No and the author addresses this in the article saying he mapped 'jj' to Esc. The downside with this choice is he cannot move the cursor down multiple lines in normal mode.
Wise synthesis of a growing problem. Author says "I've decided to 'opt-out' of this war entirely." What mental gymnastics does he use when watching a YouTube ad for example? The subliminal effect of much advertising is pernicious and cannot be entirely avoided, it seems to me.
> What mental gymnastics does he use when watching a YouTube ad for example?
No ads on youtube here so no mental gymnastics required. Probably one of ghostery, ublock or umatrix takes care of those for me.
The only way they can reliably serve those is when they splice them onto the actual video but that hasn't happened yet. On some sites pre-roll ads do cause the main video to be paused for as long as the ad would run otherwise.
Read the fine print. They are not getting rid of performance reviews and rankings. They are removing the useless yearly conversation that formally informed the employee of what they already knew.
I worked for Accenture, as well as its first incarnation Andersen Consulting, and in my experience the reviews that really mattered were the so-called role reviews. Roles are jobs at a client. Every role reports to a more senior Accenture employee who assigns scores as a judgment on performance. The annual review, held with one's career counselor, is a chat largely about the scores assigned to one from roles in the current year. The scores from roles add up to a number and that number is essentially the annual review.
In this policy change, Accenture is simply removing a useless impotent non-position. It does nothing to curb the recency effect, for example, pernicious in the role review. That said, Accenture's process is more enlightened than most approaches to the formal review.
We might not be in a tech bubble but as sama said:
> Of course, there could be a macro collapse in 2018 or 2019, which wouldn’t have time to recover by 2020. I think that’s the most likely way for me to lose.
... The potential for global economic collapse in the next ~5 years is significant. Read James Rickards (or watch his performance in the recent Intelligence Squared debate "Declinists be Damned: Bet on America") for a smart rationale in support of the pessimistic projection.
Bouncing lasers off window panes to detect audio is a worrisome development. The counter-measure is to install dual pane windows equipped with acoustic transducers that vibrate the panes with white noise. For the device mentioned in the article, when the technology becomes available to consumers and/or is open-sourced, anyone will be able to count the occupants of any location near to them. The question again becomes one of counter-measures.
Development? The technique has been well known for a long time, I remember hearing about it in the late 90s. It isn't widely used because it isn't practical. Also, your countermeasure doesn't work if there is another reflective surface inside the room.
> Development? The technique has been well known for a long time
The difference is that these things used to be the domain of major government agencies rather than a hobbyist with a few hundred dollars and a poor sense of privacy.
The bottom line with both of these technologies is that their usecases are simply too narrow to inspire causal use.
The radar-gadget is useful if you're about to storm a house full of armed adversaries - in most other cases, you can just peek through the window or knock on the door and get much the same information.
The laser-bouncer is great for eavesdropping on people who take some effort to hide their communication - if they don't, hiding a wireless microphone or a high-capacity dictaphone is orders of magnitude simpler and cheaper.
The other countermeasure is windows angled downward so that the laser would have to be on the premises to get a direct bounce. Not viable for most homes, though.
Every href on this page is an Amazon affiliate link. Even public domain works such as Society of Mind by Minsky are directed to a for profit version. Observing this does not invalidate the judgement of the MIT student who published the list, but the profit motive should be disclosed in my opinion.
Forget about whether your idea, which you haven't told us anything about except that it is e-commerce, should be labeled startup. What matters is the quality of your insight and the other person. If your thing is as lucrative as you say, break everything down and identify the parts that you will be responsible for so the other person will need you. Your idea is amazing if you can prove to a serious developer that your plan will quickly make both of you rich. Build a minimum viable product then iterate. These things often take longer than we think they will, which is why a technical co-founder in it for the long haul beats a freelancer incentivized only to complete the requirements you thought to list, all other factors being equal.
