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This is why you never end up hiring good developers

You are bad at giving technical interviews. Yes, you. You’re looking for the wrong skills, hiring the wrong people, and actively screwing yourself and your company.

via This is why you never end up hiring good developers – Quartz.

This doesn’t just apply to developers, it should apply to anyone working in a “must know how to think and ask questions” position.

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Writing Hyperlinks: Salient, Descriptive, Start with Keyword

To help users quickly find what they need, anchor text should stand out from the body content and accurately describe the page that it refers to.

via Writing Hyperlinks: Salient, Descriptive, Start with Keyword.

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Software in 2014

We’re at an in­flec­tion point in the prac­tice of con­struct­ing soft­ware. Our tools are good, our server de­vel­op­ers are happy, but when it comes to build­ing client-side soft­ware, we re­ally don’t know where we’re going or how to get there.

via ongoing by Tim Bray · Software in 2014.

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Information Is Beautiful

Information Is Beautiful.

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Apps vs The Web

An app is a specialized tool, like a wrist watch. Apps thrive on mobile because people on the go have short bursts of time to accomplish tasks. Waiting in line at a bank, you only have a few seconds to check your mail.

via Apps vs The Web.

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Making Love to WebKit

This idea started with an accidental discovery: if you put a CSS perspective on a scrollable <DIV>, then 3D elements inside that <DIV> will retain their perspective while you scroll. This results in smooth, native parallax effects, and makes objects jump out of the page, particularly when using an analog input device with inertial scrolling.

via Making Love to WebKit — Acko.net.

The web, early 2012. Scroll s-l-o-w-l-y.

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Minimalist Web Design: How Minimal is Too Minimal?

Your design might be too minimal if:

You’re using minimalism for the wrong reason

If you’re sacrificing usability in any way

via Minimalist Web Design: How Minimal is Too Minimal?.

My kind of designs!

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Kindle Fire Usability Findings

7-inch tablets have either a glorious future or will fail miserably. I doubt there’s a middle path in their future.

via Kindle Fire Usability Findings (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).

So will the Fire sell in the millions? or will it be a fire sale?

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The Dauten Hierarchy of Organizational Culture

I wonder, Do you recognize your organization somewhere on the pyramid?

via The Corporate Curmudgeon: THE DAUTEN HIERARCHY OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE.

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MySQL RIGHT OUTER JOIN Tutorial & Examples » MySQL Join Tutorials

MySQL RIGHT OUTER JOIN Tutorial & Examples » MySQL Join Tutorials.