amen to that. I stopped using evernote awhile ago because of this and once I started using NV I never looked back. Clearly they don't take security seriously enough, which is a shame for those who don't know any better.
How can someone honestly claim that women love infinite scroll? The people who 'love' infinite scroll are the designers who decide this stuff is useful...which in my view makes for an inferior UX. The reason infinite scroll is bad is because if you want to look through a ton of information and click on any result, you can't just go back to where you were in your search results — instead you have to scroll (infinitely) back to your previous destination because whatever results you were looking at wouldn't be cached. Want to bookmark or share a page of the results you're looking at? Or what if you'd like to skip ahead to the results closer to the last page? Good luck with that on an infinite scroll site.
I just tried to list my apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but was unable to post my listing because "Only places in certain regions can be listed with a zero price." Might be helpful if airbnb specified those regions.
This reminds me of something Paul Budnitz (kidrobot founder and former SF resident) wrote after visiting SF recently:
Internet millionaires driving around on cell phones drain the city’s sparkle. In the old days people who made tools built factory towns on the Ohio. It was honest work but not glamorous. Today the toolmakers work in software and they have been elevated in the culture, especially here. But there is a distinction between making an app and making art. A city of toolmakers imagining themselves as artists is barbaric, heartless, empty. You feel it in the crowd eating dinner at the many expensive restaurants. People speak in sound bites and are both assertive and lost.
This happened to me as well with a YC company. I then found out that YC companies are known for this kind of thing since they're so early-stage. Always get a contract.
I second this. The whole 'video game' and game mechanics culture of most intro programming actually kept me out of it for awhile. I truly dislike making and playing video games, but I enjoy writing useful software and learning about cool topics like computer vision.
I've been using stimulants for almost five years (age 20 now). The last year or so I reached a point where like the article said — the effects of the drugs tapered off — and there was really nothing I could do about it. As a kid I exemplified the most extreme kind of inattention, behavioral, and regulatory problems that classify ADD, but once I began taking the meds I went through an equally extreme transformation, so I'm skeptical of any article that derides the use of stimulants. I'm also reminded of what the late Christopher Hitchens said in defense of his heavy drinking and smoking:
“Writing is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do that—or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation—is worth it to me.”
I recently met someone who has tourette's syndrome, which means he has increased production of dopamine. In other words — the inverse of ADD. The drugs he took induced a state of ADD that was identical to what I what I experienced sans-stimulants. It's crucial for those of us with the kind of dramatic impairment that comes with ADD to get by with as much help as possible from competent practitioners (of which there seems to be a very short supply of).
this makes no sense. english majors aren't majoring in how to speak english, they are honing their reading analysis and craft of writing. cs students aren't majoring in how to write computer code, they are learning how to apply their mathematical skills cultivated throughout school.
Sacrifice and discomfort is not a MEANS to anything, it does however imply delayed gratification that is mostly unpleasant and sends many fleeing to the nearest consulting firm. This would make sense if you actually read the article, which describes many disillusioned ivy's unwilling to sacrifice a comfortable lifestyle for what could otherwise be more personally enriching and meaningful work.
I'm not even sure what you're trying to argue here—nobody wants the rights to your intelligence. But if you take a step back, you can see that every one of us has benefitted greatly from others' intelligent contributions to humanity and we can choose to either keep that wheel spinning or put ourselves at the mercy of others' history-making. If you want to use your tech idols as a yardstick for morality and virtue, you ought to look a little closer.
"I mean, we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.”
-STEVE JOBS
Some of my favorite quotes, however, are from the mouth of Napoleon:
"All my life I have sacrificed everything—comfort, self-interest, happiness—to my destiny."
"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."
You can be sure that I was not kidding. Any form of education, combined with intellect and curiosity is a privilege that (believe it or not) a lot of people don't have. Some possess this virtue without the means of attaining it, while others bear the Fortune without the virtue. To be educated and intelligent is to possess a great tool which can serve many if put to good use.
FB and Amazon turned out just fine without your help, the only reason you wish you had worked there was in order to extract and benefit from the great pool of wealth and prestige. Your value to society is nil for as long as you spend more mental energy consuming more than you create. Remember that all highly educated people bear a responsibility much greater than ourselves, and this responsibility is fulfilled only by sacrifice and discomfort.