joedrew

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by joedrew 4y ago
I base the 100-hour week thing on reports that it's the expectation at SpaceX and Tesla.
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by joedrew 4y ago
> disintegration of innately self-evident core values like "working hard to make a good thing good is good" Working hard is necessary to make something good, of course. Working "hardcore", where 100-hour weeks are _re
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How the Rhetoric of Imposter Syndrome Is Used to Gaslight Women in Tech(modelviewculture.com)
3 points by joedrew 10y ago|0 comments
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by joedrew 10y ago
Wattpad | Toronto (ONSITE) | Full-time Wattpad is a mobile social app that connects people all over the world with stories that matter to them. It enhances the storytelling experience, and makes it possible for people to be captivated by so
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Journey to the Center of Microservices(wattpad.com)
2 points by joedrew 11y ago|0 comments
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by joedrew 11y ago
And it was me who did it!
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CloudFront Update – HTTPS and TLS v1.1/v1.2 to the Origin, Add/Modify Headers(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by joedrew 11y ago|1 comments
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by joedrew 11y ago
Pluto in particular would be a problem, though, because it is a) very small, and b) very far away. In order to get there in a realistic time, your probe has to be going _very quickly_; in order to stay in Pluto orbit, the probe has to be go
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Why I Tell My Team to Leave at 5:00(medium.com)
3 points by joedrew 11y ago|0 comments
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The Secret of Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts(medium.com)
2 points by joedrew 11y ago|0 comments
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Differential Computation Analysis: Hiding your White-Box Designs is Not Enough [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
38 points by joedrew 11y ago|2 comments
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by joedrew 12y ago
It's impossible to have 'enough' parking spots. Induced demand shows that cars, like goldfish, always grow to fill the space they're given. It's politically difficult process, but just refusing to try to solve this
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by joedrew 12y ago
Read this paper ("Set up to fail: How managers create their own poor performers"): http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?did=4... The paper's basic tenet is that managers, by over-
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by joedrew 12y ago
The whole point of advocating for fewer work days is that we are just as productive in fewer hours. That's why overtime doesn't work long-term; you wear out and do less per unit time.
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by joedrew 12y ago
They don't buy, or they buy something else. If there's one thing that economics has taught us, it's that people will reduce their consumption when prices go up; even water demonstrates price elasticity: http://www.
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by joedrew 12y ago
Having people's sick days deduct from their vacation is an incentive to go to work when you're sick, jeopardizing the health (and productivity) of the team. A much better solution is vacation days and unlimited sick days, as well
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by joedrew 12y ago
Honestly, animated GIF (like all other image formats) is a terrible format for video-style stuff. It's fine for line art (well, sort of fine, anyways), but if you actually using it for video you really should be using <video>,
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by joedrew 12y ago
(Note: I used to be employed by Mozilla, and in that capacity I was the owner of Mozilla's image decoders. I've been disconnected from all decisions for almost a year, though.) The main take-home here is that while Google's n
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by joedrew 12y ago
I'll have to look into the exact data, but conversions dipped at least 33% — even on the 'A' side.
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by joedrew 12y ago
The #1 problem I've had in using external A/B testing platforms is that they allow flashes of the old content before the new is shown (if perhaps only for some users). We've seen huge problems with conversion when testing wit
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by joedrew 12y ago
Oh, totally. But heck, as long as we're wishing...
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by joedrew 12y ago
I don't count as a user, since I am relatively affluent, tech-savvy, and always pay off my credit card every month. I'm thinking of the average person who buys with Interac to avoid debt, and feels an impedance to buying online be
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by joedrew 12y ago
As a Canadian, I'm most interested in when Stripe will start supporting our Interac debit cards. At that point, from my point of view, it'll have taken over the world. :)
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by joedrew 12y ago
Honestly, in a city with good transit like SF, you shouldn't be driving to the places you want to go anyways.
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by joedrew 12y ago
That sounds like depression, to be honest. As someone who has depression, and is trying to get better, my best advice is to start by at least mentioning it to my GP. Doctors can help!
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by joedrew 12y ago
No, but the hostile workplace environment that's (apparently) already there will probably not be helped by this move. http://tim.dreamwidth.org/1840066.html Edit: A more descriptive link: http://tim.dreamwid
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by joedrew 13y ago
The kerning differences you're seeing only show up on Windows when not using hardware acceleration (Direct2D). When not using hardware acceleration, Firefox draws text with GDI. GDI doesn't deal well with arbitrary scales applied
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by joedrew 14y ago
It has nothing to do with Chrome, and everything to do with 6-weekly updates. Think of it: You have no way to know, going in, whether the changes in any given update will be big enough to "warrant" a major version change. Worse, what if tho
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by joedrew 14y ago
Kijiji not only caught on in Canada, it's dominant here. I don't even bother listing things for sale on Craigslist any more; the buyers are simply only checking Kijiji.
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Firefox for Android shows the future of mobile browsers(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by joedrew 15y ago|0 comments

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