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Yeah, neither can I. Lucky for both of us, that is not what this application is about.

If you want to compose even better emails, learn how to be good with formatting. The linked article makes a fine case of how to.

Just like paragraphs (which are just another form of formatting) using indentations, list items, font weights and capitalization correctly will help you structure any text and get your point across more easily.

It's important to keep in mind that email is quite literally the only domain, where this is even a topic of discussion, solely due to legacy reasons. I do like not having font color and h2 tags abused, but the key to that is email literacy, not taking away formatting options, that are helpful in making the medium work better for humans.

Yes. But more importantly, that was a Futurama reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cjx4gJFME0

Getting in touch with two foreign languages in school is not uncommon, but speaking up to four (including your mother tongue) with any sort of sophistication definitely is not normal, at least in western Europe.

Apologies, I should have been more precise: A cpu will win when you start isolating and creating a scenario to test for APM and TTFA (obviously), so if you are interested in advancing strategic and tactical AI capabilities – basically out-thinking the human – it makes sense to cap those solved parts to make sure you are winning because of progress you make on your objective.

It comes down to what you are interested in. Right now DeepMind seems to be focused on beating humans on strategy and tactics, which is reasonable, since those are the contested areas and cpu winning on APM and TTFA has been solved for long ago. To not confuse one for the other, putting limits on the later (at some point maybe even stifling itself beyond what a pro player could reasonable to) seems like an excellent way to go about it.

Well, since you can literally build game engines in free spreadsheet apps, probably none, but, as you noticed yourself, the selling point is the UX/UI, which seems to be excellent.

Any game/activity that you have to join a club and pay a membership for (i.e. Golf, Tennis) and also play professionally would qualify, so a subset of entertainment, engagement, excitement, relaxation, thrill.

To be clear, this is not Spotify blocking small artists without a label getting on Spotify. This is about bands not being able to upload directly, requiring them to use any of the cheaply available distributors instead. This is mostly likely an anti-fraud / anti-copyright infringement / QA move.

Nope. Just like physics is exactly not how an atom bomb got dropped -- in an extremely important distinction between physics and atom bomb dropping -- there is a very important distinction between government intervention and going to war.

In a complicated world things will correlate. I hope this neither makes a generalised case against physics nor government intervention.

When things go bad government should intervene to protect people. These steps are always going to be extraordinary, because the situation is extraordinary, but it is the very role of government to apply necessary fixes without false pride for any economic or governmental models.

Of course, questions as to how one ended up in a bad situation have to be asked. Underlying issues should be fixed.

But when things get out of hand, when extraordinary action is deemed necessary to adjust for an untenable situation, it is not only right but paramount to take action.

As is with all issues, people will disagree with any specific course of action. By all means, vote to that effect.

It gets tricky as soon as you need labels and/or more complicated visual feedback attached to "dumb" buttons.

The touchscreen is "lazy" in that it can defer thinking hard about your problem space and I can see why that alone would feel scary in a car.

On the other hand, there is only so much foresight you can have when you are innovating. Developing a Tesla might simply not be feasible without the flexibility a touchscreen gives you.

> As a User Experience Professional, I was never able to grasp the true user's need for touch screens in cars

The flexibility to benefit from rapid product iteration. If you think of cars as mostly software products that receive updates over the air, a flexible interface makes a lot more sense (even though I agree that it makes for a pretty bad user interface).

Seems like a really obnoxious way to communicate though. If they want somebody to do their best work and really do not care how much time it takes them to get there, they should just be upfront about it: "You have until next Monday, good luck".

If that makes them look like assholes, yeah, I can see why someone would feel that way but at least they are clear about their intentions and not insulting anyone's intelligence in the process.

> I don't think that counts as "overprotection"

Rest assured, I don't think anyone else does either.

> By all means, make them safe enough that kids won't get maimed or killed - but keeping kids from ever falling far enough to feel any real pain is probably counter- productive in the long term.

There is no room between "overprotection" and "freedom", that guarantees safety from harm. Serious accidents have to be accepted before they even happen.

A scary prospect for many parents, I am sure.

