Long time Kindle user. I have deeply disliked the touch-only interface since it was introduced - the only reason I switched to them was because the old one with page turn buttons toon a swim.
The touch interface is great for typing, but for turning pages I find myself either accidentally pressing on the screen or it not recognising the touch at all. Touching in the wrong spot can also result in it clicking links or similar.
The idea they might be bringing out a case that has the buttond seems great, except it's only for the signature editions.
As much as the collective dumping on LastPass for yet another breach, and how they're totally irresponsible for handing customer data to some third party is amusing.
I think if people took a moment to actually look at what happened, they might realise that the story everyone has in their heads is quite different from reality.
Klue is one of those CRM services that so many sales teams are using. Yes, you have to hand them customer records (email of the customer contacts, finance teams, etc). That show Klue delivers it's "market intelligence" thing about that customer.
If you go to your sales teams and see what random stuff they have hooked up to your systems, I bet you will find similar things.
Whether or not this is a good idea (I firmly dislike it), this is how sales teams work these days. If you try to take it away you will be fighting the entire sales organisation.
I am more surprised that these breaches don't happen more often.
It doesn't impact LastPass's actual password databases.
(No affiliation with any of the entities involved in this)
I would counter this by saying we might all be better off if consumer protection laws were stronger and actively enforced against this.
I don't really have a problem with offering discounts to members of X program, or if insurance is pre-selected.
But the advertised price should be inclusive of everything (taxes, fees, charges, etc) and the price available to the general product before membership-exclusive pricing.
So if you advertise a product for $100 then any normal person can pay $100 and get it for that.
Want to sell it from cheaper to members of your reward program? Go ahead. But it can't be the most prominent price advertised for it.
You want to sell insurance pre-selected? No problem but again the default advertised price needs to include it. Even if they can opt out for a cheaper price.
There are sure to be edge cases. But the point being is that the price you advertise most prominently needs to be the all-inclusive price any member of the public can get without having to fight to select the correct option.
We don't accept misleading and deceptive practices in other areas, why do we let airlines, hotels and hire car places do it?
> It’s not like we have a term like “individual contributor” or anything in the industry.
Perhaps I'm missing something here.
To me "individual contributor" means anyone who is NOT: A (technical) "Lead", "Chief", "Architect", or (possibly) "Staff" anything, and has no management or team-leader responsibilities.
I'm in Australia but similar sounding system is in operation at our two major supermarkets.
I scanned a drink, heard the beep, put it in the bag. I scanned a loaf of bread, heard a beep, put it in the bag.
Now, instead of the typical "Unexpected item in the bagging area" it now shows the overhead replay and locks the system out until an employee comes over to review.
Combined with their exit gates that don't open if they think you've not paid for something, and cameras that track you through the store it's feeling very unfriendly.
I don't read HTML all the time, and I don't expect it to be easy to read when outside of a browser.
Markdown though, that's my slightly fancy readme. It has just enough structure that I can easily read and understand it on the command line.
I can easily grep it without need for an advanced parsing engine.
If you need something with font and style weight then go for HTML.
But if I see README.html with a project, it's going to put me off wanting to contribute. I do not want to learn that project's style guide for how to add some new parameters to a table or remember that they want to specify italics in one of a dozen different ways.
> I believe a VPN should stay hidden if it works, no need to have it visible.
Which is fine if you only have one VPN client or one VPN network and you don't need to turn it on/off or change it regularly.
My current day job has one VPN client but five different networks.
At a previous job I had two different clients I would need to switch on and off.
It is very on-brand with Apple though that there is one right way to do things, and everyone else either needs to change the way they do things or go elsewhere.
The article mentions, briefly, the case of the Austrian who was recently convicted of manslaughter for abandoning his girlfriend on the side of a mountain.
The story is apparently much much worse than it sounds from the brief coverage.
There were, apparently, many many signs that things were not going well: beginning the hike too late in the day; passing a sign that said "do not continue if you have not reached this point by X time", despite reaching it hours later; Waving off a rescue helicopter; putting his phone in DND mode.
A former girlfriend testified that he has done basically the same thing to her years earlier, on the same mountain.
Whatever the case, he's clearly a profoundly unempathetic person. If it wasn't premeditated, this woman died because this man could not summon any care for her at so many points in this story. That's just as sad to me.
His lack of care came before the actual hike, though. I regularly go hiking in mountains in the winter, and occasionally I'll take someone along with me.
Because this is an activity that can easily lead to disaster for the unprepared, anybody that comes along with me has to be prepared or I'm not letting them come. This means that they have to carry everything they'd need to survive for a few days if we get separated, and that I'm comfortable that they have enough knowledge and skill to survive and find help on their own if needed.
Letting someone come along into a dangerous situation unprepared (let alone intentionally abandoning them) isn't just unempathetic, it's malicious.
Excellent video, has a lot more detail on evidence the judge decided to ignore (including the testimony from the ex girlfriend) when deciding his sentence.
That one anecdote about the woman who was told to dress super casually for a first date and found out she'd been invited to a fine dining restaurant is really eye-opening.
Men who do this are pathetic and it's really sad to discover that they behave this way at seemingly every turn.
The touch interface is great for typing, but for turning pages I find myself either accidentally pressing on the screen or it not recognising the touch at all. Touching in the wrong spot can also result in it clicking links or similar.
The idea they might be bringing out a case that has the buttond seems great, except it's only for the signature editions.
Not happy about that one.