The site has a Janet repl (downloads pressing Esc) with autocomplete. That's enough, now I have to give the book a spin.
The fact the author points out, being able to distribute the program without requirements, is a big plus. Multiple times I have been doing some bash script that later I can't share with my non-techy friends until I translate it in some google sheets or something they can use. If Janet can let me do simple script stuff and let me share it just sending the binary as a file on some chat app, then I'm more than interested
> Welcome Center now has a mobile-friendly layout. The content itself is still fairly desktop-focused, but this will soon change as well!
Why can the desktop have a desktop-focused look and the mobile a mobile-friendly layout? Said another way, Why does the experience for everyone must degrade the most popular common denominator?
> People say this like it's a truism, but the notion that social media only shows successful people or is like a highlight reel of life, is possibly false. Unless your social circle is limited to tech founders or celebrities, most people live pretty mundane lives.
The article is missing the whole point of envy. Envy manifest for those around you that have it better than you. The coworker that started with you and ended up climbing positions faster and has a better salary. The photos of the weeding of an old crush. Is about someone being an step up and the what-ifs that would have made it so you had that now.
If you are start up founder yes, it makes sense being envious if you went in a round and someone got the investment you wanted; or an acquaintance is already retiring while you are still iterating on your 5th failure business. Envy adjust to the grandeur delusions people have. Tech founders and celebrities may be yours, but for most people those around them that have it better.
It just means when the article was published, the need was real and make was useful. Context matters.
Based on that commit they don't need to download the data to generate the .json file, so they don't, Make became irrelevant. If anything this shows that a tool can be really useful but you don't need to marry it. Don't use if you don't have to.
OP wasn't planning a devious plan here. The 6 month contract seems standard from the company side. They shoot themselves on the foot and the loan just got voided. OP would be paying the company for nothing without a new loan
> (7 months instead of 6, we're not talking about multiple years later here)
Maybe this is a disagreement based on past experiences, but the most infuriating thing when working with home contractors is chasing them around so they do they finish their job. I get if this were business to business transaction that are used to year long delays, but as a person I find having a half finished ceiling to by a big disruption in my daily life.
Being fair OP didn't say anything about having to fix their roof before installing the solar panels, but having to put up with business delays in your home projects isn't the most pleasant experience.
If we go to the ethical side of things, in this case the company installed something without doing proper diligence in their part. This could have been solved if they presented a new contract in OP home when they went to install the panels. Paying without a loan would have been foolish from OP side, same if he paid it at the more expensive 2022 prices. In fact OP would probably be forced to do if they asked him about it before installing the panels. This would be unethical from the company side: delaying 6+ months the installation and proposing a more expensive loan before installation.
Let's not skip the company trying to swindle OP to pay without a proper contract by scaring him. Some of us may be used to this kind of threats. Doesn't mean they are ethical at all. They should have been upfront with the problem from the beginning, not bullying people with scary letters.
They took 7 months to install the panels. I'm sure times during all that the OP thought if they forgot about him, called them to ask for a installation date, etc.
As a way to curb any thought about undue wait time, the company made a contract guaranteeing installation between 6 month after signing. They didn't comply and the loan lapsed. Now the company needed to negotiate a new contract with OP or go for the legal route. There is nothing unethical about this.
The company had everything to lose going the the legal option, with all the long terms procedures, paying money for a pay back that may never come. They are probably grateful that OP just asked for a discount instead.
"The manufacturers have lost their bearings and know not which way to turn. They can no longer find the raw material to satisfy the lawless depraved passion of their laborers for work. In our woolen districts dirty and half rotten rags are raveled out to use in making certain cloths sold under the name of renaissance, which have about the same durability as the promises made to voters. At Lyons, instead of leaving the silk fiber in its natural simplicity and suppleness, it is loaded down with mineral salts, which while increasing its weight, make it friable and far from durable. All our products are adulterated to aid in their sale and shorten their life. Our epoch will be called the “Age of adulteration” just as the first epochs of humanity received the names of “The Age of Stone”, “The Age of Bronze”, from the character of their production"
>Can someone ELI5 what Mozilla did to deserve this derision?
