You should visit New Zealand one day, they have very strict rules about bringing anything in, but I've found their customs people to be the most friendly, even shared a few jokes and tips on snowboard gear with one of the officers while passing through the nothing to declare line last winter.
I'm not sure what the point of this is, Material Design is built on solid design principles which create well spaced and easy to understand interfaces, none of which are goals of Bootstrap.
Combining Bootstrap with Material is like putting salt in coffee, and hiding with some sort of identity crisis. You've named expansion panels; accordions, which sure, they do follow a similar pattern, but which library are you basing the naming on?
As a front-end developer and designer, this makes me cringe.
As the Prime Minister said, it was load tested to handle 1M form submissions an hour. Which is all of Australia completing it in 24 hours. The problem is everyone did it at once, so we only have ourselves to blame.
But seriously, handling 23M form submissions in 1 hour, isn't too hard to do. The 2 major considerations are: 1. How fast can we make the app handle that submission, which honestly is probably just writing to a DB, 2. How many servers so we need to scale out to do the work. You could do this on AWS pretty well, there's much bigger customers on there doing much more load. I've personally seen apps on AWS doing a sustained 1M concurrent requests per minute with less than 10 servers.
The point is, out-sourcing government IT to Companies that are satisfied with meeting the bare minimum requirements without any logical discussion about the maximum requirements, results in CensusFail.
> A phone number uniquely identifies an individual
As someone who travels a lot I can attest to the annoyance of messaging apps which identify users by phone number. WhatsApp is a good example.
Another terrible design is one time passcodes which are sent over SMS. When a number gets recycled it can become impossible to recover access to a service which you forgot was associated with the number you had at the time of signing up in another country.
You've mentioned many times, more so recently, that YC is committed to investing in hard tech problems. When considering companies solving these problems for the next batch, knowing that often times even getting a prototype ready is a massive undertaking, how much chance does one have applying with nothing more than an idea and some research? And the possibility that it won't generate revenue for 5+ years?
Being that this is true of getting anything done in the real world I was hoping to frame the question without needing to preface it with that, or listing any qualifications of my own or my team on a pseudonymous account, but needless to say we get things done.
It certainly gives you a feel for how they do development internally. End of the readme mentions a new version coming soon, instead of say, iterating on this one. Also, the main contributor is stripped of any personally identifiable information.
I'm learning German. I've never learnt a non-machine language before and having just moved to Berlin I thought I'd try not being that jerk foreigner that only speaks english, even after living here for 2 years. So far it's been quite fun. Last week I finally cracked the level where I understood a conversation of a Couple passing me on the street.
An old bilingual hacker mate once commented to me, on learning German, that it's a stack based languages, as all the verbs are at the end of the sentence...
So far no. I've been using Duo Lingo, which has been surprisingly good to get the basics, plus a bunch of learn German audio files I found. I'll probably sign up for classes soon when I find some good ones. A friend of mine took classes aimed at tourists and said she didn't get much from it.
