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811.
by sylens 7y ago
Used this tool for a while until my org finally decided to pay for Lucidchart
812.
by sylens 7y ago
It's interesting to me that no candidate has seized on the chance to say that by decoupling healthcare from one's job, one would be more free to take risks in starting their own business
813.
by sylens 7y ago
Watching the WWDC keynote this year, I knew that I would never use 90% of what they were showing. It's too esoteric to discover and I would use it infrequently so it would never become a habit.
814.
by sylens 7y ago
People who have been out of the school system for a while should watch Bo Burnham's "Eighth Grade". It's an incredibly accurate take on what being in middle school is like, especially today where your self-worth can fluc
815.
by sylens 7y ago
I used to think this was really far fetched but there's a whole subreddit dedicated to folks affected by this. People constantly post on there about how they become so obsessed with climbing a multiplayer ladder or getting achievements
816.
by sylens 7y ago
I moved to 1Password from LastPass a little over a year ago and have no complaints.
817.
by sylens 7y ago
I'm all for spreading the workforce out and encouraging more remote work. It makes no sense to subject so many people to LA, SF, and NYC commutes every day when the job can be done just as well from home or another office location in a
818.
by sylens 7y ago
sophons
819.
Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike(lastweekinaws.com)
186 points by sylens 7y ago|158 comments
820.
by sylens 7y ago
For somebody who just wants to pick up a useful programming language/set of languages these days - should I engage with modern web development or avoid it entirely?
821.
by sylens 7y ago
This is a good post about something that doesn't get talked about a lot. NDAs and confidentiality agreements should be able to cover the concerns of loss of intellectual property.
822.
by sylens 7y ago
This article seems like a spoiler for Children of Time
823.
by sylens 7y ago
They never figured out how to build on the Nexus 7's success and momentum
824.
by sylens 7y ago
the multi-tasking/multi-window looks incredibly complicated, full of hidden gestures/commands that aren't really discoverable
825.
by sylens 7y ago
Edge Preview runs on Chromium
826.
by sylens 7y ago
Wouldn't the "Black Domain" concept introduced in Death's End be a better metaphor here? Communities are choosing to seal themselves off from the greater Internet, even if that means they cannot collaborate/engage w
827.
by sylens 7y ago
A bit of a misleading headline. Somebody had passwords/tokens for certain repos, either from previous breaches at other services or those passwords being stored in plaintext as part of a deployment.
828.
by sylens 8y ago
I think they are going to wait for the Progressive Web App (PWA) revolution to reenter the market.
829.
by sylens 8y ago
Very cool writeup. I'm a big fan of Discover Weekly as it turns me onto new artists constantly.
830.
by sylens 8y ago
Ha, same
831.
by sylens 8y ago
You can do this with Friends Lists in Facebook IIRC (I deleted my Facebook months ago), but it's not as obvious/front and center like it was on Google+
832.
by sylens 8y ago
Yup, more people should read the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy if they're interested in Fermi's Paradox.
833.
by sylens 8y ago
Thought of that very passage when I read this. It's not often you get to read a book that is so biographical about a person who is also still posting about their life on social media.
834.
by sylens 9y ago
I tried Blue Apron but didn't stick with it because the recipes were actually pretty time consuming for the amount of food you prepared, and also because of the unreliable timing of the deliveries. If you live in the city, you need to