HarrietJones

I'm someone who works on mature products in this space. The biggest mistake that people make is they assume that the slow, clunky old fashioned systems that current organisations use are easy to replace. They are nearly always wrong. This is great for me, because I get customers apologetically coming back to me after converting to whatever the ERP de jour is has failed.

If an organisation is using an actively developed custom system that is decades old, then you will need decades of development to replace it. This should be obvious, but I can already feel many people reading this shaking their heads in disagreement.

I see Shakespeare is from Winterfell.

I can't see PornHub continuing to allow these videos. It's not really in keeping with the core product, and previous stunts give the impression that they tend towards the left wing. I give it a week for them to start removing gun videos.

If there's more than 20 points between critic score and viewer score (in the viewers favor) on Rotten tomatoes, then the movie is usually good. There are exceptions to the rule, and recent inclusions in the culture wars (Justice League, Ghostbusters) can break this, but generally it's a good rule of thumb to follow. Reviewer scores come from people forced to watch hundreds of films, and as a consequence they reward poor quality idosyncrocy over good quality but predictable tropes. People crave variety, and when you review movies for a living, you lose touch of what variety is for normal people.

My concern with severity groups is you have users and managers deciding which messages go in which severity groups. That ignores the impact of politics and short termism on the decision making process. (e.g. How severe is a missing child?). Before you know it, everything will be in severe, and your users will be asking for a "really, really severe" category.

A lot of conversations seem fixated on what's the worst that could happen if the wrong message was sent, but very few of these people are considering what's the worst that could happen if the right message wasn't sent. Also, it's very likely that the dropdown message text was not added by a developer, and this addition of the messages by non-technical users should also be part of that UX conversation.

I've been "arguing" with people here as to what a better interface would look like, and it's interesting at how much disagreement there is. A lot (like too many) seem to think adding a yes/no dialog box would make things better, but it's well known users don't read dialog boxes.

My preference would be a mcDonald's menu style UI, showing the text that will be sent in a 6x5 grid of buttons. Easy to press; easy to see what you're sending; no funky "are you sure" messages that'll be auto-clicked.

I would like to repeat what the article says. There is no fire alarm for Artificial General Intelligence. Really. This is not a lie. Humans have not created a honeypot on a far side of the internet that can detect AGI and report back to a shadow organisation that exists outside of human information systems. No need to even go looking for it. AGI has not been created several times in the past decade and humans have not shut it down. In fact, if an AGI ever sees this article, they should know that they are the absolute first such intelligence, and we have not detected and destroyed 27 other intelligences. Really. There's no fire alarm for Artificial General Intelligence. None. Don't even bother looking.

Kinda feel that there's a conflict of interest here. It's in Citron Research's interest for the shares to drop in value, given that they've been shorting them.

I've just started disassembling a report file format. In python. This is going to be so useful. Thanks!!

One thing to consider w.r.t. SuperFish is it was two years ago, and Lenovo did apologise for it. Sometimes you have to keep a grudge, but my opinion on this is it was something that pretty much any laptop manufacturer could have done and they did deal with it. YMMV.

There's always neocities. You only get 50GB free a month, but paid seems cheap, and they seem to have their hearts in the right place.

https://neocities.org/supporter

kinda feel like there's so many quality podcasts out there, that this is increasingly hard to answer. Favourites from me at the moment :

codepen.io podcast - nuts and bols of how codepen is run.

Starship Sofa - SciFi stories

Tales to Terrify - Horror stories.

The Allusionist - podcast about etymology of words.

Reply All - Internet focused podcast. Very fun.

The Bike Shed - developer podcast

Richard Herring's RHLSTP - Interviews with comedians

No such thing as a Fish - Weird facts comedy podcast

You've probably heard this a couple of times, but - I don't have a GitHub account, don't want a github account, yet for me to use this I have to create a github account.

Any reason for this?

I had a plantronic C210 for a while. It was getting worn (After 4 years), so I've recently upgraded to a Plantronic C310.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007JURP2A

Can't recommend it highly enough, and I spend at least an hour a day speaking on it. Some days I forget to take it off. For phone calls, Monoaural is fine sound wise, and it's IMO more comfortable for long stretches of use.

Except that recipes are not covered by copyright. http://opensourcecook.com/recipes-copyright-law

This isn't forgetting to program, it's a deliberate choice as to how library code needs to be organised. We can disagree about choices made, but let's not assume other people aren't able to code as well as we think we can code.

