patternMachine

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by patternMachine 7d ago
Barring truly bad behavior this is how executives get fired.
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by patternMachine 1mo ago
This article is really about IT support, not "tech" workers. What tech workers need, if they need anything, is a professional organization like lawyers, doctors, and architects have.
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by patternMachine 2mo ago
You think this blog post is advocating for good UI?
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by patternMachine 10mo ago
This reads more like a portfolio case study than a blog post for a company. Who is the audience of this post? Isn't one of the main value props of Vercel that you don't need to know technical details like this to launch a product?
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by patternMachine 1y ago
Physical objects get added to our body schema in a way that digital documents do not. When we hold a book in our hands, our brains incorporate it into the subconscious of our bodies[0]. Digital artifacts can never hope for this level of con
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by patternMachine 1y ago
The moralizing that always accompanies (not) upside down maps is so tedious. It's a genuinely interesting example of how something can look so wrong and yet not be wrong at all. To try to extend that "wrong" feeling to some k
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by patternMachine 1y ago
It seems to me
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by patternMachine 2y ago
1. Amazon announces new IC to Manager ratio target. Meeting this target would mean an overall reduction in the number of managers. 2. Someone at Morgan Stanley assumes that lay offs will be the mechanism used to reach the target ratio and d
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by patternMachine 2y ago
Essentially the plot of The Inverted World.
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by patternMachine 2y ago
I am not a composer but I do have a similar memory for sound. I can "listen" to music in my head very vividly. It can go on for quite awhile almost subconsciously and when it ends it often feels like someone else turned the musi
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by patternMachine 3y ago
Learn page layout and graphic design principles. A lot of CSS is spec'd to support these disciplines and it will make a lot more sense if you are familiar with them. The main reason developers have so much trouble with CSS is that they
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by patternMachine 3y ago
Remarkably ignorant comment, and bitter too. You might as well blame MS Word for all the poorly written books out there.
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by patternMachine 3y ago
It's cheaper. Many fonts require ongoing licensing fees based on views or some other metric. Creating your own font means you own it — no more fees.
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by patternMachine 3y ago
The contrast ratio for the body text is 7.57:1 (or 7.25:1 if the text is on the light grey background), which meets AAA accessibility standards (which is 7:1).
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by patternMachine 4y ago
Is it possible that running a blog is not as easy as you think?
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by patternMachine 5y ago
Pointlessly reworking software is the hallmark of a poor (or green) contributor. Designers can redesign features that work fine, engineers can refactor code that doesn't need optimization, PMs can come up with features that nobody need