msutherl

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by msutherl 13y ago
Many if not most large corporations employ anthropologists who conduct ethnographic studies of how people all over the world use technology. Toilet jokes aside, this is not at all out of place.
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I don't know much about banking, but what you say is definitely not true of programming. It's just not competitive like that. So, I might say it would be wise to go for the banking internship. If it doesn't work out, programm
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You would think we'd have editors by now that could, say, hide all the tests to declutter the code while you're reading it.
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I think I agree, but the existing scale does have one redeeming property which is that it makes very clear which countries have the most and which have the lest depression. Both the red and the blue stand out against the middling regions, w
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I should say though, it was a beautiful product and did its job extremely well.
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For my part, I didn't use Everpix because I actually want to edit my photos and just save the best ones. I keep less than 5% of the photos I take. Everpix tried to do the editing for me, but software will never win that game.
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Some "scene" music that I actually listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GIemGd3Ctk&list=PLkMjO0BRqWu... (FM funk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl7TjvZzWMY (Zabutom) Basically just real
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People here with critical perspectives are missing the point. "Where's the value?" The answer is that the people who make this music are not making music for you . They make it more as a personal challenge and/or to one
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Not exactly what you're looking for, but a friend of mine sells $10 origami spectrometers that use your phone camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA5BTD-aelo / http://www.kickstarter.com/project
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I really wish a proper version of Hypercard was in this emulator. I'm too young to have used it at the time, but from what I've read it stands for an important ideal of what personal computers can be that's been forgotten and
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I dropped out of CS in the first year, switching to design, and it was a great decision for me. I did make the mistake of trying to work as a UX designer and programmer for a year after school, and thanks to that I share all of your misgivi
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Working on calibrated equipment is about having a neutral, uniform reference so that you can actually see what you're doing without having to second guess yourself. You can draw an analogy to reference monitors for sound mixing. Monito
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For people who love f.lux, you may be interested to check out the work of Philippe Rahm: http://philipperahm.com/ . He's built a number of spaces that explore how environmental conditions affect you physiologically. Alo
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This page is beautiful, but disorienting. A few issues: 1. The content-free™ pages (single word) are dangerous... I nearly left thinking there was nothing to see. They could instead be bullets on a single page, or an animation. I know you w
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The replacement of icons with text in iOS7 was wrong-headed and inconsistently executed. Not to mention that it created a bunch of messes for designers to deal with. I hope that we return to a world where icons are fashionable again soon.
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You could use a filter for "adult" content. The top result for the (non-pornographic) film list I pasted in was something about "Milf Porn Movies".
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I upvoted you here. Platitudes are generally unnecessary and shocks' tone was a bit prescriptive. It's just not good manners.
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I'm not a huge fan of Windows, but I must say that the new Microsoft-designed fonts (Cambria, Calibri, Corbel, Consolas) strike a great balance between neutrality and character for an OS.
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I have to agree with you on that. I was really looking forward to iOS 7 being a step forward in that regard, but it's as bubbly as anything else, and inconsistent to boot. At least Helvetica is nice and neutral. I think the word for al
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The music is great. I stopped watching and just listened while continuing to get work done.
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Built in USB (i.e. use something like the ATmega32U4) or a custom USB chip like they started doing with the Arduino.
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Ugh, I wish people would stop using the FTDI chips for USB. They are unsuitable for multi-channel, high bandwidth, low latency data acquisition.
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The problem here is that PhD's should not be applying for developer jobs. It's like a fluid mechanics expert applying for a job as a plumber.
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There are jobs for chameleons. It's just that there are fewer of them and companies don't tend to understand that they need them, so they don't explicitly hire for them. Companies hire people to make a specific problem go awa
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The elephant in the room is that if you're a successful academic, you should be either networking to get invited into the sort of position that companies don't post openings for or founding a company. Jobs, and especially job call
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New building methods create ugly, uncomfortable, temporary environments. If you've ever lived in, say, Paris or New York, you may understand the feeling of living in the hollowed-out shell of a once-great city. The Freedom Tower is inc
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Just to say, I graduated a year ago from a non-US school with a bar in the main building. Everybody was fine.
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This is great. BLS was a huge help to me in my last year of university when I was freaking out trying to figure out what to do with my life. Just seeing what professions most people have, and which ones are growing vs. shrinking, was very i
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Not a meta-analysis, but this 76 year study of 268 male Harvard students: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-mak... is more illuminating than much of the pop-psych literature on &qu
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What struck me more is how somebody can get that far in life without properly examining themselves and their relationship with the world. Isn't she aware of the stereotype that corporations are full of drones that will suddenly realize

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