Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
A Gen-X/Millennial cusp (Xennial), I'm old enough to remember life before the internet but not (quite) old enough to have seen Nirvana live. Or, as my wife puts it, I adapt to technology like a Millennial but get angry about it like a Boomer.
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All posts (1249)
If your goal is to make as much money as quickly as possible without any commitment to long-term sustainability, you don't ask the hard questions, and you don't listen when other people do. — Dana Fried
Brevity has its place, but asides and conversational style and inconclusive ponderings all have their value too. At the very least, they feel like they are written by humans for other humans, instead of by influencers for the algorithm or sponsors. — Tracy Durnell
Sometimes I want to grab some stuff from a website and it's quicker to write a script to do it than format copypasta.
Someone online recently was quite disparaging of me working for Big Pharma which prompted me to write this explanation.
There are some websites I come back to time and time again. This is one of them; cubic-bezier.com
My other half gave a talk on user experience in the complex world of pharmaceutical communications.
API calls take time and cost money, not to mention the environmental impact. Here's how to reduce the number of requests in a simple crawl function.
Last week I posed this simple question. Here are the answers, analysis, and my conclusion.
geeks think they are rational beings, while they are completely influenced by buzz, marketing, and their emotions. Even more so than the average person, because they believe they are less susceptible to it than normies, so they have a blind spot. — Bite Code
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