jumpinalake's comments

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: Google recommends all North America employees work from home

Can people please stop posting paywall’d links? It’s annoying to only being able to read the headline. If this is just a thing because I’m in Canada then that’s different.

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect

Is this what you do?

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect

How inconvenient is it to turn off all location sharing at the OS level on a mobile device? I have just started testing moments ago and am not sure what I’m up for.

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: Time.gov was upgraded today

Stop being so jealous of our Canadian version: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/web-clock/

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: Fighting Complexity in Software Development

Are you arguing that all tools are equal? Or that some tools are better than others but the difference is negligible compared to experience? I don’t agree that experience is everything (if by everything you mean that all other factors have zero influence).

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: Fighting Complexity in Software Development

Couldn’t agree more. I was part of a $30 million Rails project that got unmanageable and burned after 2-3 years. Golang is so much more forgiving to human error.

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: How e-commerce sites manipulate people into buying things

NYTimes + incognito = rejection.

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues

Couldn’t read the article because NYTimes blocks my incognito browser mode. Times are changing.

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them

I wish this article included photos comparing the look of a dog face when using vs not using the cited muscles.

jumpinalake | 6 years ago | on: The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life

Something about this article felt disjointed. I read back over the jarring part to see if I had somehow skipped over a section or read it in the wrong order.

jumpinalake | 7 years ago | on: National parks face years of damage from government shutdown

In Canada we have a good parks system and yet I must admit that the US park system is phenomenally well run and contains so much diversity. I suspect that us visitors take for granted how much work is involved in maintaining the cleanliness and illusion of untouched solitude. We are so fortunate to be able to enjoy it and I hope any shutdown damages are minimal.

jumpinalake | 7 years ago | on: Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details

The video advertisement on the linked webpage crashed Safari on my iPhone.

jumpinalake | 7 years ago | on: The Effect of Sleep on Happiness

Those of you who are getting lots of sleep and also consume caffeine during the day you probably don’t realize that if you cut caffeine you would require much less sleep. Try it sometime for at least a month.

jumpinalake | 8 years ago | on: To Delete Facebook or Not to Delete Facebook? That Is Not the Question

Good question. So anything orders of magnitude more popular than the competition is a failure?

jumpinalake | 8 years ago | on: The Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong

There are many victims including all those who lost a role model.

jumpinalake | 8 years ago | on: How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes

Hate to break it to you but you essentially just hid all that shit from the UI.