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Inspired Media(stratechery.com)
1 points by specialk 10y ago|0 comments
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The Last Diplomat(wsj.com)
102 points by specialk 10y ago|53 comments
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by specialk 10y ago
This isn't purely a resource allocation problem. There are real people finding themselves homeless or in bad living conditions because of the explosion in rents in Dublin. Families shouldn't have to live in hotel rooms. We need to
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Scaling Knowledge at Airbnb(medium.com)
1 points by specialk 10y ago|0 comments
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by specialk 11y ago
Concentration indicators: Wearing headphones Working away from normal desk Interruptions still happen, of course. When one does, we suggest letting the person know upfront that you’re concentrating on something, and asking them if it
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by specialk 11y ago
There is a subtle irony in your comment. I think it is interesting to tease out because much of the arguments on diversity come from one's own perspective. So, if you'll indulge me, your argument is essentially 'us vs them&#x
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by specialk 11y ago
There is a great clourflare article [1] that has talked about this before when they first suggested LV certs. > The seemingly good news is that globally, SHA-2 is supported by at least 98.31% of browsers. Cutting 1.69% off the encrypted
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Leaving the Agency World: Advice for New Product Designers(product.hubspot.com)
1 points by specialk 11y ago|0 comments
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by specialk 11y ago
I'm 3/4 of the way through this video. I'm fascinated. I completely recommend it. Thanks for sharing.
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by specialk 11y ago
My team added something four weeks ago that might be an idea to try - we're still trailing it ourselves. It started accidentally and became a tradition on our team though so your mileage may vary. If the pull request is small, fixes a
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by specialk 11y ago
I completely agree that how can you get blocked waiting for a code review? Some concurrency is wonderful for avoiding being blocked. In work I currently have 3 pull requests open all touching different sections of the product . The 3 PRs a
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by specialk 11y ago
If you don't have that much time to write tests I'd recommend integration tests. Then at least you have some tests. Treat integration tests as smoke tests. If there is smoke then you can start looking for the fire. Integration tes
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by specialk 11y ago
Might as well keep all the bug reports in the same thread. I noticed one more thing on the job posting text: the word-breaking is a little off. Here's a image with one example: http://i.imgur.com/Zuv1Zjc.png CSS's
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by specialk 11y ago
Have you seen the Acceptable Advertising manifesto [1]? Sites like reddit and stack exchange have signed up. Essentially AdblockPlus one of the big two adblocking plugins has this manifesto where ads are not garbage, animated, annoying etc.
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by specialk 11y ago
I know this probably sounds counter-intuitive but the company that provided the report mentioned twice in the article also have a blog post about how adblock users click more ads than non-adblocking users[1]. There's not much detail in
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Project Soli; Google's new interaction sensor using radar(youtube.com)
2 points by specialk 11y ago|0 comments
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by specialk 11y ago
Even calling yourselves the Onion for Startup News is hilarious. The whole 'we're like uber but for ... ' has become meaningless. The pieces on your tumblr so far have been pretty funny. This industry needs more social commen
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by specialk 11y ago
Does the US not have regulations about UAVs automatically firing of weaponry? Don't all current UAVs have human operators. The so-called "man in the loop". I'm having trouble finding evidence one way or the other but doe
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by specialk 11y ago
This is a very intriguing move for Intercom. They've gone from offering products that are designed to solely work inside your SaaS product to customer acquisition. A very interesting shift from a company perspective. I'm sure ther
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by specialk 11y ago
> "Amazon cut off service to Wikileaks, claiming that whistleblowing violates its terms of service. It had no need to go to court to prove this, because if you rent a server from Amazon, you have no rights." I find it highly am
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by specialk 11y ago
Hey thanks for the long response. I totally get the premise of peppering I think my problem is with this sentiment "A properly implemented, simple pepper can only help password security and can't hurt it". From all the advice
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by specialk 11y ago
Is there any significant evidence that peppering passwords helps? I've seen arguments for and against peppering out on the big bad internet. Everyone has opinions but there are few people's opinions about crypto that I actually tr
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by specialk 12y ago
I'm also an apiary.io user. I must agree there is something lacking in the hosted API docs space. What I find most lacking from apiary.io is features. They have such a limited way of expecting APIs to behave that it can be hard to repr
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by specialk 12y ago
Yeah I agree the hyperbolic sentences are over the top. The only way for anyone to reliably get 100% uptime is to use two or three cloud providers or their own dedicated boxes somewhere. Even AWS don't provide 100% uptime guarantees. T
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by specialk 12y ago
Two whole days of zero service. In this one moment I have lost all expectations of good service from Verizon's cloud. It doesn't look like customers were given much warning either. This story was originally published on the 6th of
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The Problem With International Development and a Plan to Fix It(newrepublic.com)
29 points by specialk 12y ago|9 comments
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by specialk 12y ago
There are responses in here that say they are in a healthy environment where they "feel great, valued, treated equally, competent and successful". What's the magic ingredient to a healthy working environment for everyone? Or
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by specialk 12y ago
I'm a little concerned with the lack of any absolute numbers in the data visualisations in this article. The 'more/less' and 'higher/lower' bars could be very misleading on some of these stats. I can under
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by specialk 12y ago
Out of curiosity, do you have any security concerns about calling home for analytic or is it just you would prefer the privacy of not having your usage tracked?
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by specialk 12y ago
Can the OP tell us anything about building their Twitter framework in Swift. Any gotchas or problems they came across building it? Is Swift ready for the primetime. Should I start switching all my apps to Swift ASAP? Otherwise I'm just

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