If at first you don’t succeed, goes the old saying, try, try again. Good advice, up to a point. But let me offer a modification: even when you do succeed, try, try again. Tempting as it is to declare
I am a short-form writer. A thousand words or so. Sometimes more, often less. I like to think I like tight prose and succinct thoughts, but I also know I’m impatient and have a short attention span. O
The Most Important Piece of Career Advice You Probably Never Heard May 21st, 2008 · 74 comments Some Advice for the Road I’m leaving this afternoon to attend a college graduation: my second in three w
The Democratic caucus of the Colorado State House of Representatives had a problem—but it was the good kind. The 2018 1 election put Democrats in charge of the House, the State Senate, and the governo
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Based on a recent discussion on Twitter: a list of things that you can do in Android Studio which can make your life much easier. Hide files you don’t care about If you work in a project with lots of generated code (e.g.: you use Dagger), you can exclude generated files from searches using Scopes:…
Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. When talking about one of the biggest lessons he learned from Steve Jobs, Jonny Ive said: This sounds really simplis
F or reassurance that Americans can still work together with patience and vision, look to the waterways of New York. Nine humpback whales recently surfaced there together, spouting and breeching again
T he great heroes in Mikhail Gorbachev’s pantheon were two 19th-century socialist thinkers, Alexander Herzen and Vissarion Belinsky, whose main concerns were the dignity of the individual, and whose b
React, the popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces, is a fantastic tool for creating interactive data visualizations. With its component-based architecture and a wealth of libraries at your disposal, React makes it easier than ever to bring your data to life and engage your audience.…
The longer you do something, the more you'll be asked "what keeps you motivated?" People are typically looking for a goal-based answer. Or some big mission. Or some sort of target you just haven't hit yet. The question is often aimed at revealing a deep, purpose-filled motivation. The assumption is…
Published inNYT Open · 8 min read· Aug 10, 2022 -- Illustration by Mathieu Labrecque The New York Times launched its paywall in March 2011, beginning its journey as a subscription-first news and lifestyle service. Since its inception, this “metered” access service has been designed so that…
For a long time at Trello Android, we used the same class for parsing API calls (via Gson), making DB transactions (via OrmLite), and displaying data in the UI. Here’s a pseudo-code-y example of a board: While it was allocation efficient and somewhat convenient to have all this data in one place,…
Navigation best practices for multi-module projects https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation/navigation-multi-module ANDROID AT SCALE @SQUARE https://www.droidcon.com/2019/11/15/android-at-scale-square/ Why did we move away from Navigation Component?…
This week’s unprecedented heat has taken a toll on our gardens, leaving plants wilted, lawns browning and trees dropping their leaves months earlier than usual. There is almost certainly worse to come, as global heating makes 40C summers routine. So how can we bounce back from this challenge, and…
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I t is less of a marathon and more of an amble. But then a “walking forest” of 1,000 trees was never going to move at speed. Since May, volunteers have been transporting the native trees planted in wo
By Ann Wroe O ut of my windows the sunlight glitters over the sea, gleams from white sails and lies in gilded panes over the garden lawns. So I take a book and make for those lawns or the beach, or pu
W ith seemingly no end in sight to Britain’s hot summer days, many of us are looking for different ways to cool down. In cities such as London, open-water venues have been a haven from the stifling we
f Of all the things that surprised me at OXO headquarters, the Tiffany box had to be at the top of the list. The kitchenware company’s head engineer, Mack Mor, had dug through the archives to find som
I t was the greatest mass movement of humanity in history. In the days and months leading up to the partitioning of India in August 1947, 14 million people moved and two million died as the new nation
Jack Carr’s Writing Cabin June 6th, 2022 · Be the first to comment Last spring, I wrote an essay for The New Yorker about a notable habit common to professional authors: their tendency to write in str
Posted by Saket Narayan on April 8, 2021 One of the many things I was constantly amazed about during my first few weeks at Square/Cash App was seeing how fast this team shipped code. All members of the Android team (and likely other platforms as well) were merging to the main git branch multiple…
Culture Apr 16th 2022 edition The crops can be delicious. But that is not the real point Apr 16th 2022 I MAGINE A PLATE holding two strawberries, identical in appearance. One came out of a clamshell s
Apr 30th 2022 S OMETIME IN THE early autumn of 1944 Mimi Weitmann, as she then was, added her name to a list. She thought she would take the risk. Unfortunately she had to use the horrible first name,
I tweaked my knee on Sunday. I was playing soccer on a glorious day after an intensely social weekend with a lovely friend when I planted to make a pass and felt my knee hyperextend (the pass turned o
Jan 29th 2022 I N THE WEST’S imagination a Buddhist monk is a model of otherworldliness. He sits silently in his temple, or under a tree in a manicured garden, lost in the inner vastness of contemplat
What is synchronization? One way to categorize tests is by their scope. Small tests, or unit tests, focus on small pieces of your app while big tests, or end-to-end, cover a large portion of your app. You can read about this and other types of tests in the newly updated testing documentation.…
In July 1995, a hot, humid, slow-moving mass of air rolled over Chicago and stayed there for a week. Roads and railway tracks buckled. Lifting bridges were hosed down to prevent thermal expansion from
Mar 30th 2022 IN MOST BODILY organs waste matter is cleared out by the lymphatic system. Unnecessary proteins, superfluous fluids and so on are carried away by special vessels to lymph nodes, where th
Culture Asks Maud Newton in “Ancestor Trouble” Mar 30th 2022 Ancestor Trouble . By Maud Newton. Random House; 324 pages; $28.99 NEARLY ONE in seven American adults are curious enough about their foreb
Many technical problems ultimately turn out to be people problems, and a lack of good documentation is no exception. Writing and maintaining documentation is a habit that needs to be encouraged and nu
In the Guardian’s digital department we work in multidisciplinary teams to improve our products and ensure our readers have a great experience while accessing our content. Digital projects are usually
When an entrepreneur gets funded, it’s often difficult for them to start spending money on assets–the old limits fade slowly. What used to be smart is now dumb. What used to too risky is now the safe
Investing is humbling. At 60, with 35 years of venture investing experience, I still get most things wrong. Which is why I like to keep things simple. And when I do I am rewarded. My friend Gordon ask
Business Daydreaming, promenading and zoning out pay rich dividends Mar 19th 2022 T HE FAMILIAR exerts a powerful subliminal appeal. The “name-letter effect” refers to the subconscious bias that peopl
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