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There is a high resolution download link on each item page directly under the thumbnail. In the case of Irises, the image is 4264 x 3282.

Looking at the two additional requests, they do currently have the utmni parameter, marking them as non-interactive.

However, the top comment references Google Analytics events on scroll that don't appear to be there now. One of FastCo.Labs folks also made the following comment:

  This made me curious as well. It turns out there was a
  technical change made at around the same time that is
  going to account for some of it. We're running an
  experiment now and will update with results.

I don't see the update from him. Given all of this, I would guess that they were triggering events incorrectly and have since fixed it (the article is 3 months old).

_utm.gif is apparently requested 3 times with the same google analytics account id.

There's obviously something wrong with the numbers. It's too dramatic of a change, both in terms of magnitude and in immediacy, for it to be due to a simple content tweak.

Pages/Visit is stable yet Bounce Rate suddenly dropped significantly.

> Johnny Ive designed Aqua too.

Cordell Ratzlaff was the design lead for Aqua:

http://www.cultofmac.com/87889/how-mac-os-x-came-to-be-exclu...

Correct. A cursory glance at the data used for that graph http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports shows that desktop traffic has actually increased significantly in that time period (+ 25ish% for both windows and mac). For example:

Feb 2012: http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2012-02/Squ...

Feb 2013: http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2013-02/Squ...

> really just look like giant insects that happen to live in the water

That's because they basically are, since crustaceans are likely more closely related to proper insects than millipedes, centipedes, and arachnids are.

Except that working at a no-name software shop will pay significantly better, and then you can take your SF developer experience to middle America and get decent paying corporate job and a McMansion.

Why would it be creepy for someone using a social networking site to search for people they've met over the years?

Also, how much of the perceived "creepiness" of someone searching for someone on LinkedIn just a variation of this: http://thedoghousediaries.com/1042 ?

It's a mistake to use the "if it made business sense ... they would" line of thinking when interpreting the decision-making of any organization, especially large established ones.

As Marc Andreessen has noted:

"The behavior of any big company is largely inexplicable when viewed from the outside. I always laugh when someone says, "Microsoft is going to do X", or "Google is going to do Y", or "Yahoo is going to do Z". Odds are, nobody inside Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo knows what Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo is going to do in any given circumstance on any given issue.

...

"The inside of any big company is a very, very complex system consisting of many thousands of people, of whom at least hundreds and probably thousands are executives who think they have some level of decision-making authority. On any given issue, many people inside the company are going to get some kind of vote on what happens -- maybe 8 people, maybe 10, 15, 20, sometimes many more.

...

"You can count on there being a whole host of impinging forces that will affect the dynamic of decision-making on any issue at a big company.

...

"You can't possibly even identify all the factors that will come to bear on a big company's decision, much less try to understand them, much less try to influence them very much at all."

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4jwZiwL...

> The feedback mechanism can be disabled

And you can insult random people on the street, or repeatedly fart loudly on a crowded bus.

The article is about etiquette.

We don't call the "fifth generation Baronet" anything because, frankly, virtually no one of any class in the US cares.

Much of journalism has always been subsidized by wealthy individuals.

If a developer is designing and creating software solutions, then he or she is a designer. The characterization of software development as something other than design is incredibly unfortunate and misguided.

What's actually happening here is that many people now erroneously use the word "design" to mean "visual design in the tradition of waterfall-centric, industrial graphic design where ideation and production are separate," which in the context of software is extremely ambiguous, anyway, since it could refer to illustration, user experience design, graphic design, information architecture, and plenty of other things.

Yes, there are specializations. But the stereotypes of technologically illiterate "designers" and neckbeard, tasteless "developers" are outdated, though unfortunately still pervasive in the industry. There's no reason that anyone identifying as a "designer" can't gain a deep understanding of modern web or native development technologies and environments. There's no reason that someone identifying as a "developer" can't learn about "design" and the creative process.

Prior to 3.1, Rails didn't have built-in support for password hashing or user auth beyond http auth, so it was handled by libraries (like devise or authlogic), generated code (such as with restful-auth, which was popular in 2007), or custom code. I don't think it's very common for legacy codebases to be migrated to has_secure_password, but it's not impossible. There is not built in migration for has_secure_password, AFAIK.

LivingSocial is a big enough company I wouldn't be surprised if their authentication code was all or mostly custom.

Since, AFAIK, it's built on Rails, that's unlikely. However, it's possible that it's SHA-1 since popular Rails auth solutions used that by default at the time the company was founded (2007), assuming that's what they started with and never switched from.

Those benchmarks are for S3, not EBS.

That doesn't answer the question.

Also, the MIT license was essentially universal for Ruby projects, popular in other ecosystems, and very widespread on GitHub before node's existence and subsequent growth.

What do you mean by "it changed the default licensing"?

Ping-pong tables, xbox, foosball, etc are trivial to buy, superficial, and mainstream enough that horrible founders/managers have long used them as a way to pretend they have "fun" "startup" "culture." These are all components of the "startup culture" stereotype, so providing at least one is part of the todo list of every funded "startup founder" in the bay area.

Given that these things are common in even many of the worst startups in the bay area, they can't reasonably be used as indicators of whether a company is toxic or not, much less whether it has a good culture.

If the team is disorganized and unfocused, then it's already a failure of leadership.

Being a shitty, tyrannical manager as described by hkmurakami and using the "team is crap" as an excuse is unacceptable, and managers who do that are just deflecting the blame off themselves to avoid accountability.

Sure, but in that case you've decided to take a path that is less likely to get you "fuck you money," which means you must have overriding goals. This is assuming you are making rational, informed career decisions.

There's nothing wrong with making money. The problem is that most tech companies focused from inception on high growth never earn their founders or employees anything remotely resembling "fuck you money."

If you want "fuck you money," go into finance. If you want "fuck you money" and still want to be an entrepreneur, start a financial services or legal firm in one of the many niches in the financial industry. And if you want "fuck you money" and you want to create jobs, tech is probably one of the worst fields to be operating in.

Not funny. Disgusting. Clear-cut harassment.

Estelle Weyl's actions and twitter bio (an emoticon with two middle finger gestures) reveal a lot.

Your comment is obviously grossly disingenuous, lizzard, especially considering PyCon has officially documented procedures for exactly this issue:

https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i...

> PyCon has a code of conduct.

PyCon attendee procedure for handling harassment:

https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i...

"Report the harassment incident (preferably in writing) to a conference staff member - all reports are confidential...The staff is well informed on how to deal with the incident and how to further proceed with the situation...Note: Public shaming can be counter-productive to building a strong community. PyCon does not condone nor participate in such actions out of respect."

PyCon attendee procedure for handling harassment:

https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i...

"Report the harassment incident (preferably in writing) to a conference staff member - all reports are confidential...The staff is well informed on how to deal with the incident and how to further proceed with the situation...Note: Public shaming can be counter-productive to building a strong community. PyCon does not condone nor participate in such actions out of respect."

Speaking up to the individuals or to PyCon staff would have been very appropriate. Public shaming given the circumstances was not.

PyCon's response was appropriate. SendGrid's representative's response was not.

As a SendGrid customer, it concerns me that SendGrid would stand behind the initiation of a public controversy under such questionable circumstances, especially one that resulted in the firing of a developer from his job. SendGrid should be in the business of email deliverability, not public shaming.

Edit: I've tempered my phrasing above quite a bit and removed references to individuals.