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crileyon Adobe abandons its Creative Suite to focus on Creative Cloud

There is no requirement to use some kind of cloud storage. You can use the programs like you always have. Most designers sync with tools like Dropbox anyway, so large uploads aren't uncommon already.

crileyon Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

That's a bit of a misnomer: diets like Keto don't "allow" set amounts of carbs, they require you to find your own carb limit to stay in ketosis.

If you constantly blow out of ketosis, you'll literally accomplish nothing with the diet.

Hence why keto-stix and other indicators are important- no one value works for everyone.

I had to eat less than 25g/day to maintain the keto diet.

crileyon Intel Core i “Haswell” CPUs May Require New Power Supply Units for PCs

I meant destruction to be synonymous with consuming, such as "Wow, I just destroyed that burger" ;)

crileyon Intel Core i “Haswell” CPUs May Require New Power Supply Units for PCs

On the contrary to your contrary: the kind of person who builds their PC is the kind who customizes how it works when they're using it. There's no automatic assumption that they also harbor green feelings and want lower power consumption for idle/sleep.

Hell, many are proud of their beefy 1kW+ power supplies and the ridiculous power load they draw.

Others are proud of their energy-destroying bit-coin mining setups.

You certainly can't assume that the home builder cares at all about power consumption.

crileyon Adobe wants Ninite to stop rolling out crapware-free Flash

Non profits like Mozilla still pay employees.

crileyon Yahoo Expands Maternity, Paternity Leave

We can crap on the Bay Area all day long, but then the question becomes: why isn't Silicon Valley in Sweden?

crileyon Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

Honestly, if you refuse to do something on ethical grounds and then are moved around, you know what's going on. Most people aren't clueless to office politics and at that point it's your decision to blow the whistle or shut up and watch it happen in spite of your oath.

It's not like hospitals haven't contended with this exact thing for a very long time. The wills of surgeons/doctors and their hospital administrators do not always match up.

crileyon Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

Publicity. He writes a blog "Path fired me for not breaking the oath" and then communities like this one will rally around that whistle-blower.

crileyon African Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data

Because the headline is written according to the expected understanding of the American reader.

"Ivory Coast" is about as descriptive to an American audience as "Africa". I would be shocked if more than a tiny minority of Americans could tell you where the Ivory Coast was outside of "Africa", and I bet many wouldn't even know to place it in Africa, thinking maybe it's in India or SE Asia or something.

It's written like that because Americans don't know and don't really care about African geography.

>If this was in Lebanon would we be reading "Asian Bus Routes Redrawn using Cell-Phone Data"?

We'd probably see "Middle-East", the understood name for that region. We might even see "Lebanon" since its close to Israel and Americans like to feel involved in that scene.

crileyon The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage

There are no new developments, just more news outlets using (subjectively) bad interpretations of existing ideas/data.

Look at a site like http://www.memeorandum.com -- for any one news story, a dozen news outlets report on it (discussion section of links).

That's what's going on here: a new outlet decides to report on the same information that someone already scooped and we already discussed, and then we start the dog and pony show up here again and repeat all of our discussions with the same information we had 3 days ago, and 5 days ago, etc, when the other articles came out.

We had some brilliant people make some brilliant comments last time around, will we achieve that quality on the repeat post? Is it worthwhile to redo the effort?

crileyon The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage

How many times is this going to be reposted to HackerNews? How many times are we going to bring up the same issues with this interpretation?

Like, for example: the assumption that every STEM graduate wants to work in STEM fields, and that the failure of a STEM grad to find work in a STEM field is a failure of the STEM field instead of a personal decision of the STEM grad to pursue whatever career they want.

crileyon Layoffs at EA Today

I'm three years clean of EA-crap. There's so many wonderful games out there made by simply far better companies.

Sim City was going to be my shameful end to my boycott, but unfortunately EA/Maxis made the decision to avoid my most beloved franchise all too easy.

