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Getting so tired of the war metaphors in attempts to describe software development. We solve business problems using code, we don't make a living by role-playing military tactics. …

Regardless of your job or responsibilities, if you are new to a certain domain, find users or customers to talk to. If you can't talk to them directly, find colleagues who do, and …

I've got two IKEA FLOAT Led panels on my ceiling, each 2400 lumen. The panels can be adjusted in Kelvin (2200 to 4000) and are dimmable, so when it's evening and I need to get some…

I've been running a pi-hole on my home network for years and I love it, it consistently blocks about 19% of outgoing requests. Some of the benefits for us are: - It disables (and h…

A book I keep coming back to (re-read every two years or so) and recommend others is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". It has shaped my thinking on 'what is good' or 'wh…

I'd like to add https://soverin.net/features here as well. It's similar to Posteo but offers unlimited aliases and more storage. Servers hosted in the Netherlands.

Just browsing the papers linked in the article you can find some relevant things: [Effects on trees and plants] The microwaves may affect vegetables. In the area that received radi…

This is an increasing problem in advertising everywhere. If we keep using attractive skinny people in our product shots, photo shoots and marketing communication, we will push a gr…

Head of PM here. I lead 3 PMs in my current position at Styla.com and have taught product management at General Assembly courses. I myself come from a self-taught programmer backgr…

Happy to see there is an increased interest in this topic. I've been reading a bit about hydroponics lately which was sparked by IKEA's indoor gardening product line [1]. I think t…

Styla GmbH | Berlin, Germany | Full time | ON SITE At Styla we're building an infrastructure that automatically creates online magazines. There are a bunch of challenges ahead in t…

This is a terrible article. Meditation is a great way to get to know yourself better or solve problems, I would not compare it to "tripping balls" in any way. If you want to learn …

Happy to see the guys behind Violet are not giving up. I believe they're on to something but the branding / language choosing is indeed poor. Whatever they launch with now will sur…

I'm surprised and happy to see a big outlet like the Rolling Stone doing such an extensive feature on the meat topic. Yes, they present it completely biased and it's clear what the…

Is this a Lift.do viral?

Reading this article for the first time, but now I understand why it used to be mtve.com for so long...

This is hilarious, thank you.

I completely agree! Users should be better educated about the risks they put themselves to, but we all should also be aware of the crazy social engineering exploits that we expose …

I like the idea but I fear for the lack of quality. Whenever you have "outsourced" n-to-1 projects to platforms like Mechanical Turk you know you need something to guard the qualit…

+ the great thing about nzbmatrix was to use their API for the searches. You could then have a local process download the actual files after doing a request to nzbmatrix.

This is a bit of an old discussion. I think it's a fair tradeoff for content-centric companies to have feedburner (now google) rewrite those links to get some very useful stats in …