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Re:Programming Quotes on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:13AM (#18391689)
This is fantastic. Whenever I'm at work, I always look at deltas on commits to judge personal success. The more lines removed, the better!

> Deleted code is debugged code.

        — Jeff Sickel
Re:The funnel of human experience on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:19PM (#18203506)
You often hear startups using the term: man hours to describe how popular something is.

YouTube uploads x amounts of years of content every minute.

Cool to see it illustrated across time.

Re:On the Law of Diminishing Specialization on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:21PM (#18170474)
That's exactly what I thought of as well, and that seems to be something that founders sometimes struggle with as their companies grow: learning to work through people when at one point in time, you did everything yourself.
Re:How WeChat faded into the silence in India on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:17PM (#18170427)
This is one of the things I find fascinating about far east Asian internet versus western internet UX design. I remember looking at Taobao a few years prior and was taken aback by the page density. I would love to read a book covering the differences in UX design due to having a more informational dense scripting system.