oh no. Another "flat design" theme. A button must be distinguishable from other design elements in my opinion. I hope this fad goes away soon, it's even more annoying than the glossy look or skeuomorphs.

Nothing is more annoying than skeumorphs. :)

It should be distinguishable, not just from the theme. A good UX/UI design will make that clear regardless.

Don't you run into limitations of raspberry's real time capabilities with a task like this? A REAL, microcontroller based, appliance, which is connected through a serial port to any PC, would be more suitable.

Yeah it depends on the task in question but I was thinking in general- Appliances should look and work as such.

The most important thing though is getting rid of the PC where it isn't necessary and making the whole thing an appliance. Otherwise the PC will be the weakest link in the system. It can be replaced but it's expensive and cumbersome (updates, security, etc) if all you want is the appliance for balancing axles.

I doubt there are any difficult hardware requirements for a task like this, if it's like balancing wheels it's no harder than (slow) analog sampling. I have done it with a cheap analog io card on a 386 with DOS for regular auto shop balancing.

That might be true, but imagine you phone company or E-Mail provider is ploughing through the content of your messages or even actively filtering your phone calls and is deciding what you can communicate and assumes control over whom you are able to reach.

It might be perfectly legal, you still would not want that to happen and people expressing their concerns should never be shrugged off with the simplistic attitude of "but they are allowed to do that".

A lot of things which are allowed for a company is still not the right thing and should be called out.

I'm certain that you can disable pdf.js in about:config

Not even needed, just open the Preferences, select the Applications page and for PDF instead of using "Firefox preview" select any other application, or just "Ask each time". I use this to open PDF with an external PDF reader on Linux and Windows, works like a charm.

Indeed, set pdfjs.disabled to true. I always do it, because I don't use pdfjs, but there was a pdfjs vulnerability that exposed local files to third-party JS -- so you might as well disable complex stuff that you don't really use.

how do you work for someone without them knowing your age? Do you keep that out of your CV? How about credentials and signing your contact? Seems very strange to me.

I amputated my birth year, education and about 20 years of experience from my CV. Health insurance paperwork went directly to the broker. This is an outfit that hires by test and interview and cares not about aught else. Turns out they're not that rare.

Your age or birth date probably shouldn't be on your CV. Unless you think it's relevant to the job somehow, but it probably isn't.

Not only should it not matter, but it's illegal for employers to ask about it or consider it in their hiring decision, so having it right there on your CV puts them in a bit of a tight spot. I think some recruiters will actually remove that type of thing before forwarding it on to the interviewers and hiring people.

That depends on what country you're in. In Japan it's very standard to include date of birth, gender and a photograph on CV's.

On the whole I hate the practice, but you have to consider cultural norms when doing the job-hunting dance.

It's also customary in Germany, although I've never had a problem getting a job and I've never attached a photo to my resume.

Really? That seems very odd to me. In the UK I've never put my birth date, gender or photo on a CV and you're advised not to, unless you're applying to be like a model or something where I guess gender and photo is needed.

When I was in the 6th Form in the UK we were told we had to include a photo with CVs. Another reason you should never take careers advice from someone who became a careers advisor!

Immigration is still a pretty new thing for most of central Europe.

There weren't a significant number of visibly-foreign immigrants in Germany till the 60s or 70s and it took a couple more decades before those were seen as anything other than 'temporary guest workers'.

The UK and France (and even more so the US and other "New World" countries) had at least a few decades head-start for culture to get around the idea of immigration.

Depends on where you work. Anything influenced by the English-speaking world (IT, multinationals) – never attach a photo. A small local company – always attach a photo. Anything else – good luck deciding what to do.

Not really anymore, the latest version of the DIN norm on CVs has no photo or birthdate anymore, and in some states, it’s being discussed to ban it even.

Is there a a norm on CVs? The only remotely relevant I know of is DIN 5008 which concerns letters but doesn't contain anything regarding CVs.

There is one since the EU standardized CVs and created a webapp to build standardized CVs.

I have never seen a Europass in the wild and I wouldn't cite that as a German standard CV given its European nature.

It's quite customary in Getmany to even have a picture on your CV.

Many people put college graduation year on their resume, and hiring managers reflexively subtract ~20 from that year and aren't wrong 99% of the time.

Interesting! I graduated much later in life, don't put my DOB on resume and I've often been told that they expected me to be younger when they see me - now I get it!

One of the few perks of not finishing your degree until much later is the fact that you can put that date on your resume and people assume you're younger. It's expensive, though, considering how much and how fast college tuition has been shooting up in price the past 15 years.

