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Yes, this kind of simple fix can save many headaches.

Thats it. I was confused too. I thought the term was just slang, and not a slur that meant anything. So, shows how we all can learn and be better.

Or we are the future as it's happening so its up to us to figure it out.

The only famous person that I can suspect of being a time traveler is Warren Buffet. It would make so much sense.

Exactly. If we are going to hypothesize about time travelers then we have to accept that any significant reason to time travel has already happened. Futhermore it has happened more times than we are aware of to create our specific timeline.

Maybe Hitler was a time traveler himself.

Its relatively easy, but far more than 15 minutes. Think about authentication, design and testing.

You have 1 vote. Make it count.

Economic apartheid... Not sure how to digest that one. That's a tad hyperbolic.

The article clearly states that the tech companies pay the city for the right to use the bus stops. Elected officials made a decision to sell public bus stops to publicly traded corporations.

I see your point. We are comparing a specific sequence of bits to a physical earthly material. Not really the same thing.

You can also hold gold and make useful items out of it.

Dashboards and aggregate data are a great use case for redis. Usually you have expensive calculations in these interfaces. Caching in redis is easy and really fast.

The thing that always bothers me is that programmers throw around their own opinions like its their divine right. As if they are unappreciated artists.

Its a craft yes, but really its also a logical profession. Strongly held opinions suck all the joy out of conjuring bits to do your bidding. Can't we all just get along?

So you can reinvent the wheel!

I honestly think I am getting a quicker understanding than skimming a bunch of text and letting my brain fill in the rest. So sure, I'm better for having taken the time.

I agree. There's a lot of sentiment around, "the right way to do something". I somewhat blame rails for the explosion of opinions, but maybe it's just developer nature.

The right way is the way that works for you and your business requirements.

I used to do that too. Now I squash my overwhelming desire to leave and I give it a shot. Almost everytime, I leave with a much better understanding of the product.

I've said this before, but they wouldn't do it if it didn't work. Just google "video engagement vs. text engagement". It really does increase conversions and alleviates a lot of confusion. It doesn't excuse the need for descriptive text, but rather complements any online offering. Seeing is believing.

I agree with this sentiment, I too avoid video, but it is a very easily digestible format for a lot of people. Think about Leap Motion, would it have nearly been as interesting without the impressive video showing you why it's interesting?

You're not the only one, but videos actually have higher engagement across the board.

A lot of us prefer to read. Most don't however.

A slide rule.

I lived in Spain for about a year. Blame it on the time zone, but inherently the culture is "work to live" not "live to work".

I miss it and sincerely cherish that country and all the great people in it.

This is why I love Hacker News. Positive, non-judgemental, and unbiased attitudes everywhere. Truly evolutionary and the wave of the future!

I personally agree with your sentiment, but if it didn't work no one would do it. Obviously there are people out there that do not think like you do. A lot of them.

Why else would a company waste time and money on life cycle emails if they didn't work?

They have a nonzero rate of return. You are hating the player, and not the game. Humans are error prone, forgetful beings. An email reminder can often times engage them into something they intended to do but simply forgot, or became too busy to complete. In this act of reminding there is also a non zero rate of pissing off end users. The advantages obviously outweigh the disadvantages or it wouldn't be done.

I shrug and move on. There will always be an endless cycle of advertising and marketing surrounding you. The entirety of the economy depends upon getting you to exchange currency for productivity.

Languages are a tool. They are fun to learn. I always want to use something new on a new project but then I realize that I need to get it done and I need to find people that can maintain it.

That takes the fun out of it. I do think that one can safely bet on scala or go and have fun.

If you have the right architecture you can be as polyglot as you'd like. It's just risky from a maintenance standpoint.

This 1000x.

Getting a user interface correct is exceedingly difficult. How would one know what a toaster is for if they had not seen one being used?

Computers are layers and layers of abstractions built to deal with an important resource, information. We've done a good job of burying the fact that at the lowest level we are coercing an electrical charge on a microscopic wire through a p-n junction the way we want. Hardly anyone needs to understand how to create their own incredibly tiny p-n junctions, nor understand what the hell a p-n junction is.

However, at the larger macro levels, there is still much work to be done.

Something as necessary as WiFi still causes a great amount of confusion. Why not alert the user that their wifi is off? Better yet, why not just pop up the wireless selector when someone opens anything that requires a remote resource if they are not connected?

If we were really good at designing things from the start we wouldn't have these problems. People don't need to know about the file system and how it works any more than they need to know about the change in voltage inside their electronics.

The curious among us will always dive deeper into the layers of abstraction and ask how and why. This is not unique to just computers.

The modern world around us is tantalizingly complex. Things like plumbing and water have been solved and "just work". The interface is very obvious and simple, and through a little bit of experimentation, one can figure out a water faucet with very little risk of failure or consequence. How we interact with water in our homes is pretty much solved. Assuming, of course, you live in a society with running water and plumbing. (Some still dont, it's amazing how often the first world forgets this)

How we interact with information is in the process of being "solved". Once our interface with information is "solved" it will be understood and there will be very little need for the major technical skills we require today to interact with this resource.

In the meantime, you are probably gainfully employed because of your ability to understand the current interface with information. It is your job to make this interface better for everyone.

You guys, the 40 hour work week was fought for. Thank Henry Ford for your Saturdays off too. Your time is your time, you will never get it back.

Of course time off is important. It develops inspiration, and allows you to round yourself out in other interests.

Don't get me wrong, I love what I do and am very passionate about it. I also love my free time too.

It would look like light from a lightbulb.

We already see light in the specific frequency peak of the sun.

If we could see wifi, it would be like a lightbulb that dimly appears to pass through walls.

That's an illuminating point. Indeed, a form of martyrdom is at work one way or another.

And then he does, and the media makes a big deal out of it and people cry out "never again", "how did we not see this coming?", "whos accountable?".

Setting them free and closing the illegal prison is the right thing to do. If I was calling the shots I would close it and release them.

BUT:

I just see why they haven't done it yet. It's a quagmire, with extreme consequences. Sure, let a prison full of "suspected terrorists" out into the world, what could go wrong?

How nice would it be to live in a world where we all trust each other and enjoy peace and harmony?

While I agree it is a disgrace, what do you plan to do with the detainees?

If they weren't "terrorists" before, they most likely are now. Think about it, that's the real problem.

I'm not defending it, I think it should be closed too.

These humans have been subjected to complete hell.

> from parents who recklessly allowed their children access to their credit card

There's nothing reckless about handing a child their favorite game to play.

Once you've been bit with a $100 charge for an in app purchase, you start to question the true utility of the password timeout. 5 minutes ago I downloaded the game on a new device for my child to play. Now they have unfettered access to my credit card account because I just downloaded the game.

Blaming the parent for being "reckless" in this scenario is little unfair. Being a parent is extremely difficult. It requires a lot of patience, thought, and understanding.

In app purchases love to trick the end user into accidental buying. What better demographic than the child who just received the car with the keys in the ignition?

As a parent who's recklessly had this happen to them, I facepalmed and sucked up the extra charges. Mea Culpa, but it does irk me that it's so damn easy to do.