- a while back I tried to apply this principle in my gmail - filter everything not from a human out of my inbox using rules and filters (filtering anything with the word “unsubscribe” works well until someone forwards a thread to you that started with an email from a service).
It is a little frustrating though, I’m sure gmail and most modern email services could do a very good job on a filter like this if they tried.
very nice idea; I've used Workflowy for a long time for todo-lists and keeping my "done" list is something I have to do manually as a workaround there. Having just played with donel.ist I can confirm it's quite compelling, satisfying and rewarding to note everything I've completed today, definite dopamine hit.
I'd suggest you automatically colour new tags differently, and the UX for adding a new tag is a teeny bit clunky - you have to create the tag and then apply it. Also it might be nice to have the ability to add tags to an item just by typing "#work" into the main text entry box.
I’ve used Google’s custom search engine (cse) to help solve this, when working on a project, just make a cse with the main sources of official docs for the stack you’re using; instead of getting 20 possibly related questions with half solutions that you have to wade through, you get straight to the source docs. I guess it works best when those source docs are good, eg postgres, but it’s certainly been a big win for me
I love that line, and it captures the nub of something deep about how we do and don't evolve through new experiences.
I do think we underestimate how much impact travel and exposure to other cultures can have, we don't feel "transformed", I like to think of it a bit like having a child, before you do so, it's possible to be completely clueless about a whole bunch of stuff, afterwards, you're still the same person, but there are hundreds of ideas and topics that you are aware of and understand to some level that you didn't before. What's more, you can tell quickly whether another person has similar knowledge. Something like growing older and (hopefully) wiser, but accelerated and pushed in new directions.
Could you give the name of the source of unsweetened protein powder please? I’ve looked and couldn’t find any, and the artificial sweeteners mess my gut up and give me anxiety so I can’t take protein supplements as a result.
Having lived with a relative who used a prosthetic, I saw how it was a struggle every day to get the leg fitting just right, and how fatiguing it was to use for more than an hour. The popular perception seems to be way off here, most people think that modern prosthetics “solve the problem” when in fact, as this article explains, they are inconvenient and painful at best and worse than useless in many cases. I’ve got great respect for prosthetists and the “art” side of their work - the dozens of adjustments they make for each patient - but people should be aware of just how much time, effort, pain and inconvenience prosthetics cause their wearers, the technology is impressive but has a very long way to go.
I think this is a great idea, the biggest trend in global investing is ESG, with all the largest fund managers moving that direction, in part driven by client demand but also in recognition that they don't want to be laggards to the cultural shift and the inevitable regulatory interventions that are coming down the pipe; everyone expected ESMA to lead the way here but it's telling that the SEC also published a letter of intent. So I see this app as filling a real need as well as anticipating one of the mega trends that appears to be set to play out over the next 5-7 years. I've worked in fintech for 15 years, and built and sold a couple of companies in this space, happy to offer any advice that might be useful but it seems to me you've got a great idea that's well positioned.
I'm also in the UK and I deleted WhatsApp 2 years ago when it became clear that Facebook intended to move in the direction of fuller integration (I deleted my Facebook account after 1 month of usage 10 years ago). However, I had to reinstall WhatsApp because all of my kid's sports activities and school updates are organised through WhatsApp groups and it is impossible to participate without WhatsApp. Much as I believe in the cause, I'm not going to go preach it to the volunteers who coach my kids' rugby team. The scary thing here is that the actual real-life "social network" has been privatised and monopolised, and now we can't participate in society in very important ways without going through Facebook.
Running a PCA on data from 64 node (wet contact, shaved head, lab environment), shows that you basically get one channel of data, there’s virtually zero useful information other than the main wave; you can tell whether the subject is asleep, awake or having a fit with high degree of accuracy, you can accurately classify whether the awake subject is relaxed vs aroused but that’s about it. The claims made for these systems are way beyond anything supported by the data. Would love to be proved wrong by standard, verifiable sourced data and a Jupyter notebook, but I won’t hold my breath.
I just came back to running Linux as my primary OS and went for Fedora 32 with the default Gnome install; overall I’m blown away at how great the experience has been so far, everything works well out of the box (for many years I used Ubuntu and had endless problems with basic stuff like audio and networking), and the desktop environment feels incredible, it manages to combine the minimalist uncluttered feel of dwm or xmonad (when in app) with the kind of rich experience of MacOS when navigating to an app or settings. Kudos to everyone involved.
I just get a "The camera has failed to load" message, and the link to the "Please see our faq for reasons why" is just a link to the homepage, not any faq.
Stop feeling guilty for setting aside time to learn skills during regular working hours. It took me a while to adjust, but it's utterly logical and correct that technical people should explore technologies as part of their work. When I became a manager I encouraged all my teams to set aside time like this. I basically said: if the topic you want to learn more about is very relevant to your current task, that's great, if not, that's fine too, if it turns out to be interesting, put on a lunchtime seminar for the group so we can all learn something.
I think as devs we all know that we will sometimes go yak-shaving just as an excuse to dig into something we're interested in (or at least not return from the rabbit-hole with any urgency), so I'd rather my teams do this consciously and think about what might be useful or just fun and interesting to other people on the team as they explore.
Family time should be family time, and if you're waiting for it to end so you can get to your hobby project you're not going to be as present as you should be. Also, it might work a little for the first kid, but when the second arrives forget about it.
