changes in labor markets— the largest by far, being the shift out of agriculture. In 1910, there were 12 million farmworkers in the United States. One hundred years later, there were only 700,000 in a population more than three times larger. World Bank, Digital Dividends report 2016, Figure O.18 et seq “
was a complex, long and expensive process – one that only a small percentage of people and businesses could afford. With just a few simple questions, Wix ADI designs tailored websites by learning about each person’s or business’ own needs. “
possibilities, Wix ADI perfectly matches optimal design and content elements Wix ADI gathers from across the web and social media for relevant content that you can use as is or customize. https://www.wix.com/blog/2016/06/wix-artificial-design-intelligence/ “
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eyes at self-conscious Brooklyn hipsters pickling everything in sight, we might look to them as guides to the future of the American economy. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/adam-davidson-craft-business.html “
United States (they exist, I swear!) have done so by avoiding direct competition with low-cost commodity producers in low- wage nations. Instead, they have scrutinized the market and created customized products for less price-sensitive customers. “
also implies an attitude and social consciousness... a social obligation to work his best for the general welfare of the people, [an] obligation both material and spiritual. Tashio Odate - “Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use”
New Year's - the sharpened and taken-care of tools would be placed in a tokonoma (a container or box still found in Japanese houses and shops), and two rice cakes and a tangerine (on top of rice paper) were placed on top of each toolbox, to honour the tools and express gratitude for performing their task. “
or GSM/EDGE, networks … more than half of Indonesian smartphone users said they experienced network problems daily. - Measuring and improving network performance Ericsson, September 2014
on the site that were meant for an American audience? • Should they translate the site into Hindi? If so, how do you say “group dating” in Hindi? • Should they ask users for their caste? • What kinds of offline partnerships, if any, should they form? • And what role should mobile devices play? • 70 percent of payments that subscribers try to make can’t be processed because of problems with the credit card system. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/business/20ignite.html
for their reliable delivery of hot lunches, to deliver parcels in India.” (World Bank, p75) By Steve Evans from Citizen of the World - Mumbai Dabbawala or Tiffin Wallahs: 200,000 Tiffin Boxes Delivered Per Day https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5685307 “
region plus the popularity of shopping as a weekly leisure activity, new brands will need to turn to brick-and-mortar spaces to entice consumers. https://www.techinasia.com/talk/new-retail-southeast-asia “
in 2003 • eBay established dominant market share 85 percent by acquiring the Chinese market leader • By 2014, Taobao accounted for over 80 percent of the Chinese C2C market (eBay exited the Chinese market in 2006)
part) by its ability to adapt to local market conditions and culture to remove the information asymmetries unique to the Chinese C2C market. The Taobao website, for instance, indicates whether sellers are online and allows buyers to communi- cate instantly with the sellers through an online messaging system. (World Bank p61) “
writing a person's name in red ink suggests a wish for that person to die Asian Business Customs & Manners: A Country-by-Country Guide, Bosrock, Mary Murray 2007 “
a common design choice. The low power end of the scale is typically simpler to design, implement and use, but the high power end of the scale has all the attraction of being an open-ended hook into which anything can be placed: a door to uses bounded only by the imagination of the programmer. Sir Uncle Timbo https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html#PLP “
user is on a 2G-speed or slower network according to the NetInfo API, Chrome disables scripts and sends an intervention header on every resource request. Users are shown a UI at the bottom of the screen indicating the page has been modified to save data. Users can enable scripts on the page by tapping “Show original” in the UI. css-tricks.com/new-mobile-chrome-feature-would-disable-scripts-on-slow-connections/ “
is global • Order affects cascade • Dependency system - @import • Relies on markup structure (classes, IDs, descendant/ strucural combinators) • Breaks silently
behaviors, rules, names and other idiosyncrasies. It's amazingly powerful, for sure, but it is loaded with cruft https://twitter.com/JohnHargrove/status/985631372764221440
remember to camelCase properties then spending 10min pulling hair out when you do forget” “the cryptic domain-specific languages that each of the frameworks do just ever so slightly differently”
then I copy paste from inspector, only to have to re-write it as a JSON object” “Lack of linting, autocomplete, and css plug-ins for colors/ incrementing/ etc”. “Not a gripe. But a concern: Performance.”
died for me ... CSS could be perfectly static if given the right tools, that's exactly what stylable does. It gives you the tools you need in CSS so that you don't need to do a bunch of dynamic shit in JS. Making it static is a huge performance win - core team member of Yarn, Babel and TC39 https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/929675977067655170 “
much JavaScript as is now “normal” and expect the web to flourish. To get this fixed, we need to confront the “developer experience” bait-and-switch. Tools that cost the poorest users to pay wealthy developers are bunk. Alex Russell https://infrequently.org/2018/09/the-developer-experience-bait-and-switch/ “
than ever before, the cost of Internet is a major obstacle. In Nigeria, the data needed to watch just 2 minutes of online video a day can cost more than sending a child to school for a month. https://webwewant.org/news/how-to-make-internet-affordable/ “
also implies an attitude and social consciousness... a social obligation to work his best for the general welfare of the people, [an] obligation both material and spiritual. Tashio Odate - “Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use”
used one of three websites differing in levels of accessibility • A high level of web accessibility led to better performance (i.e., task completion time and task completion rate) than low or very low accessibility. • Likewise, high web accessibility improved user ratings (i.e., perceived usability, aesthetics, workload and trustworthiness) compared to low or very low web accessibility. Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland www.unifr.ch/psycho/assets/files/KogErg/SchmutzSondereggerSauer2016.pdf
to post anything on the web, there is no central controlling node, and so no single point of failure … and no “kill switch”! This also implies freedom from indiscriminate censorship and surveillance. https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/
in Myanmar could set you back more than $2,000… In August [2014], Qatar’s Ooredoo began selling data- enabled cards with a 3G connection for $1.50. When a SIM Card Goes From $2,000 to $1.50 Bloomberg (29 Sept ’14) SIM: was $2,000 now $1.50 “
at the University of Warwick, scrutinized every anti-refugee attack in Germany, 3,335 in all, over a two-year span. In each, they analyzed the local community by any variable that seemed relevant. Wealth. Demographics. Support for far-right politics. Newspaper sales. Number of refugees. History of hate crime. Number of protests. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks- germany.html
in mature countries over the past 5 years creates an increase in real GDP per capita of $500 on average during this period. It took the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century 50 years to produce the same result. - The Net’s sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity (McKinsey Global Institute) Internet matters
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