This is cool but personally I have to use digital note keeping apps.

With years of exploring, I found VS Code to the best for me.

Multiple text files in a single folder, or one big file? How do you search or link notes?

I think UIUX is culture & context & device dependent. For example, Japanese had smartphones long before iPhone/Android phones got any significant market share.

just look at most of the mentioned websites now. Most of them resemble US counterparts now.

pretty sure the test ninjas build Google

At this point, that could either be advocating in their favor or not so much.

> Chinese and Japanese

When I interviewed last time; the only company i did not make through phone screen was by a Japanese interviewer. I gave a three viable solutions to an easy question. Had no idea why I failed but probably because of racism

It's definitely possible that there were other factors in play. I hope you see the danger or irony of automatically assuming that the Japanese interviewer rejected you because of their racial bias.

I hope you see the danger or irony of stigmatizing the discussion of bias.

You threw a racism uno card by asserting that the Japanese guy was racist with zero proof. You’re stereotyping people as much as you accuse others of.

It was a different commenter -- franklampard.

Well, then we can certainly say he wasn't hired based on a review of past performance. Lamps has had a terrible managerial career.

I didn’t think of racism until I saw this.

I hope we can have more nuanced discussions on these topics.

Most of these discussions of bias are about as scientific as phrenology, and ought to be treated with as much respect.

Isn’t a legal product a better one than an illegal counterpart?

Only if the user (in Google's case the product) would be the one liable.

It may not be cheaper when you have to deal with the repercussions of breaking the law though.

Those are usually just slaps on the wrist.

Sure, if the products and companies are identical in every other fashion, which is never true in real life.

Are you suggesting that legal products/services always win over illegal products in a capitalist market? Think again: Uber, AirBnb, etc.

No, you are the one claiming that illegal products are always cheaper. I am saying it is murky.

The question was about otherwise identical products.

As an engineer, one would want to solve the first kind but leave the second kind to MBAs

Not if you have ever worked in a formerly successful org that got fixed by MBAs. People need to understand the nature of software before fixing organizations that make and maintain software. After being burned a few times, many engineers find it useful to at least wave off disasters waiting to be implemented and to reinforce the odd truly helpful suggestion from above. Best of all is creating technical solutions that enable the organization to function better, to increase lower level autonomy and decrease organizational coupling, to increase useful transparency so we can all see the ship and its vectors.

That's their nominal task, and nominally why they make big bucks.

But have you ever witnessed the MBAs solving it? I haven't. So I'd recommend to avoid the organizations with the second kinds of problems, so that you can focus on the first, and not even think about the MBAs.

Or, alternatively, if you manage to find a way to do it, get the task for yourself and make the big bucks.

Because it takes more effort than clicking a few buttons

Exactly. I use it for email

Dumbness