thedeplorableword by Tom Martin

git-animals: git pull CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in...

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:52:24 +0100

git pull

CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in pants.rb

Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

(via The CS6 Desktop Brand System | Adobe Brand Experience)

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:38:47 +0100

(via The CS6 Desktop Brand System | Adobe Brand Experience)

Timelapse of recursive Google Image search

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:58:00 +0100

Timelapse of recursive Google Image search

In the future we all exist in tiny boxes (Taken with Instagram...

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:35:01 +0100

In the future we all exist in tiny boxes (Taken with Instagram at Vertu Bar)

WITH THIS AD, SADDEN US, YOU WILL (Make Things People Want or...

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:11:49 +0100

WITH THIS AD, SADDEN US, YOU WILL (Make Things People Want or Make People Want Things?)

Murmuration - Projection Mapping (via BERG)

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:36:55 +0100

Murmuration - Projection Mapping (via BERG)

"The work culture is beyond your standard “work long hours startup”, Square wants your soul. After..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:27:26 +0100

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The work culture is beyond your standard “work long hours startup”, Square wants your soul. After voicing my concerns to my manager that the amount I was expected to work was jeopardizing my overall happiness and time spent with my spouse, I was told in no uncertain terms that I could either choose to spend more time on my relationship or Square. There was no middle ground. As you can probably guess, I chose the former. I expect that relationship to last much much longer than Square will be around for.

Jack is a curious CEO, though with little experience running a company. I mean, the guy got kicked out of Twitter. He also works two full time jobs, both as CEO of Square and whatever he does at Twitter nowadays. The company culture comes from top down. When your CEO works two full time jobs, lives within a 4 block radius of both of them, doesn’t invest a lot of time in friends, family, or other non-work related relationships, everyone that gets hired below that is expected to do the same. My own social life started to dwindle rapidly in my time there and almost everyone else I spoke to experienced the same.

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- Square (company): Is Square an unpleasant place to work? - Quora (via iamdanw)

Monmouth in Wales becomes the world’s first...

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:24:43 +0100

Monmouth in Wales becomes the world’s first ‘Wikipedia town’

"Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter catching your its and..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 17:03:13 +0100

“Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter catching your its and it’s issues or reminding you of the rules regarding that or which. Here’s the rub: there is a compiler and it’s fucking brutal. It’s your readers. Your readers are far more critical than the Python interpreter. Not only do they care about syntax, but they also want to learn something, and, perhaps, be entertained while all this learning is going down. Success means they keep coming back - failure is a lonely silence. Python is looking pretty sweet now, right?”

- Rands In Repose: Please Learn to Write

"Building large-scale systems has been complex in the past and it is complex nowadays. Building..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:28:05 +0100

“Building large-scale systems has been complex in the past and it is complex nowadays. Building large-scale systems requires knowledge, experience and expertise. Instead lots of people with zero or little database knowhow feel blessed building scablable database applications.”

- Goodbye MongoDB

My wife has been kidnapped! and I’m short .99¢ for random!...

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:47:56 +0100

My wife has been kidnapped! and I’m short .99¢ for random! (by heather)

"Now our products and services will be more in sync than ever. And that’s good for consumers on every..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 19:23:15 +0100

““Now our products and services will be more in sync than ever. And that’s good for consumers on every planet””

- Weyland Industries

Managing product development by integrating around concerns

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:16:53 +0100

Managing product development by integrating around concerns

Need to improve your packaging during Summer 2012? Easy Put a...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:17:39 +0100

Need to improve your packaging during Summer 2012? Easy Put a Jack on the Pack

Future of TV - Dan Wieden from Wieden+Kennedy

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:10:23 +0100

Future of TV - Dan Wieden from Wieden+Kennedy

How to play TF2 without being a douche (via you-can-call-me-liz)

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:14:47 +0100

How to play TF2 without being a douche (via you-can-call-me-liz)

"To understand a company’s strategy, look at what they actually do rather than what they say they..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:19:18 +0100

“To understand a company’s strategy, look at what they actually do rather than what they say they do,” the book quotes Andy Grove as saying. The same logic applies to one’s life. For example, ambitious people will reliably tell you that family, or being a mother or father, is the most important thing in their lives. Yet when pressed to choose between racing home to deal with a chaotic pre-bedtime scene and staying another hour at the office to solve a problem, they will usually keep working. It’s these small, everyday decisions that reveal if you’re following a path to being the best possible spouse and parent, the authors write. “If your family matters most to you, when you think about all the choices you’ve made with your time in a week, does your family come out on top?”

- Clay Christensen’s Life Lessons - Businessweek

Slow Club – Our Most Brilliant Friends

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:24:40 +0100

Slow Club – Our Most Brilliant Friends

Do we have milk?

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:14:30 +0100

Do we have milk?

"A whole industry is stuck on trying to force old metrics on to new channels"

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:59:35 +0100

“A whole industry is stuck on trying to force old metrics on to new channels”

- Nike marketing boss attacks ‘old’ approach to social-media