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fowkswe commented on Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen cybercultural.com/p/web-d... · Posted by u/panic

mikepurvis · 7 months ago

That early 2000s CSS/design blogosphere was such an interesting place; I was just in high school at the time but loved following Dave Shea, Andy Budd, Doug Bowman, Shaun Inman, Mike Davidson, and probably a whole bunch more I'm forgetting now.

fowkswe · 7 months ago

All those guys. Also, the daily visits to lnkedup.com k10k.net, designiskinky.com, newstoday.com were so influential and informative to me (wow, just did an archive.org lookup of some of those and got a nostalgic chill - https://web.archive.org/web/20050303092717if_/http://www.lin...).

fowkswe commented on Pivotal Tracker will shut down pivotaltracker.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/sandinmyjoints

rboyd · a year ago

end of an era

linear.app seems ok

fowkswe · a year ago

+1 for linear.app. It's somewhat similar in feel to PT. It's very responsive and has vim style key bindings. We switched a year ago and haven't looked back.

fowkswe commented on Ask HN: Is a masters in ML worth it? · Posted by u/mstaunton7

AnimalMuppet · 2 years ago

Too early to tell.

How long is a masters going to take? Three years? What's the ML landscape going to look like in three years?

I don't know the answer. In three years, ML could have pretty much maxed out, and people could be not hiring for it any more. Or in three years a masters in ML could be the golden ticket. I don't know. I don't think anyone else knows, either.

My impression is that "these cutting edge tech companies" are not easily able to find as many qualified candidates as they want right now. Emphasis on "right now". Is there something you can do to become qualified (by their definition) that will be faster than a masters?

(I'm pretty sure that their definition of "qualified" has to be less than a masters - there hasn't been enough time for there to be very many ML masters degrees yet.)

fowkswe · 2 years ago

This is a great point and I think the crux of it is - is ML going to be like the last crypto 'boom'?

I don't think it is. Investment is being made at an institutional level in a way that was not happening for crypto.

We are deep in the midst of the hype cycle right now, but if the hype pans out, ML will have a transformative effect on the tech market (or world for that matter) akin to the internet itself. In that scenario, ML expertise at any level will be a golden ticket.

fowkswe commented on Web design inspiration catalog curated.design/... · Posted by u/warthog

warpech · 2 years ago

I have kind memories of Styleboost, TheFWA, K10K... I wish I also know PatternTap back then.

fowkswe · 2 years ago

Linkedup, Design is Kinky, News Today. I miss those days of the web.

fowkswe commented on California Forever californiaforever.com/... · Posted by u/grinich

raminf · 2 years ago

More from the SF Chronicle: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/flannery-renderi...

Read somewhere the land acquired was 2x the size of the City of San Francisco.

fowkswe · 2 years ago

Not quite: https://www.calculateme.com/area/acres/to-square-miles/50000

fowkswe commented on Webvan: The dotcom bubble’s biggest bust streetfins.com/webvan-the... · Posted by u/ca98am79

threeio · 2 years ago

I've got my Kozmo bag around here somewhere... used it as my work bag for ages.

fowkswe · 2 years ago

They are going for some serious coin on ebay!

fowkswe commented on Webvan: The dotcom bubble’s biggest bust streetfins.com/webvan-the... · Posted by u/ca98am79

fowkswe · 2 years ago

They used to deliver your groceries in these (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan#/media/File:Webvan_tubs...) tubs, leaving the tub with you. You were free to keep them if you wanted. I had several for years which served as the best moving boxes I've ever had.

kozmo.com (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com) was another one that was ahead of its time.

fowkswe commented on Most in U.S. (57%) prefer big houses, even if amenities farther away pewresearch.org/short-rea... · Posted by u/1270018080

falcolas · 2 years ago

> is that it insulates you from the pollution you bring with your car to the place you go

This is a citation needed comment to me. It's one heck of an assertion that I have never heard. Most folks I've chatted with who have made this transition do it because of the density of people, not the pollution (which is miles better in cities than it was even 20 years ago).

fowkswe · 2 years ago

Does this need a citation? The car is the thing that brings the pollution. You live in the burbs, you drive the car, you pollute. You live in the city, you walk/bike/transit, you pollute less.

fowkswe commented on Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/keiferski

keiferski · 2 years ago

I also recommend Boom. A very thorough overview of the last century of art dealing.

fowkswe · 2 years ago

There is a lot in this piece taken from Boom, but this article paints GoGo in a much worse light. It more or less says he's unscrupulous when it comes to the source of money (Russian Oligarch's) being used to buy art. It also makes him out to be a shadowy market maker, representing both sides of a transaction where neither buyer nor seller know who each other are.

fowkswe commented on Geography of Kansas (2022) geographyrealm.com/geogra... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen

JKCalhoun · 3 years ago

A curiously deep dive I wasn't expecting.

Reminding me of the song "Wellsville" by the never-made-it band, The Embarrassment from Wichita, Kansas.

"We stopped just past the Flint Hills, there's a sign, it was Wellsville."

https://youtu.be/vWm6-htMu4U

fowkswe · 3 years ago

Thanks for this - what a great find this evening!