This happens on the same day as the GDPR goes into effect. Put two and two together and you see what Klout was most likely doing with its users' data.

> The team behind the recent study assessed the sleep of almost 900 elderly people with no signs of depression

I'll add to that that this isn't limited to web developers.

Looking at it from a manager's perspective:

Work in rooms, not an open-plan office. This way, if someone wants to interrupt you, they have to "pay" a higher price, like messaging you (you may not be available or the nature of the asynchronous conversation may not be convenient) or actually getting up and going to your room.

Cultivate a culture of empathy, wherein people learn to pick up signs that someone is busy working. Apply peer pressure when someone doesn't pick up the cues. Make it an "insult" to destroy someone's flow. Don't be a dick about it, though - there are ways of cultivating this slowly and discreetly.

Bull. I find networking hard and tasking, but am also one of the best communicators on any team I'm in. They're two different skills - creating new bonds and performing within new ones.

Please do and submit those that you find to be offenders :)

It can take a while to appear, simply because I queue posts for publication top make sure we have a steady stream of activity. It usually takes up to a month tops.

Thousands, actually. Really glad you guys are finding our website so helpful and I'm very happy this is the top comment :)

Thank you all for your support!

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"no one expects ads in a piece of software that they just paid good money for"

Kindle.

I mean, we could always trust the Russians to work in our best interests. Also, they were never sneaky about anything. Always truthful and honest, them Russians.

And Iran only threatened to wipe The West off the map, starting with Israel, with any means at their disposal. And that they could make a nuclear bomb if they wanted to, because it was a right granted to them from Allah.

Not to mention that they're playing the North Korean game of "let's talk" / "we're not talking to you anymore" / "let's talk" / "we're not talking to you anymore" with the UN. Remember what North Korea has now after a few years of that? Ah, yes, The Bomb.

And all this in the hands of a fanatic regime, intent on spreading Islam through force, feared and hated even by most other Islamic nations, all the while being one of the most horrible human-rights violators of our time.

But there's nothing to fear. They're not after the bomb. They say they are, but there's nothing to worry about. It's just a nuclear power plant.

REMAIN CALM!

[fanboy of company] was one of a surprisingly large number of people writing in this morning to report that [company's website] is having serious troubles taking pre-orders of the [yearly product refresh]. People are seeing the error page or just waiting an insanely great long time to get pages back. Just imagine [pseudo-snarky comment trying to downplay moderator's asskissing]!

Would this story appear for Microsoft's Windows? Adobe Photoshop? Color me skeptic.

True, but we don't need more databases like these, we need less.

It is the mathematical function that identifies your facial features as your own to a very high degree of probability.

Your fingerprints are not in one big database that can be hacked (as others have been hacked before) along with the rest of your entire country. If you've given your fingerprints 10 times, I hope you're sure you gave them to people who can keep them a secret. You can't really change them later.

Think of someone using this database, along with live CCTV footage from a railway station (say, a public online webcam), singling out the Israelis in the crowd. When they see a large group of Israelis coming by, a suicide bomber comes along and explodes next to them. You don't have to be a privacy freak to shudder at that thought.

You don't need a central database to have biometric passports/id cards. All you need is to store their hashes on the card and that would be compared to the person in question.
This is the only thing required of a biometric card.