> We've had so many generations of Web frameworks, but presumably it's still not a solved problem, because we keep moving to new ones

I do not think that it is not a solved problem. I think, in most cases, there is a propensity to wanting to believe it is not a solved problem, because building things from nothing is a lot of fun.

The cool thing about being a software engineer is that you can go back as far as 0 and 1 with comparably reasonable effort and tools that are at your disposal, for free. You get to build anything you want, exactly as you want. Of course mostly it will not go back as far as machine code, but hey look, there is a new js front-end framework.

And sure, in parts this is all part of the learning experience. But I the amount of productivity that has been lost and will be lost due to the technology being reinvented (or shall I say: rediscovered), has to be absolutely mind boggling.

We all like to play, but engineers are pretty fucking expensive and the number of web applications that could absolutely not have been build in good old Rails or PHP by people who know their tools inside out is probably approaching the low zeros.

Rocket League is mostly about its potential as an esport. Buying everything seems like the straight forward way to handle this.

I do not think it is that clear cut. Unless the bank assumes full responsibility for any kind of security breach, including social engineering, you need to be allowed to take care of protecting yourself (including the crucial step of testing the measures). It falls to the systems, both the banks and political/judicial, to have measures and rules in place to allow and account for that.

If they don't, I feel there's a rather lopsided situation.

Really cool! And not only that but very intuitive and fun to use. I can see a lot of music makers who lack the theoretical background get great results out of this.

> Well, this is a discussion forum.

Absolutely. While I do mind your opinion, I don't mind you giving your opinion.

> The "if you don't like it, move along" argument is fine in general

There is actually a lot of issues that I would have people take a firm stance against more often, instead of just letting it slide. This just happens to not be one of them.

This sentiment really, really bothers me. Yes, in reality humans are all sorts of weird, creepy, flawed, not super happy or good looking.

If this is what you risk when sharing on the internet, then maybe highly curated social media and the anxiety that it brings had it right all along.

We need more of this. More weirdness, more real human beings. If you don't like something, move along. Also, you never are the only one.

I don't think any of these points are particularly strong, and yet any bet against a new venture is a safe bet, because failure is the overwhelmingly likely outcome.

Expecting a few human beings, who all are involved in a stressful situation and have probably no philosophical inclinations, to come up with a morally sound choice on the spot seems like a tall order.

It's not a trade-off! We as a species absolutely require people to have kids. Discriminating against those who do is the most fundamantally wrong thing I can think of.

It is what we are here for, if nothing else.

Interesting perspective. In my mind, the fact that any one developer has the tools to think up, create and launch applications that deeply alter our society, has already done more harm than any single doctor has ever done and probably could ever do (at least by putting his hands on patients).

Given the number of people that (reportedly) paying for it, maybe it's good enough.

I find it hard to take any "before the internet" sentiment seriously in 2019. It's been a while and things have changed, drastically, and we are not going back.

The thing about the internet is links. When I (theoretically) open a daily paper there is nothing for me to click on. The publisher has to make sure that the whole thing is self contained and can be consumed without any outside reference.

Websites, by design, are not self contained and that is because of links. Being able to reference other content through links is fundamental to how the internet works. The subscription/paywall model is anti-internet, because it breaks links.

While I do find some of the authors reasoning questionable, I concur: The classic subscription model, even though it may be the very thing that is keeping some publications afloat and very profitable, is deeply flawed for the internet.

Music production, just as any other profession, works through a lot of convention. Most music has more things in common than not, just as most software or most humans have more things in common than not -- and that is completely fine. If something falls in the 95th percentile then it's probably a good rule of thumb to not mess with that particular rule, if your goal is to get something going.

There is a ton more to music than chord progression. Figuring out which parts to change, and how, and which parts to leave alone is key.

> Vocabify is a tool to help you remember the words you come across. It uses a basic implementation of spaced repetition to help you remember the words and phrases you add.

Cool idea. I suggest improving the onboarding experience of your product dramatically with minimal effort by adding this sentence to your site. Like so: https://snag.gy/iqOlFC.jpg