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It's the lottery, you can only win if you play

The entirety of that compilation of words is worth a read. I recommend checking out "Artificial Intelligence", "Consume", "Consumer" and "Monetize", "Players" and "Product"

Yes, it's literally that. Some are made with just one sheet of paper smartly folded into 8 pages. you can find them in random art stands in small alternative markets. Sometimes mus…

Completely agree. We seem to have forgotten the word "spyware", I don't see it used anymore because it became the norm. But let's call things by what they are.

Freedom is a constant struggle

But they had to code that warning message about Firefox... so they did know about it

It's still real people who suffer when the numbers tell a different story - not charity cases.

But aren't layoffs ultimately a mistake? Shouldn't the stress of losing a job (also) be on the shoulders of who made the incorrect decisions?

The blog post mentions too many meetings. Its the 15m daily everyday, then a retro and a planning once per sprint. I understand it is too much for a one-week sprint (as stated in t…

Why is it being watertight important to you? What benefit will it remove from your experience?

I like to say I'm a "Developer", or "Software Developer", and then I can describe further what I do as "creating things" for people to use. I agree 100% with you that programming i…

It's cumulative, every time you buy you get two checkmarks, and the more you buy (or get gifted) the more you get. You get a lot of checkmarks next to your username.

I remember learning about this from Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was also so carefully explained there as central to the characters plot

How can a team be invincible to "assholes" if a team is the sum of the result of the people who compose it, "asshole" included? I think anyone can ruin teams that would previously …

I've been working in Scrum based frameworks for the past 8 years in different jobs. Learned from the teams practices and Scrum Masters. Only this year did I decide to actually read…

That's interesting, I always thought it was because it was a competitor to Infrared, hence something new with another color in its name. Interesting how random things in my life ar…

I've worked with some psychologists giving business consulting, and they would use the definition from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), which is that coaching is "partn…

Relevant quote from Brian Eno (1996) > Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitterines…

They do. As fast as I can look at a picture of a cat or a dog and tell you which of those animals it is, when my husband sees a font he immediatly knows which font it is. I find it…

> I'd liken this to rape, actually. I'm really astonished with this comparison.

This website is part of another one called Dream Research - https://dreams.ucsc.edu/ full of interesting info with a scientific approach into the world of Dreams, including analysi…

This website is actually part of a bigger one called DreamResearch.net where you can find interesting info such as some investigations into what children dream. It seems that there…

I don't think this is true at all. itch.io and Gamejolt are very popular platforms for indie artists. You submit a zip instead of a swf but the end result is the same, your work is…

In Portugal we have this. Each citizen identification card (called Cartão do Cidadão) has a unique certificate and the official Software allows you to sign any documents with it. U…

They sell a desktop app version which is advertised as "no internet connection required". Only supports Windows and Mac tho.