ethank

This is sad, like a piece of my geek childhood dying. I would sometimes email him when he was writing for PC Magazine and as a 14 year old it was cool that he always emailed back, engaged in thoughtful conversation.

California has the biggest agriculture, port and manufacturing base in the US basically. The county orders contradict the state.

OC is letting factories stay open with conditions and LA is saying the port stays open as well as the trains, airports (especially KSBD which is Amazon's home base). What a mess.

By the time he was in their office, he was a convicted felon for .... solicitation of minors.

He didn't do a basic Google search to find all the articles about his conviction for child molestation and solicitation?

Scannable was and still is one of the best "take a picture and scan a document" apps out there. But Evernote, which has 15 years of my life stored in it, sucks.

Another way to pull them: http://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-17

They came around to liking it at around the 20 year mark :)

I worked with REM for the past 20 years. This article is dead on. Learned more from that band about management than from any business mentors.

In aviation there are similar methods of doing checklists:

Say - Do: pilot not flying says the task, pilot flying verifies verbally after doing it.

Challenge - Response: challenge the check list, verbally respond (do the action)

Flow-Confirm: Do all required actions then verbally confirm.

In any case, the verbal and physical confirmation is needed to move on in the checklist.

When flying solo I do "Say-Do"

I love Trello, but they never got enterprise sales down. SSO isn't federated, and the ACL system is leaky (much like Google Drive).

It also is too religiously adherent to the card metaphor (understandable) which works in most contexts but falls down in others where more traditional tools (Jira, Github) shine. We use Trello for a ton, but not mainline work.

I use it as a contact manager, todo list manager, and we use it a lot for card sorting/brainstorming and more "people" type stuff.

I guess I can answer questions here too. Hi there.

It's like detritus without context. Memory is so subjective and left over tweets from ten years are a pseudo objective slant on memory that doesn't really work.

This one.

My usage transitioned over time from a more mundane "here's what I'm up to" to more of a pulpit. I became bored with bother versions of me.

I disagree on this. The companies culture is only a matter in terms of how it manifests within the product itself and the things around the product. It isn't THE product.

I don't buy a product because their CEO's salary is public and I can see what I'd make there in a hugely arbitrary / convoluted form based salary metric. I buy because the product is good and support is good.

Isn't it for most companies you buy their product because the product is good? Radical concept I know.

Buffer is similar to a lot of companies that are obsessed with being companies rather than about the products they make.

We do.

Here's the office: http://photos.dailynews.com/2016/09/photos-fender-musical-in...

Many of them. a BFA and two MFA's.

I started out wanting to pursue computer science, but those classes didn't fit into my schedule (I did my freshman year at UCI and senior year in high school at the same time).

The only class that fit my schedule was a Visual Arts class with a "New Media" emphasis. At this time I was also working at the local paper and putting their site online (this is around 1997).

I got hooked on the theory behind the why/how/engineering of the Internet, art, computers and how all these intersected. I liked that art was putting a mirror up on humanity as it got more and more connected.

I ended up going to UCSD in their Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts program, then to UCSB where I was in Media Arts and Technology and doubled MFA'ed with Visual Arts (Computing Emphasis).

I did a lot of installation work, a lot of interesting programming with AI and the like.

From there I started the technology department at Warner Bros. Records, ran Live Nation Labs, and currently the General Manager - Digital at Fender Guitars.

I think the art background helped me bridge the arts/humanities and technology in an interesting way, and keeps my approach to tech grounded in the artists and artistic practices I've worked in.

Woodland Hills, West Hills, Calabasas, South Pasadena, Granada Hills, Simi Valley, Burbank and Glendale.

My son uses it to answer random trivia questions. See: https://twitter.com/ethank/status/730809136972079105

Of note: for a great hardware product, it has terrible software.

Doesn't work like that. They want to use a J28D engine modified for super sonic flight. That engine was designed to power MD80's.

An unconventional one, but important: Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

It's 20 years old, and dated in terms of technology but a good overview of valley culture in the mid 90's.

Starting my DA20 is much less involved and you get to shout "clear the prop" which is satisfying. :)

Still needs some sort of syncing of read positions.

I am really excited about this. I have run a forum for going on 12 years now, first on Vbulletin and now Invision.

I don't even use the forum anymore because it is so painful. It's a pain to maintain, to use and run. I have always wanted to do some engineering against new forum paradigms (and did hack some up) but didn't follow through.

At this point I would try anything that breaks the stale paradigm and especially if I can host on a paas

A big part of why the faculty body of the UC system was upset is that not one of the 9 art and design departments were ever consulted about an identity change. Neither were the thousand or so art/design graduate students.

I used to be adjunct faculty in art at a UC. It is the worst of presumptive bureaucracies.

The rudder deflection on the cross-wind one is the most interesting. The landings is just a lot of ILS approaches so not much variance, although you can see the auto-pilot compensation on the LHR approaches, which is kind of cool.

Cross wind landings are fun once you get used to looking at the runway from the side window and getting tossed around in a Cessna like a kite.

But you will fund Googles, Samsungs, and who knows about the component suppliers.

Taking a political stand via device choice is a bit naive.

Million dollar houses, or small houses with no yards. We have to live in the burbs.

I also did live closer to work but changed jobs.