“YouTube’s Android app features perhaps the most egregious set of insulting user interface decisions. The first relates to individual entries for search results, subscriptions or other lists. Such a list contains a series of video previews that contain (today) an… Read More »Recommended Read: The accidental tyranny of user interfaces
“Generation X (and even more so generation Y) are cultures of immediate gratification. I’ve worked with a staggering number of engineers that expect the “career path” to take them to the highest ranks of the engineering group inside 5 years… Read More »Recommended Read: On Being A Senior Engineer
“Why are you building a graphics card inside minecraft instead of inside NVIDIA?”
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"As for the inhabitants of utopian fiction, they are never credible characters, with emotional depth or psychological complexity, precisely because they are without flaws. Throughout the 500 years of the genre, the characters uniformly come across as either brainwashed or… Read More »Recommended Read: The Problem with Utopias
"Spory medzi Francúzskom, Veľkou Britániou, Nemeckom alebo Poľskom, ktoré sa naťahovali stovky rokov, sú od roku 1991 skoro navždy vyriešené. Tak sa zrodilo presvedčenie, že mier, ktorý si pre seba v roku 1991 Európa zabezpečila, sa bude sám udržiavať, a… Read More »Odporúčané čítanie: Rusko nevie, kde sa končí, ale to nevie ani Európa, vraví americký historik
"Bez kvalitného chmeľu sa však nedá urobiť kvalitné pivo. Kto bude v budúcnosti chcieť robiť kvalitné pivá, nebude ich môcť robiť vo veľkom objeme alebo bude musieť výrazne zväčšiť plochu chmeľnice, ak bude chcieť zachovať súčasnú úroveň produkcie." https://dennikn.sk/3877898/ak-sa-zem-prilis-otepli-pit-pivo-na-zahrade-bude-masochizmus-vravi-klimatolog-ktory-skuma-chmel/
You should use turn signals even when there is no one around. At first glance, it seems stupid. Why should I turn them on, when there is no one to see them? There are two main reasons. First, you never… Read More »Using turn signals when there is no one around