patternMachine

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Comment · 26 days ago
"Taste"
Comment · 1 month ago
Craze? People have been taking creatine for decades. It's really well studied and is quite safe.
Comment · 1 month ago
Barring truly bad behavior this is how executives get fired.
Comment · 2 months ago
This article is really about IT support, not "tech" workers.

What tech workers need, if they need anything, is a professional organization like lawyers, doctors, and architects have.

Comment · 3 months ago
You think this blog post is advocating for good UI?
Comment · 11 months ago
This reads more like a portfolio case study than a blog post for a company. Who is the audience of this post? Isn't one of the main value props of Vercel that you don't need to know technical details like this to launch a product?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
The moralizing that always accompanies (not) upside down maps is so tedious. It's a genuinely interesting example of how something can look so wrong and yet not be wrong at all. To try to extend that "wrong" feeling to some kind of moral failure on the viewers part is just silly. You (or society) are not a bad or prejudiced person for thinking this way, it's just that nearly all maps produced have chosen a different arbitrary orientation.
Comment · 1 year ago
It seems to me
Comment · 1 year ago
1. Amazon announces new IC to Manager ratio target. Meeting this target would mean an overall reduction in the number of managers.

2. Someone at Morgan Stanley assumes that lay offs will be the mechanism used to reach the target ratio and does some math that says this'll save $XX billion, based on the number of employees at Amazon and the average manager salary.

3. Business Insider reports on the Morgan Stanley memo.

4. This trash article re-reports on it for some reason.

In reality, teams were re-org'd, managers became ICs. Maybe some were PIP'd. No large layoffs though.

Comment · 1 year ago
Essentially the plot of The Inverted World.
Comment · 2 years ago
I am not a composer but I do have a similar memory for sound. I can "listen" to music in my head very vividly. It can go on for quite awhile almost subconsciously and when it ends it often feels like someone else turned the music off, leading me wondering what happened.
Comment · 2 years ago
Learn page layout and graphic design principles. A lot of CSS is spec'd to support these disciplines and it will make a lot more sense if you are familiar with them. The main reason developers have so much trouble with CSS is that they don't understand the problems it is trying to solve.
Comment · 2 years ago
Remarkably ignorant comment, and bitter too. You might as well blame MS Word for all the poorly written books out there.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's cheaper. Many fonts require ongoing licensing fees based on views or some other metric. Creating your own font means you own it — no more fees.

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