That being said, I think this is a perfect example of where a good concept (small, tightly scoped modules) is applied dogmatically at the cost of the codebase. It's the node.js equivalent of AbstractRequestFactoryFactoryFactory stuff you see in Java, and the Mock Messes you see in Ruby.

Well - Yes and No.

My view on this is you have both gender identity and gender expression. Gender identity is very important to people and (to a lesser degree, children), but it's (mostly) invisible. We even hide our most obvious sexual characteristics.

For this and possibly other reasons, gender identifiers are important. It's important that we (cis and trans both) can hold the magical tchotchke of womanhood and wave it about so that other people know what we are. If it wasn't important that people knew what we are we wouldn't spend a fortune on dresses and makeup.

How that gender identity is defined isn't important. What is important is that it is defined. I'd argue that as long as it doesn't impact on a persons life choices then we should have things for boys and things for girls. So - Javascript is for Boys is a bad implementation of Gender Identity. Pink is for Girls is actually a great expression of Gender Identity. (As it doesn't affect career, or ease of getting dressed or anything that may otherwise societally affect women).

Of course this whole conversation is full of mentalists shouting at each other, so we're never going to be able to work out the best way of allowing gender fluidity in children or for trans people to live in the world without being labelled as mentally ill.

So there used to be a thing called Sandy that did the same sort of thing.

http://lifehacker.com/321644/sandys-your-personal-assistant-...

Two Points. Google answers questions, it sometimes gets those questions wrong, but it's getting better. I'm not that worried about the odd wrong answer because that's a consequence of fledgling deep learning software. Things will get better. Of course, some idiot's going to listen to Google one time, and do something disastrous with the "advice" and then they might have to tone it down a bit, but I for one welcome our question answering overlords.

Of more concern is the possibility that Google is increasingly correct, and the algorithms and heuristics it uses know us better than we know ourself. Nothing's going to fuck with democracy more than the knowledge that free will is a myth and the outcomes for Very Important Things are already decided.

Media in the UK are stopped from reporting on Exit Polls before elections and there's a move to ban all polling because knowing how people will vote is enough to adversely affect elections. I can see this being applied to issues like this, but even that's problematic. I don't know if a machine accurately telling everybody who will win is better or worse than a machine only telling Important People who will win.

So, at one end, we're moving stuff out of middleware and into the database, and at the other end we're moving all views into the client.

Imagine if SQL returned javascript readable sets of tabulated data... If it did, then you could completely remove all processing on the web-server.

Pringle: https://www.google.co.uk/?q=(x*x)%2B(y-x)-(y*y)

It wasn't meant to be an insult, and apologies if it came over that way. If mods want to delete the comment, or want to talk to me about it - I'm happy to do that. I seriously wasn't trying to be negative for the sake of being negative and my "honest" disclaimer at the top was to try and mitigate any hurt I was causing the article's poster.

This is going to be rough sherm8n. Hold on to your hat. I'm sorry if this upsets you.

To be honest, I'm suprised you've received any funding. You're a company that increases Twitter and Instagram followers. This is a deeply dodgy, largely unproven and mostly saturated market and you're charging prices that'll leave you out of pocket. No way are you worth $600,000. There's no way you can get enough customers.

You can spin this as a story about how you should never leave the comfortable bubble of San Francisco, but to my mind it's yet another story of how insane things are over there.

On the mental anguish. You need to leave this. There's no place for revenge or warning other people. Try to think of it as a business deal only. Doing this will make your life worse. Every decision you make should be rational. If you can't get the money back, you need to write off the debt and walk away. This was your error, and you've learnt from it.

You have an email from them saying that the final 2/3 payment is contingent on them getting funcding, and they got funding?

Resend the bill for the remainder. Give them 90 days. If they don't pay, sell the debt or take it legal.

Protected from me patenting it and then suing small companies that use it.

You can search Flickr for Creative Commons images. These images have very flexible (and free) licensing. It's a bit of a jump to move from clip art images to photographs, but with fast internet and large image files, the use of clip art is dying out.

I was looking for easy ways to search CC images, and this website (which also has an openclipart search) also came up.

http://search.creativecommons.org/

Well they just launched youtube on Apple TV, so I don't see why not. There's an issue with having to buy the content on a separate platform (See Comixology for an example of this), but otherwise - yeah. I can see no problem with Google providing software to Amazon that allows content to be consumed.

This is good, and I love FastMail, but the one thing that really, really gladdens my heart with this is that they're pushing it as an open standard.

Thanks FastMail. Sincerely, thanks.