No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?

No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?

While this approach can’t be replicated exactly on a remote team for obvious reasons, it does illustrate some of the main principles behind rough consensus and what distinguishes it from top-down decision-making on the one hand and majority-rule decision-making on the other. “Not the best choice” versus fundamental flaws feedback
Rough consensus relies on the distinction between two types of objections:
“Not the best choice” feedback: “I don’t believe Solution A is the best choice, because XYZ. Once everyone can live with a given solution, you’ve reached rough consensus, even if there are outstanding objections.On the other hand, it’s crucial to address and discuss all fundamental flaws before the discussion is done.

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How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (2001-2014)

How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (2001-2014)

The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking questions about them. In the world of hackers , the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. You are likely to be ignored, or written off as a loser, if you: post your question to a forum where it’s off topic post a very elementary question to a forum where advanced technical questions are expected, or vice-versa cross-post to too many different newsgroups post a personal e-mail to somebody who is neither an acquaintance of yours nor personally responsible for solving your problem Hackers blow off questions that are inappropriately targeted in order to try to protect their communications channels from being drowned in irrelevance.

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The Future of the Operating System: Revisited, Part 1

The Future of the Operating System: Revisited, Part 1

Back in 2013 I penned an essay titled, “The Future of the Operating System.” For now, a rectangular slab of glass and metal that more or less fits in the palm of an adult hand appears to be the preferred format for a mobile computing device. While keeping a futuristic look and feel, it strives to maintain a certain level of functionality and to be usable in real-life scenarios, with the larger goal of bringing science-fiction UXs to the mainstream.

Source: blog.webb.page

30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web (2012)

30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web (2012)

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Voyager released a trailblazing series of interactive CDs, including an electronic version of Art Spiegelman’s comic series Maus, a Companion to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and the hit Beatles movie A Hard Days Night as “a coffee table book with the movie attached.” Hypercard, “modeled around the idea of a stack of cards, closely emulated the behavior of a book.” The year of HyperCard’s unveiling, the San Francisco-based television show Computer Chronicles produced a program about the software.

Source: arstechnica.com

I Don’t Like Smartphones (2016)

I Don’t Like Smartphones (2016)

Smartphones are unapologetically devices for consumption. Smartphones have powerful CPUs and fast network connections, except that you aren’t actually allowed to use these resources in any meaningful sense, because doing so consumes battery power, and people don’t want the precious battery life of their phones drained unnecessarily. In other words, discrimination against people who exercise control over their devices is common, and even sandboxed applications are permitted to detect this.

Source: www.devever.net

Impraise (YC S14) Is Hiring an Sales Account Executive in NYC

Impraise (YC S14) Is Hiring an Sales Account Executive in NYC

With offices in Amsterdam and New York, Impraise has quickly become one of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe. Impraise Inside Sales Representatives are responsible for generating revenue above quota with SME companies that operate up to 300 employees. Inside Sales Representatives need to be able to execute a very consultative sales process.

Source: jobs.impraise.com

Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil

Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil

Whenever you invoke an executable, you are implicitly passing that executable a massive amount of global mutable state: namely, the filesystem. I’m also importing some of the concepts from Rethinking files here, namely the idea that handles can be held by a shell as shell variables, shells can pass handles as command line arguments to programs, and programs can return handles in turn. This is because we told our shell to invoke the program with a specific filesystem passed to it; namely, the handle to a filesystem returned by the program , which spawns a virtual filesystem which contains no files and returns the handle to it.

Source: www.devever.net

Should the police be able to investigate your genetic family tree for any crime?

Should the police be able to investigate your genetic family tree for any crime?

First, there is now no downward limit on what crimes the police might investigate through genetic genealogy. All of these issues point to one problem: Police use of genetic genealogy is virtually unregulated. Law enforcement agencies and cooperating genetic genealogy websites are operating in a world of few limits.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Making Tables Responsive with Minimal CSS

Making Tables Responsive with Minimal CSS

Check out the CodePen below to see it in action:

See the Pen Responsive Tables #1: Horizontal Scrolling by Bradley Taunt (@bradleytaunt) on CodePen. Check out the CodePen demo below:

See the Pen Responsive Tables #2: Flexbox by Bradley Taunt (@bradleytaunt) on CodePen. You can also decide to add heading elements inside the main elements like so:

See the Pen Responsive Tables #2.5: Flexbox by Bradley Taunt (@bradleytaunt) on CodePen.

Source: bradleytaunt.com

Living on the wrong side of a time zone can be hazardous to your health

Living on the wrong side of a time zone can be hazardous to your health

[Springing forward to daylight saving time is obsolete, confusing and unhealthy, critics say]
“Individuals on the late sunset side of a time zone boundary are more likely to be sleep deprived, more likely to sleep less than 6 hours, and less likely to sleep at least 8 hours,” the authors write. People on the late side of sunset across U.S. time zones were 11 percent more likely, on average, to be overweight and 21 percent more likely to be obese. As a result, the researchers found, “wages tend to be 3 percent lower on the late sunset side of the time zone border, suggesting negative effects on economic productivity.”

Source: www.washingtonpost.com