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Guardian: Feedback on the beta so far(next.theguardian.com)
2 points by cantlin 13y ago|0 comments
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NYT Now is a mobile news platform with a dedicated staff curating stories(engadget.com)
2 points by cantlin 13y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 13y ago
A good point, though not something we've heard repeated in UX sessions so far. For me the cinemagraphs ease the journey through the three thousand word piece, and help me orient myself in the text.
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by cantlin 13y ago
Actually, the difference seems specific to US English. My OED includes vise only as an alternative to vice, which carries both meanings. A quick Google also turns up this [1] article, which claims (without citation) that "In the U.S.
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by cantlin 13y ago
I can't say for certain, but I don't think that's something we've split tested in isolation. We've found with typography testing that you need to commit to fairly long running tests to see anything statistically sig
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by cantlin 13y ago
> Can you go into a bit more detail for us about what the back-end which supports > this is like, what sort of entities you use in your CMS The Content API [1] is the heart of the beast - it takes input from our various cont
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by cantlin 13y ago
We've done much more impressive bespoke layouts than this in the past, but this one was made 100% with native CMS entities. AMA.
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Rescue from Antarctica(theguardian.com)
8 points by cantlin 13y ago|14 comments
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The next arms race in digital publishing will be over explanatory power (medium.com)
1 points by cantlin 13y ago|0 comments
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News is no more a gateway drug to knowledge than I am to Ryan Gosling(medium.com)
1 points by cantlin 13y ago|0 comments
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News: no more a gateway drug to knowledge than I am to Ryan Gosling(medium.com)
1 points by cantlin 13y ago|0 comments
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The Facebook Friendship(medium.com)
1 points by cantlin 13y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 13y ago
The blanket wildcard 301 redirect between .co.uk and .com was one of the quicker things to implement, since our path structure hasn't changed. These should cause pagerank to migrate fairly seamlessly. It's also no accident that th
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by cantlin 13y ago
I'm one of the product guys at The Guardian involved in this project. It was quite an undertaking. Happy to field any questions you might have as best I can.
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"Why Wasn't I Consulted?" (2011)(ftrain.com)
1 points by cantlin 13y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 13y ago
I'd like it even more streamlined. Send five anonymized snippets to my inbox every Friday and let me click one button to order one of them to my door. Anyone know a service like this?
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by cantlin 13y ago
Sadly neither Mint nor Simple are available in the UK.
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Ask HN: How do you manage your finances?
4 points by cantlin 13y ago|10 comments
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by cantlin 13y ago
In London: 1. Include a one to two paragraph cover letter that you wrote specifically for the opening you're applying for. Make the quality of English very high. Use simple letter-style formatting, address in the top right, company log
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by cantlin 13y ago
London, UK. The Guardian. Software Engineer. We're hiring :) Come hack the news. The Guardian are predominantly a Scala shop but use anything that does the job. We're into that whole agile thing, so expect a minimum of bureaucracy. My team
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by cantlin 13y ago
App Script is great for knocking together ad-hoc spreadsheets that pull in data from your company's HTTP APIs. It's the best thing I've seen so far for giving non-technical colleagues visibility into whatever organisation data you have that
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How to not steal a website design(adactio.com)
3 points by cantlin 13y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 13y ago
Broadly speaking this is just what happened to us at The Guardian. Our major takeaways have been a drive to 2FA-by-default for all users, and a move to managing social accounts through intermediaries like HootSuite.
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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy(abovethecrowd.com)
9 points by cantlin 13y ago|0 comments
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Stripe Launch UK Closed Beta(techcrunch.com)
2 points by cantlin 14y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 14y ago
Thanks for that - Rainforest look very interesting (what I can see of it). "QA as a service" sums it up nicely.
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by cantlin 14y ago
In some circumstances "accumulation of knowledge" in a tester is exactly what you're trying to avoid. Fresh eyes can be very valuable. Amongst other reasons, this is why we don't give developers sole responsibility for testing their own wor
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by cantlin 14y ago
We've needed a crowd-sourced human testing platform for software products for some time. It would need granularity: as a developer I should be able to purchase N minutes of time from N people, potentially in such and such a demographic. It
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by cantlin 14y ago
The torrent user experience is poor. You interact with tacky, ad-rich sites to download files that you have to open up in often buggy desktop client software before receiving a product of highly variable quality. Contrast this with private
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by cantlin 14y ago
Last year I worked at a start-up that had manually created accounts for a few celebrities when they launched, in a gutsy and legally grey bid to improve their proposition†. While refactoring the code that handled email opt-out lists I misse

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