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If everyone's moving to remote working. Do you believe this will push for dumping wages as well? I don't mean moving jobs to India, but rather recruit remote workers in relative low-income areas of the US?

Not discrediting the amount of skills available on the US East coast but why wouldn't FAANG try to source new remote employees elsewhere in the US?

I get a feeling that this applies to a lot of sciences.

I feel like in the field of computational complexity theory, people seem to find new ways of proving that a problem is NP-complete even though it's already been proved before.

Isn't this just about general curiosity, people just want to understand and explore a certain problem from different perspectives?

As someone who's never read a manual for anything I owned in my entire life I find this fascinating.

Is there anything I'm missing out on, and if I wouldn't read manuals cover-to-cover, what parts would you recommend reading?

Also, assuming many are like me, do you find a lot of quality issues or inconsistencies in documentation just because it's a "tick-in-the-box" exercise to provide a documentation and maybe an overlooked part of the product development?

Thank you!

Plants have evolved to adapt to a certain environment, and if we change those parameters to promote a certain behaviour (e.g. higher yield) then most likely it comes at a cost (e.g. is the produce less nutritious?)

MySQL is actually of Swedish origin.

This is not a fuck up or negligence, Zoom deliberately used "end-to-end" with a completely different meaning than the rest of the world. I can't describe this as anything else than malicious and fraudulent.

Their intention was to deceive users that the communication was encrypted, when in reality it wasn't.

Same in PA

I agree, following the instructions is a critical skill to develop.

What I meant was that you can be creative with these solutions. As for the programmable mouse, my son drew his own mazes on paper in the end and placed his toy cars and other things for the mouse to catch.

The basics are still there that he need to program the mouse and understand the fundamentals, but allowed for enough creative freedom to keep it interesting.

We got this one for our son when he was 3:

https://www.robotshop.com/en/code--go-robot-mouse-activity-s...

It's a great introduction to programming. You have to put in all instructions on the mouse to solve the maze. There's also cards with instructions that you can place on the board to make it even easier.

We also bought an IoT kit from from https://littlebits.com/ when he got older that we started to work on together.

The key here is to do it at a 3-year old level and that you do it together, it's not about finding the right solution or not. Be open to your kid's creativity and don't just follow the instructions.

Also, Magna-Tiles! https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/products/blocks-manipulati...

We bought a starter kit (pretty expensive I know) but my son has been playing with it for at least 1-2hrs a day for a year. They are part of every game he plays, whether it's a car race or playing with dolls.

Production-Driven Development is the new cool.

This is the best definition I've seen and I really buy into the logic.

Instead of defining middle-class on it's own, it makes much more sense to define it's boundaries (lower, upper) and middle is what the name implies, in between two classes.

You've been able to find properties to rent through craigslist since the beginning of the internet. Airbnb is not a new concept, but it's a revolutionizing UX.

Not enough digital transformation

How I read it, "Old days" in my opinion refers to the 90's and early 00's, and not so much about the recent changes in the language.

What happened to that guy? Haven't seen anything lately.

Yeah, I'd rather focus on the victims of sexual assault than on the suspect trying to evade the law. What if it was your daughters/sisters/friends who were abused?

Sweden is not a "banana republic" or whatever you're trying to imply here.

Couldn't agree more,

This has been my strategy for years working for busy managers.

You have to make the life easy for them. Try to avoid sending open ended questions to them, instead send something that they can either sign-off fully or partially.

If you can't detail out all the requirements on your own, try to reduce the scope of the task until you can and try to give enough context for the manager to say Yes/No.

Also, if anything is vague and you manage to setup a video call to clarify it then make sure to create a slide with your topics on and walk them through 1 by 1. My experience is that visionary minds like startup CEOs have a tendency to go completely off-track otherwise.

That was more than incredible! Simply amazing, especially for someone like me working in digital but not so much on the UX part.

I have almost exactly the same memories of Pascal. Being a kid tinkering with QBasic (and later QuickBasic that also created the mystical executables).

It was when I started tinkering with computer graphics I realized that QBasic was not that performant and stumbled upon Pascal. It was in Borland Pascal I first learned about pointers, vectors, memory management etc.

I'm not entirely convinced with the function-call syntax for declaring a Symbol.

Why not using something more of the lines with Ruby's :symbol syntax?

Especially now when they've introduced Jetpacks. A comparison would be great.