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Simplicity is interrelationships that make it feel more like one thing.
Complexity is interrelationships that make it feel like many different things.
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The mesmerizing beauty of physics (gravity vs force tension) in pendulum motion
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1/ NAMED Functions
Named Functions in Google Sheets let you save and name your own custom formulas and then re-use them in other Google Sheet files.
This reusability is a HUGE development. I'm SUPER pumped on this one.
E.g. here's a function called STARCHART that I created:
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It is simply not sustainable for an unelected body to continue making many decisions that a significant majority of the country actually disagrees with, and if they overreach, it is not unreasonable to expect the public to demand that politicians restrict its power or reform it.
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Beautiful new Human Interface Guidelines just dropped.
Lovely website and fantastic assets here — a must to check out for all designers and those that care about designing software.
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That happens with most font services.
In the case of typekit, you hit use.typekit.net, only to have the files ultimately be served from p.typekit.net with an import statement.
You end up paying the the DNS, TLS, TCP penalty 2x on a blocking resource.
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The Hardy–Littlewood rules of collaboration: colab.sfu.ca/hardy_collab.ht…
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When I wrote "The Principles of Product Development FLOW," in 2009, the "orthodoxy" I referred to was large batch size, overloaded, risk-averse, sequential phased processes. Now, 13 years later many new readers assume I am referring to Agile orthodoxy. IMO this is good news
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Do you remember the world’s very first nuclear meltdown? That time the US President, an expert in nuclear physics, heroically lowered himself into the reactor and saved Ottawa, Canada’s capital?
Sounds like schlocky action movie, but it actually happened!
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I’ve supported product design teams working on integrity and safety since joining FB in 2015. Some raw thoughts on the leaked docs and current press/political cycle. Probably a long one, 1/*
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I will admit to being tired of winning.
xitter.gq/TimAlberta/status/1330…
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This week's newsletter includes an interview with David Möllerstedt, co-founder of the weird and wonderful Teenage Engineering (@jugendingenieur) 🎶
machinepix.com/p/machinepix-…
Rob Flaherty retweeted
Yes. And as the count is drawn out, denialism and fraud fantasies feed the protest movement. Which in turn triggers institutional caution in the networks over when to call it. Which creates more space for the protests. Which then makes the networks more cautious.
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New article!
Here's an overview of the Intelligent Tracking Prevention -related updates to iOS14, iPadOS 14, and Safari 14:
simoahava.com/privacy/intell…
Keywords: third-party cookies blocked, first-party JS cookies restricted, referrers truncated.
#privacy #measure
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Good. Save it for December when the White Walkers come for us in the 2020 season finale
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You know who are heroes for American democracy? The nerds digging through spreadsheets and Excel trying to thwart purges and to allow people to vote.
Like this guy, in a wonderful new Jack Hitt profile.
wired.com/story/election-vot…
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WaPo: The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing backlogs of mail after a top Trump donor running the agency put in place new procedures, alarming postal workers who warn that the policies could undermine their ability to deliver ballots on time. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
