roughfalls

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by roughfalls 8mo ago
This is so wonderfully done! Great icon choices & use of fill to indicate active devices. I love how you grouped accessories by category, and included temperature/humidity sensor readings next to thermostat controls. I instantly u
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by roughfalls 4y ago
I'm reminded of a blog post ( https://rc3.org/2015/12/29/answering-the-question-should-man... , focused on software engineering managers rather than CTOs), which posited this guideline: "A manager ac
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by roughfalls 6y ago
The reason USA Today's coverage is best is because the real reporting is coming from the local newspaper, Louisville Courier-Journal. They're a Gannett property so it ends up getting published through USA Today as well.
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by roughfalls 7y ago
They may not be dumb, but culturally, the companies are miles apart. Disney is incredibly bureaucratic and is does a very poor job of developing and deploy technology. Most of the impressive displays of tech you associate with Disney were
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by roughfalls 7y ago
This looks great and I'm inclined to give it a try. But do you have a privacy policy? I try to avoid services that sit between me and my financial institutions, as I worry they're building analytics off my spending patterns and
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by roughfalls 7y ago
My concern about security is that this would be used like Slack, but for apps -- always on, sitting in the background, occasionally has my attention. If I drag an app that has an integrated terminal (e.g., VS Code), could one of my teammate
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by roughfalls 7y ago
http://two.sentenc.es/ conveys a similar idea but did so long before this story, and more succinctly: "Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard t
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by roughfalls 9y ago
I once read a statement attributed to Steve Ballmer that every six months, he tears his todo list in half and throws the bottom half away. If anything far down that list was actually a priority, it will naturally get re-added (by thinking
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by roughfalls 9y ago
It's a good thing he wasn't running Windows 10 S: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15609706/google-chrome-wi...
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by roughfalls 9y ago
"Knowing when to quit is as important as knowing when not to quit. Hard work does not always pay off." This is the entire subject of Seth Godin's _The Dip_. I'm not a huge fan of this breed of books, but if someone is l
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by roughfalls 9y ago
What I've never seen in any rich-text web editor is an ability to have more complex numbered lists. So often I want to put in a block of content (e.g., a small code example) as part of a numbered list item, and then resume the list af
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by roughfalls 10y ago
As a former employee of Disney, I can confirm that this is correct. Disney IT goes through firms such as HCL and Cognizant who act as the H1-B sponsors. I'm aware of a very small number of examples where Disney sponsored H1-B visas d
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by roughfalls 15y ago
I agree. I find it very frustrating to see Gruber and others say, "Oh, it looks like a nano -- ripoff" with no examination of the actual product beyond its appearance. Given its price point and features, I don't even think it should even b