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Most people read VERY slowly, because they were taught to do so (at school)! That's something that makes me angry, because reading fast is a HUGE advantage in every setting (even t…

> it is highly unlikely that a "senior colleague" can't understand simple logic. I've met plenty of people like that. To tell you the truth, it was SO BAD that had I not seen it wi…

I'm french, and live in France, near Paris. In France, there is only (AFAIK) _one_ love hotel (inspired by the japanese ones). It's pretty small and the rooms are not big at all, b…

I find this story disturbing & the implications are frightening (many are addressed in the article). But one thing strikes me as REALLY worrying: they call it the "MAGIC" box. IMO,…

> So when people felt power, they really did have more trouble getting inside another person's head. Interesting research, I'll be curious to know if it gets confirmed. Anyway, I c…

I fail to see how "we" are forgetting. I also fail to see how "something similar could strike again" is news, since it's a recurrent -scary- topic every flu season. The 1918 flu ou…

> licked the cobra to full extension should be > flicked the cobra to full extension The cobra is a weapon in the Neuromancer's universe, something like an extendable knife/club.

Ignoring the moral/ethics concerns, how would a potential buyer know that the data is legit (if it even exists at all?). Give me a couple of days and I'll create a fake -but real l…

> graphics and charts, do you use any specific tool? Usually, I used Visio, not really by choice but because it was available and sometimes used by other coworkers (usually for the…

Great articles (there is a part 2 here: https://blog.stoplight.io/writing-documentation-when-you-are... ) The article is about API documentation, but the points apply to every docu…

The last line of the article: > This article was originally published in our “Selection” issue in October, 2016.

> homophobic undertone Undertone? The whole sentences are designed to be trollish & are _obviously_ slurs & attacks. The GP account was created 22 hours ago and has already been do…

Some people seem to have _evolved_ to be able to hold their breath (over 12 minutes) and work. Look for the "sea nomads", there have been articles about them recently, a recent (20…

I'm french, I live near Paris and very often walk in Paris for various reasons (shopping, etc) The BIG problem is that the automated public (and free, which was not the case before…

The title of the article is misleading, it's not programming that is the real issue, it's billing (the progamming issues are just a part in the article). Since the Credit Card comp…

I find that kind of research disgusting, because their ONLY purpose is to manipulate customers. I also question the ethics of such studies: how can you justify this, ethically? Tre…

The article is interesting and raises interesting points. For instance about the "face-recognition" impairment in police officers, which is a serious problem. I was however surpris…

Neat, but for a book about HCI, they sure don't put their knowledge in use for their site! The irony. Without Javascript enabled, you cannot scroll down with the mouse nor the scro…

> why is there such a hard dichotomy between "commercial - binary blob" and open source? I see at least 2 reasons. 1) Mindset (and ignorance) I've worked in big telecom companies, …

The article is quite interesting, it sums up many numbers and projections I had read in several places. But there are 2 other interesting factors to an aging society that they did …

A very interesting read. I did not know that alcohol effects varied that much between societies & context/circonstances. I found especially surprising the part about how in some cu…

Not to mention that MANY (too many!) websites don't display anything AT ALL, if you don't have Javascript enabled. Why? I'm not talking about "app"-like sites (like Gmail), where i…

I completely agree, I was about to write the same: that name is VERY badly chosen, it conveys the wrong idea to anybody who has not read the origin of the term, and makes it sound …

> Marder and Henderson worry robo-graders will just encourage the worst kind of formulaic writing. > they will quickly learn they can fool the algorithm by using lots of big words,…

> Contractors aren’t humans Real story from one of the (big) french telecom companies I worked for, as a contractor (a few years ago)... In that company, a regular employee was giv…