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“The new BBC mobile Homepage is a flexible ‘taster menu’ of the BBC's website. I’ve been leading the development of the new Homepage and in this post I explain some of the technical design decisions made during the initial phase of the project. Please note that some of the language in this post is intended for readers with an interest in software delivery.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

Upcoming changes to BBC Homepage — http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs... • #редизайн - urbansheep@gmail.com

“Smith and Gordon load their minivan and deliver all 233 papers in about ninety minutes. "Nothing like the cold to make you do it faster," says Smith, who's wearing a leopard-skin sweater and navy-blue beanie. On some blocks she and Gordon walk opposite sides of a street, tossing papers onto stoops, while on others they split up—Gordon carries an Ikea bag stuffed with papers as he walks down blocks with a high density of subscribers, while Smith drives sparser streets nearby. The longest stop is the five minutes it takes Smith to deliver six papers to individual apartments in a nursing home. One customer has asked her to hit his door with the paper so he knows it has arrived. Another customer's dog waits on the step and barks when the paper lands. At this moment, hundreds of thousands of copies of The New York Times are flying out of people's hands, a little action that starts a simultaneous morning ritual: A newspaper lands with a soft thud, and eventually someone opens the door and picks it up, reads it, and knows what is happening in the world.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

“In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has a bench-pressing bulk that he carries a little sheepishly, as if it belonged to someone else—has described himself as both “deeply, deeply tired” and “always anxious.” When he sits down, on an aluminum stool in Apple’s design studio, or in the cream leather back seat of his Bentley Mulsanne, a car for a head of state, he is likely to emit a soft, half-ironic groan. His manner suggests the burden of being fully appreciated. There were times, during the past two decades, when he considered leaving Apple, but he stayed, becoming an intimate friend of Steve Jobs and establishing the build and the finish of the iMac, the MacBook, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. He is now one of the two most powerful people in the world’s most valuable company. He sometimes listens to CNBC Radio on his hour-long commute from San Francisco to Apple’s offices, in Silicon Valley, but he’s uncomfortable knowing that a hundred thousand Apple employees rely on his decision-making—his taste—and that a sudden announcement of his retirement would ambush Apple shareholders. (To take a number: a ten-percent drop in Apple’s valuation represents seventy-one billion dollars.) According to Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’s widow, who is close to Ive and his family, “Jony’s an artist with an artist’s temperament, and he’d be the first to tell you artists aren’t supposed to be responsible for this kind of thing.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

"On a recent visit to Oliveto, a nouvelle Italian restaurant in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, California, I paid attention less to the food than to the sound. I was at a table of six, in the restaurant’s upstairs section. It was a Friday night, and by the middle of the meal the room was crowded. Conditions were primed for restaurant cacophony: that inexorable crescendo of talking, barking, cackling, and clanking, which threatens to drown out any conversation and prompts diners to shout at one another, adding to the din. On this night, though, I found myself able to tune out the noise and hear only what I wanted to hear. When someone at a nearby table began guffawing at his own jokes, I could still follow the remarks of the calm-voiced man sitting next to me. Friends on the other side of the table spoke across the breadbasket without having to raise their voices. Although we were aware of a general buzz, it all happened at a comfortable distance. It was two hours of acoustical paradise." - urbansheep@gmail.com

"We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge — from the safety of fluoride and vaccines to the reality of climate change — faces organized and often furious opposition. Empowered by their own sources of information and their own interpretations of research, doubters have declared war on the consensus of experts. There are so many of these controversies these days, you’d think a diabolical agency had put something in the water to make people argumentative." - urbansheep@gmail.com

эк оно в одну фразу запихнуто, прививки-то с глобальным потеплением. а вот про эту флюоридизацию я чего-то и не в курсе: а у нас льют или нет? - THE END

это фторирование, в СССР оно проводилось везде, а сейчас - в зависимости от города. - smallq

“There’s been much discussion about the reason for the declines among criminologists, economists, about why that happens,” Nagin said. “On that issue, I’ve never found any of the explanations particularly convincing.” ¶ Nagin and other sociologists say that many theories are flawed. Hypotheses on the dip in violent crime have ranged from the availability of legal abortion to the concentration of lead particulate in a given neighborhood. ¶ “One reason they fail to explain is: why is it homicide rates have been declining in many places across the world?” Nagin said about the theories generally. “In most of western Europe, homicide rates have declined by 50%.” • #стайность - urbansheep@gmail.com

How about lead poisoning having stopped? http://www.bbc.com/news... - 9000

Я, как советский человек, вообще уверен, что полицейские просто всех жертв ослепляют вспышкой стирателя памяти из Людей в чёрном, а трупы прячут по канализации. Не убивают как это не убивают. А также видели мы эту статистику силовых структур никому верить нельзя все лгут! - urbansheep@gmail.com

Much polite. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Зовут девушку Бренда, у неё есть брат, с которым у них сложные отношения, брат делает странные фотографии, иногда отсиживается в дурке, иногда устраивает фотовыставки. Женщине приходится быть сильной, мириться с несовершенством себя и мужчин, мучаться по всем поводам в жизни, несмотря на интеллект, образование и опыт. Ощущение себя одновременно и богиней, и каким-то фриком. Всё такое. Крутой персонаж вообще, много нефти в нём. - urbansheep@gmail.com

