km, and they certainly don't deliver without a name, contact number and delivery address.

> They manage to deliver in rural India where there are no proper addresses and infrastructure.

I don't think this is true.

You have to enter a pin code when you order from Flipkart. It's used to compute the delivery fee.

Flipkart also used to refuse to deliver products to some pincodes though the list of supported numbers has definitely expanded over the years.

In short, I don't know what their coverage level is, but it boils down to: you can't get a package delivered to anywhere where there is no post office.

I haven't seen this in incognito either... which is probably why op is being downvoted.

I didn't downvote because I feel bad for OP, but the information is innacurate according to my personal experience, which IMO is a actually good reason to bury it.

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edit: By the way I DO see the traffic lights, crossroads etc and can sometimes NEVER get past them sometimes when using Tor, so this might have something to do with google restricting op's network provider rather than incognito mode.

What you would like to watch.

What you actually watch.

This is why I hate YouTube recommendations. It feeds my monkey brain.

> "so that you're never too satisfied or unsatisfied, just constantly craving more."

That quote reminds me of Louis CK's interview with Conan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c) where he says about mobile phones:

"You never feel completely sad or completely happy, you just feel kinda satisfied with your product... and then you die."

The flipside of this story is that companies often only hire junior developers for the lower cost.

Some companies 10-15 year old companies are composed 80-90% of junior developers, and that's a problem too.

In the meantime, Apple builds walled-garden devices with limited functionality so that users are forced to buy several devices.

It's unfortunate that every large vendor today has short-term incentives to screw users.

The fact that this is even possible on a private device should be shocking, yet I don't even feel surprise.

Thanks, I see the critical line in the article now:

"95.8 percent of female anchors and reporters had smooth hair"

That is a totally different statement from the title to me.

Almost all, actually probably ALL the women in my professional circles have smooth hair too. Some of them get it straightened at a parlor. It may have something to do with where I'm located as well.

Do 95.8 percent of female newscasters have the same hair? I don't see it. Whats the source of that number? Where are the examples? All I see in the article is advertising and counter examples.

From what I can tell, the women in news just like the women in real life seem to change their hairdo every other day.

Wow, I'm sorry but I think that's terrible for the candidate. You have a job description and you shared that with them. You're basically hiring the most talented bullshitter.

Very few people will know exactly what they want to do in the next few years. There is only what you as the employer need to get done and what they as an employee are willing and able to do.

> Alexa should be treated as a different kind of stranger.

This is a beautiful analogy and it applies for adults interacting with Alexa / Google home as well.

Along with the article, I get a video where "a top designer explains how to plan the perfect open office".

Color me confused.

> 株式会社

To save other folks the trouble, Google Translate says this translates to: "Ltd.".

Thanks for letting me know, I will avoid it.

The first example is straight out of the oxford dictionary link that I posted. It's at the bottom of the page under "Informal, dialect".

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/them

A couple of other examples: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB33z9xoSw8&feature=youtu.be... 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elUsB4y5RVk

There are plenty more examples on Google.

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I want to say I take your point. I wouldn't use this in formal writing, but as far as I can tell this is an accepted western way to emphasise something.

I substituted 'them' for 'those'. According to the interweb, it's grammatically acceptable in informal English.

Similar to saying "Look at them eyes" or "One of them developers will get to it eventually".

ref: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/them

> Most of the US captives in India will never send their most important product line to India. ... > it is just maintenance of a product line which will be phased out.

This is unfortunate and, most of the time, true. I do wish we had better work coming here.

I didn't mean to single you or anyone else out. I've seen this sentiment echoed in multiple online forums and as one of them incompetent developers in India, I feel the need to defend myself.

There are starting developers who get paid that much but it's not common. I hear most consulting firms pay about 1.5-6L, and Amazon pays 12-14L.

Hey, I don't agree with that either. In my experience, there is a normal distribution of idiots regardless of the country of origin.

A lot of my colleagues and ex colleagues either work or have worked in Infosys/Wipro/TCS at some point in their careers. And again, they didn't "magically" get worse or better when they left or joined my company (I'm in a product development company).

Wipro, Infy etc aren't able to hold quality senior technical talent because they cannot pay as much. The better senior developers leave to product development firms that pay better and have better quality work and work life balance, leaving behind newly joined junior developers who know less, but will accept what Infy/Wipro pays and work ungodly hours.

I've read that every 5 years the number of active developers doubles. That means that every 5 years 50% of the development workforce has little to no experience. In India, that 50% starter workforce is concentrated, sitting in the big consulting firms, developing their skills and getting better, and when and if they get better, they leave.

The real problem is that if you pay peanuts, you get... people willing to work for peanuts, until they can get a better job.

I am in India, and I can't help but feel insulted by this comment. Is there some kind of magic that makes engineers better when you take them out of India?

There are some great developers here and plenty of crappy ones. And some of the worst developers I've worked with are Americans in America.

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edit: I'll also add here that a many of the best developers I've worked with are American as well.

The idea and the website, both, trigger in me a visceral discomfort that I cannot put into words. If this is for tech, I hope it doesn't catch on.

A resume is not soulless. If it is soulless, then a video is even more so.

Also, video is a horrible medium for most people. It takes time and effort to be good on video. Good developers may have spent their time and effort elsewhere. I would point to Ryan Dhal's nodejs regrets video on the front page as an example.

Push it all the way to the left, listen to the Laural, then slam it all the way to the right during a silence.

I find that if I move the slider while the sound is playing, or if I move the slider really slowly, my ears stick to the last word I heard.

Another thing is that the speakers matter. I can't hear Laural on my laptop, but I can hear it on my phone.

Frankly I'd love a bot framework to turn the tables and call into my ISP's IVR to log a complaint.

A bot that would do all the waiting, trudge through the options, deal with the transfers, tell them I did the standard debugging steps and get back to me the complaint number.

That would be just incredible.

This is such a great visualization. You can click on the dot you are interested in to draw a line that tracks it's movement through the years.

The journey of Niger is especially interesting. Between 1947 and 1983, the birth rate actually increased despite infant mortality declining. Do you happen to know why that is?

https://imgur.com/a/qnnHYbQ

Well, my son is 7. He loves everything :-) .

Do you not use your Echo for prime music?

About Alexa and Prime, I would also point you to this from the horses mouth: https://www.amazon.com/primeinsider/tips/alexa-tips.html .

I'm curious by the way: what do you use the echo for which your phone doesn't do better?

Is that a fair comparison? A PC is an expensive general purpose computing device. Alexa is a cheap device which exists for the sole purpose of locking you into the Amazon-prime ecosystem.

I have an Alexa which was gifted to me. My son loves it. The rest of us enjoyed it the first day and never looked at it after.

Digital assistants have value, but Alexa on its own caters to a frivolous use-case that trades away a lot of privacy for little value.

The initial checkboxes (where you select news sources) are really slow. There's a half second lag for me between touching the screen and seeing the checkbox get checked in the UI.

Are you rendering the checkbox as checked only after a server trip returns?