> he probably threw that in just to make you think there's an option besides the police

That's what I thought, too. For some reason, scammers often have high social intelligence. Maybe it's like with any other domain: if you understand how computers work, you are compelled to use computers a lot. If you understand how people work, you must be compelled to use people?

> That is like saying Ernie and Bert are gay.

It turns out that they are not gay, but not because it's inconceivable to children. They just aren't gay. (http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Are_Ernie_and_Bert_gay%3F)

The point is being able to see the menu bar (with the current date/time etc.) without hovering the mouse over it.

To be honest, this comment section is a bit mind-blowing to me, it really just goes to show how the behaviour that I take for granted isn't at all the default for other people. I would never, ever, have thought about people wanting to maximise the windows without actually hiding the menu bar.

It's not that they're bad at what they do with computers. It's just what they do with computers is not worth doing.

I've often wondered at what point HN would cross the rubicon from "old people, so bad at tech!" to "young whippersnappers, so bad at tech!"

It seems that this happened somewhat recently.

Suffice it to say - just like you felt when you were younger - most thoughts that boil down to "damn kids these days!" are almost certainly not true.

I'm a young (24) dev working in a very large org (tens of thousands large), I often feel like most people should never have been allowed to use a computer in their office. Young or old.

Of course it's silly because of the global productivity gains. And it may just be my innate misanthropy which made me a nerd when I was younger now manifesting in this new form.

I'm already an old man annoyed by people my age and annoyed by older people. But truth is, I'm annoyed by most non technical people.

PS: I like discussing technics with people from non tech fields though, luthiers, masons, cooks etc...

Summary: When people are good at what they do, they don't mistake the author for another person and are able to discuss intelligent topics while working.

However, since only one age value can be actually correct in this case, the use of logic looks less like a feature of the programmer's mind and more like a bug.

One of them is a case of GIGO, using "36 years ago" as input when the correct value is 35. Fixing that reduces it to two values, and the discrepancy is down to day versus year granularity.

All three results are close to each other and to the true value, so I'd still call it a feature :).

I'm amazed at how quickly Pokémon have taken over the world. The stories, the hype, the crazy projects, they're everywhere.

I wonder what it's like for the developers to work on a project and then see it succeed like that.

Pokemon was a big phenomenon in the late 90s. So the latest interest is really building on a solid foundation established 15 years ago. I'm sure each new game would have helped pull in new fans too.

If your only worry is malware, vanilla iOS is probably OK. But malware is not the only problem they're trying to solve.

They are trying to achieve complete control over the code it runs. Which is in some ways the opposite of Apple's approach to security.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Also, strangely enough (not being a Harry Potter fan), I immensely enjoyed Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

Unfortunately, this looks like a localization bug that will probably be fixed soon.

It won't be "fixed" soon, this isn't the first Niantic game that does this.

People were talking about this even in 2012 when playing Ingress: https://reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/13vjcw/the_real_nianti...