alex__c

I actually had it happen on me.. visited certain websites, pressed "Restart" in Windows and left the room, computer came back on with Chrome displaying my last session in its full glory. Thankfully no one else was home.

Apparently Microsoft is doubling down on "we will make things CONVENIENT and you WILL like it!".

Why, yes, I think what you're describing is a management problem: a) the new employee was given customer-impacting tasks without checking their competency properly, and then b) his work quality was not constantly evaluated in a feedback loop, allowing him to continue writing shit code.

I mean, you have a client LEAVE and the person still continues to do exactly the same thing? Excuse me, but that's not only the employee's problem.

And sometimes it's an entire city that's the problem. My girlfriend comes from a mountainous zone. We live in the city that I was born, a dusty place in the plains.

Guess what, within one year she developed respiratory problems. We are actually considering moving towns because it's literally impossible to get rid of the dust effectively, here.

Notifications have this huge downside that they disturb you from your work and from your leisure time, fragmenting attention to the point of being useless to yourself.

This has long been decried by people like Cal Newport and others. Knowledge workers need their attention span intact, and yet all the modern tools make interruptions more likely.

I've been in a Messenger group of only 5 people, who were trying to synchronize going to the movies. My phone kept bleeping for 5 damn hours, until they figured what to do. Absolutely disgusting.

It's an interesting bit, this. When you open an avenue of communication, then others get re-prioritized accordingly.

Having text options lowers the perceived need for calling in person. Having Facebook lowers the need for in person contact, since people gets some crumbs of info about you off your Facebook feed. And so on.

What can one do, alone? Can you reverse a trend that's affecting all your friends and acquaintances? Not likely. Maybe just for a few close friends, but everyone else.. meh.

The objects under test are brittle and bound to change dramatically. Selenium can't offer you insurance against this.

I now remember a test suite we had on my project (automotive). We tested against the code structure... that is, we would follow a variable's lifetime and check that its value is correct throughout execution. Two releases later, guess which function got slightly refactored and threw off some 20 testcases?

Perhaps this article will show you what your interlocutor means: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/06/catherine-nich...

It is not a new phenomenon for women writers to be taken a shade less seriously than their male counterparts.

> If you only ever expect to get to go to London once in your life, you're going to be very busy trying to see everything in the week you have.

The trap is, of course, that it's monumentally stupid to cram "seeing London" into the timeframe of one week. The bigger the city, the longer the time it takes to properly take it in. Otherwise your travel experience is a 200 km/h carousel ride: what can you even retain and process, at that speed?

What's the difference between seeing the Milan Dome in-person for a brief 20 minutes (because you have a laundry list of stuff to do) -- and seeing it in pictures? Not much, in my opinion.

Personally, I'd rather see only 1/5 of the "objectives" available to me, if the ones I DO end up visiting stay in my memory.

Wanting to spend a pleasant time doesn't seem to rhyme with people that end up in a two-hour queue in London or Milan.

I do know people who genuinely want to have a nice, relaxing vacation. They book holidays at the beach, in warm countries, at 5* hotels. They don't bother much with overrated and crowded touristy places, really.

Sure you can, but their point is valid: you don't care about the money, you care about getting a damn car ASAP.

> keeping a kid off a screen and giving them other activities is expensive, in parental time if not direct cost.

Some 30 years ago, in my country the parent instructions to their kid, for the afternoon, would be: "go outside, play with other kids, I don't want to see you inside before supper".

And all was well. Sort of.

If shops and schools are sane, they will adjust the schedule according to daylight. No point keeping a shop open at 7am if there's no shoppers, because they're all sound asleep.

People learn better when there's pain involved. Let there be much pain, and people will learn.

That sounds easy until you realize you would need a special adblocker for Facebook. Ublock Origin doesn't handle those.

And don't even get started on mobile adblocking, it's still widely uncharted territory. I had to use an altogether new browser on Android, because mobile Chrome doesn't allow ad-blocking plugins. Shocking, I know.

Publishing words also involves a bit of typesetting; not much, but some. It may need to be re-done on a new platform.

Exporting a large body of work is not trivial if you don't know how to do it programatically. Heck, even a blog migration from Blogger to Wordpress isn't flawless, for me it failed to import comments correctly so I lost those.

So, while I agree with your overall sentiment, I can't avoid feeling a bit of pain on behalf of the authors that need to move their work now.