paulojreis

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by paulojreis 5y ago
Overleaf ( https://www.overleaf.com ) | REMOTE (UK/EU/US/Canada) | Full-time | Product Manager Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists --- like Google Docs for Science. We have over six m
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by paulojreis 8y ago
http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/past.html A very entertaining read, IMO.
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Much like IanDrake said, this is super cool but kind of "primes" the user into thinking that he'll be able to play around with the code while paused. It'd be great if you supported that, e.g. by doing a "fork"
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Sure, you're right. I just meant that the real challenge is how to skew (and keep) the balance in the direction you want, in a sustainable, significant and achievable fashion.
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by paulojreis 10y ago
"1. Calories in, calories out is the golden rule." Yes, but I'd argue it's not a very helpful rule. As it has been said before, it's pretty much like saying that the golden rule to get rich is "money in vs. m
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Had some experience with it in BigCorp™. I don't love it, but it works. It's just a plugin that will install node (and npm), run `npm instal` and then run the specified gulp task. The good part is that it's not that bad to fi
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by paulojreis 10y ago
> AirBnB's marketshare is coming out of someone. In Portugal, it seems to be coming from the rental market. In the sense that there's been an increase in tourism and the increased demand for short-term accommodation is being fu
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by paulojreis 10y ago
If using the :target approach, I actually think it's an appropriate use of CSS and HTML. It's not a stretch to consider a tab as a fragment of the document, which can be accessed using the fragment identifier of the URI. After thi
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Decriminalized. It's still illegal to consume, but not a crime - people aren't sent to jail or fined. Selling, of course, is illegal and a crime.
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Recreating the Twitter Heart Animation (by Ana Tudor)(css-tricks.com)
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by paulojreis 10y ago
In Portugal, we have some "theoretically" restrictive labor laws, supposedly very protective towards the employee. Still, everyday you'll hear about someone being told that he/she should feel lucky to even have a job, le
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Personally, I thinks it's way, way past any acceptable measure to improve positive thinking and engagement. It's closer to a shock tactic than to any new-age /*spiritual "put life into perspective" thing. Really, i
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Don't want to sound ungrateful, really, but sharing a little more info about the book "before" asking for my e-mail would be nice. A table of contents in the book download page, maybe a small summary.
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Adding elements just because (and, above it all, just for styling purposes) is wrong, of course. But having - or forcing - a tight coupling between structure (DOM) and layout/styling (CSS) is also wrong. IMHO, standards should try to
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by paulojreis 10y ago
> Seriously, HN is a gigantic delicious timesink that has probably cost all of us collectively millions. It's possible, but what you get back from HN is also enormous; from jobs to interactions with very smart people. I mean, Alan
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by paulojreis 10y ago
... and it relies on DOM structure. This is horrible, IMHO. Flex containers will layout the flex items, which are by definition its direct descendants. If by some reason [1] you get an extra DOM element between the flex container and the it
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by paulojreis 10y ago
After reading the trilogy, particularly the first book, I don't think "The Internet Galaxy" will add much. Even the following "big" one from Castells, "Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective&quo
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Castells ideas are indeed presented in a very readable manner, most of the times complemented with figures and data. In my "academic" tradition (communication/media sciences meets IT, in continental Europe), Castells is essen
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by paulojreis 10y ago
I forgot to consider your list as aimed towards the Anderson Consulting people. Having that audience in mind, wouldn't Manuel Castells' work (mostly, the "The Information Age" trilogy) be a good reference? Probably a lit
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by paulojreis 10y ago
"The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" by Nicholas Carr might be of interest to you. And, well, to almost everyone here - your symptoms probably already appeared in one way or another to anyone who's readi
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Would you have a place in your list for António Damásio's work on consciousness and, generally, the embodied mind?
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by paulojreis 10y ago
> It's worth it to try to understand what "interesting people" have thought -- it provides context for one's own thinking. This is eventually the main reason why I mentioned Bateson's work in particular (besides
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by paulojreis 10y ago
I always wanted to ask you this: what's your opinion on Gregory Bateson's work on the intersection of anthropology, psychiatry, cybernetics and communication in general? Since this discussion is focusing on books, have you read &q
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Take a look at http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/... Eventually perusing the Eurostat database itself would give a better picture of the evolution.
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Languages shape and are shaped by the environment, by the way the speakers experiences the world. There's the example by Franz Boas, regarding the many words Inuit might have for different kinds of snow [1]. Their language, in a very u
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Now, that's an ode to the Internet of (Shitty) Things ( https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en ).
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by paulojreis 10y ago
I also got intrigued when a fellow colleague used that nomenclature (folder called "javascripts", as well as "stylesheets", inside an "assets" folder).
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by paulojreis 10y ago
> In any case, what I am trying to say is that you seem too quick to pin the lack of performance in the "common workplace" on the individual, Sorry, but no, not at all. I explicitly said "sometimes": "sometimes,
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by paulojreis 10y ago
You're right, generally. In this case, though, I'm talking about someone hired with a temporary (1 year) but automatically renewable contract. Where I live, it's just a matter of not renewing it (giving notice one month befor
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by paulojreis 10y ago
I'm not really a fan of such comparisons, and I don't think yours fares well, mostly because you are talking "top of the top" performance when you talk about those two. :) That's not the reality in most jobs and pos

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