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Because stretched words can be embedded with so much extra meaning beyond the words themselves, understanding them is critical for artificial intelligences that analyze text, like chatbots. At the moment, a stretched word may be so perplexing for an AI that the program just skips over it entirely. We don’t want to have to bold or italicize words to emphasize them for the chatbot to parse—and even then, such formatting can’t replicate the range of emotions that stretched words convey. … [Read more...] about Whoooaaa duuuuude: Why we stretch words in tweets and texts

This hover effect is certainly eye-catching, and it allows for some very fine adjustments to the iPad’s angle—though I do wish there was a wider range of angles to adjust it to. Generally, I file this aspect of the design under just “neat” but it doesn’t fundamentally make this a better keyboard case than any that takes a different approach. There is one big downside to this approach, though. A significant portion of the bottom-half of the cover is just blank space obscured by the iPad hovering above it. That’s space that can’t be used to, say, make the trackpad taller, which is something I’d have preferred. … [Read more...] about Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro mini-review: A vast improvement

The Vimium browser add-on isn’t as complex as its progenitor. However, it borrows the idea of controlling a program from the home row to be super-efficient. Anyone who knows how to use Vim will have no trouble acclimating to the browser add-on, as they use similar commands. … [Read more...] about Use Vimium to Browse with the Keyboard in Chrome and Firefox

But by January 2019, Edwards had had enough. For one, he didn’t think the services were helping his bottom line. “Even though we were bringing in more money, after paying out the commission rates, we were seeing a decrease in net profits,” he says. The drivers were inconsistent, he reports, and sometimes lacked equipment like insulated food bags to keep deliveries warm. Edwards also found it harder to get in touch with customer service reps for the apps, who would sometimes refund customers at the eatery's expense for deliveries he believed had gone well. … [Read more...] about Everyone’s ordering delivery, but apps aren’t making money

Languages, frameworks, and other technologies I'd be working with   51% Office environment or company culture   45% Flextime or a flexible schedule   44% Opportunities for professional development  41% Remote work options   33%Overall, developers tend to be satisfied with their jobs, with almost 65 percent reporting that they are either slightly or very satisfied with their job. On the other end of the spectrum, around 25 percent are slightly to very dissatisfied. … [Read more...] about What do developers want? A chance to learn, and a decent corporate culture