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by jsiarto 6y ago
Good point. I just checked our company's web analytics and IE makes up about 2% of web traffic. So it's not dead yet, but I guess you can make a case for not supporting it.
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by jsiarto 6y ago
I thought CSS variables were still not fully supported enough to use in production. I know you can use a polyfill, but that seems to detract from the minimalist approach of these basic CSS frameworks: https://caniuse.com/#fe
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by jsiarto 12y ago
Not exactly the same--but NASA has a pretty cool dashboard for the Deep Space Network: http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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by jsiarto 12y ago
Hey very cool! I work as a contractor within the NASA Earthdata team and I'm always finding interesting things like this as I learn more about the program. NASA is a great steward of what I think is some of the most important data we h
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by jsiarto 12y ago
If you guys like this NOAA app, you'll probably like NASA Worldview too: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/ It's more focused on Earth sensing data products, but it has great satellite imagery an
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by jsiarto 13y ago
I'm sitting here reading this after spending the last two days at Goddard Space Flight Center in MD and I can pretty much assure you that the engineering talent there would run circles around the folks building social apps in the Bay A
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by jsiarto 13y ago
l9.
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by jsiarto 13y ago
Tables are for tabular data--designing with HTML/CSS isn't perfect, but using tables for layout is an even less-elegant solution. It leads to a markup soup of nested tags and tables and difficult-to-maintain codebase. Good design
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by jsiarto 13y ago
This. If your company clears one million in yearly sales and spends $980,000 to make that happen--you are running a $20,000 per year company. There is nothing wrong with this, but I hate when these metrics get thrown around without context
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by jsiarto 13y ago
I agree completely, but I also teach non-CS students mostly in design. If version control is a foreign concept to some CS students, it's not even on the radar of most of my design group.
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by jsiarto 13y ago
This is the case in the classes I teach. We use Git as the primary vehicle for submitting assignments and tracking work. I usually spend the first week introducing students to the Linux shell and interacting with Git and Github.
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by jsiarto 13y ago
I agree that there are more important concepts that need to be covered in freshman/intro level CS courses, but some of the graduates I was meeting and interviewing had not even heard of version control or source code management, let alone s
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Version Control and Higher Education(medium.com)
31 points by jsiarto 13y ago|29 comments
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by jsiarto 13y ago
In the US -- there is no "minimum amount when authorities check bank accounts" -- they can't legally do that. You are required to report all income to the IRS regardless of source and it's generally not a good idea to mix personal and busin
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by jsiarto 14y ago
Former student pilot here: you literally spend countless hours on "coordinated turns" which involve proper use of both roll and yaw controls (ailerons and rudder). It's much more difficult to do it properly than most people think. Also, I w
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by jsiarto 14y ago
Every time I see posts like this, I come back to warpspire's "Dumb Software:" http://warpspire.com/posts/dumb-software/ "But wait until you see the light! Software today is intelligent! Asynchronous front ends generated from esoteric scri
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by jsiarto 14y ago
This. I just started contracting with a company full of Rails developers. They expect me to be able to implement my designs within the Rails ecosystem and also expect that I generally understand how to function within a Rails development gr
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by jsiarto 14y ago
This again? This debate surfaces every other month and the arguments are always the same. Basically, it all comes down to the job and the person. In big organizations, sometimes designers can get away with only being Photoshop people. In sm
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by jsiarto 14y ago
I live in Michigan and wife's cousin's husband (still with me here?) was the first in Michigan to get a Model S. I've had the privilege to ride in it and it's an amazing piece of engineering. No detail was overlooked and I truly felt like I
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by jsiarto 14y ago
Completely agree--we always start our analysis with basic questions the client wants answered. I also appreciate how in-depth your piece was--we need more research and case studies like this. If I have to listen to one more social monitorin
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by jsiarto 14y ago
This is a very interesting study--nice work! Our company does social research for all types of companies and we've found most automated sentiment analysis to be subpar (at best, 60% accurate). The problem with just looking at words is that
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by jsiarto 14y ago
Then draw your wireframes on paper... I do most initial design wireframes in a notebook anyway--it's faster, easy to make changes and serves the same purpose. I believe they call this "paper prototyping" and I'll take that over wireframing
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by jsiarto 14y ago
Well for one, in some parts of the country residential solar means a $0/mo electric bills and in somes cases you spin the meter in reverse and build a credit. The panels themselves are maintenance-free, have 20-30 year warranties and (perso
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by jsiarto 14y ago
Great comments above on the "sorting" that seems to be happening in America. Personally, these Silicon-X names are dumb. I especially dislike New York being called "Silicon Alley" as there aren't really any alleys in NYC (this is why the tr
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by jsiarto 14y ago
I am currently visiting/working in NYC and staying on the Lower East Side. Seriously, everyone here dresses like that--this hipster thing goes way deeper than I could have imagined...
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by jsiarto 14y ago
"Besides, getting in Y Combinator is easy: just be wicked smart, create a beautiful product, get millions of users, and build a revenue stream that grows 20% each month." If your company's revenue stream is growing 20% each month on the bac
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by jsiarto 14y ago
No, I don't mean minify--I mean the SASS has to be run through a preprocessor before you have usable CSS. If I write the CSS, I instantly have usable CSS. I like using minimal tools for web design--browser and text editor. I don't want thin
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by jsiarto 14y ago
I guess the mixins and nesting are nice, but who the hell wants to compile their CSS before it goes live. Good font end devs know how to organize their own stylesheets and reduce duplication. Some things don't need the engineering/CS treatm
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by jsiarto 14y ago
Ouch--the thought of that debt is just staggering. That is currently more than my mortgage and student loan combined. BU is a great school--not for $200K though. I can't image that there are that many degrees in which $200K is worth it...
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by jsiarto 14y ago
While obviously stories like this work out for some people--I think the general advice of dropping out of college to start a startup is a very bad idea. First, maybe 5% of people are driven/motivated enough to actually have a chance of maki

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