ahsteele

> If you push for change long enough, and aren’t an asshole about it, just genuinely interested and motivated, there’s a chance you’ll see your vision for better culture materialize.

Throughout my career, I’ve described this as “polite persistence is how you effect change.”

Did you write this? Do you have a link to the entire essay? I enjoyed the excerpt.

It’s really hard to even comprehend how large IPv6 is. I have found that extreme examples tend to help people get there. Here are some I’ve used in the past.

There are enough IPv6 Addresses for 4.77 x 10^28 for every living person.

If each IPv6 address was a grain of sand…

That’s 2.39 × 10^18 of addresses per person, or roughly enough sand sized addresses to equal about 1.8 times the volume of earths ocean per person.

At sand scale all IPv6 addresses would take the volume of 12 sols.

Conversely, all the IPv4 addresses in this sand scale would slightly over fill an oil drum.

From “IPv6 Addresses: Big Numbers, Big Solutions”: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1365362

Do you have a link?

I discovered the DVD Journal website tonight and read their last entry. It serves as an excellent snapshot of technology trends as of late summer 2007. Notably, it doesn't mention smartphones, even though the iPhone was released earlier that summer, but iPods are discussed. Additionally, the website's design features, such as nested tables for layout, an image as a background, and the use of image alignment attributes, are notable.

Yes, exactly.

I’ve been using Google Voice this way too since 2011. Recently I have been considering porting my number out as the iOS app has become incredibly slow to the point of almost nonfunctional. Have you had a similar experience?

What are some approaches have you used to measure your productivity?

I would include Command and Control on a list of essential nuclear history reading. Specifically US and post WWII but fascinating and enlightening.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)

Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231024164822/https://mchap.io/...

The book does. Have not seen the movie to know for sure but I believe the movie ends around 2008 or 09 at the time of the Storm’s release and before the QNX acquisition.

Yes I would say that working in the United States at a Federally Funded Research and Design Center https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/ffrdclist/ are great companies if only you can get into them.

What RSS reader are you using?

Your thoughts on agile development are spot on. Eventually "agile" will become a bad word snickered at the same way waterfall is.

How much of what is outlined in this article is hyperbole? It makes a great piece to take down iOS security given the pedestal it often rests on, but I can’t tell if the shift in thinking that the author is arguing for is justified.

You are experiencing Frequency Illusion sometimes referred to as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human.... Once I learned about Baader-Meinhof I started to notice it everywhere. ;)

Interestingly turkey has slightly less tryptophan than chicken: http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/much-tryptophan-poultry-7904....

Anecdotally it is only recently that capacitive gloves that you'd want to wear for snowboarding / skiing in the conditions alluded to by the OP have become available.

The CSS Values and Units Module Level 3 details that the `attr()` function is at risk of being dropped during the CR period: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-values-3/#funcdef-attr.

Stack Overflow has already addressed this issue: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/244367/61654.

Font Awesome is great, but am wondering if at this point Dave has already given away too much free milk to now try and sell the cow.

Agreed, I hate this trend. So many websites are now opting for video over written content. I can skim an article / blog post and glean most of the salient points. Video makes that impossible.

The bundling features in ASP.NET MVC 4 were at best release candidate and at worst beta until mid summer. I can see why using them may have made some developer's leery. Adding these features now as indicated by several other commentators should not be difficult.

We use Font Awesome and have been incredibly happy. We augment the set with our own SVGs and appropriately attributed ones from The Noun Project. There are a variety of scripts and web sites available for packaging SVGs up so that they can be used as a font.

"However, it should be remembered that these estimations are relative, and whilst a 685 per cent sales bump is an appealing figure, Nintendo has yet to release details of exactly how many consoles are being sold."

Regardless the estimate is still encouraging after months of "what should Nintendo do posts?"

Yes, Research in Motion (RIM) re-branded themselves BlackBerry back in January: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/30/rim-renamed-blackber....

The Stack Overflow Microsoft app contests rewarded people for asking legitimate Stack Overflow questions. In fact some of the contest prizes were hard to obtain because they required X questions/answers with a score X or more votes. Many of the topics were sufficiently covered already, making additional questions/answers duplicative. However, this ensured that the integrity of Stack Overflow was maintained even if it did make the contest more difficult.

Why don't you guys allow for printing from within the iOS app?

Not so much pining as feeling nostalgic. Didn't say anything about better, though in retreading my comment I can see how it would be interpreted that way.

I love the Internet. I have a career in a field that did not exist when I was born and because of this have had the unique opportunity of helping to define what it is. Not something afforded to many "classical" professions.

A colleague of mine and I are given a presentation at the end of the summer entitled "Mousehate: Increasing accessibility of Web Applications one QWERTY at a time." The focus will be on keyboard enabling web apps both with keyboard and CLI like commands.