Interesting how the example image for a bad UI shows the good UI using "Metric" vs "English" buttons.
In the England and the rest of the UK we use "Metric" vs "Imperial".
And we use a half metric system; metres and miles, litres and pints.
I notice in the USA the system is a different half metric system. Americans are much more likely to use ounces instead of litres. I also heard they sometimes use "kilopounds" and other such weirdness.
A "motion map" ? I think you'd better read the paper again. They compute a full 3D reconstruction. Much much more computationally expensive. You would not "be able to create a similar motion map using the gyroscope data".
> The fact that it wasn't perceived by her as a big deal does not prove she knows better than I do.
You've already said you don't agree with her on this point and yet again you don't say why.
> Statistical outliers are not inherently more wise than others about the problems that your "average" person has.
I'm sure that formerly, she was not a CEO, she was an "average" person. So she knows more about getting to CEO as a woman than you do. I'm not arguing that she has had the same experiences as you but I think it's a given that she is not implying that it is the same for all women.
> it's difficult for a woman to step into any kind of leadership position and do the tough things without being perceived as a "bitch".
I disagree that leadership is about being a bitch or an asshole.
Yes, it's widely said that Steve Jobs was an asshole. But people "got" where he was coming from. He was a perfectionist. I'm pretty sure he didn't alienate all his friends.
In leadership you have to be able to take tough decisions; but it's not about being tough with other people all the time. You might have to be tough with someone occasionally, it's a tool you might need to use.
Take Martha Stewart for example. Tough bitch ? Successful CEO ?
She didn't emphasise it very strongly, in fact it was a very weak emphasis but she was saying that everyone has a different set of strengths and weaknesses. She might find it easier to get press attention as a woman but a guy could easily have a strength that makes up for this.
> But I don't think this kind of dismissal of the issues women have is very helpful
I think she knows better than you, unless you are a female CEO.
She made the point that sometimes when a woman is doing sales the customer can be more interested in her than the product. But historically, a lot of women in sales have tried to use sexuality to get the sale.
But it's not necessarily true that Nokia X came "way after". Nokia could have put the project on hold when they started serious negotiations with Microsoft.
I am not surprised. I tried to add some additional languages to Google (web) preferences to the "Skip translations for" but then the primary language for everything Google was changed to one of my additional languages. I had to go back and change it to default single language.
The information was on the web. Students didn't have to pay the $1 to get to the information; they would have paid it because he made a nice, convenient app. Or they could go in via the website and dig through it themselves.
Did you read the story ? He tried to talk to the school but after several school employees told him they liked his app they changed their tune and decided he was ripping them off. T hey could have worked to understand what he had done and offered him his costs to open up the app but they decided not to.
Profit = Sales - Apple's cut - Apple Developer Account annual fee - iTunes App Store annual fee.
What makes you think he will be making a profit on a $0.99 app ?
Likely he was not making any profit at all. Are you suggesting he shouldn't try to claw back some of his costs ?
And now they reject his app; he takes it down and definitely won't claw back anything. Now he is down $200 + time and effort. Yeah, screw him for trying to make money off the backs of anyone.
> I don't need to worry about some app stealing my private files or similar
This is highly unlikely. But I estimate a probability of 0.7 that you don't have notable security protecting your computer and your top secret files, even though your machine is on the net.
> If it isn't good, I can leave a review that the author probably reads and cares about
Most (any decent) 3rd party software developers have some kind of feedback channel.
I think we need to see this story in its proper perspective here.
Yes, this woman received unacceptable messages via twitter.
Yes, there need to be mechanisms to deal with it.
However, from her Twitter history you can clearly see she was online into the early hours stoking the trolls, fanning the flames.
She DM'd some random Twitter employee until he got fed up with her and made his tweets private.
She even @-mentioned Barack Obama, asking him to intervene. Seriously.
She claims that she successfully forced the Bank of England to change the design of a new banknote so that a woman appeared on it. Even though there has previously been a banknote featuring a woman; and every single item of UK currency has a woman on it (the Queen).
Her strategy to seek attention by using Twitter's name is win-win. If they change their policy, she was successful and claims credit. If they don't, she can keep bashing them using their high profile name to attract attention.
Only in the sense of having a broken system, putting in place some procedural constraints and then praying that everyone follows the rules.
As you say, it's a software bug. Until it's been 100% characterised and tested this leaves a huge question mark hanging over the system. Adding memory is a band aid solution.
I'm more or less on topic. I'm not engaging in a flame war. I'm not trolling.
Is it the "kilopounds" thing? What can I say, I heard that this kind of Greek prefix gets used with non Metric meaurements. So I said sometimes.