#signalvnoise

[processzine-org]

// post 007: precision vs. interference

Not everything in process is fractured.

For every moment of blur, there’s a diagram. For every rupture, a rendered schematic. These spreads counter the noise with clean vectors and cool typography—borrowing the tone of instruction manuals and audiology guides.

It’s all part of the duality: Modern cochlear diagrams beside hacked bitmap filters. Analogue signal charts beside distorted screenshots.

Precision vs. perception.

A zine made of both noise and signal. Both glitch and clarity.

[dewester]

Interesting Facts about Web Design

Website design and development is something that is entailed by every business these days to increase their brand visibility on the internet. Since the commercialization of web, it is interesting to see how rapidly web development and design has been leveling up in terms of the dynamic and interactive websites developed by web professionals.

But, there are a number of interesting facts about web design and development that you are oblivious to. Let’s take you on a journey to explore some of the unknown, yet interesting facts about web design and development:

1.) PHP wasn’t aimed to be used as a programming language by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was only developed to manage his personal website. The official version of PHP was then released in 1997 after many days of hard work and beta testing.

2.) Amazon’s “Block View” was launched before Google’s “Street View”. Most of us are unaware that in 2004, Amazon launched a search engine, A9.com. Block View was commenced by the A9 team. It was like visual Yellow Pages, which would pair street-level photographs of stores and restaurants with their listings in Amazon dropped Block View in 2006, and Google didn’t start Street View until 2007.

3.) The dark ages of web design (1989) Initially, web design was made by symbols and tabulation i.e. Tab key. It was called Dark Age since the screens were pitch black and only a few monochrome pixels existed therein.

4.) The first accessible browser for the World Wide Web was the line-mode browser launched in 1992.

5.) HTML was the language that Tim Berners-Lee used to create the first ever webpage.

6.) The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. Presently, it serves as a historic site.

7.) Google actually began as a research project in 1996 by founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin who were both studying at Stanford University California. In their research project, they planned to make a search engine that ranked websites as per the number of websites connected to that website.

8.) Photoshop wasn’t the first choice name for the design software. Its co-founder Thomas Knoll wanted to name it ImagePro. But the name was already taken for copyright so he went for Photoshop which was bought by Adobe on September 1989 which changed everything about Photoshop. Today, it has about 10 million users worldwide. Here’s a fun fact — the first Photoshopped image was of Thomas’s wife, on the beach, taken from a trip to the Hawaiian Islands.

9.) 48% of people referred to a website’s design as the first factor in deciding the credibility of a business. People usually stay on a website for 10 seconds and if the website doesn’t aesthetically appeal them, they, at times, leave the site before 10 seconds also.

10.) In the beginning, Amazon started as one application talking to a back end. It was written in C++.

11.) Audi.com was the first responsive website to be launched in late 2001.

12.) Design plays an important role in sales and conversion too. You can increase the conversion of the paid product by 102.5% by removing stuff and adding a picture. — SignalvNoise

13.) JAVA WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT DISCOVERY! James Gosling and his team were working at Sun Labs, around 1992. They were building a set-top box and started by “cleaning up” C++ which subsequently led to a new language and runtime which was named Oak at that time and later renamed to Java.

14.) Have you ever wondered how different colors can represent the personality of your website? From web design’s perspective, white yellow and pink are perceived as sincere and pure, red, orange and yellow induce energy and excitement whereas brown and blue show competence.

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[ludwinas]

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a lot of people in software development struggle with mental-health issues. I think a significant portion of these struggles stem from a core lack of meaning in our work. And the cognitive dissonance that arise from thinking about our industry almost exclusively in these rational, market-based terms. I think it’s why so many startups in technology are so eager to boast about how serious and important their mission is. Even if it’s evidently not so. They’re trying to counterweight and compensate for the actual loss of meaning and purpose that a lot of us suffer under either periodically or chronically. “We’re on a mission to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working” – Dropbox For fuck’s sake, Dropbox. You host files. You make the files appear on all my computers. I like Dropbox. I use Dropbox. I PAY FOR DROPBOX. But it is not “unleashing” my “creativity” in any meaningful sense of either of those words. It stores my files. It’s literally a filing company. Do you think filing cabinet companies of yesteryear bragged about unleashing the creative capacity of the whole fucking world? Of course they didn’t! That would have gotten you laughed out of church.

