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roughfalls

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    Comment #46974675

    This is so wonderfully done! Great icon choices & use of fill to indicate active devices. I love how you grouped accessories by category, and included temperature/humidity sensor r…

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    Comment #32989089

    I'm reminded of a blog post ( https://rc3.org/2015/12/29/answering-the-question-should-man... , focused on software engineering managers rather than CTOs), which posited this guide…

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    Comment #23488042

    The reason USA Today's coverage is best is because the real reporting is coming from the local newspaper, Louisville Courier-Journal. They're a Gannett property so it ends up getti…

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    Comment #22596525

    They may not be dumb, but culturally, the companies are miles apart. Disney is incredibly bureaucratic and is does a very poor job of developing and deploy technology. Most of the …

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    Comment #22506402

    This looks great and I'm inclined to give it a try. But do you have a privacy policy? I try to avoid services that sit between me and my financial institutions, as I worry they're …

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    Comment #21648670

    My concern about security is that this would be used like Slack, but for apps -- always on, sitting in the background, occasionally has my attention. If I drag an app that has an i…

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    Comment #20414174

    http://two.sentenc.es/ conveys a similar idea but did so long before this story, and more succinctly: "Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of lette…

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    Comment #16317089

    I once read a statement attributed to Steve Ballmer that every six months, he tears his todo list in half and throws the bottom half away. If anything far down that list was actual…

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    Comment #15593183

    It's a good thing he wasn't running Windows 10 S: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15609706/google-chrome-wi...

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    Comment #15533411

    "Knowing when to quit is as important as knowing when not to quit. Hard work does not always pay off." This is the entire subject of Seth Godin's _The Dip_. I'm not a huge fan of t…

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    Comment #15466745

    What I've never seen in any rich-text web editor is an ability to have more complex numbered lists. So often I want to put in a block of content (e.g., a small code example) as par…

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    Comment #11638550

    As a former employee of Disney, I can confirm that this is correct. Disney IT goes through firms such as HCL and Cognizant who act as the H1-B sponsors. I'm aware of a very small n…

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    Comment #3131709

    I agree. I find it very frustrating to see Gruber and others say, "Oh, it looks like a nano -- ripoff" with no examination of the actual product beyond its appearance. Given its pr…