January 2011
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On Hiring Front-end Engineers →
There are a few gems in this post by Chris Zacharias, formerly of YouTube, on the topic of finding quality front-end engineers:
3. Good front-end engineers list Javascript on their resume, not jQuery. I do not mean to pick on jQuery, but it certainly was the most popular Javascript library referenced on resumes from my experiences. Bad front-end engineers are dependent on jQuery and other...
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The Hazards of the Couch →
Troubling news for web professionals via the Times Well blog:
Many of us sit in front of a computer for eight hours a day, and then go home and head for the couch to surf the Web or watch television, exchanging one seat and screen for another. Even if we try to squeeze in an hour at the gym, is it enough to counteract all that motionless sitting?
A mounting body of evidence suggests...
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Military Struggles to Harness a Flood of Data →
The Times had a great story yesterday on some exciting research the military is engaged in regarding the problem of information overload:
Across the military, the data flow has surged; since the attacks of 9/11, the amount of intelligence gathered by remotely piloted drones and other surveillance technologies has risen 1,600 percent. On the ground, troops increasingly use hand-held devices to...
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Lipman: It's Not too Late to End the Hate →
Joanne Lipman, founder and Editor in Chief of Condé Nast Portfolio and former Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal writes for The Daily Beast:
A century ago, yellow journalism ultimately burned itself out. But the tail end of that era is an object lesson that politicians and the media alike ought to be paying attention to now.
Both Hearst and Pulitzer made a sport of...
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