NYT: dark patterns are the techniques that companies use online to get consumers to keep subscriptions they might otherwise cancel
Also NYT: if you want to cancel your NYT subscription, you have to call this phone number during our business hours & let us talk you out of it
Asking questions for new devs:
1. Read through code
2. Write question clearly and concisely - understand the problem
3. Give yourself another 30-40 minutes to figure it out before asking
In most cases, extra time is all I needed. Sometimes I solved it while writing the question.
Life is short AF, so I try to learn things quickly 👇
When diving into a new topic, problem, or codebase, this is my formula:
👌 a pinch of historical context
🍠 a slice of theory
🍇 a bunch of small, self-directed projects
YMMV, but it’s worked pretty well for me so far.
A simple idea this holiday season. Stop measuring GDP and instead measure the total income of the bottom 50% of the population and optimize policy for that. Additions and exits from this group can also be tracked. We get what we measure. Will this raise income inequality?
How will altered/remastered footage and imagery change our sense of distance from the long ago past. 1964 British GP [60fps] Jim Clark's Onboard in Lotus 25 - British Pathé https://t.co/nkaWf1h52D #remaster#film#history
What to look forward to other than the pandemic - The Future Is Coming: The Technology Revolution of the Roaring 2020s https://t.co/SjaPJ6xS9F #futureproof#notevenlydistributed#tech
Not a gamer but a very interesting read on virtual worlds and the impact on different industries. The S-1 Club | Unity is Manifesting the Metaverse https://t.co/ba3uJOtbpt
Inspiring immigrant story of Fuzzy Khosrowshahi (my uncle). He started selling insurance, then ran a sandwich shop, then taught himself to code, and became the inventor and founder of Google Spreadsheets. He's now VP of Product Engineering at Slack.