rolleiflex is referring to the text status along with profile picture. The other new Status feature was added in 2017 when Facebook went crazy adding Snapchat Story like features to all their apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp)
Does it mean that the brand of Amazon is better than the likes of Safeway or Target who sell their own products to compete with more name brand ones? Or it could also be that the brands on Amazon such as the top voted comment here might be smaller brands without enough name recognition to gain the attention of a buyer.
Yes and presumably other companies should also pay them more but I suppose the blame is more focused on Amazon/Bezos because he is the richest person in the world and this article is about him.
Knowing that discrimination exists while you get into something doesn't make it less discriminatory. Sure they knew what they were getting into, but I doubt they are complaining that they didn't know it was like this.
> Knowing that discrimination exists while you get into something doesn't make it less discriminatory.
"Discrimination" is a neutral term though: there are acceptable kinds and unacceptable kinds. For instance, it is discrimination to not let a stranger sleep in your home or in your bed, though no one reasonable would call that unacceptable discrimination.
The actual policy we're talking about here is a country-neutral permanent immigration quota coupled with country-neutral per-country percentage caps. There's nothing specially discriminatory in the law against people from India. It's just that there's massive amounts of temporary-worker immigration from there, which crashes hard against the other quotas. If German immigration were equally massive, Germans would have the same problems Indians have now, so the problem has nothing to due with racial or ethnic discrimination.
You could also think of the quotas another way: they're protecting the ability of people from countries other than India to immigrate, so the incoming immigrant stream is more diverse.
After you apply for a green card and cross the first step (takes about a year or two), then your H1B visa can be extended indefinitely. So the applicant can continue working. The company doesn't care because in this scenario they have an employee who'll think 10 times about leaving even if they are not being treated well. That's not to say the employee can't leave and join another company who's willing to make the necessary adjustments to the green card process. But it does mean that the applicant is forever in this limbo without freedom, can't plan long term, and has to leave the country in a week or so if he/she loses their job.
This used to be the case. But not any more. A lot of people I know are getting RFEs and rejections for their extensions after i-140. I am actually one of them. Got my I-140, then got RFE. I am in a state that gives license based on your visa and won't renew license unless I have an approved work permit. So, I cannot renew my license, and has been using ride sharing for the last 1 month. Its going to be another 1-2 months before I get a decision on whether I can stay. Fun times. They always find creative ways to make your life difficult. Its amusing they refuse to give me license, but the state has no problem taxing me, even for the income I get in India.
Trump talked about self deportation. He succeeded at least in my case. I am done with all this immigration bull. I hope I can find a job in India soon so that I can escape from here.
Twitter has probably too many users now to be able to create a single UI that would please everyone. It is sad that they have crippled the API for newcomers and forced the look and feel on the old indie clients.
The reason I am not considering Apple HomePod is the restriction to the Apple ecosystem. This is what the author concludes as well. Given Apple's history, we will probably never see Spotify integration with Siri. Its integration with Androids is also not as great. I don't think it makes sense even if you're completely in the Apple ecosystem.
I use Spotify for my music on Echo dot. I connect my Echo dot with a 2.1 speaker system. I can get a much better speaker system with woofers and smart capabilities for much lower cost this way. So I don't get the appeal of HomePod if the main draw is its sound capabilities when compared to Echo or Google Home.
> So I don't get the appeal of HomePod if the main draw is its sound capabilities when compared to Echo or Google Home.
The impression I get from various discussions is its sound capabilities are better than nearly anything else under $1000.
As Om indicates, I don't think it's Google and Amazon that Apple is aiming for here. They're not trying to make a smart speaker play: they're trying to make a music play.
You do realize that probably 99.9% users don't go to lengths such as firewalls to secure their data. People are not that tech savvy in general. Even among all my tech friends, no one uses VPNs or firewalls.
It's interesting, an intelligent version of how Any.Do makes you plan your day every morning with the tasks you have added. But why couldn't they build it on top of all the features that wunderlist already provides. It is very basic right now.
No collaborative lists, no assignment of todos, no subtasks, no marking priority of todo, no grouped lists.
One step forward (maybe), 10 steps backward. Why should I as a user care whether an app is new and will improve features over time?
The most valuable part of Any.Do for me is the way the notification nags work. When something pops up, it takes the bare minimum of clicks to select when I want to be nagged again, and then it nags me again at that time. The way it pops up at the bottom of your screen as an overlay on top of whatever else is also part of its brilliance instead of getting lost in my list of notifications (on Android).
I really hope this integrates something like that. A ToDo app is only as useful as it is religiously used and followed-through on. I often forget to go back and mark things as complete, or even to check what I have coming up. So the ability to just constantly nag myself until it gets done, at which point I can mark it complete at the next nag is critical.
On that note, if anyone has any handy documentation links on how to code something for Android that does the pop-up notifications with button options like Any.Do has, I'd love to read up as I have an idea I want to test with that approach for another area of my life.
Another feature it is lacking straight out the gate is being able to read things like "Pick up milk tomorrow at 3 pm" and then automatically set the due date for tomorrow at 3 pm. (Even Wunderlist did that.) It is definitely an early stages product. Unless it comes out with some incredible feature, I'm sticking to Todoist.
With the current landscape of To-do list market (Any.do, Wunderlist, Todoist, etc. etc. etc.) this doesn't even feel like a MVP, more like an early alpha without the label.
You should actually remove Wunderlist from your list since their team announced that they will no longer be working on the product. They are working on Microsoft's To-Do now.
It will still exist as a product for awhile though, so I think it warrants it place on the list even if I transitioned over to Todoist a few months ago.
I transitioned to Todoist as well. I really love its rich feature list.
Wunderlist hasn't given an exact date for when they are retiring the product but they have said it will be retired at some point. (Probably once the feature list of To-Do moves up to where Wunderlist is.)
The huge downside, IMHO, is that they decided to reinvent the wheel completely instead of using existing standard for file-format (icalendar?), sync(caldav), etc. :(
