dannysu

According to rumors, they're still going to have various models and price points.

Also, iPhones are extremely economical because no other phones receive OS updates for as long. My iPhone 6, which cost $749 at the time, is coming up to 3 years old. It's still flawless, no speed issues or any issues. The only thing bad is that the battery isn't as good as before, but I still get through the day just fine.

I might upgrade this year just because "new & shiny", but I'll probably pass the iPhone 6 to family. And because it's still very good and receive updates, that means if I get 4 years of life out of it, its cost is actually only $375 when compared to other phones that stop getting updates 2 years in. That's really good!

I think clothing has already moved away from China. I have shirts made in Bangladesh. And according to [1], workers get paid $0.12 per shirt.

Like you said, $0.33 vs $0.12 is super close it seems.

  [1]: http://www.ecouterre.com/infographic-how-much-does-that-14-t-shirt-really-cost/

On one hand, people need living wages. But on the other hand, I think we're witnessing what Bill Gates is talking about here.

What's the solution? Gates has floated the idea of taxing robots.

  [1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-bots-are-taking-away-jobs-2014-3

https://github.com/nodesecurity/nsp

When I first played with smartphone, it was before most people had phones with Internet (it was pre-iPhone). Someone commented on how I was on the phone all the time and the lesson stuck with me ever since. Now I don't do that to people.

But for things like perf and regression? Really?

You might miss out on issues if users don't submit, but each submission is an indication of problem (because it's Firefox that decides a problem is bad enough). And you can still prioritize based on how common that problem is.

If Mozilla wants perf data, collect it and then prompt the user "crash reporting" style.

I would totally opt-in to prompts. Give it a threshold and ask, "This page seems to frequently perform less well on your computer, would you like to send us a report?"

I have RSA token device from Wells Fargo for example.

The problem with these is that I need a special device for every single account. There are two business accounts I have access to and I have to deal with two hardware devices.

It is true that getting coffee is kind of a social situation. But I'm ok just getting a hot chocolate or some other drink when I'm with people.

The thing about less ability to compensate lack of sleep. The way I deal with that isn't with sugar or caffeine. I just take naps. If I only got between 3-5 hours of sleep, I might need a 15-min nap but once I get that I'm good to go again.

I also bought Moneydance [2], and it's also not a subscription model.

  [1]: https://www.arqbackup.com/
  [2]: http://moneydance.com/

Apparently you can self-host Standard File server [1] yourself if you don't want to sync with their server.

  [1]: https://github.com/standardfile

You can get the course material for free, but won't be able to get assignments graded.

Below are links for all of the courses.

Course 1: https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning

Course 2: https://www.coursera.org/learn/deep-neural-network

Course 3: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-projects

Course 4: https://www.coursera.org/learn/convolutional-neural-networks

Course 5: https://www.coursera.org/learn/nlp-sequence-models

To get the course material, you go to each course link and click on "Enroll". Then look for the "Audit" link at the bottom left of the modal dialog that comes up.

Google on the other hand is like the road. You can't avoid the road.

Link with pictures if anyone can't find it.

There are reasons why people are doing things this way. Just like the discussion of why people have 1000+ tabs. You could try to understand the underlying reasons vs just criticize.

What would you rather people do? Code it in Qt? Code it in Java? Code it for each platform specifically? If so, why aren't people doing that?

I value cross-platform support greatly because I run Linux on desktop, Windows on laptop, and I have a Mac Mini as well.

I use Moneydance [1] as my personal finance tracking software. It's written in Java for cross-platform support. I use it on Linux and on Windows. If it was written in Electron, I'd still use it. Why? Cross-platform support is important to me.

  [1]: http://moneydance.com/

That's basically the setup I have with my dad. He's using Ubuntu on desktop, which I taught him to use. There wasn't much to teach. He really just wants to use a browser. I taught him how to scan documents and print documents as well. That's pretty much all he needs to do.

And then he has his iPad as well, and I taught him how to print stuff from his iPad too.

I also got him to use 1Password, and he has unique password for each site.

These are all things I've taught my dad to do.

At least in this case, perhaps it's not just a moral failing. Maybe it's an education issue? Or some other way we should help prevent situations like this.

File system performance seems bad. Have tried multiple times to use it. First when it was first announced, and then again when Creators Update came out.

But... it's just not good enough yet. Hopefully the Fall Creators Update improve things.

For now, running a Linux VM is still way faster.

I tried both Xming (donated and got the most recent versions) and VcXsrv. I found VcXsrv to be faster and dynamically picks up my screen resolution. Xming doesn't do that out of the box.

However, I find that both are terrible when my network is a bit unstable such as when I'm in transit. That's the major pain point I have.

I sometimes would force myself to do a talk to learn.

One suggestion I have is to find something that you still find "magical", then learn about it. At the end you will have a topic worthy of a tech talk. E.g. how does a JavaScript minifier work? or how does smartphone device image (ROM) format work?

By "magical" I mean you don't understand how it works and it does things almost like magic. Computers are not magical, so you can gradually turn magical things into in-depth knowledge.

Chances are that things you find magical are equally magical to other people. And then to get started, maybe start within your company or go to meetups with relevant topic.

  [1]: https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_366591722_2?_encoding=UTF8&node=6442600011

Basically grab RSS for most things I read.

Use node-red to create RSS feeds for things that don't have one, or use node-red to pre-filter feeds, as well as for downloading full content for offline reading.

I read Twitter with RSS. I haven't got time to turn Facebook into RSS yet, but hopefully at some point.

  [1]: https://www.dannysu.com/2016/12/29/huginn-to-node-red/

What if it's easy to easily have multiple "Research containers"?

Container tab allows you to hide all tabs related to a particular container, so I feel like you can easily improve your workflow.

What about combining that functionality with snooze tab extension? But instead of snoozing individual tabs, snooze a container.

  [1]: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/snooze-tabs
  [2]: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers

I believe the most important task is to teach your team members those project management skills.

Teach them the skills to recognize unexpected events and know to communicate those bad news proactively. For example, an assigned task turned out to be much more difficult or larger scope than previously thought? Communicate. Uncertainty whether things can get done in time? Communicate. Feeling even the slightest uneasy about anything? Communicate.

Understanding of the business goals? You have to teach it and make it clear. You're not gonna have a textbox, type it in and expect the team to just get it. There's a difference between reading something, and understanding something.

Again, tools are "tools". No tool can allow your team to just be in zombie mode and not use their brain to think. Tools are there as an aid, not to fill in a hole in competencies.

Choose whichever tool that works for you. Observe how your team members are doing and teach them the necessary skills as needed.

At my company we've used simple Google doc, Asana, Trello, and now we're on JIRA. They all have pros and cons, but so far JIRA is working out alright and I think better than Trello.