Isn't this also how old school games (I've seen it as late as the NES I think) did allow you to save progress, you'd get a short string as your "save" and could just enter it to restart the game in the same state later. I love that it offers essentially unlimited "saves"
The influencers you see are the 1% who made it, and given luck plays a role it's indeed possible they made it "easily" and therefore candidly but erroneously preach that story.
I've failed a half dozen times too, but only at side-hustles, and that discouraged me from going all in, but I've also been successful once (albeit very moderately) and that was with the least effort of all my attempts. So I think the lesson is to keep trying only if you value the journey as much as the intended destination, that way even if you don't reach the target you'll presumable still get some fulfillment from the journey (for me it was learning no-code tools, learning to produce professional quality print materials, etc.)
In fairness the MAGA hat is generally understood to stand for hateful positions (screw your feelings, screw immigrants, remove rights to minorities and women), which is a bit antagonistic. I assume a different republican piece of apparel (like a McCain 2016 shirt) would yield no reaction.
I still don't think people should discriminate but I do think MAGA in particular is objectively tainted, it's essentially the slogan of an attempted coup after all (I know officially it was "KAG" at that time, but MAGA remained the main "brand")
CS50x made computer science click for me after dabbling on and off for years with various bootcamp-like programs on topics like data science, python, APIs, etc.
I’m a few months pre 40 and currently going through CS50x, it does feel like finally things are clicking after years of dabbling into various attempts like the author, and more recently having done a ton with no code and low code tools.
The books by Emily Oster are great, they’re purely based on data and she’s a PhD in Econ at Brown so she knows to not misinterpret. She’s also a mother and blends in just enough personal experience into these books to make pleasant to read while never straying from the aim of scientific accuracy. On many topics the answer is unfortunately still “some studies show X but there are flaws or they aren’t statistically significant so we don’t know for sure what Is the best answer”
I don't think it'll bring down "the whole system" like the poster is saying but certainly it will alienate some users from the software of the abusers. Unfortunately if it drives engagement of 2 people at the expense of becoming annoying to one person the app developers will keep over-using notifications.
I wish you could control at the OS level, there's only so few types of notifications when you really look into it:
- Some content is suggested for you (the worst imo)
- Some people interacted lightly with content you created (i.e. a like or retweet)
- Some strangers responded to content you created
- Someone you're connected to responded to content your created
- You received an unsolicited message from someone you're not connected with
- You received an unsolicited message from someone you're connected with or a group you're active in
I'd love to turn off notification across all apps for the first 5
You have $100m in operating income, but you shutter a business unit and take a writeoff for $100m, you now have $0 profit and therefore 0 tax liability (you saved ~$37m assuming that’s the effective tax rate).
If you sold the business for parts, for $50m you end up with $150 in profit (technically could be less if you took an impairment (like a writeoff but not for the full amount since you clearly recouped some value). You pay taxes on your profits and end up net negative against the scenario where you just shut it down.
This is overly simplistic but the gist of it is directionally correct.
My former CEO invested significantly in training (I personally received well over $250k worth, including leadership lessons from 2 weeks reliving D Day with military men, rowing with National champion coaches at Yale, etc.) and used to say people challenged him with « what of you spend all this money to train them and they leave? », to which he replied « what if we don’t train and develop them and they stay, isn’t that way worse? »
I was employee #1 at a startup, the founder was actually a friend (not a close friend but a friend nonetheless) and was pretty transparent. That said over time I uncovered a few half-truths and one thing that was somewhat hidden from me. I started looking immediately and left within 6 months of joining.
As others have pointed out it's mostly noticeable on mobile, I only consider looking something up on mobile if I know I can append my search with a domain that I trust to be ad-free or ad-light. Recipe... too risky to go on a random site (because of ads and also proliferation of fake recipes that are just stock images and Ai generated copy to garner pageviews), so I do "{dish} + seriouseats.com". Movie or TV trivia... "{movie} wiki"... etc.
News is the worse, I rely on twitter for headlines or go straight to my paid app (NYT + WSJ) if I hope to read more than 140 character on any topic.
I tried various solutions before but I think some sync'ing is broken (including how google contacts does it), and now with the fragmentation of messengers (signal, telegram, whatsapp, linkedin) I just figured as long as I know the name of someone I can reasonably expect to have a way to reach them; albeit suboptimally sometimes if I guess the preferred network wrong)
Corpspeak is the worse for strategy and product because there's a lot of meaning in the precise wording of something but inveitably every slide gets wordsmithed to death and ends up a vague buzzword bingo sheet.
