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sandmansandine··on Replit Apps
Kinda surprised this worked so well but I hit the edit on replit button, forked the blog and removed the gifs for you: https://replit-blog.ericsandine.repl.co/apps
sandmansandine··on The Fourth of July
I used to walk by the Paramount on the way to BART and always felt happy and excited for the people waiting to get into the theater for the ceremony.
sandmansandine··on ‘Zoombombing’ Is a Horrifying New Trend
I would assume if someone was sending "awful images" via email it's probably meant to be malicious and probably not a critique.
sandmansandine··on ‘Zoombombing’ Is a Horrifying New Trend
It seems like that would be cyber harassment and attacking someone.
sandmansandine··on ‘Zoombombing’ Is a Horrifying New Trend
There's definitely a difference between yelling profanities at someone and flashing them. A video call is different than audio and I believe it would be disingenuous to argue otherwise.
sandmansandine··on Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
There are a good amount of job boards which allow you to search for or only show remote jobs, I think a job board which allows filtering open-plan offices would be super useful.
sandmansandine··on Toptal suit against co-founder dismissed
Looks like it shows up on their seeds page in some older snapshots: https://web.archive.org/web/20150810161359/http://a16z.com/s...
sandmansandine··on Employee happiness and business success are linked
These questions are also rephrased versions of questions mentioned in most management books I've read that are focused on employee development. The more I dig into employee development and management the more I realize a lot of startups, claiming they're data-driven, just skip over all data related to actually managing people, managing work spaces, etc.
sandmansandine··on Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
Serious question: Why didn't you mention the genders of the the people from "the "good old days"" but had to say over and over again that you were dealing with "Middle manager woman"
sandmansandine··on Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children
I saw it last night, it was wonderful and very well done.
sandmansandine··on Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Turkers
I'm also interested in this, looking at Scale and their jobs page I don't see that they're hiring for any of their transcribers or people to turk any of their other services, so the humans are outsourced I assume.
sandmansandine··on Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
This is horrible argument.

We had cars before seat belt laws why do we all of sudden need it?

We had cars before airbags why do we all of sudden need it?

We've has guns before gun control so why do we all of sudden need it?

Edit: People have been giving birth for a long time without doctors so why do we all of sudden need it?

sandmansandine··on YC is compiling a blacklist of venture capitalists accused of harassing women
Yeah I noticed they changed the headline and read your comment too quickly.
sandmansandine··on YC is compiling a blacklist of venture capitalists accused of harassing women
I'm sorry about that, I was not trying to editorialize the headline at all, I changed the first part to "YC" because the original headline was too long:

"This influential Silicon Valley firm is compiling a blacklist of venture capitalists accused of harassing women"

It appears the WaPo changed the headline: "This influential Silicon Valley firm is spearheading a blacklist of venture capitalists accused of harassing women"

NewsDiff still has the original: http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/https%3A/www.washington...

It would definitely be good for the mods to change the title to reflect the new WaPo headline.

sandmansandine··on California bans ITT tech from accepting new students
It looks like BPPE has their eye on them as well, at least they did in 2014

http://www.wired.com/2014/01/california-hacker-bootcamps/

sandmansandine··on Your license to use React.js can be revoked if you compete with Facebook
I'm pretty certain some teams at Microsoft are working on react https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/04/13/react-nati...
sandmansandine··on Why I'm taking a long startup investing vacation
Right, so people care, but the question is who, not a binary of whether or not people care, obviously people do if it's on the front page, the new question posed is who and an implied why.
sandmansandine··on Why I'm taking a long startup investing vacation
I think they do add something, granted it could be phrased differently, but sometimes "Who Cares?", full stop, is a perfectly valid question.
sandmansandine··on Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
Yeah, if they don't have a sales staff there are a ton of delusional people on linkedin who pop up for the search "Atlassian sales"
sandmansandine··on Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management buyout
Slack's desktop client is really just Electron I believe
sandmansandine··on We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
Yep, I interviewed with a small startup in the ABQ/Denver area and they asked if I could build a project over the week with their platform. "You know, don't spend more than 8 hours or so on it, you can just do it over a weekend and then maybe take some notes on any bad documentation or ideas you have"...

Luckily I had many other interviews to go to, I didn't waste my time on their project. I'm sure a lot of people in Albuquerque would have though.

sandmansandine··on The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up
I agree with this, I've seen a lot of "custom" sites done for small businesses which, in the end, looked worse than setting up a Squarespace site with a some pretty photos.

The custom sites took tons of time, lots of client back and forth, and in the end probably weren't as well optimized as a Squarespace site. A great designer can definitely do some amazing things, but a lot of people in the lower half should just focus on sending out some Squarespace promo codes, at least they can get some free hosting that way.

sandmansandine··on The complications of nutrition science
That would be Michael Pollan[0]

[0] http://www.amazon.com/In-Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/01...

sandmansandine··on Judge: Drinking tea, shopping at garden store probable cause for SWAT raid
They would just have to be a paid informant.
sandmansandine··on The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
Wow, that's a bit pricey but very interesting. I'd love to snag one, thanks for the link.
sandmansandine··on How GOG.com Saves and Restores Classic Videogames
One of my favorite early DRMs was for Indiana Jones (Temple of Doom, I think) which came with Dr. Jones' Diary. Some of the puzzles required looking up old journal entries and figuring out what was written in order to put the statues in the right order (or whatever the puzzle was) was a lot of fun as a little kid.

I got a copy later on and got a PDF of the diary just to play it again, it was a lot of fun.

sandmansandine··on On Full-Stack Startups
On 497 requests for 2.1MB of data (cache disabled)...
sandmansandine··on Angular/Protractor: A better way to implement page objects
You can convert it to JS http://js2.coffee/ (paste into the output) there isn't that much code in there to convert.
sandmansandine··on So yeah, I wrote an Unofficial Slack Guide
It's a colloquialism http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=so+yeah
sandmansandine··on FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’
As I understand it they don't exactly need a search warrant currently. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/20/leaked-...
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