I would say its because Mozilla isn't the incorruptible champion of web browsing. Yes, they have done bad decisions, bad(and good) products have been axed that are unrelated to a browser, and they have being influenced by political issues because, well, people work at Mozilla and people get to be influenced by that. So bad impressions triumph over any campaign they have done, like the ones quoted from the article below.
Browsers and the Quest for More Private Advertising
- 2009 - Mozilla leads the Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) Working Group at W3C. This
is a signal sent by the browser to websites indicating that the user does not
wish to be tracked online. All major browsers implement DNT. The advertising
industry fails to adopt DNT and the initiative ultimately fails.
- 2015 - Firefox launches “Tracking Protection.” This was an important but small
step. It is off by default and blocks ads that track.
2018 - Firefox launches Facebook Container based on several months of
work to isolate first party cookies.96 This is another small step forward
against tracking.
- 2019 - Firefox launches with Enhanced Tracking Protection (“ETP”) based
on learnings from earlier efforts alongside an “anti-tracking policy”.97 ETP is a
success, and drives all major browsers except Chrome to implement similar
features.
- 2020 - Firefox blocks third-party fingerprinting resources98 and includes pro-
tections against redirect tracking.99 Mozilla leads the formation of the Privacy
Community Group at the W3C.100
- 2021 - Firefox takes on supercookies,101 introduces Total Cookie Protection,102
and trims HTTP Referrers to protect privacy.103 Mozilla leads the formation of
the Privacy Advertising Technology Community Group at the W3C.104
- 2022 - Firefox launches Total Cookie Protection by default105 and adds manual
protections against link decoration.106 Mozilla continues work on Privacy Pre-
serving Advertising107 through both criticism of and collaboration with Google,
Apple, Meta and others.
"I realize that some people who “play to have fun” and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends, and understandably so. However, I believe that there will be a certain number of people whose motivation is to “play to contribute,” by which I mean to help make the game more exciting... with advances in token economies, users will be provided with explicit incentives... this will lead to more people devoting themselves to such efforts and to greater possibilities of games growing in exciting ways. From having fun to earning to contributing"
You weren't kidding. They really want people as grunt workers in the virtual world. I guess that's why they are trying to remove any association with the words 'games' and 'fun'.
You made me notice I use 'tall letters' as cues when reading, which help me read a little faster. I's seems to be an important letter for me. It took me, maybe, some extra milliseconds to read without them, enough to make me aware of it.
Personally the caps are second nature. You may find me sending U's and O's before you see me sending i's :-)
When you know what module and functions you will need to work on for the next feature, pointing out what lines of code you will need to work with isn't hard. Making people look around where in the code they are supposed to work on shows lack of preparation, which is against what this article is about.
Every time I search for a youtube channel verbatim, the channel appear at the top and the latest videos follow.
Searching now I can only see a channel with similar name and 50 subscribers and BS videos aren't even the first ones. You can be more subtle youtube
I just learned that tapping a comment's time let's you see the option for adding it to favorites. So thanks for that, and your future bibliography reference :)
No level of communication skill will matter is you are below the company's 'thinking individual' position. Any business opinion you may have will be ignored or worse, chastised for not being part of the vision.
Your first view is sane only on an individual, isolated basis. If you step back and see that a particular e-cig is banned while the original (and the causes for this type of product) is still legal, then any sane argument gets throw out of the window. If legislators wanted to remove causes of societal damage, they would ban the use of nicotine on cigarettes, that have the biggest share of nicotine consumption.
The fact the author points out, being able to distribute the program without requirements, is a big plus. Multiple times I have been doing some bash script that later I can't share with my non-techy friends until I translate it in some google sheets or something they can use. If Janet can let me do simple script stuff and let me share it just sending the binary as a file on some chat app, then I'm more than interested