garethsprice

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by garethsprice 9y ago
Yes! I'd add that the sales themselves are often during working hours, but there's viewings in the days/weeks leading up to the sales which are a SUPERB way to view some world-class art for free. There's also a lot of su
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Chrome as it has excellent dev tools and a large market share. Then manually check in Safari, Firefox, iOS Simulator during development. Then BrowserStack for quick spot checks. Then check on real iOS/Android/Windows devices in ou
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by garethsprice 9y ago
This is where clearly specifying a browser support list at the beginning of a web project (or regularly updating one for long projects) helps to set those expectations. We have a list updated quarterly based on browsers with 5%+ market shar
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by garethsprice 9y ago
What's the name of the competitor that does that?
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Luigi Rossolo's The Art of Noise, a 1913 futurist manifesto that talks about how people adapt to technology, and that defines their aesthetic sensibilities (and predicts electronic/industrial music). http://www.artype.d
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Looks like both Equifax (2.5m additional accounts) and Yahoo chose today as a good day to bury bad news (the papers being filled with Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, etc). Slimy moves from their PR teams.
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by garethsprice 9y ago
- The Camille Fournier book is excellent in a surprisingly thin field of tech-management specific books - Mythical Man Month - old but great - How to Win Friends and Influence People (the "in the digital age" update of this classi
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by garethsprice 9y ago
He did etchings of Bowery too... some of my favorite works of art. Leigh Bowery was rarely seen publicly out of his fantastical outfits, so the etchings of him as a large naked man are especially striking and show his humanity. If you like
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Not sure what this has to do with tech but it was a great article on two of my favorite artists. Happy to find it here.
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by garethsprice 9y ago
This is presented as a cutesy way to get heavily indebted millennials onto the property ladder (and into yet more debt), but doesn't it turn them into indentured servants for the lender? They have 8 days per year they can't have
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by garethsprice 9y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/17/16161758/ios-11-touch-id-... Interesting twist. There was advice going around for protestors to disable Touch ID as cops need a warrant for a keycode, but don't fo
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Most people don't pay anywhere near to the unlocked retail price of the phone (so they don't consider it to be a $1,000 device), and many have insurance. If I drop my iPhone (which I paid about $100 for out of pocket after rebates
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Even though you don't drink, imagine you get into a minor accident on the way home from work today. You seem alright but your knee hurts the next morning, so you go to the doctor just to get it checked out. There's a strong chance
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Shorting a bubble also involves timing the peak and decline, I don't feel confident in my ability to do that (or anyone's tbh). I'm not knowledgable enough about Bitcoin markets or how shorting works to make a rational decisi
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by garethsprice 9y ago
There is a direct and educational correlation that can be drawn between South China Seas, tulip bulbs, stocks in 1929, dotcom stocks, Beanie Babies, subprime housing, Bitcoin, etc. Time and time again some financial instrument has become un
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by garethsprice 9y ago
It's a classic speculative bubble. People are making bets to position themselves for a situation where Bitcoin will be worth a lot in the future, but the valuation is untethered from any intrinsic value. The surge becomes self-sustaini
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Useful, thanks! Noticed that it doesn't report correctly for subdomains - one of the sites I built is at foo.megacorp.com, but the extension reports the results for megacorp.com which is a separate property.
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by garethsprice 9y ago
SelfControl on OSX works well for me: https://selfcontrolapp.com/
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Not all information on the Internet is created equal and not all information needs to be available in perpetuity. "Free $tuff From the Internet" from 23 years ago is closer to a restaurant guide than a book containing literary or
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by garethsprice 9y ago
I Bought a Book of Restaurant Recommendations from 1957 and None of them would Serve Me Dinner Any More
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Part of the art market's appeal is it's opacity, though - there's plenty of manipulation that would be outright illegal in regulated markets, and plenty of dirty money being washed through it - all contributing to the explodi
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Not sure about SF but NYC is teeming with laundries that'll pick up, clean, fold and drop-off for about $1 per pound with a $10 minimum. I drop off at my regular place (it's half a block, on the way to work) but friends use servic
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Self-managed a long term (1 year lease) rental property remotely for 4 years, family worked in short-term rentals so I have some experience of that market too. Main problem was peace of mind, knowing that tenants were there & not causin
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by garethsprice 9y ago
What're your goals? Thinking about what you really want out of side projects may help. It gets the blood pumping to think about building a project that is finally the one that makes you millions, but creating a highly profitable busi
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Despite claims to the contrary there's still a lot of economic mobility in the US - just as most homeless people are homeless for a only short period of time, many people will dip in and out of poverty throughout their lifetimes and no
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by garethsprice 9y ago
T-Mobile Tuesdays is a great case study for a customer loyalty app. 1) Unobtrusive and separate from all the other junkware (ie. not bundled into the main app), 2) conditioning to check it regularly, 3) giveaways that are (sometimes) things
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by garethsprice 9y ago
What's the correlation between rate of forming new businesses and the rising costs of healthcare? Quit your job to start a business and not only do you have to figure out your own insurance (at a vastly inflated rate), but you have to
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by garethsprice 9y ago
Went through a phase of recommending SSGs for some client projects. Worked well for very small projects (landing pages or one-off microsites) or for clients where we had ongoing maintenance agreements. However many clients ended up feeling
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It's simple, non-tech admin staff are familiar with the interface (and can be easily trained), there's a vast ecosystem of plugins and integrations for it, it's easy to hire people or teams who have experience working with it
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This brought back troubling memories of discovering that a non-trivial amount of the world's economic data seems to be shuttled around banks via batch-generated CSV files, only accessible via nightly FTP drops.

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