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This is so wonderfully done! Great icon choices & use of fill to indicate active devices. I love how you grouped accessories by category, and included temperature/humidity sensor readings next to thermostat controls. I instantly upgraded to Pro for the additional features!

I'm reminded of a blog post (https://rc3.org/2015/12/29/answering-the-question-should-man... , focused on software engineering managers rather than CTOs), which posited this guideline:

"A manager actively avoids creating situations where their coding is necessary for the success of the project."

I agree with Aditya's article. A CTO must be technical for all the reasons stated. I would add another reason to his list: a CTO must be able to challenge the assumptions, plans, and estimates presented to him/her by the engineering team. Doing so requires technical acumen.

The reason USA Today's coverage is best is because the real reporting is coming from the local newspaper, Louisville Courier-Journal. They're a Gannett property so it ends up getting published through USA Today as well.

They may not be dumb, but culturally, the companies are miles apart. Disney is incredibly bureaucratic and is does a very poor job of developing and deploy technology. Most of the impressive displays of tech you associate with Disney were licensed or acquired, with a Disney label slapped on them. There is a permanent cold war between VP-level execs who seek to undercut each other.

Source: former mid-level technology manager in IT at Disney Parks and Resorts who had a weekly audience with VPs and SVPs.

This looks great and I'm inclined to give it a try. But do you have a privacy policy? I try to avoid services that sit between me and my financial institutions, as I worry they're building analytics off my spending patterns and selling it to third parties.

My concern about security is that this would be used like Slack, but for apps -- always on, sitting in the background, occasionally has my attention.

If I drag an app that has an integrated terminal (e.g., VS Code), could one of my teammates start rooting around in my filesystem?

It wouldn't be too hard to use Slack status to determine a time to do this when the other people sharing are not online/not watching.

http://two.sentenc.es/ conveys a similar idea but did so long before this story, and more succinctly:

"Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead."

I once read a statement attributed to Steve Ballmer that every six months, he tears his todo list in half and throws the bottom half away. If anything far down that list was actually a priority, it will naturally get re-added (by thinking of it again, in response to a customer, etc.).

My implementation of that approach is to do the following each month:

    1. Export all my unfinished todo items older than 6 months.
    2. Place that export alongside my other backups.
    3. Then delete those items from my todo app.

I deliberately do not look at any of those items during this process, lest I be tempted to dive back into them.

That way, I limit my total mental clutter while retaining some peace of mind, since I know that I can get back to those items (I sometimes attach photos, notes, etc. to tasks) if needed. I never do.

It's a good thing he wasn't running Windows 10 S: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15609706/google-chrome-wi...

"Knowing when to quit is as important as knowing when not to quit. Hard work does not always pay off."

This is the entire subject of Seth Godin's _The Dip_. I'm not a huge fan of this breed of books, but if someone is looking for a lesson on this topic, I would having a look at that book. It's very short -- you can read it in under an hour. It provides a decent mental framework for thinking through the question of whether you should continue on your current path, or quit and switch gears.

What I've never seen in any rich-text web editor is an ability to have more complex numbered lists. So often I want to put in a block of content (e.g., a small code example) as part of a numbered list item, and then resume the list after the block . But they all restart me at "1."...

As a former employee of Disney, I can confirm that this is correct. Disney IT goes through firms such as HCL and Cognizant who act as the H1-B sponsors. I'm aware of a very small number of examples where Disney sponsored H1-B visas directly, but those folks worked outside of IT and they did not displace any existing employees.

I agree. I find it very frustrating to see Gruber and others say, "Oh, it looks like a nano -- ripoff" with no examination of the actual product beyond its appearance.

Given its price point and features, I don't even think it should even be compared to the nano. It combines an MP3 player with the capabilities of fitness watches such as Nike+ Sportwatch and Garmin Forerunner, and I would say it is more of a direct competitor to the latter category.

While the market for dedicated MP3 players is dwindling, they still make a lot of sense for fitness. Yet, Nike+ is too anemic for serious fitness buffs (simplistic web site, captures relatively little data, no GPS). I've seen many fellow runners abandon Nike+ sensors for Garmin Forerunner or similar GPS-enabled products.

I don't think its a nano-killer, but I think it may serve a certain audience much better than the nano does today, and its features demonstrate a much greater sense of purpose than the nano does with its complete stagnation in 2011.