(Собственно, в Six Feet Under это идёт боковой историей прямо с пилота.) • #letmeshowyou - urbansheep@gmail.com

“At a dinner party, you find yourself seated next to a man named Sam. He’s a new acquaintance, but it turns out the two of you have several friends in common – so you’re keen to make a good impression. On that score, things seem to be going quite well. The talk is flowing and your companion gives every sign of finding you witty and engaging.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

Отличная статья. - kbl

. - Maхx Tee

"When the manuscript crossed his desk, Joshua Plotkin, a theoretical biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, was immediately intrigued. The physicist Freeman Dyson and the computer scientist William Press, both highly accomplished in their fields, had found a new solution to a famous, decades-old game theory scenario called the prisoner’s dilemma, in which players must decide whether to cheat or cooperate with a partner. The prisoner’s dilemma has long been used to help explain how cooperation might endure in nature. After all, natural selection is ruled by the survival of the fittest, so one might expect that selfish strategies benefiting the individual would be most likely to persist. But careful study of the prisoner’s dilemma revealed that organisms could act entirely in their own self-interest and still create a cooperative community. ¶ Press and Dyson’s new solution to the problem, however, threw that rosy perspective into question. It suggested the best strategies were selfish ones that led to extortion, not cooperation." • #стайность - urbansheep@gmail.com

А кто-нить киношку уже видел? - кладбище для начинающих

Долин видел - последний парад наступает

дествитьно - кладбище для начинающих

“Drawing from some of the best posts on our blog, Intercom on Product Management offers guidance on the tough decisions you need to make as a PM.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

https://yadi.sk/d... — ePub, mobi, PDF. - urbansheep@gmail.com

"Software practitioners know that product management is a key piece of software development. Product managers talk to users to help figure out what to build, define requirements, and write functional specifications. They work closely with engineers throughout the process of building software. They serve as a sounding board for ideas, help balance the schedule when technical challenges occur — and push back to executive teams when technical revisions are needed. Product managers are involved from before the first code is written, until after it goes out the door." - urbansheep@gmail.com

“There are all sorts of reasons for them to use different colors. (iMessage texts are seen as data, not charged on a per-text basis, and so the different colors allow people to register how much a given conversation will cost—useful!). However, one result of that decision is that a goofy class war is playing out over digital bubble colors. Their decision has observable social consequences.” • #ящик_кейсов - urbansheep@gmail.com

Blue vs green? Looks like an Ingress ad campaign for me. - 9000

Непростой характер — штука такая. - urbansheep@gmail.com

#нормальный http://coub.com/view/6beo6sc - FIN END JAKE

ложечки-то нашлись, а осадочек остался! - Nazer

“Eight team members from ustwo, the digital production studio behind the game, spent about 55 weeks making Monument Valley. Each chapter is unique, with distinct and separate puzzles, mechanics, story beats, and architectural styles. This creates a visually rich and compelling game, but is a quite involved process from early concept sketches to chapter development, testing, and completion.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

“When we want to tell a story, we'd like you to take it in from start to end. There is a flow we would like you to follow. We introduce you into a topic, investigate our findings and come to some kind of conclusion. If we gave our readers too many options to leave the article before finishing it, we wouldn’t get to convey whatever it is we want to convey. To enforce this principle, our editor, called Respondens, doesn't allow our authors to add common links to their stories. However, we offer them three alternatives: an info card, a side note and a featured link.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

Гипертекст делает полный круг! - alex@kapranoff.ru

"The White House published President Obama’s 2016 fiscal budget on Monday using a medium that’s become increasingly popular among its advisors: Medium, the three-year old self-publishing platform." - urbansheep@gmail.com

^ понабрали хипсетров в Белый Дом работать :) - earlyadopter

“Google wrote its mission statement in 1999, a year after launch, setting the course for the company’s next decade: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” ¶ For years, Google’s mission included the preservation of the past. In the last five years, starting around 2010, the shifting priorities of Google’s management left these archival projects in limbo, or abandoned entirely. ¶ After a series of redesigns, Google Groups is effectively dead for research purposes. The archives, while still online, have no means of searching by date. ¶ Google News Archives are dead, killed off in 2011, now directing searchers to just use Google.” • #архивисты - urbansheep@gmail.com

HN thread showing where the article is skewed or outright wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item... (With all my respect and love to archive.org) - 9000

"Federal agents have finally caught one of the most frustratingly intelligent and elusive criminals they have ever sought: famed treasure hunter Tommy G. Thompson. On the lam for more than two years, Thompson did virtually everything he could to become “invisible,” leading law enforcement officers on a storybook chase for a man with few financial limitations, an abundance of smarts and a dogged determination to leave no paper trails." - urbansheep@gmail.com

Как написал редактор рассылки NextDraft: “I'm guessing that every screenwriter in Hollywood will [be] reading this article along with you.” - urbansheep@gmail.com