Image: Fire Cloud, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
The winter sun has served up some lovely sunsets on the rain-free days this week, check out this video that I made of some amazing fire clouds! :-)
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Talent Works analysed 6000+ applications across 118 industries and have found that applicants are as likely to get an interview when meeting 50% of the advertised job requirements as meeting 90% of the requirements. The also found that women who match at least 30% of the requirements have increasing chances of getting an interview.
Image: Yellow Stroke
Yellowstroke have a nice post on common icon design issues that are best avoided, such as complex, abstraction, imbalance and irrelevance.
Image: WCCFTech
Back in October 2018, Android discontinued support for nearby notifications because the feature was being used too much for spammy notifications. This is why marketers can't have nice things! :-p
Image: Date Science Heroes, Pablo Casas
Pablo Casa over at Data Science Heroes has a great soup to nuts post on self publishing a book with tips and links to resources.
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More platinum wisdom was delivered by Seth Godin in his blog this week when he talks about the perception of problems. If you are dealing with a deep water problem, like swimming in a deeper pool than normal, the effort needed to swim is the same as in a shallow pool. The same effort just a bigger landscape. However, if you usually surf 6 foot waves and try to surf 25 foot waves, a huge additional effort is needed in a similar landscape. Learning to tell the difference is important! :-)
Image: YouTube, The Scratch
Acoustic metal legends The Scratch are back with a class tune and wacky video! Cúnla is an adult interpretation of the ancient sean-nós song, with a large portion of The Scratch humour. :-) Check out the video premiering on GoldenPlec here.
Image: Twitter, YUXLOA
Saturday mornings in my childhood started off with a double bill of Adam West's Batman, which were great! At the time however, the true level of hilarity was lost on my child mind, and only now looking back on clips can I appreciate the true comic genius of the show. Case in point, this Twitter thread and the clips within, enjoy!
Modern television will never get a scene as absolutely perfect as this scene. pic.twitter.com/uhF6FCvCSG
— YUXLOA (@YUXLOA) January 28, 2019
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
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