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"Hold Control and Option while clicking on a window to switch focus to that window without raising it."

TIL. Amazing little hack.


What is this useful for?


Writing in a text field in one window while referring to another window, where the window with the text field would overlap the other window if it were frontmost.


this doesn't work for me on 15.3.1


"Ikaria...named after the Greek island where a close-knit community helps extend people’s lifespans."

"Bader met Dadashi through an offline men’s group for discussing life, love and everything in the wake of Secret’s collapse and a rough romantic breakup. After just a few weeks of these meetups, they say they felt closer to each other than to most of their friends."

"Basically, since 2004, technology has created this monumental shift in the human social experience. We’re more connected than ever technically but all the studies show we’re lonelier than ever,” Bader explains. “It’s like eating McDonald’s to get healthy."

And the conclusion is to take VC money to make a slightly different McDonald's. I just can't even.


Great concept! Bookmarked for future reference.

Nitpicky copy edits: In the headline, it should be "value" not "values". Also, I'd update the job buttons to just say "Apply". "Apply Job" sounds awkward.


Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies - César Hidalgo (2015)

Fantastic read that gave me a new way to understand the world.


What were some key insights from this?

It looks quite interesting. I'm guessing it's centered around entropy?


You're on the right track with that, although I'd say it's centered around order, rather than entropy.

It's hard to do it justice here, but the book builds off of existing information theory to offer an explanation of why there are pockets of order in the universe (like our solar system) instead of uniform chaos.

From there it explains how natural systems can increase in complexity over time, and then moves eventually into human systems like cities and economies.

He basically uses physics and thermodynamics to explain economics, which I found fascinating.

This book made me realize just how valuable dense cities are for economic progress and innovation (and why that is - one reason being that it's relatively difficult to transfer knowledge and know-how from one human to another). It also provides an interesting sort of grand purpose for humanity - to be caretakers of this little region of ordered information we find ourselves in.


This was definitely the best book I read in the last year and really changed my larger worldview and led me down the path into information and chaos theory. I particularly like how you put it here: "It also provides an interesting sort of grand purpose for humanity - to be caretakers of this little region of ordered information we find ourselves in." that is an elegant summary of that concept which really resonated with me, but I hadn't been able to quite put into words. Thanks!


Yeah, definitely sounds like a good read.

Interestingly a great deal of progress can simply viewed as reducing or containing entropy.

Whenever a claim is made that something "improves developer productivity" I am very dubious of that claim. Instead I try to evaluate it along the axis of "how much entropy does this help contain? And what ways does the abstraction leak? That is to say where is this thing adding to the overall entropy of the system?". I find that gets better mileage.


When facial recognition is ubiquitous we will all wear masks.


Okay, let's jump forward in time a little ...

When FR is ubiquitous, we'll need a different mask for each section of the journey to prevent being tracked end to end.

Also Gait-DNA will soon be ready to implement, of course it'll be tested on existing "footage" first ... then it's not a huge jump to mapping your current disguised journey (say from home to work, at regular intervals) to some saved recordings from when you we're unmasked.

Fine for those who can change their routine perhaps, but less so for the great majority.


We should be suspicious of all ideas.


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"Stay the hell out of my kitchen" comes to mind. :)


I'm not sure why I would care to defend him, but it seems that his claim that the data is not real time can be verified by the first image in the parent comment's list. In that shot there's a column listing the 'Upload Reason'. The reasons include "Scheduled" and "Archive full", which seems to indicate that the software reports back at set times unless the user was particularly active and the data file hit some size limit.

There's also a third upload reason in that image which has it's own disturbing implications: "SMS_PullRequest_CS".


I'm not going to buy it until it goes on sale for 90% off.


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