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Lasers are notoriously bad for dogs. Not sure about cats, but they cause anxiety and OCD from being unable to successfully catch the "prey."

Thanks! I know there are better protocols out there to handle this sort of thing, but I'm already using Slack and used this protocol because it fit my own needs and it requires less dependencies to fit those needs.

This makes so much sense. Most of the places I see a Square reader are up and coming businesses, small mom and pop shops, and places that aren't corporate.

No fault there?

Since when do you load up the Uber app just to see what cars are around you? Going window shopping for rides to nowhere? At best it's "Living Social" without the discounts.

"Uber for x" click-bait title.

For shame OP, Uber isn't a common noun.

Love the idea of Slack games but no screenshots or explanation on the site? Not even a video?

Pass.

It's been taking a beating the last two weeks as well.

> because I do not want to be manipulated into buying things I do not need

So in 10 years, are you going to not visit any website because all the advertising will go native?

Most people are scared of the devil they know, but few are afraid of the devil they don't.

I haven't looked at the app but I read the article and the premises are outlandish. It won't matter what other people think of you? That's the entire point of social interaction - satisfying our physiological needs for belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization.

The future is about self-growth and self-expression? More than just followers? People don't use social media to grow themselves - we use it because it's addicting and rewards the pleasure centers for our psychological needs. That's how it is now and yesterday.

It's trying to hard to be "the future" of social media or the next Facebook when it's never going to replace it.

You're right that there is more semantic value in ellipses vs the three bars - however I think the problem is that there's no standard. Blame it on operating systems for branding their start menus because it needs to be standardized first at an operating system level.

Every iconic web element is modeled after the standard for operating systems. Think close buttons, minimize, input fields. While ellipses is better, it's not good enough because it's a terrible practice to put actions out of sight. There is no icon that semantically represents "a group of various actions that are related" because for that we need words.

It's also the same icon as "drag to reorder" from web 2.0

The bigger picture here is the context, a music app - or an activity that's ongoing. The controls are grouped together, always in the same place.

People keep making this argument, but forgetting that context exists in the environment as well. In the context of charades, you're playing a game. It's something that's ongoing.

Now if we took out all the stop signs and replaced them with a pause symbol with yellow and black text (thus erasing the existing contextual clues we use for stop signs), we'd see how clearly context matters to symbol recognition.

Play/Pause as an on/off toggle is still contextual within the music app. The play button is always going to be in the same place, and the pause button not much farther away. Music apps have also started displaying triangles over the album art.

Hamburger menu is an abstraction. Part of the blame here is on operating systems and their branded menu's (think Windows Start or OSX Apple menu). There's no standard to it, which is why native apps are a lot easier to navigate because they conform to what the user expects. That fragmentation grows when you divide by the user's browser, device, etc. It's just not standard and not contextual enough to be a standalone icon.

I get the point trying to be made here, but the whole premise of "learning" has quite an oversight on the tangible differences between a hamburger menu and a pause button.

A VCR pause button is always in the same place - next to the play button. We don't know a pause button because of it's shape or color, but rather it's context. You know where to find it because the controls for our music and video devices are familiar. If you take a pause button and put it in any other context, it loses it's meaning.

The hamburger menu doesn't have context. It's different from one site to another - from shape to placement. The icon has no grouping - no play button. It doesn't work there's no icon that can visually capture and condense the imagery of a menu without context.

What ever happened to just "Menu" with a caret?

Yes thank you, I should have taken care of this sooner.

It now force redirects, hats off to CloudFlare for being free SSL provider.

Can't help but wonder whether or not it's gonna scare the pants off me when you get near the end.

Clickbait title with a membership wall. Lacks sources, no credible assertions, just feel-good campfire hand-holding and false hopes.

This site is garbage.

OSX is a lot more refined and the GUI programs available for developers are more rich. If you're switching from Windows, you're likely to find more of the programs you're familiar with or alternatives. Also Mac hardware is often found in Universities which gets students familiar with the environment.

USB and Ethernet are not bridged = faster input and output through each.

> What are the Nutritional Facts? Go fuck yourself

Not your finest selling point. Also might want to proof read.

This reminds me of those grocery store carts that lock automatically when taken off the lot - and then the ones that malfunction and get stuck locked.

What about the hazard of emergency situations: fires in crowded places, heart attacks - you really want your phone wrapped in a Yondr when there's a chance that every second could be fatal.

Does that make Google the new "Tesla Graveyard?" /s

When writing "he or she" - they does seem like a viable substitute when gender is irrelevant.

But I cannot stand this new trend of making gender irrelevant for the sake of pushing gender lines. We use gendered pronouns for context clues, metadata, and comedy. It's a natural construct and universal to many languages.

It's better to be well-rounded and doing projects that reach an audience. Maybe a couple small projects and a whale. Or a couple whales. Bonus points if you continue to work on that project for more than 1 year. It helps demonstrate your experience and value.

Have a portfolio, post free things on Github, write about what you do as a developer. Sometimes you have to pay your dues and do at-cost or volunteer work.

Interesting concept but I cannot stand Mic.com's concept of infinite scrolling. If I want to be bombarded with content that is of seemingly loose relevance, I'll peruse my spam folder.

I'm sure it captures some interest, but I would imagine it's difficult to convert that interest into a repeat visitor since there is no abstract to the content. Does this practice work? Where's the satisfaction of getting to the bottom of the page - it's like this site was designed for people with ADHD.

I really want this with an opacity filter = masking just like Photoshop.

I find physical exercise is just as important to mental exercise. Even if I am spent, mentally, there's still a craving to spend physical energy or else I'll be restless. So I run after work and have found it much easier to sleep.

I understand the logic behind shutting off the system if the driver takes their hands off the wheel, so as to put the responsibility and fault on the driver.

But what about fallbacks for the driver's error? When I think about the dangers of allowing living beings to drive two ton death machines, I think about: brain aneurysms, drunk drivers, and falling asleep at the wheel.

I guess we're still a few years away from consumer self-driving systems.