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nfoz
·3 年前·discuss
If my house had a pest problem, I would need to hire an expert in pest-control. I need to do that without being an expert myself. How should anyone be able to hire someone with more experience than themselves, in your view? I've sometimes had to 'hire my own boss'.

Maybe the criteria for the problem was less "did they check these boxes" and more "could they be a collaborative mentor willing to work with even the junior members on the team" in the context of designing a system.
nfoz
·3 年前·discuss
What's the sour taste -- what's the problem? Like, what's wrong with being interviewed by someone with less experience than you?
nfoz
·5 年前·discuss
Check out sourcehut!

https://sourcehut.org/
nfoz
·5 年前·discuss
I find Arturia's products -- hardware and software -- wonderful to use. My Drumbrute Impact is just so fun. I got "Pigments" and it is incredibly fun for crafting sounds; just a beautiful UX.
nfoz
·5 年前·discuss
Light Dims! http://www.lightdims.com/index.php

Little sticky cellophane pieces, that you can put on the little LED lights on all modern electronics, so that you can still see them but they're not so bright.

Because I hate being surrounded by blinkenlights that are a bit too bright and hurt my eyes in the dark.
nfoz
·6 年前·discuss
Can you be a bit more substantial? What is it from Android that you would prefer on iOS?
nfoz
·6 年前·discuss
In apps targeted to kids I've found it to be often a useful deterrent. And can even shift the culture a bit; it makes it very clear what is "ok" and what is not.
nfoz
·6 年前·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button
nfoz
·7 年前·discuss
The stated purpose of telemetry is to improve their products. Yet the telemetry itself is a massive problem in their products.

Does anyone know what, if any, product improvements have been made thanks to telemetry?
nfoz
·7 年前·discuss
Unpopular opinion, but this whole career choice of "YouTube content creator" seems like a frightful gamble in the first place. You've intrinsically tied yourself into a particular company's product. I guess I don't see YouTube's website as a public space and I don't see how anyone is "entitled" to monetization.

But to be more sympathetic, in this case it just sounds like YouTube should have done most of its automated content scans before posting the video in the first place.
nfoz
·7 年前·discuss
If everyone has a key, it’s not really locked.

I guess a key is a legal metaphor and not an actual physical device. Huh.
nfoz
·7 年前·discuss
He looked in the window of a car and saw tons of users' personal information -- visible through the window! Any criminal could walk by and copy the info, privately, without anyone knowing. Maybe some criminals already have.

I think the important thing we miss with car/physical crime analogies is that cybercrime can be so invisible. Nothing is missing, nothing is taken... but users private data is lost. So if an organization is doing something terribly naive like publishing passwords to userdata in plaintext... it's disgusting for our society to punish the wrong people, the people pointing out the flaws rather than the ones who cause them. All the really malicious entities came and went and will never be caught.

They put private information into a JSON file accessible by an HTTPS GET, the only password being one that they put in plaintext onto everyone's phones.

My analogy: They put the private information onto a billboard, but you can only see the billboard from a particular vantage point in a public park.
nfoz
·7 年前·discuss
To fund them more, so that they have the capacity to handle this type of request?
nfoz
·7 年前·discuss
Like it or not: in the era of Unicode, emoji's are plaintext.