What's quite annoying is how agressive most products are into forcing this method over regular email+pw / Social Logins. Let me use my 100 chars password!
Very interesting take and definitely an article I will come back to, but in the end, the size of tasks is relative, and the author counts them. How's that better than counting story points? Feels like a lot of folklore for a similar result. In the end, like with story points, what matters is the effort put into splitting a problem to better understand it and plan accordingly.
I recently purchased a Synology with 2 disks in raid 1 to backup all my Google Drive, all my Google Photos files continuously.
I feel much better since doing this (apart, of course, for the fact I now need to back up my Synology too to really feel good!)
And for those who think Google Takeout is there to save you, just bear in mind it can be very erratic with large volumes (I had the biggest pain to get my Google Photo despite taking out less than 200 gb, it took several tries to have all the files)
No one is safe against account issue, or as it seems to be the case in the help thread, pure data loss. Just back things up and rely on cloud for flexibility rather than storage.
- Jan to June on one row
- July, August September in a column under June
- October to December on one row, which is on the same row or next year's Jan.
1) Some front end needs and/or frameworks were developped by companies having a scale and pool of talent justifying the needs for new tools tailored to their use cases (extreme audience = need to address many user specificities + pool of talents means the best brains on this planet invent something: doesn't help in coming up with a trivial solution). React, Flutter, AMP.
2) During the zirp, coming up with some great tech was also a way to attract talents. Using such tech was (is) a way to be part of that group too. There is a trend effect. I am wondering whether complex front end tech stacks are justified when you can't hire the best talents and when you need to work faster to keep in business.
3) Micro service all the things leads to using API's everywhere which leads to have consumers everywhere including your front end. Coming back from this could mean using simpler apps and dropping some of the front end complexity.
Feels like a problem that will be solved as soon as incentives will be here, and cost of fresh water from other sources depleted or protected. The costs mentioned in this 15 years old article aren't that high in a world where we have to be careful with water.
For now the data may show difficulties, but at some point, people need a job, and if only onsite is offered, will 'talents' keep being picky? Not so sure someone laid off once or twice in 2023 will be. Remote as we've known it during the pandemic is not going to stay, and all those that have made a move to a city for a better (personal) life will be stuck in the mid term, if they are not lucky on their next job search what will they do? I know this isn't popular opinion, but if some level of hybrid will probably remain on the long run (e.g., WFH once/twice a week doesn't hurt productivity and provide a great improvement for QoL) I don't see remote being the new way of working we have enjoyed in 2020-22. This is gone.
I was about to say. The chat paradigm solves the issue. I nearly always get what I need after rephrasing or adding more context, which is exactly how it works with humans.
I've been with fly.io at small scale and I have always loved their approach to content (docs, blogs, forums), and needless to say, their product. They are very talented and are building something truly great. Their openness, shown in this post, is an example to follow. It's very hard to be that honest and direct when you're meant to be an infallible entity, but it's not a surprise at all to see fly authoring such a post. That's how they operate and that's why I trust them over anyone else.
I nearly considered moving to Edge on my last Windows install.
In the end, it's true that IE/Edge were bad choices before moving to WebKit. Now, why not? A more integrated browser (as Safari is for Mac) makes sense x Google being evil(er) x Firefox being left behind (for bad reasons, but still) x Bing being a good Bing x Google Search being less useful.
I agree the method isn't good, but feels like Edge is not a bad choice anymore.
Yes, true. I didn't think about that, but again, this isn't something new, relying on a more agressive than average tracking tech. West is just concerned about how it may be used.
Strava was similarly dangerous at times [0]. The difference is that the west has a strong grasp on western companies and what they do with the data, but what prevents the US to use the location data from, say, key Twitter users in other countries? From my understanding, it's legally possible for the govt to access that data. No one (really) budges.
I think TikTok and similar products are garbage and will lower the average IQ, especially of younger generations. I am deeply concerned when I see kids hooked on that crack, because they are burning their potential. It's scary, and if I had one far fetched easy theory to make, I'd say TikTok is a way for China to mitigate the threat coming from the west's upcoming generations, by ensuring their collective capabilities are as limited as possible. That theory doesn't stand though, as TikTok (Douyin) also operates in China. No kid is spared.
But, two things:
- What they collect is literally nothing special. Worse things happen, and have happened in mobile apps/mobile SDKs. (remember Onavo, acquired by Facebook? Way worse). What do we think Google and Apple know about our devices (Check Apple terms, it's good fun [0])? Isn't this again about the recurring fear/shock that a Chinese company should not hold data about western citizens?
- the article isn't about how much TikTok can know by being in our phones, despite what most comments here imply. Instead, it's about how deeply TikTok taps in users minds by leveraging the unhealthy and addictive relationship we have with phones, acting as "prosthetic extension of our [my] corporeal being".
> What matters is that we rely on these external tools in the way we rely on our brain; if those objects are similarly accessible, endorsed, and integrated into cognition, we should simply consider them part of the mind.
The question is: how much their partner/parents/nanny is taking on? Without someone who is always available to help, it's impossible to be free and successful with young kids. Simply impossible. You can't travel, you can't work late (in the office) you can't do offsites, you can't sleep, you have no weekends to work on side gigs, because your side gig are your kids. Which is great, but soooooo costly from all angles.
PS: I love my kids, but I'm basically working/living at 50% of my capacity since I got my first, and that is really hard to swallow.
Sort of out of topic but this article is nicely illustrated using Excalidraw. Can't state how great that software is for diagrams, workflows, HLDs, UI concepts, etc.
The article looks 10x more approachable as a result.