#Developers

Are you a creative person?I'm not.Or at least, that's what I thought.5 years in front-end development and I always struggled designing something myself.Then, suddenly, I didn't.Here's what I changed to
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This discussion was getting long, so I thought I'd lay out my thoughts on a common argument: should models produce probabilities or decisions? Ie 32% chance of cancer vs "do
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Man, I feel this guy's pain, and I need to make a few points...(thread) > generally speaking, no one can legally (or should) sell you a homemade firearm.You may have
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Ireland still disobeying 2008 EU Court order.Fines rising at €15,000 a day as successive governments in Ireland have not complied. Total penalties now over ten million euro. Plus legal costs.https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/132823895851
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New: the U.S. military is buying granular location data of people harvested from ordinary smartphone apps. Through documents, sources, technical analysis, we also identified specific apps. The biggest: a Muslim
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My thread the other night on "what I would do if I were advising @Elastic" was predicated on exactly this outcome. I mean... it was easily predictable. At best--Elastic gets
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What a scarf says about a man, a thread1) Choke me mommy. 2) Airstrike go boom 3) I completely misunderstood The Great Gatsby 4) I am a very, very frightened
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One of the things that designers should avoid doing is creating designs with Lorem Ipsum i.e. placeholder text.Here's why. 1) Designers need to understand the context.Without "real" data in there,
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This is a really interesting article by @AnyaMartin8 about the effect of densification policies in Sydney. It reminded me of stories I read several years ago about homeowners in Sydney
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Toronto could get a huge, net-zero office building. Despite the climate and economic benefits, it's being stalled by a dispute over how it looks 1/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-a-green-skyscraper-in-toronto-why-
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Sounds like you’ve had an encounter with “If you build enough houses, some will be affordable”?There are many reasons why this does NOT happen. The most important being that developers
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sad to see flash goyears back I was working as a library page and making flash games for fun. A friend of mine (@NoelFB) got a sponsorship for one of
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5 learnings from convo with @bvnixon @algolia on way to $100m ARR and beyond:1. SaaS passed media as their #2 customer category. From a niche to huge.https://youtu.be/0rKwKRUhRqM  2. With customers
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Producing code changes is maybe 10% of the work of professional software development.Actual things you'll be doing on the job, a thread 1/ Thinking hard about requirements. Asking a
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It is time I say something on this.I am absolutely sick and tired of how a disgustingly large portion of the Roblox community treats their developers. It is utterly disappointing
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Given the uniformity surrounding the reflationary trade next year, its worth exploring which pillars of this thesis are most vulnerable. One area of concern is the recent turn in
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