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“Engineering productivity is hard to measure,” said Peter Seibel, the tech lead of Twitter’s engineering effectiveness group. “But we certainly can harm it.” Seibel was speaking at @Scale, a conference hosted this week by Facebook that brought together…
26 September 2015Hacker News
For their iOS 9 release, Apple not only permits, but actively encourages developers to make Apps that remove advertising and tracking from the web. They added this feature deliberately; it’s not a hack by developers they’ve turned a blind eye to. [ Click…
25 September 2015Hacker News
25 September 2015Hacker News
We have chosen to archive sumoshell as we can not continue to support its growth. The original author has created a spiritual successor called angle-grinder and we recommend you investigate that. Sumoshell is collection of utilities to improve analyzing…
25 September 2015Hacker News
At JW Player our analytics pipeline currently receives 4M pings per minute at peak times, providing the basis for insights to the publishers on our dashboards. Recently we have moved some of our offline classification processes to the beginning of our real…
25 September 2015Hacker News
As we’ve noted before on this blog, visuals are a powerful way to convey messages, present information, and persuade audiences. In a previous post we published titled, “6 Powerful Reasons Why Your Business Should Visualize Data,” we provided a handful of…
25 September 2015Hacker News
25 September 2015Hacker News
24 September 2015Hacker News
24 September 2015Hacker News
When we concocted the ideas that would become Atavist and The Atavist Magazine, in 2010, we did so amidst a frenzy of optimism and speculation around new devices, and the apps that would live on them. The iPad didn’t actually exist when we started hashing…
24 September 2015