scottoreilly
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Comment · 2 years ago
> For example, you can either hide all icons or none.
I thought so at first too, but it’s just a confusing UI. The documentation says:
> Simply Command + drag your menu bar items to rearrange them.
What isn’t said is that this dragging also allows you to keep some of the items permanently showing. Anything you drag to the right of that double arrow icon will stay there.
Comment · 2 years ago
I mostly nod along to your points. The whole thing about the finite nature of time really hits home. We're all running around with a ticking clock, trying to cram as much as we can into our days. And the idea of just axing tasks to free up space? Genius in its simplicity. I remember Elon Musk's "delete, delete, delete" mantra, and it's pretty spot on.
Bill Gates' take on preferring a lazy person for a tough job because they'll find the easiest way to do it? I'm all for efficiency, but maybe "lazy" isn't the word I'd use. Resourceful, perhaps? It's a minor quibble, but it sticks out to me.
The recency effect is a trap I've fallen into more times than I care to admit. Setting tasks aside to gauge their importance later is a tactic I'll have to try more deliberately. And avoiding rework by getting things clear the first time? Absolutely. Nothing more frustrating than going over the same ground because of a misunderstanding.
Comment · 2 years ago
Looking good, great stuff! This is going to be like those free character counter websites for me. Definitely something I could do on my own, but super handy as a single-serving website.
Comment · 5 years ago
Typo in headline: should be “validate data” instead of “valid data”. Otherwise, looking good!
Comment · 11 years ago
It's from the Her soundtrack.
Comment · 11 years ago
I followed my wife though the whole process from college to practicing physician and even made an interview video about residency:
https://vimeo.com/97738071
I actually agree with the premise of the article, but it paints an inaccurate picture in a lot of places:
"Nurses, by contrast, can start making real salaries of around $50,000 when they’re 22. Doctors can’t start making real money until they’re at least 29, and often not until they’re much older."
Residents start making $50k salaries right out of medical school. It's only a 4 year delay from nurses.
It's not about money. It's about quality of life. Medical school is really hard. Residency is brutal. Constant unrelenting pressure. No sleep. No personal time. That alone is the reason why becoming a doctor isn't worth it for most people.
Watch the part in the video starting at 3:08 where they're half way through residency. They look like they're going to cry. I'm so glad I did those interviews because it really captures the personal sacrifices you have to make.
Here's the thing that the article failed to grasp, though. If you need to be the one doing the cutting in surgery or the one pushing medicine forward with research, you have to get that MD. Some people need to be in control and call the shots.
If that's you, do it. Make the sacrifices, because you won't be happy doing anything else.
If you can live a fulfilled life as a nurse or PA, though, it's a much better choice for most people.
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm pretty sure Wired completely botched this article. It says that the hack works "across Android, iOS and Windows devices" by monitoring "a newly exposed public side channel, which details the shared memory statistics of other processes."
That just isn't possible on iOS unless your phone is jailbroken. Sure enough, the source article is only about android. This kind of "journalism" is so frustrating.
Comment · 12 years ago
I don't think anything in that article is particularly surprising. Apple is incredibly concerned with secrecy, and they share a lot of dysfunctions with other huge tech companies. Yep.
Comment · 12 years ago
The model is a lot like GitHub, actually. We let people create all of the public dashboards they want for free so that people can share live data with the community. They also get one free private dashboard.
Business accounts pay the bills, though. https://www.thedash.com/business/pricing
Comment · 12 years ago
Yes, it's a terrible idea. Giving up control of your company is never something you should do right out of the gates. With someone else owning 50%, it's not your company anymore.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's too bad that they're going under and taking everyone's money with them, but the sooner they go away the better. Nobody will trust them again regardless of what they do. The more they're in the press the worse bitcoin looks.