Condolences to everyone who lost their jobs today, I hope passionate and talented staff will find new homes in better studios, and I can't wait to see what y'all can accomplish without the EA shackles on!

crileyon Huawei is giving up the US market

I do not consider a lot of Apple or Samsung goods to be of high quality. Especially the small cheap goods like smartphones -- I've owned phones from both now and both are disappointing in terms of long term reliability. The Samsung especially I do not expect to last long, and the Apple phone was barely usable at three years old.

Of the goods of theirs that I've had luck with, expensive laptops and televisions -- critical components like LCD's are not made in China, and the processes to create Macbooks are very automated and said processes are designed to deliver quality for that product line alone.

Remember, low-quality cheap Dell laptops and RCA/WalMart TV's are also made in China.

For every iPad/Nex7 that comes out of China, how many <$100 WalGreens bargain bin Android tablets running 2.X come out?

crileyon Huawei is giving up the US market

I'm sorry but I think you're totally off base. And I do think a lot of Chinese goods are crap. What's the pinnacle of Chinese goods? Smartphones and gaming consoles? Two categories of goods known for their much-higher-than-average failure rates? I think you're just blind to the kinds of goods that Americans make since we tend to let the cheap and easy crap get produced abroad.

> Americans don't realize that everything is made in China, even though all their products say so

No, most people like you don't realize that China only accounts for a tiny fraction of consumer spending.

Did you know that Americans spend ~88.5% of their personal consumption expenditures on goods made in America and about 2.7% on goods made in China? [1]

Americans spend 32X more on goods made in America than they do on goods made in China.

Maybe stop shopping at Wal-Mart and buying crappy goods that will find their way to a landfill in under a year, and you'll stop seeing "made in china" everywhere. You'd be surprised what a little more money will buy you -- there's a lot of great, durable stuff out there that generally doesn't come from Wal-Mart or say "Made in China"

[1] http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2011/el20...

>Most Americans think Made In America means quality and are blinded to the fact that other countries have other brands and different ways to live.

Did you know that most Chinese also agree that Made in America is a symbol of quality? One survey found that while 80% of Americans believe made in America means higher quality, some 60% of Chinese surveyed agreed with that.[2]

Also, the insinuation that Americans don't realize that brands from other countries are good is a myopic, insulting joke. Yeah, we don't buy and love South Korean electronics, Japanese cars, French and Italian wines and cheeses, etc etc etc and on and on and on. Imported quality goods have always fetched a premium in American hearts. Low-quality Wal-Mart level goods earn the disdain they deserve.

[2]http://www.bcg.com/media/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-...

>Huawei would have been screwed in America, it just sounds like a brand that would be selling electronics at the Dollar General.

Americans used to think Japanese goods were total crap. Not many Americans wanted a "Honda" or "Toyota" car in the 70's or 80's. Japan turned their brands around and fought for respect -- and won it.

Then, as recently as a decade ago Americans largely dismissed South Korean goods. A Hyundai car? What a joke! Everyone knows South Korean goods are crap.

Except, South Korean brands fought for and won American loyalty through good products and good service.

Chinese brands could totally follow the same well trod path that brands from other East Asian countries have followed, and there is no reason to believe they would fail.

crileyon How I Escaped North Korea

Refugee's are a separate category altogether -- did you go through the refugee process?

This law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_Human_Rights_Act_o... offers details on how the US treats North Korean refugee's and should provide a springboard for more research.

crileyon A fake tweet caused a sharp drop in US markets

Acting quickly on news is a risk that they hope will pay a reward, but there is no guarantee that the news is correct and thus the risky position will be rewarded.

If you wait for verified, accurate news, then anyone who moved before got to move before you. Thus, participants in that market move when they want to accept the risk they want.

It doesn't matter if you verify Twitter with the best security around because markets will and always have reacted to rumor and unverified speculation and news. It's a gamble that the participants willingly make.

crileyon Sleep: Everything You Need to Know

I reject the idea that optimization leads to burnout. If you're consciously thinking about ALL of those variables at once, yes, you will achieve burnout.

But the entire point of life optimization isn't to sit around thinking about all of this, it's to build healthy habits that allow our "autopilot" to pilot us down previously consciously decided paths.