Simple (if not particularly potent) example I'm dealing with right now: "right to win"... my employer wants to use this wording in various strategy templates across all businesses and product. So every discussion is why do we think we have the "right to win" this or that market. In reality some products are differentiated in a way that serves a smaller segment (hence technically not "winning" the market) and perhaps deliver a higher IRR than an alternative strategy that is better boxed in this "must have a 'right to win'" perspective
I most settings there are people upstream and downstream of us, if you let something "slide" it's worth consider the knock-on effects on others, or at least give them a heads up
With one single child I barely notice, but thinking about it it does probably take 2-3 minutes so your 5-10 minutes estimates is probably spot on for multiple kids. Living in a midwestern city and relying on street parking I do dread the loading/unloading in the winter, has there been any attempt at improving this product category on the speed of use dimension?
Glare, very high or very low temperatures, and humidity have all been known to mess with displays of various types (and touch itself as a way to interact with the screen), so while i understand that car dashboards have likely been spec'd to account for these factors I can't help but feel like touchscreens were never going to perform as reliably.
Great article by a company that's honestly been great to work with, I think it's interesting that they write such an entry level piece when their solution is enterprise grade but it shows their dedication to educating not just the users and stakeholders of the end product but also the implementers, which very few software companies do.
As someone who lives in Excel, has done quite a bit of BI as well, and is learning programming I love that Excel gives you the ability to build complex algorithms but also to sometimes bypass it and just hardcode some stuff that would require complex loops or recursion, and create exceptions by breaking a formula into a few pieces in different cells that would likewise require a lot of ugly code.
It empowered me to build what I needed, but may have held back my progress in building better mental models for data schemas and algos. You win some, you lose some I guess.
Baserow user here, it's been impressive to see the roadmap come to life. I wish I could use it for work but our IT policies are from the stone age so I can't self host, and I don't want to risk putting sensitive information in a non approved vendor (even non sensitive but non public info can get security folks riled up) so I only use it for personal use.
The gap with big name providers is closing, and I hope the Baserow team can monetize well enough to stick around for the long haul.
I'd love to know the difference between seasoning on cast iron vs carbon steel, it seems harder to do carbon steel well, but I do think it gets to be more "non stick" than cast iron ever does.
Harvard CS50, I was coding a bit as a kid in the late 90's in BASIC, and have been in tech most of the past decade, but never went beyond HTML, CSS and grabbing a basic script off Stack Overflow since then, so now I'm trying to learn the foundations of CS and eventually teach myself a language or two so I can evolve from building mini projects in no-code tool to making more meaningful things and more powerful apps.
It's also that there's no first mover advantage, unless other nations act in unison there could be a penalty (in GDP growth) for being the first to act. Note that it's not true of every recommended action, but of enough of them to be political suicide to go all in like we really should.
I'm a relatively serious at home cook and here's my feedback: usually it helps to read a recipe from top to bottom and get a rough idea for all the steps, rather than reading linearly sequentially, so I didn't love having to click through every step of the example and then presumably every step "Back" to go back to the start. I'd suggest offering a way to see the whole recipe all at once
Online: Google alerts saved as RSS feeds that I subscribe to in my reader (Inoreader), and then niche twitter accounts or subreddits that can exist and contain good intel and opinions.
In person: network with people in the industry and have candid conversations, maybe some light quid pro quo intel sharing (above board, nothing confidential)
I don't like passwordless logins because between the occasional lag to get the email, the risk of ending in spam, and the fact sometimes it doesn't work (if I'm trying to log in incognito but the mail handler trigger the default browser in normal mode)... it just doesn't feel as foolproof. If both options are offered its fine, but sites that are 100% passwordless annoy me
Absolutely, companies outsourcing their data infrastructure to the big 3 will end up having "supply chain" and Intellectual Property issues with their data in the same way companies that outsourced too much of their supply chain top SE Asia / China did.
But by the time this becomes a problem the executive team will have cash out nice bonuses from the short term gains from cost savings...
Could be, but as someone who get lower body pains and injuries (ankles and knees mostly) and lower back fatigue relatively often (from exercising), I do prefer brands that are rooted in actually athletic use rather than purely design/looks.
Maybe it's just placebo but I feel like they're going to be more comfortable and give me better posture/support.