So, what do hiring managers in tech want to hear about instead?

For the most part, they want to learn about what you think about their product and how you can help them improve and beat out their competitors.

"They want you to come into an interview and be able to talk about that," Syed says. "Here it's like you need to research the hell out of the company. Understand the competitors. Understand where the industry's going. Understand why someone would want to be a part of this company. That kind of ties into 'Okay this guy's really passionate about our product. He really wants to be here. Let's take him seriously.'"

Kevin has also shown a deep fascination with philosophy—especially Eastern—and has been a proponent of both fasting and cold showers as means of achieving resilience, self-discipline and mental clarity. We reached out to Kevin to ask more about his philosophy of life, favorite exercises, how was he first exposed to Stoicism, the benefits of fasting and cold exposure as well as learning more about his curiosity about the East. Enjoy!

Today, we are in the early stages of such a revolutionary shift, brought about by CSS Grid Layout. Much of what we know of the possibilities, limitations and best practices surrounding web layouts is effectively rendered obsolete by this new layout module, and in their place we find new possibilities, limitations and best practices that will take us into the next era of web design.

The internet has shape preferences, and they’re more meaningful than you think

On Thursday, Twitter threw us a curveball (sorry) and smoothed out the once-square avatar photos into orbs floating around the timeline. The change is notable, but the circle vs. square debate is far from new. There are arguments in favor of both when applied to internet design; circles indicate a person rather than content, which typically comes in a grid-like shape. So what is the current state of shapes on the social web?

We often hear indexes explained using the analogy of an index in the back of a book. You want to find the information about “rabbits” for instance – and so you look that up in the back and find the list of pages that talk about rabbits.

The COALESCE and ISNULL T-SQL functions are used to return the first nonnull expression among the input arguments. SQL Server practitioners often wonder what the difference is between the two functions.

In CSS, you have two techniques for visualizing change that are competing for your attention: Animations & Transitions. In this article, let's examine the similarities and differences between them so that you can know when to use which.

To make the most of this article, it would be helpful for you to be familiar with using both animations and transitions. If you haven't had a chance to get your hands dirty with them, the Creating a Simple CSS Animation and Looking at CSS3 Transitions tutorials will help you get started.

In 2008, I worked on Boots.com. They wanted a single-page checkout with the trendiest of techniques from that era, including accordions, AJAX and client-side validation.

Each step (delivery address, delivery options and credit-card details) had an accordion panel. Each panel was submitted via AJAX. Upon successful submission, the panel collapsed and the next one opened, with a sliding transition.

Many dismiss copywriting as something that ad agency people do. Truthfully, all of us need to pay close attention to copywriting if we want to achieve our business objectives. [Links checked February/11/2017]

You’ve been working up a storm in Sketch, and for that you deserve all of the high-fives. But now it’s time to kick things up a notch and improve your workflow—so stop what you’re doing and grab these 30 free Sketch plugins.

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Be careful not to look at acrostic answers!!
Try: https://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/2016/09/23/ (Friday date)

Wayback machine can pull back blogs. PDFs are still live
https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/769SatPuz09242016.pdf
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/puzzle20150829.pdf

This worked (2023-01-10)
http://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/2015/08/07/rows-garden-saturday-puzzle-33/tab/puzzles/

Puzzle date format changes weekly!
https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/puzzle20150801.pdf

Last puzzle for Cox & Rathvon: 2023-12-16

Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.

Everybody loves the vintage game Pong, right? We sure do. What's more fun? Building it yourself!

That's why we decided to create one with SVG.js - to highlight some aspects of our library. It might seem like a complex idea for a small tutorial, but as you'll see, it's simpler than it sounds. Let's dive into it!

At Atlassian, we want to create harmonious experiences for our users. We solve challenging interactions at the outset, and then apply the solutions consistently across our product suite - making sure people only have to learn them once.

Our guidelines have space for flexibility, and are continuously revised and expanded to suit changing product needs.