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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
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One of the best changes I’ve made at work recently is to stop nitpicking in code reviews. Nitpicking isn’t about code that is wrong but suboptimal . It’s pointing out a variable name that could use a
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
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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
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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
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
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Aug 3rd 2021 W e used to make things. Now we have meetings. On any given weekday some 50m meetings are held in American workplaces alone. The average executive now spends 23 hours in them each week, a
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One of my formative childhood lessons came when I was playing in the garage one day. I went into my mom’s car and put the seatbelt on (probably to pretend I was flying a plane). I realized at one point that I could still lean pretty far forward. Far enough that my head could touch…
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Business Jan 15th 2022 edition The written word will flourish in the post-pandemic workplace Jan 15th 2022 T HE PANDEMIC has given a big shove to all forms of digital communication. Video-conferencing
It’s easy to accept the limits that are implied when someone asks us for advice and feedback. Fix the typos, sure. That’s important. But perhaps you have something bigger to add. A friend shares plans
The Americas Feb 12th 2022 edition It is 100 years since modernists vowed to transform the country’s culture Feb 12th 2022 A HUNDRED YEARS ago this weekend, a group of young artists and writers organi
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J ohn Oliver looked into my eyes and cocked his head. We held each other’s gaze. On the “stage” of an upstairs room in a grimy little pub, his partner – it may have been Andy Zaltzman but this was 15
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