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by kevinconroy 7y ago
At CHI conference about a decade ago I spoke with some of the lead HCI researchers at Mitsubishi (which has long contributed to human factors research). During Q/A they said the single best thing you could do to improve safety was to N
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by kevinconroy 7y ago
Flame on!
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by kevinconroy 8y ago
Homebrew users: brew install gource
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by kevinconroy 8y ago
I wanted to up vote you, but did some research and turns out that both the FDA and the European Food Safety Authority have not found evidence that it is: "The current assessment concluded that glyphosate does not have oestrogen, androg
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by kevinconroy 8y ago
My monthly upvote for Thorn being an amazing organization with a great mission.
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by kevinconroy 8y ago
Check out ctosforgood.org, or head over to idealist.org.
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by kevinconroy 8y ago
Although not for the faint of heart, the work Thorn does is incredible. I highly recommend anyone who is looking to transition to a 'higher, real-world' impact role to look at this! Disclaimer: Not affiliated with Thron, just a fa
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by kevinconroy 8y ago
Switching to the nonprofit sector where, surprisingly, there's a lot of interesting use of technology. Knowing that my efforts have resulted in poor kids going to school, refugees getting hot meals, and hundreds of other similar outcom
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by kevinconroy 8y ago
Was able to get the site to load after several tries, which has led to a humorous juxtaposition with the comments here. Other commenters are saying that they know what drives software costs, and while I agree with some of the comments, ther
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
Yes, the on boarding for FullStory is excellent and they go out of their way to help you try to get it right. Odds are you'll end up doing a better job at protecting privacy in FullStory than in your own log files, but YMMV.
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
+1 - having session recordings is a HUGE win to help track down hard-to-reproduce bugs. You can get the strangest bug reports, and by watching the session, as a dev, you can instantly translate it into the technical terms that the end user
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
If a company is serious about security and privacy, they have to do those audits for every feature, regardless of if they use these tools. PCI requires this if you handle money online. Still, you're right that many companies have a sur
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
Correction: I wrote redacting when I meant exclusion. My apologies!
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
+1 for highlighting the privacy concerns, but -1 for blaming the software for not having strong enough defaults. As someone who has integrated FullStory into a production site, I spent several days doing a careful audit of our forms and red
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
Yep. I'm sure there are plenty of for-profits doing meaningful stuff too. Given OP's original question, seemed like he was missing non-profit from his search. I'd suggest searching (non-profit + meaningful for-profit).
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
Thanks! Always open if you have any suggestions or bug reports :)
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
Try the nonprofit world: http://idealist.org/ I used to say "Nonprofits? They aren't doing anything interesting with tech!!" One day, my wife convinced me to try searching on Idealist just to see if there wer
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
Where did you get the impression that Girl Scouts "suck so much at understanding their audience"? I'm fairly angry that someone would read that article and assume that if Boy Scouts decided to admit girls to help offset the d
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by kevinconroy 9y ago
https://www.globalgiving.org/ I'm CPO/CTO/CMO at GlobalGiving. I know there are other members of CTOs for Good lurking here ( https://www.ctosforgood.org/ ), but I'll let them call themsel
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by kevinconroy 10y ago
This is irresponsible conjecture. AWS has very strict privacy and data safe guards in place. There are a number of laws (particularly in the EU) that forbid such practices. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy
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by kevinconroy 10y ago
You need 1.21 Gigawatts for that. (Seriously, though, you'll need to square the power source as you double the distance.)
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by kevinconroy 11y ago
I also highly recommend the Global Disaster and Alert Communication System set up by the UN and European Commission. Their ranking of orange vs red level events tends to map pretty well to how serious the event is in terms of destruction.
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by kevinconroy 12y ago
Follow-up: Looks like JSON Schema is emerging as the standard, in part thanks to Swagger and Google adopting it for their APIs. References to Amazon and Heroku doing so as well (not exhaustive list, just what I've found while searching
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by kevinconroy 12y ago
Thanks. Here's GitHub link for others interested like me: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-spec
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by kevinconroy 12y ago
Feel like I'm in college and missed a class lecture - what's the standard for JSON API descriptions and where can I learn more so that I can upgrade my APIs to have a usable JSON description?
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by kevinconroy 12y ago
I've found that part of the problem is that there's a very bad user experience with recipe formats. They assume that one will get all ingredients out first and will only start to follow the instructions once everything is ready. A
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by kevinconroy 12y ago
Several easy ways to do this. First, you could send an email to existing customers telling them that you are raising prices but that you are grandfathering them in and their rate won't change. Danger here is that you then go on record
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by kevinconroy 12y ago
Q: Why not just bury it deep enough so that no one can dig it up? A tl:dr; Earthquakes and rain. A: If you bury drums of radioactive material you want to make sure that they stay sealed. However, on a 10,000 year time span, you cannot assum
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by kevinconroy 12y ago
You can also fund supplies directly to a local NGO that's responding here: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-stop-the-ebola-epi...
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by kevinconroy 12y ago
https://twitter.com/kevinconroy - Non-profit tech, food, and people who think I'm the voice of Batman

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