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The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits
On Friday, I spoke at dConstruct in Brighton. Huge thanks to everyone at Clearleft , and everyone who came, for a really great time.
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How I Used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to Validate my Startup Idea
I am a big fan this whole “minimum viable product” philosophy. I’ve probably adapted it to my own interpretation, but basically I look at it as bootstrapping on crack, get your pr…
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Boost your productivity with Conkeror, Instapaper and a Kindle
A couple of days ago, Lau Jensen wrote that he was using conkeror to surf …
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Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
Back when I reviewed Peter Siebel’s fascinating book of programmer interviews, Coders at Work, Erik Anderson suggested in a comment that I might also enjoy its precursor Programmers at Work […
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Rotating Quine
My Quines are sometimes specialized for Japanese. But to attend RubyConf, I should write "global" Quines. v=0000;eval$s=%q~d=%!^Lcf<LK8, ...
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Programmer feel-good quote
From a bit to a few hundred megabytes, from a microsecond to a half an hour of computing confronts us with completely baffling ratio of 10 9...
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DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
DOS on DOPE is the modern MVC framework built on the awesome power of Batch scripts .
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The Four Levels of Social Entrapment
One of the most difficult aspects of interacting with other people is figuring out how to extricate yourself from a conversation without app...
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Why the iPhone will fail (2007)
The forthcoming (June 29) release of the Apple iPhone is going to be a bigger marketing flop than Ishtar and Waterworld (dating myself aga...
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Let's just say it: 3D TV is a joke.
(At Panasonic's IFA booth: People using 3D glasses and monitors to watch the live women in front of their faces.) If you determine the big story here at the IFA tech show here in Berlin based on raw square footage in the booths, there's no question what it is: 3D TV is everywhere. The massive boot
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ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack
Berkeley Sockets (BSD) are the de facto API for all network communication. With roots from the early 1980's, it is the original implementation of the TCP/IP suite, and arguably one of the most widely supported and critical components of any operating system today. BSD sockets that most of us are familiar with are…
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Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung
Hi 👋 you're reading a pretty old post! I started writing on here back in high school and this page may not reflect my current views. Recommend checking out related articles and categories down below, I've likely published more recent thoughts on this topic.
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TCCBOOT: TinyCC Boot Loader
TCCBOOT is only 138 KB big (uncompressed code) and it can compile and run a typical Linux kernel in less than 15 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4.
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Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey
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Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours
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