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The State of Apple's Developer Documentation
It appears that most of the old iOS conceptual documents have been moved to the documentation archive and are now unsupported.
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I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
Not too long ago, I made a living working as a contractor where I would hop from project to project. Some were short term where I would work for a week and quickly deliver my service. Others lasted a
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A Report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting
I don't like AMP. I think that Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages are a bad idea, poorly executed, and almost-certainly anti-competitive. So, I decided to join the AC (Advisory Committee) for AMP. I don't want them surrounded with sycophants and yes-men. A few weeks ago, a bunch of the AC met in London for our first…
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Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
Some really great software developers have been passed...
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Free Solo and Economic Growth
The references to Gutenberg reminds me of a discussion in Simon Winchester's fascinating book "The Man Who Loved China". There the author points out that the first printed book occurred in China about 500 years before Gutenberg. The question posed by Winchester's "Man" (Joseph Needham) was why, with such a lead…
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Cooking as a Service
This tweet made me think a lot: First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long time, and it’s going to keep happening. I th…
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Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet
Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned.
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Google Fights Back
At Google I/O, Google was the opposite of defensive: the company set out to make the case that its approach made for better products that makes people’s lives better
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Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild
See the ad for ebay at the top of the results? Not particularly interesting, right?…
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The Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution Is Vanishing (2015)
(Note: although I originally wrote this as a stand-alone post, it may make sense to think of it as Part Two of a series, beginning with The Rise of the Access Economy.) There’s a classic exercise…
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Starting a Business with a Co-Founder: Economics and Control
Discuss these two things before the business makes money. Make decisions on the important, specific issues raised by this post.
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Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
Today Eclipse Foundation’s president Mike Milinkovic blogged about the final result of the confidential trademark negotiations between Oracle and the Eclipse Foundation. As we remember, Oracl…
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How pharmaceutical industry financial modelers think about rare diseases
How does industry decide whether curing your disease would be profitable, and how can you convince them it will be?
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My Billion Dollar Mistake
At my last company, KISSmetrics, I made a mistake that I truly believe lost me a billion dollar opportunity. It’s not something I’m proud of, and it’s one of the main reasons I’m now obsessed with building products the right way. I wrote the painful details of exactly what happened so you don’t have to make the same…
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Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007)
I once thought I had traveled a unique career path. Graduating from college with a degree in computer engineering and electrical engineering I was on fire to be a manager. My dad had worked for the same electrical contractor for 30-something years and I knew everyone from the Chairman of the Board d
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Smoke and Mirrors: How Snap and Pinterest Hide User Attrition
Social media companies today are using smoke and mirrors to hide an important key metric. I’m going to pick on Pinterest first because the social media company recently...
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I Sell Onions on the Internet
Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he ... Read more
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Is everything an MLM
Last week, I linked to a NYT article about the spread of CorePower Yoga: how its business model is contingent upon enrolling thousands in expensive “teacher training” courses, even though there’s already a surfeit of teachers out there.
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Mathematica Version 12 Released
New functionality in Wolfram Language 12 and Mathematica covers: ComplexPlot3D, computation with uncertainty, polygon operations, polyhedra, Euclidean geometry, AxiomaticTheory, NBodySimulation, machine learning superfunctions, neural nets, computing with images, SpeechRecognize, AudioIdentify, natural language…
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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.