At the school I teach at, we’ve been using Lucidchart to create our website wireframes. What caught my eye today is that they’ve launched a tight Google Drive integration With Lucidchart installed for Google Drive, you can: Create, open and share Lucidchart documents from Drive View, open and edit Microsoft Visio documents from Drive Export …
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Google Drive’s Privacy Policy
Google Drive’s Privacy Policy compared to the other players out there. In short, Google is giving itself all the permissions it could possibly need to run all of Google services, with the specific limitations that it doesn’t own anything you upload and it can’t use your data beyond running its services. Also: Dropbox’s language is …
Man DDOSes his S3 bucket by adding its images in a Google Spreadsheet
I login to my AWS account to see what is going on, and I see this: $1177.76 in usage charges! A thousand, one hundred, seventy seven dollars. Out of which $1065 in outgoing bandwidth transfer costs. The scary part: 8.8 Terabytes of outgoing traffic! Tera. Not Giga. Terabytes. To make things worse, I realized that …
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Google Drive
As expected, the service will offer 5GB of storage space for documents, videos, photos, PDFs and other files, and Google Docs is built-in to the service. Users will be able to upgrade to 25GB of space for $2.49 a month, 100GB for $4.99 a month, or 1TB for $49.99 a month, and upgrading to a …
Inventing on Principle
Paper Prototyping
The Box
CSS/JS 3D Image Transitions
Valve Handbook for New Employees
So you’ve gone through the interview process, you’ve signed the contracts, and you’re finally here at Valve. Congratulations, and welcome. Valve has an incredibly unique way of doing things that will make this the greatest professional experience of your life, but it can take some getting used to. This book was written by people who’ve …
Thomas Elliot is famous!
Last Saturday we went to a popular mall in Virginia and conducted a bit of a social experiment. Using his real first and middle name, and with the help of just a few staged people, tons of people believed Thomas was a famous actor, including mall security. The mall assigned us a security detail who …