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FordPrefectAOon Material Components Preview

https://material.io/ has completely janky scrolling behavior in Firefox 50 on a 2015 MBP. Unacceptable

FordPrefectAOon For software developers: how to find a job with relocation to Europe

Consider it part of your total package, and your reduction in pay is offset by this

FordPrefectAOon Airbnb expands to experiences

In that case then why don't they allow paying in either currency? I hate that airbnb always makes me pay in my home currency when my credit card gets me way better exchange rates, but I don't have a choice

FordPrefectAOon MacBook Pro

I think they broke Karabiner support in the new macOS

FordPrefectAOon UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID

Can you define the problem more pointedly? It sounds like the problem is 'information (and ergo imagery) is accessible ", which I do not see as a probely

FordPrefectAOon Black Market Ride-Sharing Increases in Austin

What about the article today: Chinese censorship can teach the world that it works?

FordPrefectAOon I went to the hospital to give birth and tested positive for meth

I'm not GP, but UHC = universal health care, presumably single payer health care

FordPrefectAOon OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science

If you follow the links to get to the dataset (for instance to see if you're in it), you arrive here[1], which says

  Unavailable For Legal Reasons
  This record has been suspended

[1] https://osf.io/p9ixw/

FordPrefectAOon Continuous Deployment at Instagram

Oops, I meant CD as in continuous delivery, but that is not what the article is discussing. Sorry! :)

FordPrefectAOon Continuous Deployment at Instagram

CD doesn't have to mean 'push every green build to prod'. It's more about the ability to push new functionality when asked by the business, than the fact of always pushing it by default. You may be doing CD well already, knowing just what you have said.

FordPrefectAOon Years and lessons working at ThoughtWorks

I think the article is saying: people who are making architectural decisions (whatever their job title) should spend some time coding the system they make decisions for.

It's easy enough for me to buy.

FordPrefectAOon Building Web Apps in Go

Well one reason [1] Google made go was because of how many junior engineers they had who couldn't be trusted with java/python/etc. Instead of letting them struggle, they created go as a more simple and easy to use language.

[1]http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fro...

FordPrefectAOon How We Release So Frequently

Whatever you are developing has no value until someone actually uses it. Therefore the quicker you can confidently release something(feature, bugfix, etc), the more value you gave deliver.

This idea comes from the concept of inventory waste from lean manufacturing

FordPrefectAOon Can you be added to a watchlist for playing a video game?

Has the database of people on the watchlist been leaked? I wonder if anyone I know has been added for playing these games

FordPrefectAOon Fear of Apple

It is different because in the case of Commodore 64/Windows/$thirdParty, the developer can do releases, pricing, refunds, etc outside of Apple's control.

FordPrefectAOon Future of the New York Times

What is up with the scrolling on that site? It's jumps to hyperspeed about 1/2 way down the fold