Unfortunately, evidence [1] suggests that the rate of bug detection by reviewers does not scale linearly with the number of reviewers, adding more than 4 reviewers uncovers bugs at a much lower rate [2].
However I absolutely agree that better / more extensive / diligent code reviews are part of the solution to improve code quality and eliminate these kinds of defects. It's tough to create the right kind of incentive structures for reviewers internally at a company; maybe the future will have specialist firms that provide review-as-a-service for a fee, or perhaps firms could trade review-hours (all under strict NDAs I'd imagine).
Genuine question: is the 172 really considered unsafe, googling "cessna 172 safety record" brings up a lot of articles suggesting it is as safe or safer than comparable aircraft - or are you saying that light private aircraft aren't very safe in general?
American Scientist looks promising, I was so disappointed when Scientific American lowered their standards and simultaneously became obsessed with climate change coverage at the expense of the previous diversity and depth they were so wonderful at. I love reading back issues from the 80s and earlier (my earliest copies from 1956 are a joy).
I cancelled my subscription after enduring about a year of issues dominated by articles on gun control and anti-Trump. There is the occasional gem but as a European, living in Europe, the editorial policy became monotonous and lacking self-awareness. Oh and they never miss an opportunity to use the word coordinate.
In my experience, studying finance books is almost a complete waste of time. There are several platforms, such as Interactive Brokers, that provide APIs and market data feeds that you can get started on writing trading programs very quickly. Don't think that you are going to invent profitable trading strategies, at least not for a long time. There are lots of interesting and useful exercises that are lots of fun and can be executed with very little capital, for example, try building an algorithm that executes N shares of stock over the day and executes them at an average price that gets as close as possible to the volume weighted average price over the day. If you can do that, you'll have learned as much as most working algo developers, and if you're trying to break into a job in finance, you'll have a big advantage over most candidates who have dabbled because you will be about the only one who has built something useful rather than focusing on some hokey alpha signal.
If you really want to trade your own money for profit, yes, the space is crowded and HFTs have already found most of the profitable signals that scale, but it is still possible to find profitable signals if you source data that is somewhat new or unique and you look for signals that are capacity constrained and therefore of less interest to HFTs.
In such a case you still have the option to make the behavior physically impossible, by placing a physical barrier around the dangerous object; no different from a fire-guard in front of an open fire, or a childproof gate at the bottom of a flight of stairs. In my own experience, my kids got the message about the stove by being told sternly not to touch it and why it was dangerous, calmly but firmly and seriously. Other stuff took repeating, but never more than 3 times (kids have moments when they're just not taking information in, and we're constantly telling them what to do, so factor that in, you need to repeat the really important stuff)
The exact same issue arises in enterprise software sales, the customer is subject to many of the same issues of value perception and price justification as a regular consumer, and the demand curve exists as you would expect for any product. Sometimes it's easier because it's convention to quote the price without VAT, but many companies will structure budgets for departments that are not VAT-aware, so if I'm selling to Bill in operations, the total spend including VAT is taken out of his operations budget for the year (this makes some sense because the client doesn't always know whether they will be VAT neutral or not, and tracking the allocations by department is not something anyone I've met does.
In the vast majority of cases, an enterprise software company will collect far more VAT than it pays out, so it's not zero sum.
VAT is not irrelevant for companies, because the consumer pays the all-in price. If I have a product that I can manufacture for $90, and I know that I can sell retail for $100, VAT at 20% means I don't have a profitable business.
Edit: why do you think business lobby groups are constantly asking the govt to reduce VAT? Have you ever heard of the demand curve?
Eh, no, if I buy an Italian suit in Macy's, Macy's has bought it from the manufacturer in Italy. They have imported the suit. They pay the Italian producer. The Italian producer is taxed on their profit in Italy. Macy's is taxed in the US. One or other party may have to pay a tariff on the import. Why do you think the product has to move through a subsidiary domiciled in the local country? When did that become a requirement?
Because Apple Sales International is a proxy for a US domiciled entity. This is what Apple needs to fix, the EU has correctly pointed this out many years ago, and Apple are dragging their heels on fixing it because it's one way they have of keeping the cash offshore (from the US), but it doesn't change the fact that the profits were not created in Ireland and should not be subject to corporation tax there.
Local subsidiaries are not usually resellers, and even if they were, the parent company can set an arbitrary price, so they just say that every iPhone cost $1000 and is sold at $599 locally, so the subsidiary makes a massive loss - there are plenty of other reasons, think it through and you'll see that the subsidiary can't operate like a reseller.
The subsidiary will usually have accounts that have costs like salary and premises, and no direct revenues, just a big cash transfer to fund the costs from the parent company.
Eh, no, not quite, Apple has set up several companies in Ireland. They do some assembly and some customer support, and some sales and administration. Generally, a multinational has to set up a company domiciled in any country that they have direct employees, because governments don't really like when you have employees without a company, because there's no such thing. These companies don't really have a PnL in the same way as the parent company, even though they will have filed statutory accounts in the country of domicile, the fact is that they don't originate the product they are selling. The services they provide could be outsourced to a third party; for example, a US company could design and manufacture a product, and just use Amazon to manage fulfillment globally. Manufacturing of electronic goods is often outsourced as well, so that's not a counter-argument.
The EU has correctly pointed out that Apple's arrangement in which the "head office" of Apple Sales International is not actually the US parent company, and it looks like it should be.