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Thoughts on Growing Old
You spend the first part of your life trying to be old, trying to convince everyone that you're older than you are, that you're just as good...
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14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
Hey gang, Lately a lot of young magicians have been asking me for advice, which has caused me to...
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How To Crash A Party
In college I would crash expensive parties (even got to hang with Elton John & Lance Armstrong) with a few tricks I developed. I demonstrate them inside:
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Books every self-taught computer scientist should read
There are three books that I believe that every self-taught computer scientist should read. These are books that I often recommend to smart junior developers that learned their knowledge by doing instead of schooling. These are books that will close the gap for people that fall into the category of ...
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I Have No Idea [Why Apple Featured My App]
In early December, 2011, I was both surprised and flattered to discover that Apple had named Halftone as one of the best photo apps in its App Store Rewind 2011 . Since then, I’ve received a lot of e-mail asking me how I did it. That is, what did I do to “get” Apple to pick Halftone? I don’t know what kind of response…
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Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
About a month ago I moved to Stockholm, Sweden and started working at Spotify . A month before starting I was asked about my preferred setup for working. Having used OS X for year as the primary operating system at work the choice was clear, I wanted to go back to Linux, in this case to Debian to be exact.
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It's 2012 and your kids have an iPhone - Do you know where they are? I do.
The strangest thing just happened. I'm sitting here in a hotel in New Zealand ...
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Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account
i dont really get it... did you actually create multiple account? did you redeem multiple adwords credit coupons? what exactly did you do? or were there just other people with the same idea so there were multiple adwords accounts advertising dropbox? if the latter: would it be possible to get other advertisers banned…
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A $5000 Chair
This the story of a black faux-leather chair, the kind you can buy at Walmart for $99, that ended up costing me five grand. Very early in the days of Distil, my partner Steve and I hooked up with t…
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