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At one point I had a portable keyboard for my palm pilot that used similar folding tech. The keyboard when folded was very small - about the size of an iPhone in a large case.

I'm surprised nobody has released a bluetooth version of this keyboard for the iPad, I know I would buy one.

Looks like there's some good performance gains here as well. Safari has traditionally been faster on the benchmarks, but recently Chrome has overtaken it.

This Preview puts Safari in the lead again.

Speedometer 2.0 (https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/) on my M1 Air:

Safari 15.4: 258 runs/min Chrome 101.0.4951.64: 264 runs/min Safari Tech Preview 15.4 (release 145): 307 runs/min

We did a Type 1 audit with Tugboat last year. I came away quite impressed - the default templates are a great starting point, and the evidence tasks are basically a giant todo list to assign and grind through. It turned a complex project with lots of unknowns into a much more straightforward project.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted but I really struggled with this application as well. Sync mode? location mode? There's help text, which I read it several times and I still have no idea what's going on.

The preferences screen is very difficult to use - it's a mix of labels and buttons with no indication that things are adjustable. You can adjust the brightness by hovering over the brightness amount and scrolling vertically. There are multiple preference panes, but they're only findable with horizontal scrolling. None of this is easily discoverable.

I use the software... but pretty much only the shortcut keys (^F2, ^F1). The other features which seem like they could be useful, would probably see a lot higher adoption if the application followed some UX best practices.

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I've used Mailplane for years - http://mailplaneapp.com

Yes, it is "just" a wrapper, but it's nice having Mail and Calendar in a separate dedicated app. I can restart my browser without impacting my mail, and the integration with the desktop (e.g. mailto: links just work, I can use quicklook on attachments, better drag and drop support, etc.) make it worthwhile.

New Chromecast 2015 11 years ago

Any word on whether it will have support for wifi behind captive portal? I've got a Chromecast v1 that I was excited to bring it on trips with me to watch Netflix from the hotel room, but I could never get it to connect to hotel networks which always have the stupid captive portal authentication scheme.

The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Performance and Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field

http://www.econ.upf.edu/~apesteguia/Gender_Teams.pdf

"Looking across the performance distribution, we find that for undergraduates, three women teams are outperformed throughout... For MBA students, at the top, the best performing group is two men and one woman."

http://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a-tea...

"The standard argument is that diversity is good and you should have both men and women in a group. But so far, the data show, the more women, the better."

http://www.20-first.com/968-0-lbs-study-shows-addition-of-wo...

"The optimal percentage for the gender balance of men and women on teams is 50:50. Neither men nor women flourish when in a minority on teams. When in a minority, women tend to network outside whereas men tend to become less motivated. Having a slight majority of women on teams (about 60%) improves the self-confidence of the team."

I think the evidence is pretty clear. Anecdotally, I've seen the best performance out of mixed teams. All men teams and all women teams generally don't work out so well.