Open source beyond the market - Signal v. Noise

[auxesisinfotech]

Interesting Facts About Web Design And Development That Will Leave You Astonished

Website design and development is something that is entailed by every business these days to increase their brand visibility on the internet. Since the commercialization of web, it is interesting to see how rapidly web development and design has been leveling up in terms of the dynamic and interactive websites developed by web professionals.

But, there are a number of interesting facts about web design and development that you are oblivious to. Let’s take you on a journey to explore some of the unknown, yet interesting facts about web design and development:

1.) PHP wasn’t aimed to be used as a programming language by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was only developed to manage his personal website. The official version of PHP was then released in 1997 after many days of hard work and beta testing.

2.) Amazon’s "Block View" was launched before Google’s "Street View". Most of us are unaware that in 2004, Amazon launched a search engine, A9.com. Block View was commenced by the A9 team. It was like visual Yellow Pages, which would pair street-level photographs of stores and restaurants with their listings in Amazon dropped Block View in 2006, and Google didn't start Street View until 2007.

3.) The dark ages of web design (1989) Initially, web design was made by symbols and tabulation i.e. Tab key. It was called Dark Age since the screens were pitch black and only a few monochrome pixels existed therein.

4.) The first accessible browser for the World Wide Web was the line-mode browser launched in 1992.

5.) HTML was the language that Tim Berners-Lee used to create the first ever webpage.

6.) The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. Presently, it serves as a historic site.

7.) Google actually began as a research project in 1996 by founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin who were both studying at Stanford University California. In their research project, they planned to make a search engine that ranked websites as per the number of websites connected to that website.

8.) Photoshop wasn’t the first choice name for the design software. Its co-founder Thomas Knoll wanted to name it ImagePro. But the name was already taken for copyright so he went for Photoshop which was bought by Adobe on September 1989 which changed everything about Photoshop. Today, it has about 10 million users worldwide. Here’s a fun fact - the first Photoshopped image was of Thomas’s wife, on the beach, taken from a trip to the Hawaiian Islands.

9.) 48% of people referred to a website’s design as the first factor in deciding the credibility of a business. People usually stay on a website for 10 seconds and if the website doesn’t aesthetically appeal them, they, at times, leave the site before 10 seconds also.

10.) In the beginning, Amazon started as one application talking to a back end. It was written in C++.

11.) Audi.com was the first responsive website to be launched in late 2001.

12.) Design plays an important role in sales and conversion too. You can increase the conversion of the paid product by 102.5% by removing stuff and adding a picture. – SignalvNoise

13.) JAVA WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT DISCOVERY! James Gosling and his team were working at Sun Labs, around 1992. They were building a set-top box and started by "cleaning up" C++ which subsequently led to a new language and runtime which was named Oak at that time and later renamed to Java.

14.) Have you ever wondered how different colors can represent the personality of your website?   From web design’s perspective, white yellow and pink are perceived as sincere and pure, red, orange and yellow induce energy and excitement whereas brown and blue show competence.

15.) The first access to the mobile web was commercially offered in Finland at the end of 1996 on the Nokia 9000 Communicator phone via the Sonera and Radiolinja networks. This was access to the real internet. The first commercial launch of a mobile-specific browser-based web service was in 1999 in Japan when i-mode was launched by NTT DoCoMo. (Source: Wikipedia)

[saltnpepper30s]

"How to have an honest one-on-one with an employee" by @cjlew23 via #SignalvNoise http://ift.tt/2nokz93 https://t.co/3jkMhfdOpx

"How to have an honest one-on-one with an employee" by @cjlew23 via #SignalvNoise https://t.co/lf9dMndfX9 #leadership #ceo #management http://pic.twitter.com/cBxah8gWXf

— Matt Dunsmoor (@mattdunsmoor) March 31, 2017

via Twitter https://twitter.com/mattdunsmoor March 31, 2017 at 03:06PM

[randis]

