Drugs can be helpful, but it's important to find a good doctor first. A lot of doctors will just try lots of different meds and see what sticks. When you're dealing with toenail fungus, that's ok, but when it's your brain, the result can be catastrophic. And if the drugs turn out to be wrong, getting off can be a nightmare. Google "brain shivers" for a good example. In my case, CBT has been a much bigger, more lasting help.
Every time I see an article like this I thank God I'm not using PHP. It's always, "Remember to always use do_something() instead of dosomething() or else something will suck for some reason."
You could argue that it's morally wrong because most other Mefi-ists assume that the rules are being followed, so breaking the rules is deceptive. But Metafilter discussions bore the hell out of me, so I don't really know what the hell they think.
Every time I have to deal with the health care system, I feel like I'm going back in time. Doctors that can't even communicate by email. Redundant record keeping. So much lost information. So much lost data. So much waste. Every time I have a problem with my insurance, I have to call a 800 number and sort things out with a human being paid money to do what software could do.
I haven't used a table for layout in 6-7 years, and although floated columns were initially difficult, I quickly found them to be very easy and more reliable than tables. These kinds of rants usually come from programmers who don't want to take the time to understand how CSS works, and when it doesn't "just work" the way they expect, they blame CSS. That said, CSS definitely needs improvement. I hope the flexible box model gains traction. I find that to be a more natural way to lay out pages, although the syntax seems a little clumsy.
I read it as saying that most CEOs are skilled but interchangeable workers, like bus drivers. It takes skill, but the route is set, by the board, by shareholders, by expectations. Of course the metaphor breaks down pretty quickly, but I think it's apt. Jobs took Apple in directions that few CEOs could even imagine, let alone implement. Most would have driven Apple straight off a cliff.
Django isn't a CMS, but it's a framework that seems designed to build CMSs. I'd much rather build a CMS from scratch in Django than try to bend Drupal to my will.
The problem is that this is private communication and I don't trust Facebook to do private communication well. I don't trust that my drunk email to an ex girlfriend won't somehow be accessible by someone else, so I won't use it. I'm sure a lot of other people will though.
I've had this happen. I always try to get residential deliveries from UPS because they seem to understand this better. Maybe Fedex needs to add an incentive for successful deliveries instead of just completing the shift. Or maybe they don't care because they really focus on business deliveries and residential is just a distraction.
But 9 times out of 10, I'm viewing video in a web browser. Splitting it out only makes sense if they track which videos are being viewed in a web page and which ones are viewed in apps, and they aren't doing that, so the graph is meaningless.
Is he saying that Amazon will sell the Kindle at a loss, so they can control the market where they sell ebooks at a loss? And what, make it up on volume? I think they'll have to trim down the features on the low end version to get production costs way down. Maybe get rid of the keyboard.