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I heard of this story years ago, and was very dismayed. (There is no date on this website is this something new?)

however the last 2 years I've experienced kids being taught to read in US public school kindergarten and the curriculum was nothing like was described in this series. They were taught phonics and memorized common non-phonetic words the same way I was taught 30 years ago.

the page turn animation was probably the main reason i bought the original ipad. it was just so delightful. like some others, i miss the skeuomorphism of the original ios.

agreed, like others I often resort to using notepad to remove all styling then copy/paste again.

facebook basically did nothing to ensure third party apps & developers were not violating its data access and sharing policies. most developers know it has always been pretty easy to harvest data from facebook by tricking users and once you have the data you can do whatever you want with it.

facebook probably didn't do anything illegal, but many people feel they failed to sufficiently protect user data from bad actors.

It the absence of laws or regulations to punish facebook, the only recourse is for users to leave the platform. this probably won't happen b/c most people don't know or don't care. but if we think its in the public good to protect this data we should seek to pass some regulations that require platforms like facebook to meet an acceptable threshold of data protection.

given the effects that harvesting facebook data can have on elections, its probably a good idea for regulators to step in.

I was previously the administrator of a "patient portal" that was connected to our health record system.

we had a hard time getting people interested in using it and signing up. and those who did sign up rarely used it after the first few weeks.

when talking to people, the primary reason seemed to be that they wanted to communicate with a person for most healthcare related needs b/c they had questions or wanted clarification/re-enforcement. They used the online portal so infrequently that they never felt confident they could quickly get what they needed accomplished.

The notable exception is parents managing the records of their children, which I don't think will be a feature of this v1 health records app.

its all about user experience though. i'm hopeful Apple can delivery something that is better than what is available and has come before.

i'm worried b/c I don't see it as a v1 and done feature. It will take consistent interaction and improvement as health record systems change and capabilities increase. hopefully apple is committed to it.

Microsoft and Google both failed with forays into medical records, so I'm skeptical apple will see much success.

Most people do not want to manage their own health records, or only become interested for short periods of time after illness.

For those who do want this service, I'm hopeful Apple will improve user experience such that its easy but provides value.

EHR vendors do not make data sharing easy so having an even larger player in the space, pushing innovation, is welcomed.

from the article: “We want to make sure that our products are not just fun, but are good for people,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “We need to refocus the system.”

genuine for me, is making changes that are good for people, even if they are bad for advertisers.

I looked through my newsfeed this week for the first time in several months.

I thought the amount of trash posts and videos (which caused me to leave Facebook) had greatly declined, but wasn’t sure why. If it’s related to this change, it’s a good start.

While I’m skeptical of Facebook, I appreciate their attempt to improve if it’s genuine.

most of this sounds like good practice for any company that stores large amounts of sensitive data.

perhaps the features were used inappropriately, but I would hope Uber can remote wipe a laptop, log users out of company systems, or centrally enforce encryption policies.

this line is just silly.

--"Later versions of Ripley gave Uber the ability to selectively provide information to government agencies that searched the company’s foreign offices. At the direction of company lawyers, security engineers could select which information to share with officials who had warrants to access Uber’s systems, the people say"

What is the alternative? Giving law enforcement access to all data without any discretion? Querying ride data for 1 person is technically "selectively provide information", but that seems perfectly acceptable.

nice work!

I couldn't figure out how to exit the full screen interactive code view.

The button to delete a todo and "check" a todo are pretty close together, easy to click the wrong one. maybe move the check to the left side of the text?

adding links is really slow.

yea, it says 10.13.2. I can't reproduce it on 10.13.1.

I upgrade an old 2011/2012 MacBook Pro to high Sierra so I could download the latest Xcode.

there has been a few times since then that the machine will freeze then show a folder with question mark icon.

surprisingly it boots up fine after turning it off and on again, but I'm worried it won't last long.

its a bummer b/c even though the machine is old, I upgraded to 8gb of ram and 500gb ssd and the performance is comprisable to a new MacBook a just got.

the cost of new phones has really changed my purchasing behavior.

when it was $200-$300 to upgrade with a contract renewal, I tended to get a new phone with every iteration, regardless of the new features or condition of my current phone.

