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smpetrey

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smpetrey··on Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
No thanks. I'll stick with Roots. [1]

[1] https://roots.io

smpetrey··on Spotify might be killing SSDs by design errors?
Apple Music is decent, Google Play is probably more worthwhile
smpetrey··on Wall Street's Frantic Push to Hire Coders
Well, if any Dev Leads or HR Managers are reading these comments, you could start by getting rid of the Taleo (or even worse iCIMS) Career search engines from your career microsite. [1][2]

These are awful to use and often require a new profile per company to apply, so applying to a few companies could take hours depending on the work experience required to fill out.

For godsake, enable the quick-apply feature of LinkedIn so your applicants don't have to spend hours labouring over your custom application. [3]

Make recruiting easier for prospective applicants and HR with something like Greenhouse. [4]

[1] https://jpmchase.taleo.net/careersection/2/moresearch.ftl

[2] https://careers-fidelitylife.icims.com/jobs/search?hashed=-4...

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search?keywords=Bank+of+Americ...

[4] https://www.greenhouse.io

smpetrey··on George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
Rule number 1. Don't piss off investors. This won't bode well for Comma or the investors. Really bad PR move.
smpetrey··on George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
completely agree man. I'm pretty positive his organization failed to reach out to the NHTSA for product approval and now he's upset that they recommend pulling the product before it is tested in their VRTC facility in Washington. [1]

[1] http://www.nhtsa.gov/Research/Vehicle-Research-&-Testing-(VR...

smpetrey··on Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
(Sadly) We should've expected this the moment Twitter acquire Vine. The Vine team no doubt brought some amazing improvements to Twitter since 2012. Sad to see it go.

It's kinda fun seeing a front-page of Vine at any date at the archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151202002305/https://vine.co/

smpetrey··on Google vs. Apple – The Smartphone Race Is Over, and a New One Begins…
I think the author only brings that claim to make a point. Which is, Apple put companies like Blackberry (RIM), Nokia, and Motorola on life-support several years ago after the introduction of the iPhone.

Fast forward to now, market share of the iPhone is in decline worldwide due to the proliferation of the multiple brands offering Android OS on their "Smart" handsets. [1] The author is merely painting a portrait of things to come.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/27/iphone-15-percent-market...

smpetrey··on High and dry: ballooning over the Atacama Desert
Awful things paywalls.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4_QIjk...

smpetrey··on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views Schiaparelli landing site
Damn. So cosmic rays are pretty intense huh?
smpetrey··on Panoramio no longer available after Nov 4
Ah man, knew this one was coming one day. But you know what Google Local Guides is awesome. If you're a fan of Panoramio go sign up and become a Local Guide.
smpetrey··on Why Your Next iPhone Won't Be Ceramic
Food for thought:

https://twitter.com/i/moments/788073951511535616

smpetrey··on Freelancers Now Make Up 35% of U.S. Workforce
Not surprised. I freelanced for something like 5 years before finally getting a 9–5 job (not that it pays much more but it's a stable income).
smpetrey··on How to make tabs using only CSS
We hugged it to death!
smpetrey··on Twitter Is Expected to Field Bids This Week
What if Twitter buys Slack, and rebrands as a communications company hell-bent on connectivity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
smpetrey··on RIP Pixate. Thanks Google
Pixel comes, and Pixate goes. Bummer.
smpetrey··on YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers
But there's no SD Card interface on iOS?
smpetrey··on New ALS discovery: Scientists reverse protein clumping
My Ecology professor was a great mentor, leader and hilarious guy. He was super inspirational and taught us that nature was something to marvel at, and always informed us it was our responsibility to take care of it. He grew up a farm-hand in the midwest. And likely developed ALS later in life due to pesticide exposure bioaccumulation. [1]

This is an amazing breakthrough though. Stabilizing the SOD1 could potentially pave the way for preventing ALS in its early stages. Would this reversal of protein clumping help patients who have been exposed to pesticides or had head injuries that lead into ALS?

Also, Please donate to ALS research if you can. [2]

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/pesticide-exposure-...

[2] http://www.alsa.org/donation

smpetrey··on Apple applies to patent a paper bag with at least 60% post-consumer content
It's almost like they've done this before. [1] Probably a bag for use at Cafe Macs or Retail or both.

https://www.google.com/patents/US20120024859?pg=PA1&dq=Longo...

smpetrey··on Fire balloon
Such a fantastic episode. This was the first episode I had ever listened to of Radiolab.
smpetrey··on As More Devices Board Planes, Travelers Are Playing with Fire
Back in college I worked as a iOS and Mac technician at a Apple Store Genius Bar. First couple of months working there I noticed we had a yellow safe under our bench. My supervisors informed me the safe was for swollen batteries, hot iPhones or anything that could explode or catch fire.

Needless to say I only ever experienced one dangerously swollen battery on a MacBook. Food for thought.

smpetrey··on How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
In case there are any Wordpress bloggers and authors out there who would like to add AMP functionality to their websites Automattic put together a nice plugin tool to do just that.[0] I wonder when this will become part of the wp-core?

[0] https://github.com/Automattic/amp-wp

smpetrey··on Sponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
So, what will this breakthrough mean for desalination efforts?
smpetrey··on The House Where You Live Forever: The Reversible Destiny of Madeline Gins
From the article:

> ' Gins often said that the reason she and Arakawa made art and architecture was to “construct optimism.” Their whole philosophy began there, in the desire to embrace being alive and to shift their focus away from the certainty of death. Gins made the choice to believe that art, and her work, were strong enough to do that. It was her version of faith, and her work made that faith solid, physical. Her life, like all our lives, was often filled with sadness and difficulty. There were periods of depression, anxiety, sick parents, financial problems, her husband’s illness and death. Through it all, she insisted not just on continuing to live, but on living forever. Trying to build a world where fewer people suffered made her own suffering bearable. A year and a half after Arakawa’s death, Gins recalled in a letter to a friend her struggle to move forward. “Despite my shattered state,” she wrote, “in spite of the gaping hole that had been punched into my optimism, I asserted that nothing is of more interest than to be alive.” '

It's a poetic and apocryphal tale of optimism. Not a bad read if you enjoy art.

smpetrey··on Squarespace Announces Local Development Server
Seems cool man! But why not give the dev the option to turn off caching?
smpetrey··on Twitter's Fucked
> I don't want longer tweets. That's what URL's are for.

This right here.

Medium, PostHaven, Wordpress, blog services, etc. All of those products exist for an extended thought. I always believed that where Twitter excels is in micro-sharing/blogging.

I am not willing to read, let alone comment on a 500+ word Facebook status post. But I'm certainly willing to enjoy/participate in a discourse over a 160 character thought.

If I am in the 500+ word reading mood, I goto Medium or PostHaven or the equivalent blog-platform. Where there's a forum, there's an audience. And Twitter's quick digestible tweets cultivates an insane amount of diverse discourse.

Sure, there's harassment. Sure there's spam. But there's a lot of gems on Twitter.

smpetrey··on Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life
Just caught the travel bug recently. I've never felt better.
smpetrey··on MacKeeper threatens to sue 14-year-old YouTuber
Wow, I always thought MacKeeper was junkware anyways.
smpetrey··on Pokémon Go data usage draws attention of House Energy and Commerce Committee [pdf]
This right here is the crux of the issue. Rate plans are straight robbery.
smpetrey··on SpaceX: “First stage landing confirmed at LZ-1”
Anyone else watch the webcast until the end?

http://imgur.com/RhWlaZC

smpetrey··on Scottish Tech Map
Is there a list of tech companies/agencies for NYC out there? Asking for a friend.
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