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This Is How Big Oil Will Die
The point has been most often driven home by Tony Seba, a Stanford professor and guru of “disruption”, who revels in pointing out that an internal combustion engine drivetrain contains about 2,000 parts, while an electric vehicle drivetrain contains about 20. All other things being equal, a system with fewer moving parts will be more reliable than a system with more moving parts.
The Top 14 Google fonts For Strong Headlines and Headings
As a web designer, you’re probably well aware that Great fonts are essential to great design.
This article is all about fonts. We have collected 14 unbelievable Google Web Fonts that makes your heading or headline of your website attaractive.
The fact is that the headlines are more important than you may think. and Many designers also agree this point.
iOS remote push notifications in a nutshell – Flawless App Stories – Medium
What are remote Push Notifications?
Well if you ask the folks at Apple, they will probably direct you to this page on their website where they describe notifications as follows:
Apple Push Notification service (APNs) is the centerpiece of the remote notifications feature. It is a robust, secure, and highly efficient service for app developers to propagate information to iOS (and, indirectly, watchOS), tvOS, and macOS devices.
Why you should stop using Git rebase – Fredrik V. Mørken – Medium
I soon discovered that rebasing presents some challenges that are not obvious when you first start doing it. Before presenting them, I’ll quickly recap the differences between merging and rebasing.
How to Stop Procrastinating Using the 70% Rule – The Mission – Medium
In his letter to shareholders back in 2016, Jeff Bezos gave the best advice I’ve ever heard on how to stop procrastinating:
“Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.”
What Bezos is saying is that you should think like a C student. When you’re about 70% sure, you take a guess and see what happens.
Google employees want to teach you to code for free with their latest app
A bunch of Google employees participating in the company’s Area 120 internal incubator have launched Grasshopper, a free mobile app for Android and iOS that teaches you the basics of programming. It’s beautifully designed and is suitable for just about anyone who can be trusted to use a phone on their own.
Glitch
Glitch is the friendly community where you'll build the app of your dreams
The Everyday Messenger Bag | Peak Design
We partnered with renowned adventure traveler/photographer Trey Ratcliff to create one bag that adapts to your gear and lifestyle, no matter where you go or what you're carrying. In doing so, we reimagined nearly every aspect of the classic messenger, from the MagLatch™ closure, to the origami-inspired FlexFold™ dividers, to the weatherproof expandable protective shell (400D nylon canvas) and hyper-adjusting internally padded seatbelt strap. Dedicated Capture clip attachment points and front access panel are designed for lightning-fast photography, drone, and everyday gear access. This bag is for creatives, travelers, commuters and everyone in-between.
Controlling the Body’s ‘Fat Thermometer’ – Dr. Jason Fung – Medium
The key to combating obesity, then is to help in the Insulin vs Leptin fight by lowering insulin. Everything depends upon it. Leptin is already maxed out. The only thing left is to lower insulin. How to do that? Well
Eat less sugar
Eat less refined grains
Moderate protein and high natural fats
Don’t eat all the time (time restricted eating or intermittent fasting). Stop snacking
Eat real unprocessed foods (lower in insulin effects)
WWW::Mechanize Best Practices | i hack on things
Recently at $work we were discussing some of the behaviours of WWW::Mechanize when submitting forms. For instance, when you pass the fields parameter to the submit_form() method, Mechanize might take a very lax approach to submitting your data. Imagine the following form:
Austin Kleon — TED.com Talks: Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill...
Amazing 19-minute talk, where Robinson explores the way education in this country values one kind of intelligence: mind over body. One way he explores this is by talking about dancing. I particularly liked this bit about college professors:
Austin Kleon — Clive Thompson, “The Pencil and the Keyboard: How...
When you teach people to type faster, they get their ideas out. "Transcription influency" - 24wpm is minimum
Typing is great for producing knowledge for other people, say, writing an article. The faster you type, the better your ideas will be. There’s a thing called transcription fluency, which boils down to: “when your fingers can’t move as fast as your thoughts, your ideas suffer.” If you help people increase their typing speed, their thoughts improve. (Learn to type faster.)
Collection of CSS snippets | justmarkup
clearfix, centering, font-size
A Framework That Will Help You Tell Amazing Stories
I’ve gathered the cornerstone elements into a template you can copy:
Theme:
Concept:
Hero:
Villain:
Act 1 - Hook:
Inciting Incident:
Act 2 - Build:
Escalation:
All is Lost:
Breakthrough:
Act 3 - Payoff:
Climax:
Mineral UI
Mineral UI color provides themes built on inspiring hues and grounded in usable grays. Mineral UI is committed to providing an easy path to creating accessible palettes and themes.
How to Recruit – Rands in Repose
Let’s start with the ground rules. For every open job on your team, you need to spend one hour a day on recruiting-related activities. Cap that investment at 50% of your time. No open reqs? There’s still important and ongoing work you need to do on a regular basis that I’ll describe below.
People Who Have “Too Many Interests” Are More Likely To Be Successful According To Research
Why Being A Modern Polymath Is The New Normal
Polymath Advantage 1: Combining two or more skills can make you world-class.
Polymath Advantage 2: Most creative breakthroughs come via making atypical combinations of skills.
Polymath Advantage 3: It’s easier and faster than ever to become competent in a new skill.
Polymath Advantage 4: It’s easier than ever to pioneer a new field, industry, or skill set.
Polymath Advantage 5: It Future-proofs Your Career
Polymath Advantage 6: It Sets You Up To Solve More Complex Problems
Polymath Advantage 7: Being a polymath helps you stand out and compete in the global economy.
We already know blockchain’s killer apps – Hacker Noon
I think the “killer app” framework is the correct one. While there are many cutting-edge applications that technologists will find exciting (myself included), the major drivers of blockchain’s value are relatively narrow.
Amidst the hype-train of ICOs, “decentralizing the Internet,” and bullshit artists trying to hoist everything they can think of onto a blockchain, it’s instructive to take the 1000-foot view and remind ourselves of the big picture.
I argue there are four killer apps for blockchains:
Dark web and black market payments
Digital gold
Payments (macro and micro)
Tokenization
I interviewed at five top companies in Silicon Valley in five days, and luckily got five job offers
Preparation
Although I’m interested in machine learning positions, the positions at the five companies are slightly different in the title and the interviewing process. Three are machine learning engineer (LinkedIn, Google, Facebook), one is data engineer (Salesforce), and one is software engineer in general (Airbnb). Therefore I needed to prepare for three different areas: coding, machine learning, and system design.
I mainly used Leetcode and Geeksforgeeks for practicing, but Hackerrank and Lintcode are also good places. I spent several weeks going over common data structures and algorithms, then focused on areas I wasn’t too familiar with, and finally did some frequently seen problems. Due to my time constraints I usually did two problems per day.