Why does their website have a photo of the iOS App Library feature?
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I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn impedes improvements in the many services the government has to offer. We've just reached the "FedRAMP Ready" status, which is a signifier of confidence that cloud.gov will make it through the exhaustive auditing process to come. Best of all, everything were doing is open source, including all the compliance work, so others will be able to follow in our footsteps. AMA!
Any plans to standardize agencies tech stacks? Is that even a good idea?
mcritz commented on NSA Chief: Terrorists Using Leaked Info [video] nbcnews.com/id/21134540/v... · Posted by u/wikiburner
It's a no-win perception issue for Obama. If even a few Americans die in a terror attack, his administration looks weak (look at how badly Fox has gone after him on Benghazi). If he does "whatever is necessary", he looks like a warmonger with no respect for the Constitution.
But people die in all sorts of preventable ways. Dropping the national speed limit would save hundreds or thousands of lives. So would nutritional subsidies for kids, or all other sorts of things we could spend our political capital on. But those things do not have the same broad support as anti-terrorism measures, because the public is not willing to pay the cost, even though more lives are at stake.
You could say our fear of The Other comes from Bush's fear-mongering, or the shock of 9/11, or a genuine clash of civilizations, or just human nature. But whatever the origin, that irrational fear is the real root of our disproportionate reaction to the theatrical murder called "terrorism".
Our culture has been conditioned to be afraid by reflex, and it has to end. The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
It’s a no-win situation for Americans who are forced to pay $10,000,000,000 annually to fund an agency to spy on us and find “terrorists” or $160,000,000,000 annually for wars if they don’t find actual terrorists.
Neither of those expenses has its desired outcomes, nor are they mutually exclusive.
Hackatons are fun. I don't get the point of saying that hanging out with people with similar, drinking beer and eating pizza is somehow bad for you. Maybe is about seeing it less as a competition and more like a regular social event.
When I moved to SF I knew next to nobody. I worked freelance at a coworking place and went to hackathons. Most of my SF friends are from these social environments.
Having peers and friends that you can share your experiences with has some health benefit even if the thing you’re doing is scientifically proven to end your life http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=social+benefits+of+smo....
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This. We all mess up, but only the best ones will deal with it professionally and learn from it. Sounds like the OP is in that group. He didn't try to hide it, blame it on anyone else, or make excuses. He just did what he could to fix his mistake.
When people say "making mistakes is unacceptable - imagine if doctors made mistakes" they ignore three facts:
1. Doctors do make mistakes. Lots of them. All the time.
2. Even an average doctor is paid an awful lot more than me.
3. Doctors have other people analysing where things can go wrong, and recommending fixes.
If you want fewer development mistakes, as a company you have to accept it will cost money and take more time. It's for a manager to decide where the optimal tradeoff exists.
> We all mess up, but only the best ones will deal with it professionally and learn from it.
This. I don't regret my life's many failures. I regret the times I've flamed out, blamed others, or ran away.
Doing things means making mistakes. You can spot a professional by how they deal with mistakes.
Coffescript is an actual thing - no need to use "quotations". Besides, Messenger will work with plain js too (or any other compile-to-js lang) it's just the examples that are in coffeescript. You can write an example for alert in cs:
alert "Blammo! A coffeescript alert example"I’m not clever enough for Coffeescript.
I wish the examples were written in such a way that if I showed it to coworkers half of them wouldn’t roll their eyes.
mcritz commented on How To Design For Android Devices blog.mengto.com/how-to-de... · Posted by u/nvk
Why do you say that?
Fonts are a true point of pain in Android dev.
Typography is pretty awful on Android in general. Both Roboto and Droid Sans are nightmare Frankenfonts.
Font rendering on Android is bulky, blocky, and fails to consider how humans read letterforms. So, even if a designer can convince the team to license a better font, it’ll end up a smeared mess on users’ screens.
The API calls to layout type on Android suck. (iOS sucks slightly less depending on how willing your UI engineer is willing to devote to this most basic foundation of design.)
“U MAD, BRO?”
Yeah. I get paid to be a picky snob about what the user sees and how they feel about the product. It pisses me off to look at Android because its not disappointing, the way Win8 is, but actively anti-design. Why pay to license good fonts? Why make a system for rendering type nicely? Because this stuff is basic user experience. It's like going into a hotel and discovering that the paint is yellowing. That hotel is more likely to have dirty towels, no hot water, smelly sheets, and bed bugs.
mcritz commented on Bing.com content is contained within a single table cell bing.com?1... · Posted by u/MatthewPhillips
Good catch. I wonder why they chose that approach. They’re smart people and I’m sure there’s a good reason.
Trickle down compensation, already.