As another user mentioned, we do contribute to MDN. MDN is where we point devs for reference documentation. web.dev is for guides, how to's and other support docs.
Background geo, including geofencing is challenging, but there may be a way forward. We're exploring this conceptually, but it's not in the plan for 2020. I'd certainly like to be able to improve the capabilities of web based ride sharing and similar apps that have a need for this.
Bluetooth discovery is an especially thorny area from a privacy perspective. What use cases did you have in mind?
Asking for permissions upfront has been found to be an anti-pattern in systems UXR. Research has found that users make better decisions and find the experience less interruptive when permissions are requested in context at runtime. For example, in a video chat app, it's better to ask for the camera/mic permission at the start of the first chat session, not when the app first starts. Mac OS, Android etc. and other platforms have all been moving in this direction over the past few years.
When the permission is requested, we're investigating ways that we can do more to communicate permission risks to the user. Nothing publicly shareable yet, but do expect experiments to be showing up in dev channels over the next few months while we try new things.
Thanks for the feedback! This is now the reference "first PWA" example: https://web.dev/codelab-make-installable. Let me know if you find it easier for new devs to get started with. The other codelab and a lot of other scattered content will be removed once we finish the migration to web.dev.
Hi there, I'm the product manager for PWAs on the Chrome team.
Very interested in hearing about pain points you've had building out PWAs, especially if there's features you were keen on that haven't been released. Easiest way to reach me is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/b1tr0t
Fully agree with you that docs are all over the place. We've started to consolidate docs under web.dev, and the PWA section launched recently (https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps). Consolidating and adding docs is an active area of investment, and our goal is to create a well lit path for developers to succeed with PWAs.
From a Canadian viewpoint, the last couple of years of populism has been a bit like discovering your favorite Uncle has a probably lethal opiate addiction.
I believe the goal of the study was to explore how visual perceptions & expectations could influence the perception of taste.
Have you ever been focused on an activity and had more than one beverage at hand, and picked up the wrong one? For example, while coding, I had a freshly opened cold coke and yesterday's room temperature coffee both in reach. Focused on my screen, I took the coffee when I intended to pick up my coke. The mismatch between expectation and reality was very unpleasant when it hit me, but what was interesting was there was some fraction of a second after I took the sip before my consciousness was aware (painfully, painfully aware) that what I was drinking was not a fresh, cold coke.
Perception is interesting. What we see and what we expect are big influencers on what we perceive. I'm curious whether our other perceptions (touch, smell, hearing) can influence what our visual perception as strongly.
There isn't a lot of good data on foreign transactions because regional and federal governments have worked hard to make sure data was not collected on it. Popular pressure is slowly changing that.
One observation I have is that even if it's just single digit as a %, it can exert very significant pressure on the market. A bubble is a mob effect. It begins with some properties purchased at prices the local market can't support, regional opportunists jump in seeing the opportunity for flipping, then fear of missing out, especially for first time buyers, results in a stampede as people see the ladder going up and leverage themselves to get the last rung before it goes out of reach. But there was never any real scarcity in the first place.
Point being, a small amount of foreign investment can have a leveraged influence on local markets.
I do think the "foreign" word there gets too much attention though. The more important question to ask is - should property as an investment be something we economically encourage. How much economic activity does a $5M 3 bedroom house actually generate? I don't pretend to know the answer but I think this focus on the "foreign" bogeyman is blocking us from having more important conversations about the role of real-estate in economic policy.
The only way I can see to fix this is if there was more economic incentive for advertisers to care about the quality of the articles where their ads are placed.
An old but concrete example: Andy Grove, in High Output Management, describes a fairly typical 8 to 5 day in which he works until he's tired, with level of fatigue vs level of "doneness" being the deciding factor of when he ends his day.
"I lost faith in democracy after the election because of the amount of companies and people that feel like the only way to beat Trump in the next election is to suppress the freedoms of the people that support him."
Evidence of systematic suppression please? Who? What? When? Where?
The tremor was something I was aware of since I was a kid, showed up in bad handwriting and general "clumsiness" with fine motor movements. Nobody ever thought much of it other than that I was "clumsy".
It wasn't until I was 27 that I started to wonder whether there was something actually wrong that might be a root cause for it. At this point the tremor was bad enough that at times I had trouble holding a fork to eat. The intensity of the symptoms could vary a great deal from day to day. Granted, I was in grad school at this time and my stress levels were pretty high. I did notice that alcohol made it better, but treatment with alcohol is contraindicated...
Got a referral to neurology dept and after they watched me do some drawing, arrived at the conclusion of the problem quite quickly.
For more off-label info, might have a look at Wikipedia page on beta blockers, it's pretty thorough. Turns out quite a few musicians use it for stage fright & dexterity.
OK - I'll bite. I haven't seen anyone mention medications here but personally I use propranolol.
Life. Changing.
For the first while I took it every day as prescribed for my ET. 20mg. And as I experienced the first pill (effects kick in about 40 minutes after), I had this realization "wait a minute, this is what it must feel like to be a normal person"! That light bulb in itself was incredible. Before that, I hadn't realized life could feel that good. I'd always wondered how people could do the things they could do ... and suddenly I didn't just realize but got to experience what it was like to be someone who DIDN'T have constant anxiety.
I cut back my dosage looking for minimum effective dose. Most days for me it's 0 (that's right, I don't take anymore on most days). My anxiety level has decreased because now I know -what it feels like not to be anxious-, plus, if I do feel anxious I have a solution at hand which lowers anxiety.
For a particularly stressful day I might take 5mg. (For me now a particularly stressful day means standing in front of a room of hundreds of people and presenting after 2 hours sleep.) At these infrequent low dosages, I don't experience any negative side-effects.
Worth sharing general personal details. I'm a 37 year old male in reasonably good health, I exercise vigorously twice a week and get a healthy amount of walking and biking in almost every day. I discovered propranolol by accident - it was prescribed for an essential tremor (ET), it was only after that I discovered the "off-label" anti-anxiety side-effects of beta blockers.
It's worth mentioning that I did experience negative side-effects when I was taking 20mg daily. If you can avoid taking it daily, that's going to be better for you in the long run.
* Reduced sex drive
* Life just seems more "flat" I don't laugh as much, get as giddy. My partner described me as seeming "disconnected".
* Cold limbs & numb tongue
It's been pulled from that URL unfortunately. There's a few copies floating around if you google the filename unfortunately they don't come from as authoritative a URL as the .gov address you provided.
I'm by no means a medieval scholar. But this doesn't mesh at all with the information in the"The Swerve" by Stephen Greenblatt (a national book award winner).
The texts of the pagans were not preserved because they were revered but because it was the duty of a monk to know how to write. To learn how to write, you have to write. Since very little new work was being created, old work was copied by rote.
Can you tell me more about what's missing in PWAs in terms of support and UX?
PWAs are well supported in Chromium browsers. Can't speak to Firefox support, but I hope as adoption and usage grows we'll see them add more support.