Well the 12-unit grid is normally chosen based on being divisible by [1,2,3,4,6,12]. 16-unit is divisible by [1,2,4,8,16], but I see that you added a "thirds" class to deal with that. 20-unit could be an option as it covers divisibility by [1,2,4,5,10,20] but also critically ignores 3 column. 24-unit (the product of the first four positive integers) is divisible by [1,2,3,4,5,6,8,12,24], so it would naturally allow the most flexibility at the cost of very granular 1/24 elements.
> Instead of taking the response as a second argument, the dispatch function is expected to return the response... The moment the function returns, both the status code and all headers are known.
I highly doubt this convention will work. You need to be able to return errors or DB information in the response code and headers, which would be impossible since Node is nonblocking. Even something as basic as storing session information in Redis suddenly becomes impossible. This seems like it gives a very minor benefit and causes a whole lot of problems.
Modern fonts have been frequently thin before the invention of retina screens.
The overuse of thin fonts might look dated in the future, but I don't agree that this trend is totally inspired by retina screens. If anything, I think Serif fonts have seen the greatest resurgence on web due to Retina screens. High DPI screens will impact our perception of all fonts, just as sans serif grew in popularity on lower dpi screens causing their perception to be more modern and technological.
In general typography as a whole has become much more interesting on retina screens. So yes, fonts look better now than ever before so don't cheat by using superthin because its trendy.
Sans-serif typefaces were historically perceived as more modern than their serif counterparts. The simplicity and lack of letterform "decorations" (which serifs are) suggests a character of precision and rejection of legacy and "old ways". This has been the case ever since Swiss designers started using Helvetica and related typefaces set in clear, grid-based designs with modern color choices. So the modern character of sans-serifs dates far before computers and computer displays.
Rather than being gutsy, I think it looks like it belongs in the Fitbit ecosystem (which maintains 69% of wearables marketshare, according to NPD Group).
It doesn't appear to be hand-specific. Most fitness trackers suggest you should wear on your non-dominant hands, because they give a more accurate step count.
I actually appreciate the fact that its not marketing as an entire smart phone on my wrist. I don't want to browse my photo albums on it or wait 2 seconds for my watch screen to wake up before checking the time. I'm glad its just fitness sensors and simple clock/calender/email/notifications.
This is more or less exactly what I hoped the Apple Watch would be: a sensor platform with simple notifications. Too bad it doesn't look as nice as a Fitbit, though; that screen is way too long.
It looks as thick as my Fitbit Flex; which has no screen. The Fitbit Force which has a screen is a much thicker device in order to accommodate a LED screen that will tell you details.
Yes, it does. It may not be easy, efficient, or elegant, but theoretically any problem solvable by a turing complete language can also be solved by any other turing complete language.
Does there have to be a business goal? Making society more fair is a good goal. Reducing the white male preference in the job market should be a social responsibility for a company that greatly impacts our daily lives.
There could be business goals though: it improves people's public opinion of you and in this case may help protect them from lawsuits.
> Making society more fair is a good goal. Reducing the white male preference in the job market should be a social responsibility for a company that greatly impacts our daily lives.
That means white people are under-represented at Google.
The group whose representation is most diverging from the population as a whole are Asians, who are hugely over-represented.
Overall, the numbers show that Asians are over-represented, which may explain much of the under-representation by all other groups. So the story here is certainly not one of "white male preference in the job market". You might be right about male, but not about white.
How is it unfair to hire what you perceive as the best candidate to work at your company? Something that's actually unfair would be disqualifying a better candidate purely because of his skin color/gender.
Also, just to emphasis what others have already replied to you; Whites are actually underrepresented at Google relative to the ratios seen in the rest of the workforce.
I also started programming with my TI Calculator and also had a few lessons from my Dad in Pascal. Then in my college, I started with Lisp, then C, then Java. C was definitely the primary language for my college education: Operating Systems, Architecture, Software Development, Compilers. Although C allows you to understand the computer at a low level, I had no intention to get a career in it.
I appreciate C, but wish I learned more high level languages to be more prepared come graduation. C is important to know, but it can also be overemphasized in some colleges.
Actually, if a rich and a poor actor both compete for a pot, then the poor could take 80% and suddenly become the rich. This simulation doesn't track individuals, it only tracks the 1, 10, 25, 33, 50, 66, 75, 90, 99th percentiles after a number of simulations. The rich and poor are likely switching back and forth rapidly.
Some of the defensiveness may come from professional pride... Teaching (and medicine?) is not as easy to rate as, say, a product on Amazon or an Ebay seller. Speaking as a sometime adjunct instructor at a research university, the "course evaluations" represent to me bringing corporate management theory to a theoretically more high-minded institution. As others have commented here, the pressure to publish lowers the priority of teaching for full-time faculty. Bringing in low-paid part-timers to teach is not a healthy response to this, and publicly rating/berating teachers is a band-aid on a situation already lacking in trust and respect.
In a healthy college of Yale's quality, course choices should come from competent individual advising of the students and student-to-student discussion, rather than from ratings and a scheduling algorithm.
> Turns out professionals don't want to be held accountable for the quality of their work.
This statement is not supported by the rest of your comment. Your comment supports a slightly different statement (which I also believe is true): professionals don't want customer-satisfaction ratings from a selection-biased poll to be considered as a rating of the quality of their work.
Because, why would they? That's a terrible metric.
