kdamken

This is cool. Just a tip, your mobile site’s overflow is messed up, so you can scroll way off site to the right.

I find it interesting that people have this issue. Unless you’re actually on call, can’t you just snooze slack and emails until the next day?

For scrubbing though if you put your finger on the left or right side of the touchpad you will see a little arrow circle on the progress bar. You can then push the pad to scrub.

This sounds like such a nightmare. Why would anyone subject their team to this?

“You know how stand ups can feel like a waste of time? What if we made them waste even more time? Managers will love it.”

This looks cool, but the pricing is absolutely insane. I saw $10-30 per session. Dming is a lot of work, sure, but that is a steep price. I don’t know many people who would pay $120 a month to play DND.

Sure, as soon as its dev tools aren’t complete garbage.

That is an interesting point I had never considered.

You can also just change that in your account settings to use the old design.

If you hit the hamburger icon you can turn off the constant asking you to open the app pop ups.

I realize I’m missing the point here, but this quote has always struck me as something a rapist would say.

Yeah - buy a stock Android phone from Google, like their Pixel flagship.

...Really?

Lots of people spend way too much time on their phones and want to use it less. That info could help you see what apps you're spending/wasting the most time on and help you decide to cut back on. Seeing that you spent a whole hour on instagram is a helpful wake up call.

Seeing which apps are sending more notifications could help you see which ones are taking up too much of your attention and help you decide whether to turn them off for them.

If you have an iPhone you can set it to be an accessibility shortcut and turn it on/off by pressing the home button three times.

Yeah, so maybe then the writer of the article shouldn't have used that as the title for it.

Base your entire company culture around 40 hour work weeks. If you find people are needing to work more than that to get things done in time, it’s a planning/work load problem, and you need to hire more people.

You know you don’t have to tell them you live at different addresses right?

So then who pays for the money that was already borrowed?

It does when it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There already a bunch of sites out there like that.

I don't have a good solution. I just know I don't like how the article defines stupid/intelligent, and that "stupid/smart" have a lot more (often hurtful) connotations than what they really mean.

But then you have the problem of going down the PC rabbit hole where you can't say anything about whether someone is smart or not, and have to live in a pretend world where everyone is the same intelligence even though they're not. So that's no good either.

No problem, happy to help. I think adding a FAQ at the top that's like, "What can a Jewelbot be programmed to do?" with a longer list of possible use cases would help. The front page kind of lists them but I found it to be a bit unclear, and that's from a technical perspective. A non techie parent might be even more confused, so I find it's helpful to ELI5.

Seems like such a strange way to define stupidity to me, and why I wasn't a fan of how the paper defined things. Why does it depend on causing grief to others?

I think the CPU analogy is more apt. Some people have faster processors, some have slower ones, but what actually matters is what you do with it.

I know "smart" people who are living at home with their parents doing nothing with their lives, and I know "stupid" people who own successful businesses. That's my problem with the terms, and why I think it depends way more on what you do with your circumstances, rather than the circumstances you were born into.

What makes a person stupid? If I have a friend who squanders their money while I save and build up wealth, are they stupid? What if they have a much happier and more fulfilling life than I do?

If you have a difficult job (like brain surgeon), but are terrible at most of the other parts of your life, does that make you stupid?

Are slow readers stupid? What if they invent a product or start a business that makes them a lot of money?

“Smart” and “stupid” are such harsh, black and white terms. They leave no room for the many shades of gray in between.

We all think we’re smart, even if we say we don’t. No one wants to be the dumb kid.

I feel like being “smart” usually just means you can think and process information a little bit faster than others. But like having a super fast cpu installed, it’s really a matter of what you do with it. You could write a bestselling novel on a slower computer. You could have a super computer and just go on Facebook all day.

It seems like every time I feel like I’m smart, I see someone who I thought was dumber who is more successful or happier than me, and I wonder if I was that much smarter in the first place.

Holy moly that website does a bad job of describing what they actually do. Apparently you can program the lights and vibrations? I looked up a YouTube video, apparently they can be programmed for notifications from your phone?

Marketing team really dropped the ball on this one.

Fuck that noise.

A lot of people are born into "privileged" circumstances in america. That is one factor. Not the only one.

To quote MMM:

"Sure, privilege does exist, and it might make it easier or harder to inherit a company or win a senate seat. But it can’t control your choice to ride a bike, buy less shit, or read library books in your spare time and I argue that frugality is the most powerful factor in earning your independence. After all, most of my equally-privileged engineering coworkers are still stuck in the office to this day." - http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/04/01/impossible-dream/

Who you marry is hands down one of the largest factors in your overall financial success. Especially when it comes to the risk of divorce.

Hey all, middle class here and I would most certainly take the tax cuts.

Appreciate the out of touch media speaking for me as usual though.

I don't think you know what retired actual means here. It doesn't mean never working again, it more refers to being financially independent.

If he wanted to stop all those projects and never do anything again, he could. But that would probably be boring, so he pursues things that interest him, some of which net him income.

He's gone over his family's spending before, if you want to read more - http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/01/16/exposed-the-mmm-fa...

Thanks for the suggestion. I just gave them a try with my "ear infection" search, and found that while they provide similar links, they don't give the additional info (like the summary of what it is and the "People also ask" dropdown box) right on the results page that google search does. This is especially important to me on mobile, especially when I have a weak cell signal.

I really, really want to like DuckDuckGo. But every single time I’ve switched from Google, I’ve found them to be much worse at returning the best results for what I’m looking for.

For example, let’s say I want to look up “ear infection”. Google will spit out a bunch of info right on their results page, often saving me the trouble of even going to another site. DDG however will just give me 10 webmd links.

If they want to compete, the privacy angle isn’t enough. They need comparable functionality as well.