jbenz

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RIP Mr. Autumn Man. Pre-2019 images have apparently been removed from The Onion(twitter.com)
3 points by jbenz 5y ago|0 comments
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RIP Civil – Lessons from a failed startup(poynter.org)
3 points by jbenz 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbenz 6y ago
You're making yourself look like a total Luddite by discounting quantum-computing-added drone-delivery-optimized software systems. I mean, thanks for playing, though.
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Technology Article Comment Generator: Updated for 2020(blarworld.net)
2 points by jbenz 6y ago|2 comments
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by jbenz 6y ago
After submitting this, I discovered: If you click the coronavirus icon in the top left a few times, the data doesn't seem quite that bad...
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Coronavirus Data Visualizer from Germany's Best Kept Secret(germanysbestkeptsecret.com)
4 points by jbenz 6y ago|2 comments
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Amazon’s Left Hand Has No Idea What the Right Hand Is Doing(soapfusion.com)
3 points by jbenz 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbenz 9y ago
The number one person in power at Amazon = the number one person in power at the Washington Post.
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by jbenz 10y ago
The Rock came out when I was 13 so needless to say, I'm a big fan. I absolutely thought VX Nerve Agent was fictional until today.
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Silicon Valley Wake Up Call(medium.com)
6 points by jbenz 10y ago|1 comments
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by jbenz 10y ago
Hey, I hired YouTubers via FameBit quite a bit ago to help make videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=Ko586_GPuR8 I have to say, it was a great experience. Famebit encouraged both sides to be open
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by jbenz 10y ago
I guarantee I never would have heard about this video (which sounds hilarious) if not for this news story. Pretty sure the NRA knows who Barbara Streisand is. There were all upset about her movie, The Long Island Incident. Maybe they are no
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by jbenz 10y ago
Let's say Netflix asks the production company for the cast. DIC Entertainment went defunct 7 years ago. Let's say they were still around though. Would someone there have to dig through physical filing cabinets? Or would they just
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Ken Jennings: The Go Champion, the Grandmaster, and Me(slate.com)
1 points by jbenz 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbenz 11y ago
I think it is easy for the design world (myself included) to take itself too seriously sometimes, and start to sound pretentious. This seems like a great antidote. I think it's funny. Design needs more humor. I love the scrolling &quot
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by jbenz 11y ago
If you're choosing between "should I commit a felony or not" should it matter how often other are charged with it? What happens if law enforcement suddenly becomes more interested?
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by jbenz 11y ago
Disclosure! Yeah, the one that became the movie with Demi Moore and Michael Douglas. A man is sexually harassed by his female boss. The book is kind of about that, but also about technology. It was published in 1994 and I would say it was f
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by jbenz 11y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I followed the exact same path. He was one of my favorite authors when I was a kid, but by the time Prey came out... yeesh. But I still love Sphere, The Lost World, and so many more. I even love Disclosure,
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Google Ventures: Design Sprint with Gimlet Media(gv.com)
1 points by jbenz 11y ago|0 comments
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“These are terrible jobs.” Compared to what?(medium.com)
1 points by jbenz 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbenz 12y ago
Maybe the name could instead reference a hardware bracket? Like something that holds up a shelf, or I don't know, holds up startups to be seen. You could swap out your sports-sytle-bracket-icon for something that looks more like this:
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by jbenz 12y ago
I, for one, am hoping this word slowly seeps into public consciousness and then into dictionaries. If it is a subtle nod, it's a perfectly cromulent one.
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by jbenz 12y ago
I meant it in the sense of "will he ever comment again under the HN username of PG". For all I know, he might be commenting now under a different username, but if so, that's his business. Not mine. It has been a while since t
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Ask PG: Are you ever coming back?
16 points by jbenz 12y ago|8 comments
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by jbenz 12y ago
It's a beautiful site. Are you at all worried about the name Marvel? Especially now that Marvel Comics is trying to work with designers and developers too? [1] [1] http://developer.marvel.com/
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by jbenz 13y ago
For the record, Jack Daniels sent us a Cease & Desist recently and it was not nearly as nice as this one. It was your standard "stop doing this or we will take action" C&D. (We had parody t-shirt designs in our user galler
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The Bubble Question(avc.com)
10 points by jbenz 13y ago|0 comments
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My brother passed away at the age of 23 because of a design choice(the-pastry-box-project.net)
6 points by jbenz 13y ago|11 comments
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by jbenz 13y ago
>Why in the world would bot 2 offer the book for $11? It would know that nobody would buy it when there was one already listed for $10. The author covers that point with this quote: >In this case, buyers could easily find the "or
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Here’s Your First Look at the Much-Anticipated Museum of Science Fiction(wired.com)
1 points by jbenz 13y ago|0 comments

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