The Engineering of the Chain Restaurant Menu

At IHOP and Applebee's, menus are sales documents. And navigational guides. And explainers. 

Past Behavior Does Not Determine Future Purchases | TechCrunch

Ever wonder why after buying shoes online (or any other consumer goods), for the next few weeks or months, you can be sure to spot ads or promotions for those same shoes on nearly every website you visit? What’s more, you'll see which shoes your Facebook friends bought, which…

Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good (Published 2019)

Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol.

Design

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Using Buying Groups to Accelerate Your Sales Process

Are buying groups just another buzz word? Understand what buying groups are, how to measure them and how they can help drive more sales for your business.

How to harness employees’ emotional energy

Fuel success by linking a company’s strategic goals to the reasons people are proud to work there.

Setting UX Roles and Responsibilities in Product Development: The RACI Temp

Use a flexible responsibility-assignment matrix to clarify UX roles and responsibilities, anticipate team collaboration points, and maintain productivity in product development.

The LinkedIn Hack That Made Me $120,000

Here’s why a writer at TechCrunch called me the biggest hustler he has ever met.

Real-time SKU detection in the browser using TensorFlow.js

Realtime and offline SKU detection in the browser using Tensorflow.js

10 Cloudflare Alternatives to Boost Your Website Performance and Security

Cloudflare is not the only service that helps you boost your website's speed and secure it. Here are some alternatives.

Introduction to Simulation with SimPy

Part 6: Multiple Measures of Performance

Easy No Knead Bread

FOOL-PROOF and only 4-ingredients! So hearty and rustic with the most amazing crust + fluffy, soft, chewy inside. Seriously, SO GOOD.

sensity-ai/dot: The Deepfake Offensive Toolkit

The Deepfake Offensive Toolkit.

How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World

Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish

‘The Soundtrack of Your Mistakes In Stereo’: Documenting Every Detail of Life Behind Bars

"Jail is its own kingdom. The basic rules of engagement do not apply here," Keri Blakinger writes in this excerpt from her new memoir.

Kai Lenny Surfs the Unsurfable

The big-wave surfer tackles some of the most fearsome swells on the planet. On the surface, it looks like he’s just having fun.

Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab

In a recent policy change, Google has banned deepfake-generating AI projects from Colab, its platform for hosting and running arbitrary Python code.

The oral history of 'Encino Man,' Brendan Fraser's caveman cult classic

This is the untold story of how 'Encino Man' got made — and turned Brendan Fraser and Pauly Shore into movie stars.

rr: lightweight recording & deterministic debugging

With ‘The Far Side,’ Gary Larson Pioneered the Art of the Meme

There couldn’t be a ‘Is This a Pigeon?’ without a ‘Beware of Doug’.

The 4 days Guide to Rake

Blog and website of Greg Molnar, Ruby Developer, Rails Developer, IT Security Consultant, Penetration Tester, Ethical hacker. Opinions expressed are mine.

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Flip Flop: Why Zillow’s Algorithmic Home Buying Venture Imploded

Airbnb and the Internet Revolution

Airbnb gets less press than Uber, but in some respects its even more radical: understanding how it works leads one to question many of the premises of modern society from hotels to regulations. It&…

Economies Of Scale As A Service | TechCrunch

Credit where it's definitely due: this post was inspired by a Twitter conversation with Box CEO Aaron Levie. Don't look now, but something remarkable is happening. Instagram had twelve employees when it was purchased for $700 million; all of its actual computing power was…

Style Tiles

A Style Tile is a design deliverable consisting of fonts, colors and interface elements that communicates the evolution of a visual brand for the web. Learn how to use them here.

An Introduction to Polymorphism in Ruby on Rails | AppSignal Blog

Learn how you can implement polymorphism in your Rails application for cleaner code.

Using Rails Action Mailer

In this quick tutorial I will go over how I use Action Mailer in my Rails apps. A bonus if you have...

The one pip config you need to have

Whenever you are installing python packages, you should always use a virtual environment. pip makes...

Bootsy Collins, positively helping to keep the funk alive

At the beginning of lockdown, the legendary funk bassist began posting uplifting messages to Instagram, where they found a receptive audience in drummer Adam Deitch of the band Lettuce.

2022 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results

Over 2,600 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework in 2022.

Notes on Effective Altruism

Face to Face With Dall-E, The AI Artist That Might Change The World

Dall-E can illustrate just about anything using a short text prompt. Should it?

Jenkins: Create a simple build job

Jenkins job The jenkins job is an individual task that could be useful for your CI CD...

Master CSV Files in the Terminal With the Csvkit Package

It is not always a good idea to use Excel.

Ruby cryptographic gems

I'm not an expert in cryptography — I'm just a developer, and most developers are in this same boat...

Browse Movies, TV Shows and Games

Find your next movie to watch. Filter by genre, release year, or streaming service.

File: README — Puma master

book notes | Derek Sivers

The Internet Encyclopedia of Memes

An Interview with Don Caldwell, the Editor-in-Chief of Know Your Meme

Hindsight Bias Meaning, Examples, and How to Avoid It - Frontera

Hindsight Bias makes you feel the past is easy to explain. "I knew it would happen." Here is its meaning, examples, and how to avoid it.

What’s Your Listening Style?

We may have learned that we need to let people speak without interrupting but taking turns talking does not truly denote listening. And unintentionally hijacking conversations to advise, inject humor, empathize, prioritize efficiency, or insert ourselves into the speaker’s…

Simple Text Extraction Using Python And Tesseract OCR

Introduction Hello! In this quick tutorial I will show how to create a simple program...

Train Mask R-CNN Net for Object Detection in 60 Lines of Code

A step-by-step tutorial using a minimal amount of code

3 Ways to Create a Multi-Page Streamlit App

Streamlit may not have been designed for full-blown websites, but it is fairly straightforward to create multiple pages in a single app

XGBoost Alternative Base Learners

Introducing dart, gblinear, and XGBoost Random Forests

List of mythological objects

Mythological objects encompass a variety of items found in mythology, legend, folklore, tall tale, fable, religion, spirituality, superstition, paranormal, and pseudoscience from across the world. This list is organized according to the category of object.

Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning (2010)

The science of regrettable decisions

A doctor explains how our brains can trick us into making bad choices — and how to fight back.

Google AdWords: Successful Campaigns for Beginners - noupe

Google AdWords is a good opportunity to boost sales in a short period of time for both small and large businesses alike. Learn the basics here.