kvanderd
My best decision of 2018. I have never been happier with my day-to-day work.
The theatrics of it all take me back to college. The amount of creative freedom you have to build narratives, characters and effects is just so much fun.
Highly recommend for any one who was involved in theater.
You can see what I have been building here: https://codetocanvas.com/
1. What is it?
2. What does it look like?
3. How big or small is it?
4. Can it be delivered?
5. Can I return it?
6. Can I trust it?
People consume content in very different ways. And showing, telling and demonstrating the product/service helps achieve #6.
I do the grocery shopping in our house 90% in-store shopper (I like to pick out my produce and discover new stuff) 10% online delivery - San Francisco, Franklin Location. Here are the the things that they have gotten really wrong for me...
1. Quality Eggs. This is expensive. It requires sourcing locally and refrigeration at every step. I use to have options to buy from 3+ fantastic pasture raised egg options (almost farmers market quality). This has deteriorated to 1 option. I happily pay $9 a dozen.
2. Don't put the tofu with the dairy. They moved a lot of vegan/vegetarian favorites next to the milk and butter. Customers were complaining while I was in the store. They did not fix it. This might save on energy in the long run but is a tone def move.
3. Staying Local. I will stop shopping at WF if they don't carry local produce. This is expensive and managing each supply chain goes against lowering pricing.
I don't think Amazon wants to keep the demographic. I think they will be a Ralphs or Safeway in 5 years. The next conversation will be quality and keeping the historical whole foods demographic, in these early days I am not sure that is their vision.
Ask HN: How to make this Net Neutrality simulation better?
I made a net neutrality simulation - what could make this better and/or more accurate?I just left the hair salon and of the 15+ people in the salon only one had even heard of Net Neutrality (I live in San Francisco)!I want to create this simulation so people can experience what is at stake.Thank Youhttp://net.codetocanvas.com/
Ask HN: Anyone interested in having their Code painted (oil on canvas)?
I am doing a larger show in San Francisco in about 6 months (show is mid Feb) that combines programing languages and fine art. A few are underway which you can check out here: http://codeartproject.com/. If you have written code that is a bit on the poetic side and would like to be part of the show you can submit here: http://codeartproject.com/submit_codeAll contributors are given credit for...
Great reminder/resource for code reviews (receiving and giving)
Worked at a startup that served only fortune 1000 companies. Always late, late, late, late.....
Good side: Repeat customers. Getting in the door is hard but once you're in it is easy to stay in if you're doing a decent job.
Bad side: After 6 months of doing business with them you would finally get your first check. For a startup even with millions of dollars in the bank this sets your burn rate on FIRE.
Hmmmm ... the United States does not offer paid maternity leave. So if you needed the money, and weren't a CEO, you would have to go back to work anyway. She is making a choice, but for many other women the choice has been made for them. The US is the only developed country without laws providing paid maternity leave.
How Sheryl Sandberg and Getty Are Making Stock Photos Less Sexist
Using Google to Find the Best StackOverflow Result
Google's search engine is better than SO. Here is how I search google to find the best results on SO:#this limits the google search results just to the SO websitesite:http://stackoverflow.com/#searches for an exact match of a keywordsite:http://stackoverflow.com/ "nested forms rails"#searches for synonymous wordssite:http://stackoverflow.com/ *nested forms rails"
I won't go into my situation but the horror stories are endless:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/directory/paypal-inc http://www.paypalsucks.com/
As a developer I won't use them anymore. I use Stripe now.
We bought ours through the website. It is the ONLY way to buy one regardless of where you live.
That said, the first month before the charge station was installed we could only charge 5 miles per hour with a regular wall outlet(we hardly drove the car). Finding someone to intall a charger and getting the approval of the HOA was a huge hassel (and we're in San Francisco). The cost of the charger / installation was 2500!