- Hiring Tips That HR Wouldn’t Like | Jon On Tech
I like the breakdown of applicant types
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May 21, 2013
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May 19, 2013
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Yahoo & Tumblr
Just read on Tumblr that Tumblr was sold but since it’s Tumblr there was no attribution so who knows who bought them.
— Matt Haughey (@mathowie) May 19, 2013
My issue with Tumblr is that it obfuscates attribution. Tumblrs take images from their source and create and never ending maze from where they originated to where they are now. Yes, there are services like TinEye that help you try and find the original image, but damn, how many clueless n00bs who create Tumblrs use Tin Eye? Or are aware of Google’s reverse image search?
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See, the early 90′s saw technically minded webmasters with little design skills (for the most part, not all of course), but with little code to really do design (nested tables and font tags indeed), it was about building the web and we built stuff: you grabbed a domain, and began view-sourcing and copying and experimenting till you had a site going.
Twenty years later you’ve got the young designers, may be with print skills, most straight from Uni with none, and they’re in Advertising, and of course they need a portfolio site and so they sign up for a service built by the first wave of web builders who wanted to enable the net for everyone, and great, now some Creative Director who needs to appear tech savvy is adding pictures from other sites to his Tumblr or Pin Interest and he doesn’t care about attribution, because fuck, half his clients don’t either.
It’s too easy to simply click like and add and love and make no effort to find where they image was first posted.
So you end up with a rabbit hole of links leading to other tumblrs and dead ends and infinitely scrolling web sites with no pagination because who cares you just have to appear to understand the web long enough to get the job and pay your mortgage. Who cares what’s left behind? Who cares if some creative endeavour began on Deviant Art or Flickr or wherever?
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I find it frustrating to find an image I like on a site like FFFFound and click through to see the full image and find that whoever posted it made no attempt to trace where it came from. Nine times out of ten it is repost in a long chain of reposts.
Which is a long whiny way of saying that Yahoo are welcome to Tumblr, and if they screw it into the ground I won’t be sad to see them go. Just wish they weren’t holding the future of Flickr in their hands…
See also: Is Tumblr the new Geocities?
Alison Brie used in above examples for no other reason than the fan love of Community has resulted in the kind of original creative output that gets re-appropriated and lost in the kind of shuffle described…
May 19, 2013
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- Kill, Kill, and Kill Again: Rushing to Execution Heightens Risks of Fatal Error in Florida
“Rushing to execution in Florida seems awfully dangerous, given the deeply troubling history of innocent people suffering for years on Florida’s death row. Florida has already released 24 – TWENTY-FOUR – confirmed INNOCENT DEATH ROW prisoners. (It is important to yell, so we do not get numb to the reality that innocent people are put on death row and face certain death every year).”
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May 18, 2013
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- Easily Remove Image Backgrounds Online – Clipping Magic
Kid’s have it too easy; in my day when you wanted to photoshop someone into a picture you did it by hand the hard way. Ignoring the real skills of artists like Winston Smith, of course, who was doing this for the likes of the Dead Kennedys pre-interweb.
c/o waxy.org - BGG: board game collection value
- Please Press 1 | Customer Service Call Centre Menus FREE Directory
“Mr Clarke said the website pleasepress1.com was a "labour of love" which he built after seven years of creating post-it notes of sequences he used regularly.
“He used Skype and recording software to make thousands of calls, with the bulk of the work being carried out in the last six months.
“Reporting a water leak to Lloyds TSB’s home insurance department requires dialling a total of seven numbers, one at each stage of the call (1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 5, 4), and it takes more than four minutes to navigate the 78 menu options, according to the website.”
- Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man
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May 17, 2013
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- Amazon earns more through government grants than it pays in tax
By the time Amazon is forced to pay taxes, and the cheap prices we’ve enjoyed disappear, the shops we used to go to – Amazon’s competition – will be long gone.
c/o twitter - Broken on Purpose: Why Getting It Wrong Pays More Than Getting It Right
“It’s no conspiracy. Facebook acknowledged it as recently as last week: messages now reach, on average, just 15 percent of an account’s fans. In a wonderful coincidence, Facebook has rolled out a solution for this problem: Pay them for better access.
“As their advertising head, Gokul Rajaram, explained, if you want to speak to the other 80 to 85 percent of people who signed up to hear from you, “sponsoring posts is important.”
“In other words, through “Sponsored Stories,” brands, agencies and artists are now charged to reach their own fans—the whole reason for having a page—because those pages have suddenly stopped working.” - How to solve the ‘sharing huge design files amongst teams’ problem
c/o hackernews - Figures: They Speak For Themselves (mildly NSFW)
c/o hackernews - An Internet-Logo (#)
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May 16, 2013
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Everybody Loses
Everybody Loses
May 9, 2013
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Recently watched
Maniac
Parker – ★☆☆☆☆
- slow moving and dull despite Statham. Lopez peaked in Out of Sight
Danny Boyle: Man of Wonder (tv) – ★★★☆☆
- Kermode and Danny Boyle. Wanted more, too short by half
Maniac – ★★☆☆☆
- original which I haven’t seen an odd choice for a remake I didn’t need to see
Iron Man 3 – ★★☆☆☆
- full cinema for so so finale, is Chinese version better?
The Last Stand – ★★★☆☆
- better than expected retirement home action
Jack Reacher – ★★★☆☆
- enjoyable thriller
May 9, 2013
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Understanding Metal Music in 500 Albums
How many bands have you heard? I think I have a fairly wide taste in bands thanks to my parents eclectic tastes, but know there are so many bands I haven’t heard that I’m always on the look out for lists and articles that point me towards more.
So stumbling on the “List Of 500 Albums That You Need To Have Heard In Order To Have A Full And Comprehensive Understanding Of Metal Music“ was like striking gold. I like Metal, but tend to default to the same few bands. An article that lists over five hundred albums that helped shape and develop Metal had me creating a Spotify playlist with as many of the albums listed that were available*.
I know a lot of them won’t be my thing – I’m not a Death Metal fan, for example – but to have them pop up every now and again while the list plays on random isn’t a problem. And I hadn’t ever listened to Nick Drake, and Hazey Jane II is brilliant, so already I’m happily hearing songs that I love.
As there’s still money to be made re-releasing Rock albums on cd with an extra demo version or alternate take or live version, so some bands aren’t on Spotify yet, but a surprisingly large number are as record companies become less internet paranoid.
Others released albums pre-internet that weren’t successful enough for them to be still available are MIA from the playlist. And others are missing altogether, like the original Mr Big’s Photographic Smile – not on the list, but an album worth seeking out second hand.
*It’s a work in progress, it’s a lot of albums to search and find and add…
May 9, 2013
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- Hours Before Execution, a State Court Grants Willie Manning a Stay
- List Of 500 Albums That You Need To Have Heard In Order To Have A Full And Comprehensive Understanding Of Metal Music
"Some of the albums may have you scratching your head as to they they were included here. There are usually one of two reasons for this. Firstly; Metal didn’t just start one day perfectly formed and unarguably Metal. It came together in fits and starts, things hinted at being Metal for years before any band wrote an entire Metal album. Bands would have one metal song, or even just one metal riff, or even simply an attitude that would inspire future metal musicians of one subgenre or another." - Breakfasts Around the World – Imgur
Breakfasts from around the world
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