Your response surprises me, I subscribed to the notifications for less than a day before I unsubscribed. If you don't mind me asking, how many a day do you get and why do you like getting the notifications?
Wow, TIL. I knew South Korea had some internet censorship, but it definitely is a lot higher than I thought. That changes the context of the article a lot!
I doubt what they are doing is causing more harm than opportunity cost. The things they mentioned help in the short term. While internet addiction is still in contention there already are empirically tested treatments that can do a lot better than what they talked about in the article.
It is great that they are recognizing this for the issue it is. Because technology is an inevitable part of most of our lives going cold turkey won't work. How do they deal with that?
It would definitely take some changes to make it work at an OS level, but Blender's modular window organization system would be awesome for more uses! It definitely is power user only, such a UI style would overwhelm most users with the raw number of choices.
I have been thinking about this too. I agree that time is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to measuring efficiency. Do you think measuring how many to do list items someone completes would be a better metric?
I don't think people should have downvoted you for this, it is a reasonable question to ask! Consider that their core application's user facing functionality is not the most complex in the world, but they deploy it for over 1.5 billion people. There are numerous complications and logistics involved with doing that. Think of it this way, how many organizations can reach billions of people with just 12,000? We already take for granted that technology can do incredible things like this that haven't been possible in the past. One other thing is that facebook has contributed to some awesome open source projects and their technology blog has some interesting insights on this https://code.facebook.com/posts/
Writing is the key, I wrote in 10 programming languages and lisp still looked alien to me. It was only once I was forced to write out examples in a programming languages class that it started making sense. You really have to try writing in something novel like a lisp dialect to assess whether or not it makes sense!
I agree that being the default is an unfair advantage, but there is a grey zone for sure. Most applications we use have defaults of some sort, so what cutoff should we use to determine the unfair ones consistently?
Of course, that makes perfect sense. It is the number of days off being so low combined with things like this: http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/09/news/japan-work-salaryman/ that make me truly concerned. The combination of hours and lack of days off surely takes a toll on mental health and productivity.
That's just scary. It definitely shows how much culture can change/warp our ideas about existence. Although that few days off probably is a significant factor in heightened Japanese suicide rates.
They do claim the quality of responses is improving. Will it get to the point where they can send responses without trainer approval? Who knows, but if they can get to that point for a majority of responses then it might work.
Not to mention an article that isn't total crap!? It is pleasantly surprising to read an article from buzzfeed and have it not be dredged up sludge of the internet.
That is an important consideration. If you are committed to doing it though, the cost savings are high. So high that unless your opportunity cost is over $100 for the hour of mixing the ingredients it will make sense.
Thanks for putting this out there though. It was valuable to read and learn from this since I will probably end up implementing similar things in the future. It definitely seems like a valuable thing to post experimentation like this.
It depends how cost sensitive you are. If you have an extra hour a month to mix the ingredients you can mix your own healthier version for half the cost. Definitely a tradeoff worth making for some people.
Good point, but by itself restarting the timer isn't much of a deterrent (at least to me). It makes me wonder if a better incentive might exist so that you can pause the timer but with a weightier tradeoff.
Out of curiousity, why do you want to stop the timer? To me the point seems to commit to lay out a specific segment of time to be productive and holding to the commitment helps. I imagine you have a different perspective on this though.
The two are not totally incompatible. If you can decouple segments of huge projects, you can mock input and get quick feedback on the specific segment you are developing. Insanely long builds still exist today, I know of and have worked on software that ranges from 1 hr to 1 day to build quite recently...you just have to find ways to avoid that huge cost :p
In contrast to all the cynicism I see in other comments, this is awesome! Even if it doesn't happen to everyone, I find anyone who can manage to survive building and pursuing their passion to be inspirational. It reminds me that even if the odds aren't good, the journey can most certainly be worth quitting your job.
As I start bootstrapping my own idea off the ground it helps to see stories like this. Being able to stay motivated and optimistic looks to be a helpful component of success.
The general improvements they mention do look good for the U.S. space industry. It says something about the recent state of congress that my first question is quite cynical: What compromises and hidden gotchas aren't we hearing about in this bill?
You make a good point that when they are seamless it doesn't bother users. When I do come across things that break with chrome's frequent updates it annoys me greatly. One other thing to point out is that we aren't locked into using Chrome so there is less pain from automatic updates. If my smartphone forced me to update automatically for instance this would be a much bigger issue as they lock me into using their software.
Yeah, I can definitely see how these widgets and visualizations make an article significantly more engaging. I am hoping to learn more so I can have some visualizations to present of data for my startup. Since we are improving people's productivity, it would provide significant value to better engage users in their data.
Cool! Out of curiosity, have you come up with ways to monetize this long term? I ask this because I hope there is a way to support and still see this type of content for years to come.
Have you worked on visualizations such as those in the article, or do you have a different position? I am very interested in this industry, but I haven't met anyone with experience there yet.