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The Pragmatic Programmers release an online magazine
Plus: Welcome to PragPub, Up Front, Choice Bits, How Do We…?, Swaine’s World, The Quiz, Shady Illuminations, Calendar. See below for more.
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Erik Naggum, 1965-2009 RIP
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Why I haven’t been blogging as much
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Language Log » Orwell's Liar
January 10, 2009 @ 1:19 am · Filed by David Beaver under Peeving , Prescriptivist poppycock
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There's always time to launch your dream
“I’d love to start a company / become a great programmer / write an awesome blog, but there’s just not enough time in the day!” Bullshit. There’s always enough time, you’re just not spending it right. Now that’s some tough love, but I’m sick and ti…
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The Death Of Dynamic Range
1983 - Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife (A&M CD-3288) This represents the earliest stage of CD audio mastering techniques. One of the big attractions of the CD format was its very wide dynamic range and absence of surface noise, so the first generation of CDs that were released made full use of this. The CD's digital…
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TED 2009: How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air
With only three varieties of plants, we can “grow our own fresh air” indoors, to keep us healthy. Learn more about these plants.
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My visit to American Apparel
Ed: This is a guest post by Kevin Meyer, the President of Factory Strategies Group, which operates Superfactory. He also writes an excellent blog called Evolving Excellence. In this post, Kevin des…
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The Man Who Sold Hot Dogs
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What's your story? Why start Balsamiq?
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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch's famous Last Lecture, titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," was delivered in 2007 after a terminal cancer diagnosis and has since become a global phenomenon. A co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center, Pausch was known for his interdisciplinary work and for creating the ALICE…
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Early Retirement is a False Idol
The classic argument for enduring 80 to 100 hour work weeks for years on end — sacrificing relationships, hobbies, and anything else that doesn’t progress the mission — is that at the end of the rainbow lies early retirement. The reward for risking it all on a crazy startup idea. …
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Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs. N…
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Standing versus Sitting
Almost two months ago, I decided that I wanted to try working standing up, rather than sitting down. When sitting in my comfortable, reclining office chair, my posture was terrible, my attention span was narrowing rapidly, and I was constantly battling fatigue. After looking around online a bit, it…
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Quit your job
Today I saw a great special on Fine Living TV called Quit Your Job!. Five little companies were featured to showcase the owner’s decision to leave their daily rat dace of a life behind and dive into the uncertainty of following their dreams. Here’s the kicker: These 5 companies are some…
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Optimize for now!
One of the easiest ways to shoot down good ideas, interesting policies, or worthwhile experiments is by injecting the assumption that whatever you’re doing needs to last forever and ever. Which means that the concept has to scale from 5 people to 5,000 or from 100,000 users to 100 million. Th…
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E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD 1036)
The second part of this talk pursues some of the scientific and educational consequences of the assumption that computers represent a radical novelty. In order to give this assumption clear contents, we have to be much more precise as to what we mean in this context by the adjective "radical". We shall do so in the…
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