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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
This shouldn't be downvoted. There is definitely at the minimum Microsoft employee vote brigading at this point. HN needs to start making upvotes, downvotes, and time of vote public.
Comment · 9 years ago
Ban breeding. There are plenty of dogs available for adoption. Once we run out of those we can reconsider the ban. Pretty simple stuff.
Comment · 9 years ago
Or its a flaw in market capitalism. "When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail"
Comment · 9 years ago
Bingo. Automation is cheaper, not higher quality. The only people that consider not talking to service agents or cashiers an improvement in service have social anxiety issues or something similar. A checker at a grocery store actually does all of the work for you. Objectively it is better in every way unless you consider it a negative to be involved in human interaction.
Comment · 9 years ago
I would highly recommend spending an evening reading through Martin Fowler's blog. Has has a gift of breaking down concepts into very pragmatic and digestible explanations.
A couple of my favorites:
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-dependenci...
Comment · 9 years ago
http://caniuse.com/#feat=notifications
Every. single. other. browser. Including desktop Safari.
Comment · 9 years ago
That is a very deceptive way to put it.
https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/
Safari is intentionally crippled in several areas. Its very specific and obvious. It is dishonest for you to at this point pretend Apple is going full force for web standards while they are explicitly not implementing features that are available everywhere else. And how those specific features line up directly as features which allow web apps to compete with its native application market.
Edit: To anyone seeing this down-voted. Apple employees typically down-vote stuff like this so please do not take this being greyed as anything but manufactured opinion.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's a valid point. I've updated it to be less flippant. Appreciate you bringing that to my attention as there is a lot of great discussion going on in this thread.
Comment · 9 years ago
Almost smells like the ACA, doesn't it?
Edit: My apologies for sounding a bit antagonistic. The ACA is currently making use of high copays for that reason and more. It also hopes to force more transparency as well as most people want more than a icd-10 code when they have to write a check for $4k.
Comment · 9 years ago
Most technology is useless. Its not a product of necessity, but a product of our chosen economic system.
Comment · 9 years ago
In market capitalism we need at a least 2. Efficient, isn't it?
Correct, but this is the result of the store intentionally routing you through the self checkout by under staffing cashiers to save money.
>What if there was no work to do? Amazon is exploring that concept and if it works as described (I haven't used it yet, but have walked by and it seems to) seems objectively better in every way.
Excellent point. I should have used "self service" instead of "automation". It was a poor choice of words on my part. Full automation to remove anyone from needing to do the work would certainly be objectively better. The article linked is more about self service than automation.