You should be unconsciously a better person after reinforcing new healthy habits, quite identical to your final phrase of "wake up, eat," etc.

If you're burning out with optimization, you are literally doing it wrong.

crileyon Geeksphone's Firefox OS smartphones go on sale tomorrow

I have a Note II running 4.1.1 and I experience the OP's "deluge of texts/notifications hours after the fact" issue. It's very frustrating to get pinged with 10+ notifications at once that came in over the past hours.

To be fair, it's wifi related, but to be more fair: every single iOS device gets texts and notifications from the identically same wifi network without any issue.

crileyon Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

I'd love to be able to say #politics when I post to Facebook so that my friends who aren't interested in politics can "hide" the politics category.

But, I'm just dreaming now.

crileyon Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

>So i'll say it again. You, the user, is ultimately responsible for what comes up in your stream.

I think this is a very outdated and anti-user way to approach the Facebook service, and I hope your idea of how these services work will be overthrown by better startups or a better Facebook.

I see it as simply:

* A failure of Facebook to figure out what I like seeing, which is shocking seeing as I literally "Like" the things I like seeing!

* A failure of Facebook to categorize input properly at the time of input.

If Facebook properly understood input, and properly understood what I like seeing, then "curation" wouldn't be an issue.

In light of those user experience failures on the part of Facebook, your opinion is "curate it yourself" but my opinion is "Facebook has failed when I curate it myself".

If I want to curate it myself, I won't use a walled garden feed system like Facebook...

crileyon Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

They technically are two separate products. Chat Heads is a Facebook Messenger feature while Facebook Home is a separate app.

I currently have Chat Heads installed w/o any Facebook Home integration, as does everyone else I know using Chat Heads.

Great feature (terrible name).

crileyon Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

Errr, no, Reader would be like the Facebook App. A dedicated app to do something...

I mean, if someone created a full lockscreen/homescreen replacement around the idea of my feeds and my content with the same polish and quality that Facebook did, that that would be my killer app.

crileyon Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

I tried it out but I found it too suffocating -- Facebook, like Google, wants their "feed" to be your main IV-line of info-tainment but in practice the vapid updates of friends mixed in with poorly constructed advertisements isn't very engaging.

If someone makes Facebook Home for aggregated RSS feeds, than they've invented mobile crack and I will never be able to put it down. So maybe don't do that.

Also, Chat Heads is the best SMS implementation I've used on Android, so kudos to Facebook for that.

crileyon Stop the Cyborgs was founded in response to Google Glass

It'll be your choice, then, to patron bars that enforce policies that you support.

Just like I choose bars that don't allow smoking.

crileyon Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

I don't think it's appropriate to use the DDoS acronym when not referring to an "attack". It's non-standard and will only create confusion. Every "source" online describing a DDoS uses it explicitly to refer to an attack.

crileyon Obama threatens veto of CISPA bill

The veto threat is more than just a simple threat to veto, it's a tactic to make the executive opinion obvious and to try and influence lawmakers to change a bill before delivering it.

They obviously don't have to listen.

crileyon Obama threatens veto of CISPA bill

I think you're wrong. It's unrealistic for the President to have a strong opinion personally on every bill and item going through Congress.

He has a policy team that stays on top of all of it, and he is briefed as necessary.

He may have made the call, but the information and impetus to do so will have come from his team.

I'm looking for sources that describe the process, but I know I've read some Obama team related articles recently.

crileyon Obama threatens veto of CISPA bill

I don't know who on the Obama team is spearheading his tech policy-- but thanks. You're doing better than I ever expected you could.

crileyon New lithium-ion battery design – 2,000x more powerful, recharges 1,000x faster

It sounds like they've developed a prototype, which is further than a design but also not a production model.

crileyon Criminal Sketch Artist Draws Women as They See Themselves and as Others See Them

You may be confusing high fashion models, a subset of the modelling industry, with modelling in general.

Not every model is a skeleton wearing over-stylized clothes on a runway.

In fact, this might blow your mind: the majority of models aren't that.