Now that the latest phones are $700+, or $40+ per month with insurance, I evaluate the purchase in the same way I've always looked at new laptops/desktops. If the current model meets my needs and there are no new features I will get much value from, I have no interest in upgrading.

have others experience this shift?

the only new feature that has me interested in a the iPhone X is portrait mode in a smaller form factor.

this seemed like a bug bounty from the beginning, and the media was disingenuous to spin it like blackmail.

if there was no evidence that any data was actually compromised, I'm not sure I see a reason why they would need to disclose this to the public.

something I've noticed in my news feed

"John Smith likes Wall Street Journal" with the headline and picture from a recent article.

It appears in your news feed like John Smith recently liked Wall Street Journal, or that article.

In reality they probably clicked the like button years ago, and Facebook just continuously recycles that in your news feed, in a way that appears recent.

the pricing seems high for this service.

$30 for a computer generated logo. $990 for a professionally designed logo.

I'm pretty sure you can get a computer generated logo for free from a variety of services, and professional logos for much less than $990.

The UX on the site isn't great, so I wouldn't really pay for a premium service.

from what I've heard, .Net Standard 2 should be stable for a while and should fix the random missing stuff that was present in the various versions of .net standard 1.x

"The .NET Standard is a formal specification of .NET APIs that are intended to be available on all .NET implementations."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standar...

.Net Standard is the standard. There is only 1 standard.

.Net Core is one implementation of the standard. .Net 4.6 is another implementation of the standard. Mono, Xamarin, Universal Windows Platforms are other implementations.

The idea is that any code written for .Net standard, will work across the different implementations.

"incentivize app devs". as an early adopter I felt abandoned.

I was all in on windows mobile around v7 and windows8. bought the flagship lumia phone and surface rt tablet. invested the time to develop some basic apps. 6 months later both platforms were basically discontinued with no upgrade path, so I abandoned it too.

if microsoft had just made an enterprise successor to blackberry, instead of trying to make a consumer phone, they probably would have been more successful. once the platform had traction in enterprise, maybe they could of made the consumer jump.

i'd be surprised if this scheme was actually successful.

its very difficult to relay signs from the dugout to the batter in the few seconds between when the sign is given and when the pitch is thrown.

base runners on second base have always been able to see the signs between pitcher and catcher and relay the information to the batter. To counter this catchers use a complex combination of signs that change inning to inning, sometimes batter to batter.

I hope this is not the case.

I love the elegant simplicity of the home button.

this part of the original iphone launch is one of my favorites:

"And on the front, there’s only one button down there. We call it the home button. Takes you home from wherever you are."

i haven't used asana in a couple years.

I just signed up for a new account, and it seemed pretty snappy. I might give it a try again.

"MVPs are too M and almost never V"

yes, viable is the hard part. just like "loveable" will be the hard part of SLC.

next month's article. "SLCs make me SC(sick)"

I do this with so many libraries now. especially in the react-native ecosystem.

I just prefer node style callbacks, so I wrap libraries with promise based APIs with callback based wrappers.

hopefully i'm not the only one.

same example with async control flow library and node style callback conventions

function getUserInfo(callback) { async.parallel([api.getUser, api.getFriends, api.getPhoto], callback) }

yes this is a good thought. I wish they had a free tier for this purpose. 1 review a month or something.

it took me a lot of trial and error, but I was able to get a pretty nice asp net core dev env working with the dotnet cli, and vs code. so its possible, but not always easy.

documentation is still confusing and contradictory, but a little less sparse.

I use the dotnet cli for everything, and rarely need to manually edit the csproj. Even when I do, the csproj is very simple straightforward xml, nothing like the old version.

I use node/npm/gulp tool chain for build pipelines. I set up npm wrappers for the dotnet cli, "npm run build", "npm run test", "npm run start", which I like.

my favorite thing is that I can reasonably work on c# projects without full Visual Studio and solutions.

from the docs this looks like a really practical library. The testing and dev tools look great.

whats the backstory for this library?

i was one of the customers who dropped in q2 after using the service for about 6 months.

I really enjoyed the product, and never had an issue with quality.

for me cost was primary reason for cancelling. Buying ingredients saves me about $100 a month. Even with Blue Apron I had to go to the grocery store weekly for lunch and breakfast food, so it was a "nice to have luxury", not something that saved time or money.

I worry that Blue Apron is going to have a hard time making the economics of custom acquisition vs. life time value work if high churn is a permanent thing.