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Whose bug is this anyway?
Some bugs look so impossible you start blaming the OS, the tools, or the compiler. This post digs into three of them.
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How I Made $600K in the iOS Education Market (2012 update)
It’s been more than one year that I wrote “ How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market ” post which has been well received by the indie...
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The Gift
It's often said that you should live every day as though it's your last. That always seemed a little impractical to me. But when my brothe...
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Humble Beginnings
t's easy to forget the humble beginnings that great companies start from, and it's tempting to gloss over the fact that companies, now on the global stage, were once small projects with ugly designs and hacky implementations. Rarely do people set out with grand visions to create a
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The Gift of Death
Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.
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Speeding up HTTP with minimal protocol changes
As SPDY works its way through IETF ratification I began wondering whether it was really necessary to add a complex, binary protocol to th...
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The Fast Fourier Transform
It’s often said that the Age of Information began on August 17, 1964 with the publication of Cooley and Tukey’s paper, “An Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier…
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What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea
I'm a full stack web developer with a preference for Python. I also enjoy discussions on entrepreneurship and software marketing.
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Thinking the unthinkable
mental health, mental illness, parenting, writing, online courses
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Building my Own Laptop
We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me.
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The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
The Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud is a startup self-incubator. Six successful applicants will receive a modest amount of funding and as much publicity as I can provide for their sustainable and useful business idea.
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Why we still love board games
In a sprawling convention centre in Essen, western Germany, the busiest day in the German board games calendar – Saturday at “Spiel” – is about to begin. Hall after hall of stands are piled high wi…
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The Web We Lost
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
Ever since learning about the Rubber Room and Blast Room deep below launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center I had been hopeful that I would one day get to photograph this mysterious remnant of the A…
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The Mathematical Hacker
The programming profession is blessed with a number of gifted essayists. Today I will pick on three of my favorites — Eric Raymond, Paul Graham, and Steve Yegge — because they all seem to disagree about why (and whether) mathematics is relevant to the practicing programmer. Their attitudes might be summarized as:
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Mona Lisa in 50 polygons, using a genetic algorithm (2008)
This weekend I decided to play around a bit with genetic programming and put evolution to the test, the test of fine art 🙂
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The Minimum Wage Machine
Minimum Wage Machine (Work in Progress) (2008-2010) Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies. (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches) The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 4.00 seconds, for $9.00 an hour, or NY…
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Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript
Web performance monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the speed, uptime, and overall performance of a website to ensure an optimal user experience.