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by swanson 7y ago
"Product Illustration" is what Steve (the designer) calls them. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HDR-AV4ODU for a livestream of how he makes them
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Wrangling slow reports and large file exports in Rails with ActiveJob(boringrails.com)
2 points by swanson 7y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 7y ago
Yeah it removes all of the random "liked by someone you follow" or "popular in your network" etc tweets that slowly creep in over time.
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by swanson 7y ago
You could do something similar with built-in ActiveRecord callbacks as well.
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N = 1(ofdollarsanddata.com)
2 points by swanson 7y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 7y ago
Yup, good phone. Very happy with mine as well.
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Building a Rails CI Pipeline with GitHub Actions(boringrails.com)
1 points by swanson 7y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 7y ago
I still maintain that $HMNY (the parent company) stock was an interesting and unique case where the average person could buy shares in, essentially, an early stage startup that had tremendous consumer interest and growth. Most of the time y
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by swanson 7y ago
Neat, you should add a screenshot to the README so I can see what it looks like without having to install :)
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by swanson 7y ago
The author has opted to use Django and would like to get to a state where their app is essentially "completed" -- where it will work fine without having to touch it again or make major changes. The conflict arises because Django h
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by swanson 7y ago
As a fan of office-based dry comedies (The Office, Dreamland, W1A, etc), I'm curious if anyone has watched the show? If so, would you recommend it?
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by swanson 7y ago
It's the right attitude in spirit. But like how am I supposed to know how to decrease no-show rates at a clinic? How can I figure out how to increase harvest yields from autonomous tractors? Convert more enterprise sales accounts? I kn
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by swanson 7y ago
> Objective – Increase Customer Retention > Key Result #1 – Lifetime Customer value increase from $N to $N+5 > Key Result #2 – Decrease Customer Churn Rate by 10% I'm a developer on a team. How am I supposed to know why custom
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by swanson 7y ago
Related meta-analysis from the last go-around: https://towardsdatascience.com/why-you-should-care-about-the... (Implicitly endorsed by Taleb via retweet)
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by swanson 8y ago
Start with "Apprenticeship Patterns" (learn how to learn, get a mentor, approach your career in the right way) and "Pragmatic Programmer" (a bunch of practical techniques that are language/tool agnostic and exposure
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by swanson 8y ago
If you are talking about events for $(document).ready type things -- there is a turbolinks event for page:load -- it's a copy/paste replacement.
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by swanson 8y ago
It's not for data, but for catching visual bugs.
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by swanson 8y ago
Roughly $100k (+/- 15% based on performance, tenure, location, company financial health, etc) Salaries usually cap out at $130k-$150k for the role of "writing the code" at general software consulting at small-medium (5-150 pe
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Company Twitter handle was squatted and then given to TWTR employee, recourse?(twitter.com)
2 points by swanson 8y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 8y ago
Instantly bought. Steve and Adam have the absolute most practical and realistic design material out there -- I've had so many false starts with other design books that emphasis the art and design backgrounds instead of their approach:
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by swanson 8y ago
Hi, here's an angle: make music/videos to advertise for startup products. There is a video agency that specializes in making TV commercials for software products that you could emulate: https://sandwichvideo.com/
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by swanson 8y ago
* Sunshine (2007) * Moon (2009) * Steins;Gate (2011, anime) * Looper (2012) * Snowpiercer (2013) * Ex Machina (2014) * Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
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by swanson 8y ago
I liked Book 2 the most, less flashbacks to the past and less emphasis on the Chinese culture/themes. I'd give Book 2 a shot and see if that rekindles the motivation.
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by swanson 8y ago
It is a joke, but one that I take very seriously. https://i.imgur.com/wmjrQV8.png
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by swanson 8y ago
If anyone is looking for a "picoinfluencer" opportunity, my fantasy football team is seeking a new sponsor. There are 9 other 24-32 year old tech workers in the league and my team is currently 8-2.
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by swanson 8y ago
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-button is pretty good if you can "Heroku-ize" the product. Easy installation, updates, scaling for sure.
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by swanson 8y ago
I think it was straightforward to predict that monthly active users would be down after they banned the bots (and lots of accounts were tweeting about losing 4-7 figures worth of followers) -- I'm a bit surprised that this is being cit
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by swanson 8y ago
Seeking Wisdom is also really, really good. Super approachable and underrated. The Personal MBA is also great, but I do agree that it's poor form for Josh to recommend his own book.
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by swanson 8y ago
Yeah, I liked it -- was a good mix of biography/personal stories about Kahneman and Tversky and brought in some real-world examples of applied topics covered in Thinking Fast And Slow.
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by swanson 8y ago
I wonder if Riot would consider building the scripting UI they show into some kind of training mode. It's a bit like the argument that no one would pirate if they content was easy to get for a reasonable price. If players could train w

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