In total, Refinery29 receives around a million unique visits a day. About 50 percent of those visits come from mobile devices. This ramp up in users hitting the mobile experience happened much faster than we predicted. In mid-2013, The organization recognized this opportunity and dedicated…
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“I know there is corruption in America. But I have lived here for a year, and have not seen it. In Kyrgyzstan, corruption is everywhere. You can not do anything without corruption. To send your child to school, to apply for a job, you must pay a bribe. If there is a car accident in America, the police and insurance companies determine who is at fault. If there is a car accident in Kyrgyzstan, the person with less money or less power is at fault. In Kyrgyzstan, if you build a business, you can do everything right, and pay all your taxes, and still have it taken away. In America, if you do everything right, it belongs to you.”
(Source: humansofnewyork)
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(Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.)
Since his arrest in January, 2011, I have known more about the events that began this spiral than I have wanted to know. Aaron consulted me as a friend and lawyer. He…
Absolutely tragic. There isn’t a better example of how fragile our personal freedoms are. Please consider signing a petition to remove Carmen Ortiz over handling of Aaron Swartz/JSTOR case
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We’re hosting the 4th installment of Refinery29’s event series “Making Startups Work”. At Refinery29 we feel strongly that engineering, UX, product need to act like a team to be a success, so this time we focus on UX.
Come by our offices at 7pm on Tuesday, May 1st to hear some amazing talks…
Ah, JB, you’re drinking too deep the conservative nut job well this morning.
This is about whether ALL health insurance providers (not just the one’s you pay for) should be required to cover an important expense for women’s health care (they should).
The uses for what are commonly sold as “contraceptives” are many and varied: hormonal balance, period control, acne reduction, prevention and treatment of utero cysts, etc.
Vasectomies and Viagra are typically covered or subsidized by insurance companies RIGHT NOW!! Where is your outrage?!! Where is the shame??
Everyone knows it’s better bareback, why are you fighting this???
If, at the end of all this, we’re left with a society that thinks there’s an inalienable right to free contraceptives, I’m going to demand an inalienable right to free tacos because, at present, that is a much more useful right for me.
If we’re just making up rights, I’d like to be on the payout.
We will settle the Seven Kingdoms the only true way: boogie board contest.
Why creme colored though?
(Source: bustedtees, via heyjb)
On Saturday I dropped my brand new iPhone 4S on the pavement. SMASHED IT. Here is the story of my replacement:
By making an entirely frictionless reservation beforehand, I was in and out in 30 minutes with a new phone, fully restored to its previous state, a new iPhone case and an 8 minute walk to my apartment. I don’t think you can get better service experience anywhere in the world. It’s not enough that Apple’s stores are beautiful, conveniently located and well staffed. You could copy all of those things and you’d still miss out on online appointments, iCloud restore and self service checkout. Hardware, software and services. Apple is the only company in the world that dominates all three in such a startlingly seamless way that I have only one word to describe it… magic.
Two small quips:
If I make my Apple Genius appointment using my iTunes account, and need to pay for some additional service, let me pay with my iTunes account.
I had to inform the Apple Genius I was working with that I had AppleCare Plus, he didn’t seem to notice the phone had the additional warranty and originally quoted me $149.99 for repair. This may have been due to the fact that he was working with two iPhones at the same time (both with smashed screens), but a $100 mistake is not trivial.
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Really have to feel for these guys, debugging Magento is no fucking joke.
Bonobos.com is a pretty awesome male apparel company, but they had a huge Cyber Monday failure. Their site has been down for 4 days or so, a disaster anytime, and they lost a ton of sales. Their head of UX explains what happened and why. Very interesting if you care anything about online retail, site stability, or cool, good fitting pants.
Also, BustedTees had zero downtime on Cyber Monday. Therefore, we can only assume we are a better company.
UPDATE
Do all of this with Virtualbox
https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
So, you’ve got your graded support matrix, making kick ass web applications that Just Work ™ for everyone. Problem is, since you’re a web application developer, your primary machine is a Mac, which means testing Internet Explorer can be a hassle. Discounting IE 6 because IE 6 must die, you still have to test IE7, IE8 and IE9. So, IE 7 testing… how hard could that be?
Here is how I got the Virtual PC image provided by Microsoft to work within VMWare Fusion.
On the Windows 7 system in VMWare Fusion:
In VMWare Fusion on OS X:
That’s it! You now have a working instance of Windows Vista with IE7. Be sure to take a snapshot, because you’ll never want to have to do this again.
This lesson comes to you courtesy of one Beau Gould of the somewhat fly-by-night seeming Open Source Staffing, who don’t even have a website, just an off-domain blog.
Lesson 1: spam a public developer list
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Beau Gould <1@open-source-staffing.com> wrote:
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