Интернет-ресурсы для тех, кто хочет самостоятельно изучать английский язык 🌌

ЧАСТЬ 1: 🗓 Аудирование Ororo.tv — фильмы и сериалы на английском со встроенным переводчиком. Show-English — фильмы, сериалы и клипы на английском языке со встроенным переводчиком. Hamatata — сериалы и фильмы на английском с субтитрами. Субтитры можно переводить. Bbc.co.uk/radio — радио BBC, можно выбрать интересующую программу или жанр. Begin-English.ru/radio — основные радиостанции Англии и США на английском языке. Learnenglish.Britishcouncil — огромное количество подкастов и не только. Teacherluke — еще один ресурс с подкастами на различные темы. PlayPhrase — здесь можно найти кадры из сериалов и фильмов по заданной фразе. LyricsTraining — сайт, на котором можно учить иностранные языки мето��ом «караоке». SpotlightEnglish — ежедневная 15-минутная радиопрограмма для изучения английского. PopcornTime — сервис для просмотра видео с субтитрами или без. EnglishCentral — сервис для просмотра видео на английском языке. Можно выбрать тему и языковой уровень. Todayifoundout — рассказы о каком-нибудь занимательном факте на 5–10 минут. Itotd — то же самое, но чуть менее серьезно. Npr — американское радио, для многих передач в течение суток после эфира выкладываются транскрипты. Signalvnoise — большая коллекция подкастов на самые разные темы HomeEnglish — аудиоуроки радиостанции «Голос Америки» (Voice of America / VOA). Аудиоуроки представляют из себя аудиофайлы по различным темам от простого к сложному. TalkEnglish — большая подборка записанных фраз, диалогов. China232 — уроки английского в формате подкастов для продвинутого уровня. Librivox — аудиокниги на английском языке. Esl-Bits — аудиокниги на английском языке. Доступны текстовые варианты книг и выбор скорости чтения. 🗓 Чтение WordMemo — сайт дает возможность угадать смысл незнакомого слова. Отмеченные как незнакомые слова в тексте в дальнейшем переводятся не сразу, а сначала показывается контекст, в котором вы их встречали до этого. WordsFromText — на сайте можно смотреть значение незнакомых слов прямо в тексте. Также можно сюда добавлять свои тексты, из которых сервис выловит все используемые в тексте слова и разбросает их в виде словаря. GetParallelTranslations — сервис для чтения книг с возможностью добавлять новые слова в личный словарь. Newsinlevels — здесь можно почитать новости с уровнями для изучающих английский. ReadTheory — сайт для развития навыков чтения. AmericanLiterature — онлайн-библиотека американской литературы. Short-stories — сервис, на котором собраны самые разные английские рассказы. English-e-books — собрание электронных книг на английском языке. Книги разбиты по языковым уровням, доступны для скачивания в различных форматах и чтения онлайн. Do-you-speak — здесь множество коротких рассказов на английском языке, некоторые из них снабжены аудиоверсиями. Lingvo — на сайте публикуются тексты в английском и русском вариантах одновременно. 🗓 Грамматика English03 — полный разбор известного учебни��а Essential Grammar in Use («красный Мёрфи»). Alleng — подборка учебников по грамматике. Ego4u — изучение грамматики онлайн с упражнениями, тестами и правильными ответами. Study — онлайн-справочник по грамматике английского языка с тестами. MySpelling — портал для практики правописания, доступен без регистрации. Lang-8 — сайт, на котором носители могут проверить написанный вами текст (взамен нужно проверять тексты, написанные изучающими русский). MacmillanDictionaries — формы неправильных глаголов английского языка в формате интерактивной рулетки. IrregularVerbs — на этом сайте очень легко можно выучить английские неправильные глаголы. 🗓 Фонетика Am-En — фонетический анимированный справочник, созданный Университетом Айовы. Upodn — транскрипция американского английского языка с доступными примерами произношениями. Forvo — база произношений, здесь доступны разные языки и разные диалекты.

[agiletutors]

Google Home personal assistant sneaks in an ad, to user dismay. Revenue generation off the rails #agiletutors #signalvnoise #miamitutors #iot #madisonavenue http://ift.tt/2mAx7JX

[amywutoo]

The key, though, is to make sure I understand those solutions before I adopt them myself; if I just blindly apply their code, I’m not learning, I’m copying. I’ll never do myself any favors by taking shortcuts I don’t understand.

The most important thing to keep in mind is that learning how to program (or how to do anything at all, really) is not going to be an overnight task. Do not be tricked into thinking it will be easy. But just because it isn’t easy doesn’t mean it can’t be enjoyable! Decide it’s worth it, and it will be. In the end, the more you learn, the more you are empowered to accomplish.