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did you just waste a min of your time by stating the obvious and trying to add some fuel to fire?

article and discussion is about Eggs! you are free to click and comment on something else if you find it pointless.


> did you just waste a min of your time by stating the obvious and trying to add some fuel to fire?

How is correcting or calling out someone’s sketch behavior wasting time?

> article and discussion is about Eggs! you are free to click and comment on something else if you find it pointless.

Yes and I found it interesting. What gave you the idea that I don’t? Perhaps maybe I don’t talk much on this site and read more articles and comments than you think?

And as far as adding more fuel to the fire, what exactly are you doing?


Same goes with India as well. I have always wondered about this, may be it is the trade-off between getting caught and the sheer desperation to make money that tilts the moral compass to act in unethical ways.


Interestingly the Germans also found some Sudan dies in spices imported from India. [1]

[1] https://www.bfr.bund.de/cm/349/dyes_sudan_I_IV.pdf


>> and the sheer desperation to make money that tilts the moral compass

A very western sentiment. We often deride the quest for profits, demonizing people who put profit ahead of something more noble like safety. But in places like China "profit" is life. China has seen starvation in living memory. In countries without social safety nets a failed business likely means utter destitution, very often leading to physical violence. The people who run restaurants, and certainly the people who work in them, are not chasing profits because they want to drive nice cars. They are chasing profits because they too want to keep eating.


But doesn't getting caught poisoning customers result in destitution too?


That's Eggstreme @Jaruzel. Humankind would still be living in caves without your public service.


People here are tending towards a hybrid model. I don't think the hybrid model is optimum, Companies who take decisive steps towards remotely-only or office-only defaults will be better off, as the tools and culture will will adapt better.


Hi, Great to see you here! I just love your newsletter, especially the quirky links generally at the bottom.


Ha :) Yeah, Sometimes I think I'll just post these and call it a day.


Aah! command I encounter and ignore when I mistype cd


At least it's not sl ;)


BBC's The Computer Literacy Project is a great resource

https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/


Fabulous post but this caught my attention: "The learning curve was steep. Pushed me 2x beyond my existing abilities. Exhilarating."

What is meant by “steep learning curve”? https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6209/what-is-mea...

I don't mean to be rude, just that it is interesting.


A learning curve is a plot of work required for achieving some amount of learning. Those guys just didn't get that that was how it's being used.

"How hard is it to learn Haskell?" Not "How much time does it take to learn Haskell?"

For instance, people will say some things are easy to learn, hard to master (playing Go). Other things are hard to learn but once you have, you're close to mastering them (kinds of problems that have a trick - like integrating e^ax cos bx).


Considering that he says it "pushed him", I'd guess he means that there was a lot to learn and it didn't come easy.


I use xmarks. It is free and simple.

http://www.xmarks.com


>LogMeIn is retiring Xmarks from its line of products as of May 1, 2018. After this date, you will no longer have access to Xmarks.


Oh shoot! Thank you.


I use Microsoft OneNote. It has some great features, plays well with Outlook.


Same, I use OneNote for planning, brainstorming, and storing snippets and random important info. I don't have to worry whether I saved changes, unlike when I used Notepad++ and kept losing notes. I also do a lot of pen-and-paper scribbling, especially when working on an issue for a customer.

I can access OneNote via the web too, so I'm not limited to my Windows workstation for access to my notes (I use two Linux based laptops for inventory and other "on the go" tasks). I think it's one of the best applications to ever come out of Redmond.


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