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by patorjk 8y ago
> As Instagram kept on growing, Mr. Zuckerberg believed there were ways it should help Facebook grow and improve Facebook’s “user engagement.” That included small tweaks, like automatically sharing Instagram “Stories” videos to Facebook
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by patorjk 8y ago
In principle it's an interesting idea, however, I'm not sure how meaningful this kind of tracking is. Even the author seems to wonder about this - rating a work day as an 8, but realizing it was the relaxing he did that day that e
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by patorjk 8y ago
> Everyone else isn't playing dumb Trump is just living it. Trump is just living it? Why did you add that part? I pointed out that the results looked odd. When I opened up the comment section, every other comment was saying nothing
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by patorjk 8y ago
I'll admit, that does seem a bit odd. Everyone else is playing dumb, but they're being disingenuous. From what I see, on both lists, there's only 1 white male in the first 10 results, and in both cases they're not in the
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by patorjk 8y ago
If you feel very confident that you're correct, then you should update the wiki. I'd make it, but I wouldn't feel confident since I don't know much about this subject matter. As a random aside, if you search for that sen
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by patorjk 8y ago
> There should be a name for the phenomenon of a satirical, ironic or trolling community turning into the real deal, by aggregating people taking the issue seriously. I've wondered if this is how pizzagate got started. When I first
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by patorjk 8y ago
I'd heard the same story about how hard it was to cancel, but I was also able to cancel through a chat on their website a couple months ago. It was quick and easy.
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by patorjk 8y ago
URL should probably be changed to: https://www.advisory.com/research/care-transformation-center... Looks like the original URL came from a daily briefing email.
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by patorjk 8y ago
The article is 10 years old, and the company it focuses on had 45 million in revenue 12 years ago.
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by patorjk 8y ago
This was a fascinating read! I was pretty blind to these signs until recently when my 5-year old son started asking me what they say. There are a number of "We Buy Houses (xxx)-xxx-xxxx" signs where I live. I bet it's a simil
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Wikimedia Pageviews Analysis(tools.wmflabs.org)
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by patorjk 8y ago
Around 8 years ago I was on a project where my boss told me the web app I'd be working on was really slow, and they needed me to help them speed it up. When I took a look at it, I discovered the app was using a multitude of libraries w
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by patorjk 8y ago
> What’s incredible here is not that Apple’s internal videos leaked, but that the third-party repair teams have done such an incredible job replicating its procedures without having seen these videos or having access to Apple’s tools. Ho
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by patorjk 8y ago
This happened to Otonomy about a year ago and their stock fell off a cliff. The interesting thing with them was that they were doing 2 sets of phase 3 trials: one in the US, and one in Europe. A little while after the US one failed, the dat
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by patorjk 8y ago
A few years ago I had an issue with a large company. I guessed that the CEO's email was his_first_name@website.com and sent him a message. To my surprise he emailed me back and we exchanged a few emails. It'd be interesting if Bez
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by patorjk 8y ago
They want to make money selling tickets for the tramway: > Under the proposal, the studio would share ticketing revenue with the city to support park activities, the company said in a letter to Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department
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by patorjk 8y ago
Not only similar, but exactly what the guy selling the floppies thinks: > "And a lot of these people, I don’t even think a lot of ’em play the shit. They just kind of put it on their shelf."
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by patorjk 8y ago
Ditto for me too, and I only keep an eye on 2 subreddits: /r/baltimore and /r/maryland, so I have no idea why they're targeting me with that ad. Maybe it's because general news headlines can be grim? However th
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by patorjk 8y ago
> Some people say it will be like sushi in 20 years. I am really optimistic that it may be a lot faster This outlook does not seem realistic. 20 years ago I remember watching a news segment on Australian TV about how eating bugs was the
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by patorjk 8y ago
Keeping your tools clean is good hygiene. Additionally, whenever I start working at a new place I always clean the keyboard. It's amazing how disgusting they can get. For old keyboards, if you pop off the keys, you'll find they&#x
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by patorjk 8y ago
> I do know that my manager called me up pissed off about the phone call he’d received, and told me to not use him as a reference in the future. It's also important for your references to know that they're your references ahead
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by patorjk 8y ago
> As I got up to leave the room, the CEO said, “I want you out of the building talking to customers; find out who they are, how they work, and what we need to do to sell them lots of these new computers.” Motioning to our VP of Sales, he
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by patorjk 8y ago
There are lots of videos on YouTube where people discuss being shadow banned. Basically their engagement plummets and they stop showing up for hashtags and (sometimes) the explore page. They may also be showing up less for their followers t
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by patorjk 8y ago
Angular 1.x is not listed in https://update.angular.io/ . Additionally, there was no initial update path between Angular 1 and Angular 2 until the community cried foul. It's been a while, but after they finally released
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by patorjk 8y ago
> What is to be done? ... Consider non-microlib architectures What about what happened with Angular (1), the 3rd library on your list? That whole framework was deprecated in favor of Angular (2). Additionally, the list of front-end libra
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by patorjk 8y ago
Reminds me of a video I watched yesterday by some photographers that successfully sued a company for using one of their images on an iPhone case product. The company wound up having to pay 40k for their use of the photo [1], which seems a l
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by patorjk 8y ago
I am not making the argument that the behavior is ok. I'm showing that people in the past have complained about similar behaviors and stating that blaming the technology is probably not the right idea.
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The problem seems to be the parents, not the technology. It reminds me of a VSauce episode that brought up the following interesting antidotes: > In 1871, the Sunday Magazine published a line that may as well have been written today abou
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by patorjk 9y ago
If you just wanted Photoshop and not the cloud storage, your best bet would be the Photography plan, which is $10 a month and includes Photoshop and Lightroom. Placing the data in Excel, and assuming someone were to take the $585 Amazon pri
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by patorjk 9y ago
I'll throw Baltimore's name out there. They even have a Bike Share program ( https://www.bmorebikeshare.com/ ), which is, interestingly enough, sponsored by Lyft.

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