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I think context makes that clear. For currency there's no reason to have 3 zeros after the decimal point. In some parts of the world, the comma gets replaced by the period.

Nitpick: It's not just the gyroscope. DeviceOrientation (at least on the iPhone) uses blends both the accelerometer and gyroscope (and if specified, the compass too)

That should be the first thing a visitor sees on the home page. Users don't owe you a click on 'learn more'. Explain the product, and maybe even allow them to use it without creating an account, and only ask them to sign up/sign-in when absolutely necessary (like, if they try to save a note, or if they are leaving with some unsaved work)

Also, why would your average user care about 'blockstack'? That's an implementation detail that might be cool to you, but it's an irrelevant thing to put front and center. Even most nerds would be unaware of what this is.

> and the DMV

That example doesn't belong there. We tend to underfund government enterprises (other than the military), and then we complain that they are inefficient, so we can justify underfunding them. It's circular logic, and many government agencies are the victims of just being underfunded. I doubt that DMV employees wake up with the intention of being shitty.

Also, Comcast is your proof that just because an entity is large and private doesn't mean that customer service is better.

It's not just that. You cannot even save a location manually without enabling tracking (not just your home/work address). It's a shame that Google Maps has such good data, because in every other way it's extremely user hostile.

I agree, the Facebook mobile website is shamelessly bad. That's what we are talking about, right?

That’s a misunderstanding of the spec. The ask is to put in at least one label if there is space (when previously there were none). Filling all available space with redundant labels is not the ask.

If you have to ask, then yes, it’s hugely unethical. If the date is an issue, leave it out of the resume. But fudging anything is deception, and expect it to come out during a background check that many companies routinely do.

So what happens when you are traveling and there's a power issue or maybe some other connection issue that knocks this box out of service? Looks like you'll be stuck without email until you can physically get back to this box. This isn't a scenario you worry about with regular email.

The challenge with email is that once you give out any mail address to people, you are on the hook to ensure that it's a functional address. Not something you can just try for 6 months and then easily move on from. And if you decide to move on from this service, will the average person be able to easily migrate that custom domain to a different email provider? (Yes, technically this is possible, but can normal users do it easily? Is it part of the service that Helm provides?)

> Consider an alternative scenario: you're a business person and you present an alcoholic beverage to someone you know is an alcoholic because you are paid to do so

I'm sure there's a good counter example to the notion of 'ad targeting is terrible', but this is not it. If one goes by this example, you'd need companies to know that you are an alcoholic in order to avoid advertising to them, which seems to be an extremely personal piece of data. Surely your point is not that this is an acceptable compromise in order to avoid alcoholics ever seeing an ad for alcohol?

If Georgio Paviani was real, it could also be a pseudonym for a real human being, in which case there would be no ID that you could show. Pretty sure Lady Gaga's driver license doesn't use that name.

You should absolutely visit and see Hagia Sofia. It’s too good to miss out in this limited lifetime of ours.

Seems to be a technical distinction without a difference though. Same amount of money, announced at the same time, awarded at the same ceremony, and just as prestigious. Sure, it’s an expansion of the original prize, but that shouldn’t take away from the fact that for anyone in the world, the awardee is for all practical purposes a Nobel prize winner.

Cape Town feels like SF away from SF. Considering m all the interesting neighborhoods, the beaches, Hwy 1 like roads, proximity of wine country in Franshoek, great coffee, and all the beautiful little artsy towns nearby, it might just be the Bay Area. I don’t know what the tech scene is like though.

If you define that to be the particular metric, then no. Others may define different parameters to judge the badness of what a country has done. If you feel that the US has had saintly behavior towards its own citizens or the rest of the world, pick up a history book.

The country is more than its government. If you’ve been to Istanbul, you would know that it’s a wonderful place. Should we shun the country and its people because they have been burdened with a bad ruler? We should look in a mirror first before passing such harsh judgment.

Everyone hates UI changes. Wait 6 months and it will be the new normal.

Can't you do that in the US via a provisional ballot on the day-of?

>The actual voting takes place on paper, and while it takes time to prepare the ballots and count the votes, the process of voting doesn’t take very longer than a few minutes for the individual citizen. From they enter the voting place till they are done.

How is the counting done in Denmark? Do they still have to collect all the paper ballots and count them in a central place? If so, how do you avoid all the 'hanging chad' issues?

Are there examples of NASA dashboards?

The typeface is pretty neat. For the curious, it's Nova Mono

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nova+Mono

Everything that tripit does, Kayak does too. I just email all my bookings to trips@kayak.com and it does the rest. (They offer direct email integration, but giving access to my inbox feels icky, and I wouldn't want other people's trip info to end up in my itinerary anyway)

CCTVs don’t have to be grainy and low-res anymore. Recording 4K video and storing a finite amount of it is getting cheaper every day.

The US has jurisdiction over the satellite company which is American. The company doing the actual launch is irrelevant.

Even otherwise, just because you can find a loophole in the system doesn't make it right - these approvals exist for a good purpose - there's real danger from orbital debris, so it would make sense to be a good earth citizen and ensure that everything is kosher before you launch.

Others getting away with skirting the rules has never been a good moral reason to do it yourself. If launching and getting post-approval was truly the norm, it would make a mockery of getting FCC approval in the first place. It's not like a website that you can take down when necessary.

Not to mention that if these devices turn into a community problem if they become LEO hazards. Making society pay for your 'move fast and break things' ethos doesn't sound right.

Seems like a total dick move to launch anyway and hope that approval is obtained later. What was the plan if approval was not obtained after launch - did they have the facilities to bring down the satellites?

This story reads like Silicon Valley hubris - break rules anyway because we know better. Why even have the FCC when random startups can create their own rules?

Also, https://data.gov.in -- Lots of self-submitted datasets, and includes an API. Usability is average, much like the other government data sources.

Engineers will move around. You can't lock up knowledge that's in people's heads, and the basic concepts will get implemented everywhere even if they have to find different specific approaches to avoid encroaching on patents.

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I fail to understand the issue here - Successful companies do often stretch the limits of engineering to fit design goals (assuming that the design is an informed one to begin with). If design was always fitted around what is known to be possible with engineering, we would have much less innovation around.