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by stephenboyd 9y ago
I worked at UPS for a season loading their delivery trucks. Each shift was like a really intense game of 3D Tetris, trying to use the space efficiently as more heavy packages of various shapes rapidly arrived from the conveyor belt. So you&
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
I've worked as a software engineering consultant. Sometimes I would do engagements that were just analysis and advice, but for most of them I would actually design or develop some software.
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
The UX of short, looping, soundless, autoplaying videos without player controls is popular. This is partially for simplicity and consistency. Gifs have been less efficient than modern compressed video for a long time.
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
The developer said he had four months of savings. And then he said $500 of expenses cost him a whole month.
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What’s Apple Up To?(talkingpointsmemo.com)
3 points by stephenboyd 9y ago|0 comments
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
What is commercial kit? I didn't find anything when I looked it up. Are you taking about stuff meant for hotels?
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
This was once a common use of AOL Instant Messenger.
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
I've been using a Thinkpad for years and never noticed the placement of the B key until reading this.
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Typically anxiety causes irrationality rather than the other way around. And people with anxiety problems can get treatment, but the treatment is not to just "stop being so anxious."
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
The most essential argument: "I would like for our industry to be more like librarians. Librarians have a sense of who they are as a profession. They have a central ethical code around patron privacy. The current Librarian of Congress
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
The school where I studied CS as an undergrad didn't even have grades. It was all about the narrative evaluation, which considered only things the student actually accomplished or learned. So a typical narrative evaluation in the scien
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Inside the Shadowy World of Revenge Hackers(thedailybeast.com)
4 points by stephenboyd 9y ago|0 comments
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The learned helplessness of Equifax(techcrunch.com)
5 points by stephenboyd 9y ago|0 comments
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Biometric national identification is used in many countries, with India's Aadhaar system being the best example. Those systems are mostly used in developing countries that are leapfrogging their financial technology past the legacy sys
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Granny Knot Analyser(fieggen.com)
1 points by stephenboyd 9y ago|0 comments
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Yelp just paid 20 million dollars for Turnstyle Solutions, which specializes in tracking retail customers with the WiFi signals sent by smartphones, without asking for the phone customer's consent. If you want to opt out, you have to g
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US Navy collisions stoke cyber threat concerns(mcclatchydc.com)
43 points by stephenboyd 9y ago|91 comments
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That's not punishment, it's problem-solving. It's about protecting the company, not what the manifesto author deserves. Yonatan Zunger didn't promote any kind of retribution or vengeance for writing the manifesto, just t
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Holy shit, that's worse than I expected.
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
You can select 'animated' as an image type when you search.
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
High school is both mandatory and selective. Most schools have multiple tracks: vocational, general, college prep, honors / ap. Also private and some public high schools, like specialized magnet schools, can be more selective in admiss
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Here is paper cited at the beginning of the article: http://sci-hub.io/http://www.nber.org/papers/w23552.pdf
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
You might like Preact: https://github.com/developit/preact It's a 3kb React alternative with the same API.
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
I didn't look close enough in the developer tools to see the limited extent. From what I can see, just the email list sign-up forms on www.nytimes.com are using React, but all of the new front page of mobile.nytimes.com is in React. Th
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Endure it? Try visiting the NY Times. It doesn't load slow, behave sludgy, or suffer from display errors. And SPAs are a faster experience when you know the user is going to be looking at multiple pages, like how people typically read
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
If jQuery and Backbone worked for you then, they'll still work for you now. The popular new libraries and tools are all things that solve problems, but you can wait to use them until you think they will help you.
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Never do commercial work for free. You won't be able to turn them into paying clients. If you're under-utilized, make an impressive portfolio piece on your own time. That will be better marketing than free work.
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
She and her cofounder were already in an an industry niche before then as graphics and compression experts, so I'd assume they already had a lot of contacts from former co-workers, meetups, conferences, etc. If you're an expert in
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Chiropractors are like physical therapists but with tradition and intuition instead of evidence-based medicine. It doesn't mean they can't help you, but they're not your best or safest option if you can see a real physical th
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
Amazon teams and products often compete against each other. It's like how they have both Prime Now and AmazonFresh as grocery delivery services.

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