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by vanadium 9y ago
I use a 14" RGB Sony Trinitron medical imaging monitor for retrogaming; PVMs and BVMs are pretty much the gold standard these days, especially the Trinitrons, for their quality and longevity. If you think Trinitron quality is great in
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by vanadium 9y ago
ReplayTV back in the day. Man, was that an awesome, if underappreciated, product for its time. Seriously loved the upgrade capability and user-centric features (like commercial-skipping, until litigation came along).
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You might remember this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/eu-fines-microso... Of course, that ended not too long ago. While having IE was necessary to hit the web, it immediately presented the choi
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by vanadium 9y ago
It's almost like Google's talking out of both sides of its mouth: On one side, to sell through AMP, they talk through how much it benefits people with constrained/metered bandwidth (3G) as a worldwide concern, and then are ju
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Accessibility?
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During the dot-com boom in Atlanta back in '99-'00, agencies and, to some extent, startups around the city were known for hitting the strip clubs for client meetings. It was pretty rife out there within the industry. I doubt that
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My wife nearly jettisoned the smart plugs after 5x attempting to get them all to turn on at once. Worse, sometimes a command will hang, leaving two lights on and the other one just randomly lights up a few minutes later. The eTekcity 1Tx&#x
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by vanadium 9y ago
Got this deal a week and some change back, along with a separate two-pack to dip my toes into home automation. The TP-Link smart plugs will work in full concert only about 75% of the time; it's Home => Kasa, then an Alexa => Kasa
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In most companies I've been exposed to, it's the _minimum_ expected effort for the rate. It's also why one of the first career mentorship steps I go through with Juniors is calculating their hourly rate with the assumption of
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by vanadium 9y ago
The Pedway is one of the best open secrets here in Chicago, especially during heavy blizzard conditions and generally escaping the elements. Used to walk it daily when I worked downtown.
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by vanadium 9y ago
The right answer for any leader at Director or above is to simply schedule 1:1s with random people from all levels of those you manage directly or indirectly, at least once--if not more--per week. It's a rather efficient bullshit detec
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"Google plays a central role in this confusion because they are the organization most strongly attempting to blur the lines between the open web and their platform. Google blurs the line between this is a tool to interact with Google p
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by vanadium 9y ago
Run a WebPageTest on an AMP link and tell me it fits within the 1 second promise AMP keeps making. Without prefetch, on a lot of the pages I've cross-checked manually, it doesn't. So there's already gaming from the other side
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by vanadium 9y ago
So, lean splash pages? I mean, you can already see many publishers (Reddit, ebay, some newspapers like USA Today) doing it. Already gaming AMP. Technically speaking then, AMP isn't accomplishing a whole hell of a lot, and risks being r
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by vanadium 9y ago
You mean GameSpy? Yes, that merged with IGN and subsequently went into oblivion.
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The company I left a few years ago did this in order to obfuscate the rampant issues that were being unaddressed. The recipe was to hire in a bunch of college grads, and while they're still nervous about their first corporate gig, have
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by vanadium 9y ago
My mother smoked for around 45-50 years herself and quit immediately after her heart attack last year. As a former 17-year smoker myself who started vaping almost 6 years ago when my kid was born, I'd been trying to get her to replace
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by vanadium 9y ago
This was the easiest upgrade to consider in my career; $30 is nothing compared to the value and ecosystem around Sublime Text. I'd entertain such a model as OP to ensure the ongoing viability of the app.
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by vanadium 9y ago
Started out my career during the dot-com boom in Atlanta. The only reasons I left were proximity to family, and the traffic problem. Also, the "I'm not quite going to snow, so have some 35-degree rain" or "Hey, how about
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by vanadium 9y ago
Same experience here as a Director of Front-End Development. Worse than not only hiding that they're coming from a bootcamp, they're positioning their exercises as actual "work experience." Granted, this appears to be a
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by vanadium 9y ago
That's too broad a question; you'd need to specify "front-end developers" in the context of their primary focus, first. Are they game developers? Are they working on enterprise apps? Are they working on lead-gen landing
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But it's _their_ bloat.
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Same for Reddit; it's a heavily abridged version of the post with maybe 5-10 comments. Then when you actually want to read the comments...you end up on full-scale Reddit instead of just going there in the first place. I'm really n
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by vanadium 9y ago
Well, here's an interesting data point to dig through insofar as AMP performance is concerned: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/170816_7R_b596415003dabf34... Average Guardian article.
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Yeah, this was on NPR Marketplace the other day. First I'd heard of it.
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Exactly the same progression with my five year-old. He still uses his hardened Kindle with Freetime, but for most gaming, really likes his DS I restored from a broken state on the cheap.
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I was going to bring up the iPaq line of Windows PDAs and phones beginning in '99, but you already preceded me by 3 years with that Nokia play.
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First, you'd need the Illinois legislature to stop arguing and navel-gazing about the long-standing budget impasse and actually do something about it, for better or for worse. This seems unlikely.
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Last I checked (RT-AC87U owner here), most of the features are still there, but still opt-in. I believe there's one I can't name off the top of my head that was neutered, though.
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I did some mentorship at a P-TECH/STEM style academy here in Chicago a few years back when the idea was young. ( http://www.goodestemacademy.org/ ) About 75-85% of the mentors were in fact from IBM, and the rest of us we

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