Some of this debate is also going on in the motorcycle industry. "Softer" helmets provide better outcomes in slower crashes. "Harder" helmets provide better outcomes in faster, harder crashes. (To some extent, this is "DOT" approved helmets vs "SNELL" approved helmets.)
You can't really have both unless you make the helmet bigger, or use some more exotic and more expensive materials. Fact of the matter is that EPS is cheap and works really, really well. It's what helps you SURVIVE - not save you from a silly concussion. (silly, comparatively speaking.) That is the fundamental functionality of a helmet. Maybe someone will make a $1000 helmet that is slightly better in avoiding concussions in smaller accidents, but people do not think there is much market for such a product.
I couldn't muster to keep reading after the writer deemed 1-127 degrees F as "extreme conditions." 127F is what your helmet bakes in when you leave it in the car, for example, and there are plenty of regions around the world and US where it is easy to hit 127F by leaving the helmet in the wrong place. It's hardly "extreme."
"Speaker speaking at more than two TEDx events in any given year, such as Nitin Gupta, please do not book him at your event, he is currently on our speaker blacklist."
TBH, TED has been going down the tubes for a few years now. They started as an interesting conference, but they're a XXX million brand now. More noise, more entertainment, much less insight.
Mental masturbation for people who like to pretend they're smart but don't have the attention span to do anything more substantial than listening to 15 min talks.
How true. Usually, it's buried somewhere in the fine print that their uncle is a tshirt print maker, dad is a wholesaler and they have done different tshirts in the past and have a big blog with a big audience to promote on. The devil's in the details.
For HN projects, people are also probably reusing their own prior work and code. They might have done something very similar for a different industry, or tweeking the purpose and application of something old to create something new.
Agreed. I still have no idea what propeller can do in terms of apps.
A while ago, I spent an evening signing up for all these sites claiming to make mobile apps. I wanted to use my database of addresses on the backend to let users search for nearest X. Nothing fancy. But not one of these visual app developer sites could do it. Most of these visual app builders are nothing more than a few pages/mobile sites that don't do anything. There is nothing 'app' about the results.
You presume that somehow HR/bizdev/whatever people like less what they do. In fact, many of them enjoy the different challenges their job pose as well. The difference is that they leave at COB almost always.
Jobs where tech people just check out at 5pm appear to be rare. There are always fires to be put out. There are always harsh deadlines to be met as people scramble burning the midnight oil to put out the latest release and fix whatever comes up at the last minute. Things like that. That's the tech world I know, maybe you're one of the lucky ones where this is not the case. For all these reasons, I would expect tech jobs to be less desirable overall and people to be better compensated.
Programming jobs are not much to brag about. Many IT people don't just check out after 5pm. They are on-call after work, stay up late at night trying to finish X or fix Y. They are expected to show up to the office on the weekends to do Z. In the meantime, the HR people are relaxing at home with their families.
As long as programming jobs are worse than regular jobs, people will require higher compensation to take those jobs. More stress, more requirements = higher compensation.
Aside from people using it to sell things/their business, most people will not lose much of anything. In fact, they will probably gain, since they won't be spending XXX minutes on FB each month.
I judge people based on their past actions. Not on their hypothetical potential. Kim has a history of fraud and questionable activities going back _decades_. If that makes my way of thinking frightening to you, so be it.
I remember the first time I learned of Kim - 10+ years ago.
From the early days, his questionable 'projects', his legal troubles back home, his money making schemes, him defrauding people on BMW M5 forums, etc. Then I didn't hear about him for 10 years.
When his name came out during the Megaupload uproar, I immediately remembered his name and his antics and without knowing anything about Megaupload I knew he was guilty as sin just based on his record.