Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This question originally appeared on Quora: What kind of jobs do software engineers who earn $500k per year do? Answer by Amin Ariana, Innovation Growth Engineer. Disclosure: I’m an ex-Googler. This answer does not represent the company. The premise of the question is somewhat misguided in that there are no $500,000 guaranteed “earnings” out there…
July 10, 2015 Donald trawls Google Fonts for ten minutes. There are a few candidates, but Don’s not so confident in his font evaluation skills. He lands on Open Sans. Good ol’ faithful. He sets the actionable headline text to 48pt using the light weight in white. It’s perfectly centred over the stock photo of…
Reddit’s executives are still walking a thin, shaky tightrope as they update the site’s content policy. Today, CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman posted a small update on Reddit’s new moderator tools and rules for policing the site’s worst communities — which could spell one of the biggest shifts in the site’s history. He stayed to chat about what…
As the dust settles at Reddit, CEO Steve Huffman has updated the community on what the company has planned. While most of his post is as you may expect it to be (community quarantines, bug fixes), Huffman did note there would soon be more tools to prevent harassment — all the way down to private…
A bit of background is in order: I fell into my first coding job in 1996. I was meant to be working on my MA in archaeology in London, but I discovered that HTML, even back in those days before tables, offered a sense of instant gratification that is often lacking from the humanities. I…
Look, I know it seems pretty wide open right now, but this lion-killing dentist thing is sailing along just as it’s supposed to: The killer of the lion was revealed. The social media accounts of the Minnesota dentist who killed the lion in Africa have been mined for information. His Yelp listing has been defamed,…
.entry-header Dear Commons Community, Blackboard, the giant provider of learning-management software, is up for sale. According to the Reuters, the privately held software company is seeking a buyer unfazed by an estimated $3-billion price tag. The company has hired two banks to conduct an auction to find such a buyer. Blackboard was taken private in a buyout four years…
SHARING BUTTONS CONTENT OF THE POST Jessica Moreno was the fourth senior female employee to exit in less than a month, reports Noah Kulwin for Recode. From Jessica Moreno: I have enjoyed my time at Reddit but after four years I feel that it’s time for me to move on. While I am working with…
If you use Uber, you’ve seen the map that comes up when you want a ride. The map shows little car graphics hovering adorably around your location and the wait time for a pickup. Once you request a ride, you can watch a little car creep closer to your destination as you wait. It’s a…
This custom PC is too small to be a desktop, but too big for a laptop. It’s a unique portable build, something out of an 80s cyberpunk world. And that’s what actually inspired its builder Chimerus: portable cyberdecks from Shadowrun. Looks like a busted replica at first, but even though the build is based on…