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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
Re: source control, this was also written in the year 2000...
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
At the end of the article the author states that FMT has gained some widespread acceptance in the past 6 years. Her experience is from 2012, when it was still a relatively obscure treatment.
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
Wow, this is a big deal! Great move by Twilio, bringing together the premier SaaS SMS provider and the premier SaaS transactional email provider under one roof. It's only too bad that SendGrid has struggled to get its marketing email s
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
Developer tools: Twilio, Heroku Consumer software: TurboTax I know that TurboTax is a controversial choice because they are incentivized to fight to keep tax law complicated, but if we ignore the political context, their software works beau
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
I think my head might explode if I ever see that in reality.
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
At least in the United States, I see exactly 0 chance of this happening in the current cultural and regulatory system we operate under. The average American worker is just lucky that they even get 2 days off during the week at this point. I
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
I love the detail-oriented approach to this. Tracking jQuery usage and slowly removing components from their custom jQuery library are both really clever strategies.
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
If you're an early-stage startup that's still determining product-market fit, then it's completely fair to eschew tests and accumulate tech debt; you're at a higher risk of running out of runway before you've even p
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
I had a job offer from the StatusPage guys a few years ago that I turned down (shortly before their acquisition by Atlassian, d'oh!). The feature set is relatively simple, but the underlying software is very complex. They need to be re
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
Late to this thread, but I loved this article because it put something into perspective for me... my New England boarding school had a swimming requirement, and was proud of its longstanding tradition of requiring all graduates to be able t
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
For the last 5 years I've worked primarily with startup CTOs and enterprise directors/VPs to build teams practices XP, lean product development, and user-centered design. My advice to them, and my philosophy on this topic, is that
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
I just want to remind folks that there are, in fact, organizations for whom the open plan actually works. I've spent the last few years practicing XP, on a collaborative team that includes PM, UX, QA, and devs, and we work in an open p
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
I'm very confused... "Errors discovered through Instabug are most likely to be resolved within 24 hours of being reported" is one of the TL;DR points, but only ~1.5% of bugs are resolved within 24 hours.
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
Very interesting read. I did a double take that a lack of Cesium-137 meant "post-1980" (not "pre-1980") since the levels have dropped off since the testing in the 50s and 60s.
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
The "Humanity" section has left me with a deep chill. I've already been in an existential mood the nature of life in the modern age, and now I've got the end of humanity to think about too...
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
Short answer: no. Long answer: nooooooooo. End of story. Goodbye.
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
On one hand, this seems like a very heavy-handed move considering today's societal ubiquity of meat. On the other hand, I believe that in 100 years we'll look at today as the dark ages in terms of the scale of our industrial meat
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
Doctor-patient privilege applies even after death, and while I couldn't easily find anything online, my assumption is that there's a process in place to handle scenarios like this so that patient data doesn't end up in unauth
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
It's not as clear cut as you're making it sound, there are a wide variety of opinions about how much a person's right to privacy extends beyond their death.
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
Your comment implied that the author doesn't address this in depth in the article. Your article flippantly compares this to people finding random correlations, which is so far from the content of the article that I'd personally co
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
I read through most of the content, and the quality of reporting was top-notch. The browser wars article, the reporting on the state of online privacy, the discussion of IPOs... all of it turned out to be the major important topics of the e
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
Very interesting article, but I was disappointed that the article stated that the millenial only-children of China are "outspoken", "pampered", or "self-centered". I don't believe that any of those terms a
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by 1_800_UNICORN 8y ago
The update is far more delicious than the original: http://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/a-coworker-stole-my-spicy... I'm not sure that the original advice given was ideal. I'd recommend consulting with a
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by 1_800_UNICORN 9y ago
I want Spotify to do well, but the reason I'm cautious is the lack of true differentiation. Spotify has a great platform, but I'd worry about the level of control that the labels and artists have over their catalog, and the fact t
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by 1_800_UNICORN 9y ago
> Google’s core DNA is search and engineering, though some would say engineering that is driven by the economics of search, which makes it hard for the company to see the world through any other lens. I would nitpick slightly. Google cor
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by 1_800_UNICORN 9y ago
Glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of searching Google Ngram. Unfortunately, if you dig into the source material, there's a lot of non-journalism usages of lede (and in the case you brought up, there will be a huge
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by 1_800_UNICORN 9y ago
I still remember this comic strip 16 years after I saw it in the paper.
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by 1_800_UNICORN 9y ago
This could be huge. Hemophilia is one of the most expensive diseases to treat out there. I worked with a client that provides software to hemophilia clinics, and while modern factor drugs have made it so that sufferers can live relatively n
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by 1_800_UNICORN 9y ago
Here's the article from a more reputable, less "doomsday prepper" source: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/climat...
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by 1_800_UNICORN 9y ago
The school, which has taught approximately 1,000 students, charges students between $12,000 and $15,000 for a 12 to 16 week in-person class and approximately $1,500 a month for online coding classes. Let's assume a very conservative

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