In Hungary, it is standard to include a photo on the CV, so I do that. Recruiter friends told me how they consider non-photo applications secondary to ones with photos, and how a human face helps building a connection right from the start.

So my only reason for including my age on the CV is because I look like I'm 24, whereas I'm pushing 31.

Not just Hungary, most of Europe outside of the UK seems to do this. I remember finding it a bit odd the first time I had to sift through developer CVs and most of them had photos.

What's the story in Asia? I only know about Thailand where a photo, age, sex and religion(!) are standard on CVs. Most advertised jobs state requirement for male or female of a certain age.

Graduation dates need to be there for any role that involves a background check.

If someone is doing a background check and can't find out when you've graduated, then why bother?

Yeah, that's kinda the point: you can't realistically conceal your age in many if not most job applications.

> Do you keep that out of your CV?

My understanding is that it is not only possible not to mention your age in your CV, but even illegal for companies to ask you what your age is as part of the application process.

Putting your age isn't necessary when your experience goes back decades and you graduated from university before your hiring manager was even born. Similarly, your name can convey a lot of biases as well, such as gender and ethnicity.

You can truncate your cv and not list graduation year, though name is tough.

The last time I shortlisted people for interview, HR had removed names and any other identifying information.

"So, candidate 24892 looks strong."

I don't know if I have unconscious biases, but this method was unlikely to make things less fair.

That sounds like a very good move to let people have an equal opportunity to "get a foot in the door", so to speak, but I'm genuinely curious how biases may be reduced during the interview process (be it telephonic or direct) and interview questions that may be directed at one's experience? Is this even possible without having dedicated "how to interview people" learning sessions and monitoring?

Yea definitely the company can do that on their end. Harder for you to do as an applicant though.

Is it really, though? It's possible they'd never need your real name until you filled out tax forms after being hired.

maybe from a different Mario game?

Looks a lot like Mario Advance 3.

Super Mario Advance 3 was a port of Yoshi's Island. Yoshi's Island pipes for reference:

http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/yoshis_island_...

Not anywhere close.

Actually I was thinking of Super Mario Advance 4, which is the port of Super Mario Bros. 3, thus the mistake on my part.

Have you tried using your E Reader as a VNC client? I did that with my Kobo to use my Laptop in daylight and it worked quite well.

Maybe it's because I'm old, but I do all this with email phone calls and text messages and it seems to me to do the job just fine.

What is the advantage of using Facebook to keep in touch with people that I'm missing?

The ability to get a single feed of what they are doing that they can easily send out to everyone without having to create a mailing list.

Being able to easily react to any status that your friends post, and being able to comment on that. The email equivalent would be a separate email thread for each status update from each friend. That would quickly get messy.

And a big one for me is being able to create an event, and invite friends to it. Any updates to said event can then be communicated to all those interested without you having to make updates to a list of email addresses.

Maybe you can handle your social life fine but some of us who are more incompetent at it like the assistance of some automation. I'm only partly joking.

I don't know about that. I'm just honestly confused what Facebook offers for those purposes that "traditional" tools don't.

Those sound like tools for very immediate, personal attention. Facebook allows for that (like messaging or writing on someone else's timeline directly), plus a bunch of intermediate levels. For example I can post 200 photos from my vacation in an album, and it just shows up as a single item in my friends' timelines. Any of my contacts can browse it if they want, but it doesn't take up disk space in their inboxes, they can start a conversation connected to any individual photo, and it's not as insistent as if I'd sent them in an email. And if I really want someone to see it, I can tag them or just message them with the link.

Facebook also serves as an auto-updated contact list. If I update my email or phone number, many of my contacts won't have the new information. FB doesn't have that problem. In fact I can put my phone number and email on my FB profile and my contacts can optionally auto-sync that info right to their phones so it is always up-to-date. It's possible to be "friends" with someone but not "follow" them so you don't see their posts in your normal timeline but you still get their contact info. You can also make closed or open groups which are helpful for event planning and multicast messages, and "friend lists" which let you customize the reach of each post. I guess you could do that last one with email too.

And how does this exclude it from being called radar?

radar is based primarily on time delays, secondarily on doppler shift, the signal intensity is not such a major factor since it varies a lot depending on the incidence angle of the target.

Make a catchy video, presenting the idea, create an kickstarter. Hope to get viral (hire an ad agency who can make that happen). Research the market. Know the market. Hire someone to build a sound business plan for you. Go begging for that money shower. Cry for the thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours already spent which you may never see again.