I think they meant to say ShareGrid.
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Undergraduates were forced off campus a few weeks ago.
Imagine yourself in the shoes of an international student who left New Haven in a hurry. You're now required to attend online lectures at 3:00AM local time. Five nights a week.
You don't have a reliable internet connection in your country. You lost your job when you left campus. You're missing out on office hours. You can't collaborate with classmates in the United States. You need to take care of at-risk relatives at home. You're in a state of heightened anxiety during a lock-down. Don't even think about taking a nap! Your next discussion seminar (with mandatory attendance) is in fifteen minutes... at 4:30AM!
Now, is it really so unreasonable to ask the administration to relieve some of this pressure? We should empower students to seek knowledge without sacrificing their health and family obligations.
In practice, though, it's far more likely that the the disc will get corrupted from small scratches.
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/08/18/34...
For example, the linked blog post only occupies half of the vertical space on the webpage. The rest is showing comments. So, while reading the article, it's impossible for me to assess how much is actually left... without laboriously scrolling down, hunting for the end of the post, glancing at the scroll bar, and setting a mental checkpoint near the midpoint.
Scroll bars are practically meaningless because they reflect a property of the webpage (instead of the real content therein). This problem is even worse on websites with "infinite scroll" UIs that cause the scroll bar to abruptly change size/location without user input.
I'm not sure you require specialized software built for book/magazine collections. Conceptually, you have a warehouse where almost everything has "Qty: 1". The rest of the metadata (e.g., titles, authors, ISBNs, storage boxes) can be custom fields.
> Fortunately most of the negative comments you’ve read are either misrepresentations of the facts or outright untruths.
Which specific allegations are you able to refute with evidence? I read the OFCCP administrative complaint. For example, the federal government found that B&H didn't even have a designated restroom for women at the Brooklyn Navy Yard facility. That seems like damning evidence of gender-based discrimination.
As I said earlier, the fact that B&H treats its customers well does not imply that it treats employees with the same respect. While it's possible that all of the lawsuits against them lack merit... we're not talking about a few disgruntled employees making frivolous claims. B&H was sued by the federal government twice regarding nearly identical allegations.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26H_Photo_Video#Controversie...
[2] https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20170814
> I do this because it allows me to directly reach out to users, provide them with on-boarding emails/updates, and build a mailing list of people interested in keystroke automation (my domain of software).
What if I don't want to be contacted? Am I expected to provide an email address, wait for the first marketing email (which I never asked for, BTW), and then unsubscribe?
> the richness of interaction you can have with customers over email
There's certainly some survivorship bias here. [2] You also need to consider all of the prospective customers that are turned away by this requirement. (Those who elect to sign up for the free trial are, by definition, willing to provide an email address and probably more likely to interact with the developer.)
Perhaps you should run an A/B test to investigate the effects of your email requirement. The data will speak for itself!
Also, I lived in Silliman College and would frequently exchange long emails (1500+ words) with Nicholas and Erika. They would always respond thoughtfully and extend an invitation to discuss further over a meal. Perhaps the Halloween note was poorly written... but anyone who actually spoke with Erika knew that student activists had distorted her message beyond recognition.