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40+% of the websites online?

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress

Lots of companies have been forced to do provide free services to non-customers; consider almost any industry classified as a 'utility'. The question here is 'are message platforms a thing that should be classified and regulated as if it were a utility?'

For me, the answer is clearly no; there are plenty of communication platforms that can be used freely with interoperability (e.g. email). And, as you note, there are lots of interoperable options.

Exactly. As an instructor who has also had to justify his assignments and outcomes using Bloom's, it's fine, but not really much beyond 'make students do new and more complicated things as you go'.

In my experience, Bloom's was more of a bureaucratic tool to justify outcomes rather than reflecting the actual learning in a course. That's an unsolvable problem, though - actual learning is individual and often not directly related to course outcomes, no matter how much a teacher tries to scaffold things.

Businesses don't have one owner. Think about all of the properties that a company like Apple owns.

Now, if you're specifically referring to residential properties, maybe.... although there are lots of mixed-use properties, and ownership of land can be separate from the house that's on it, etc

I've had the audiobook version recommended for this exact reason - easier to listen to than to read :)

Context switch in this article = within a computer and processor, not about psychology

its become clear to me at least that a large percentage of the country simply put, is not 'getting ahead' - the anger that drove the Trump and Sanders campaigns is very real and must be solved if we are to prosper.

The key there is that they _feel_ like they're not getting ahead - a very different thing than not actually getting ahead, and much more dangerous.

If you haven't seen the Bloomberg version of 'What is code?', take a look.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod...

It's much longer, but also much more detailed and in-depth.

I have a colleague who flew relief aid missions into Russia in the 70's and 80's, and said the Soviet civilian maps were just terrible - they'd show roads in the wrong places and didn't show secret military bases, etc. He figured this out after accidentally flying over a Soviet army base in what is today eastern Ukraine... and then talked his East German military connection into getting him a copy of the military maps.

Want to really dive into this? Read Duarte's Resonate (available free from the author here: http://resonate.duarte.com/ )

Same concepts, just much more in depth, with great examples.

If you liked this, check out Dave Rat's blog - http://daverat.blogspot.com/

He's the sound guy for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others, and it currently testing out a double line array system - with separate systems for vocals and instruments.

So... PPT really just needs a new design interface?

Nah, there are lots of people in the Baltics who would be happy to have a cup of tea and talk about life - I was just thinking about hosting in Klaipeda

The article ends with a challenge - "The remaining question is how?"

How can we ensure that students gifts are acknowledged and nurtured? How can we make our subjects as relevant as possible?

There are tools to regularly, automatically backup your Evernote notes -

Evernote Exporter for Windows, for example (http://lifehacker.com/5845885/evernote-exporter-schedules-no...)

So, it's an ebook that's a collection of articles related somehow to UX - a one-time publication, I assume?

It would be interesting as a newsletter, where you got one of these articles in your inbox each week...

(1994)

obstreperous.net is available... or mostlyobstreperous.com or sometimesobstreperous.com

These days, Wordpress is quite secure for most uses - especially a simple corporate site. Here's how I'd go about it-

1. Buy theme from themeforest or similar. 2. Buy a shared hosting account from webfaction or similar (less than $10/month) 3. Use their one-click Wordpress installer to install Wordpress 4. Install theme in Wordpress install.

This keeps it off your server in case of issue, doesn't really cost much at all, and offers some great hosting support if you run into issues (http://docs.webfaction.com/software/wordpress/index.html) that's current.

Average Is Over by Cowen (2013) has this exact same thesis - for the next 100 years, human + machine > AI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_is_Over

For those who haven't yet read The Existental Pleasures of Engineering by Florman, I highly recommend it; it's short, concise, and talks about how engineering/hacking/building can bring satisfaction to those who practice it.

http://www.amazon.com/Existential-Pleasures-Engineering-Thom... (non-affiliate)

These aren't necessarily two extremes - he's not implying that he's not saving for requirement and taking a vacation, just that he's taking a vacation.

He could very well still be saving considerable amounts of money for retirement.

Amazon FreeTime (coming next month, according to this page) is the most interesting piece for me - customized child safety settings for each child, with monthly subscriptions at $2.99 for children's TV shows.

It seems like Amazon recognized the popularity of streaming services for parents of young kids and is setting this up just for them...

http://www.mdisc.com/what-is-mdisc/ for those curious - it appears to be a stronger archival DVD/blu-ray that is already burn-able on certain drives that are on the market.

Copyright fair use is ambiguously defined, really.

Here's a checklist from Columbia University which helps clarify what qualifies as fair use: http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/fair-use/fair-use-ch...

(2010). Also, not about the web framework, but about funding options instead.

This would make a fascinating study of reliability - can you determine statistically if a product will be reliable based on rating distribution.

You could study Amazon, App Store ratings, etc. Cool insight!

ASICminer (disclosure: I own shares in ASICminer) is shipping smaller miners, powered only by USB. Their larger miners aren't shipping yet in large numbers either.

I agree, at some point this'll be a race to the bottom.

Note: this is chip orders of 10,000+ only. Avalon shipped stand-alone Bitcoin miners (each with several hundred chips in them) several months ago.

Does anyone else do this (or something similar)?

I'm curious to see how people introduce the Internet to their children in a relatively-responsible way.