I'll go further. PowerShell covers a lot of the concerns in the OP out of the box. It is extremely well thought out and is one of my favorite cli models to buy into.
I'm confused - I read this as critical of Burke and critical of conservative movements that ignore that criticism of Burke. I feel like you're saying it was the opposite. Am I missing something?
> Impact Statement: Starting at approximately 15:00 UTC Azure customers may experience error notifications when trying to access the Azure Portal. We are aware of this issue and we're currently investigating. Further updates will be provided shortly.
You're correct. Apparently this was actually an attempt to revive it. The Bloomberg article that the TechRadar articles is based on makes that clearer:
> Apple Fails to Fully Reboot iOS Simulator Copyright Case (1)
> Apple Inc. failed to fully revive a long-running copyright lawsuit against cybersecurity firm Corellium Inc. over its software that simulates the iPhone’s iOS operating systems, letting security researchers identify flaws in the software.
> The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday ruled that Corellium’s CORSEC simulator is protected by copyright law’s fair use doctrine, which allows the duplication of copyrighted work under certain circumstances.
> CORSEC “furthers scientific progress by allowing security research into important operating systems,” a three-judge panel for the appeals court said, adding that iOS “is functional operating software that falls outside copyright’s core.”
I can't remember the error message exactly, but recently dealing with my great uncle's estate after his death I was confronted with a cutesy error message from one of the many financial institutions or utilities I had to deal with. The problem isn't only the severity of the error being trivialized. It's also that it can come off as obnoxiously callous to real life tragedy or grief you're dealing with. There's a reason professionalism is important.
This doesn't necessarily mean to me stop having cutesy error messages all the time always, but rather think about the risk you're taking of offending your customer or audience by having cutesy error messages. If it's worth the potential of alienating them then that's your choice, but it's a real choice you're making.
This is a really interesting article that not only gives insight into how Duolingo works technically but also maybe how Duolingo works as an organization culturally.
The most recent changes to UI reduced user choice on what to learn and practice significantly. Some of it is being repaired, but if you are continuing to use Duolingo you are deferring to its algorithm significantly on how you should learn.
This is probably a good thing in some ways as they are potentially better at identifying weaknesses I'm not aware of. However, I know for a fact that I'm weak on some things and I want to practice those things with their exercises. It'd be really helpful if it gave me the freedom to make my own decisions more easily. For instance, scrolling back in lesson history was lousy previously but at least possible. With the path UI it's much worse - still technically possible but so much scrolling.
Solving for this would be pretty easy. "Jump scrolling" as I call it, not sure if that's the correct term, where the scrolling shows indexes based on letter or number that you can scroll through more quickly would let me go back to lessons I want to revisit more easily. I'm also sure that people who work on algorithms like this are capable of coming up with other ways to take into account how I might know or understand my own weaknesses that their observations can't just detect. I see no curiosity about that in this article though.
It's pretty clear that Duolingo is more invested in improving their algorithms and all of what is discussed is entirely based on observing the learner rather asking the directly or providing them easy ability to make their own learning path when you feel Duo isn't getting it right.
I still use Duolingo and think it's been a great way for me to learn a language that I probably wouldn't learn otherwise. However I'll always be slightly disappointed in how restricted it feels. It's a tough balance for sure and I can probably solve my concerns with outside solutions like supplemental reading and flash card apps. But I would love to have Duolingo adapt to my preferences in some ways and take into account how I know my own deficiencies in learning. I just don't think they're culturally or financially motivated to make those changes, and I live with that comfortably for the most part. At least until I read articles like this that informs me that I'm paying for some amazing learning technology that has no interest in directly listening to me.
I hope they consider changing, I won't be surprised or upset if they don't.
Agreed! The title of the post emphasizes the satisfying outcome, but the details about the journey are equally satisfying. That compliment is a reflection of that and it's good they acknowledged it.
You can institutionalize this practice at your org in some ways. At my org we have:
* strawman apps for our cloud systems and our windows services to practice deployments and startup/shutdown behavior without having to wait to compile full apps
* alwaysfails and alwayspasses tests in our test projects for confirming how test frameworks behave and our test reporting/logging function
I'll go further. PowerShell covers a lot of the concerns in the OP out of the box. It is extremely well thought out and is one of my favorite cli models to buy into.