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When and why the IKEA effect causes people to overvalue their own ideas. Examples of organisational pitfalls of the IKEA effect. 4 ways you can defend against the IKEA effect: 1) Acknowledge your unconscious bias; 2) Spike rough prototypes; 3) Talk to customers; 4) Run growth experiments
What can software learn from Christopher Alexander? Many programmers know that the idea of design patterns comes from architecture, but Christopher Alexander's writing has much more for us than just the Gang of Four design patterns. This post is a somewhat assorted collection of ideas for better software and…
Occasionally, I share research papers proposing new deep learning approaches for tabular data on social media, which is typically an excellent discussion…
Movable type was not invented by Gutenberg but in China and later advanced in Korea, so why didn't Asia have a printing revolution?
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In 1995 Netscape partnered with Sun Microsystems to create interactive websites . Famously Brendan Eich spent only 10 days to create the first version of JavaScript - a dynamic programming language with a roughly syntactic lineage from Sun’s Java language. As a result of this partnership Sun held the trademark…
The perils of remaining neutral on a global scale: fanning the flames and selling the extinguisher.
Dave Farley and Allen Holub are two people that I respect hugely when it comes to Software Development. I’ve been following them on twitter for quite a while, and am always taken in about their takes on driving continuous delivery and “lowercase agile” forward. So when both came together for Dave’s Engineering Room…
A story post about the time a Stripe account I used years ago had thousands of pounds worth of unexpected payments flood in.
Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.
I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking about felons. Today's guest is Rick Wolter. He's an iOS developer who served 18 years in prison for second degree murder. Rick killed somebody and for some that's all…
People who say “science is political” usually aren’t just stating facts - they’re trying to push something on you. Don’t let them
While reading up on architecture in Japan recently, I came across a technology that I hadn’t heard of before: the Ene-Farm. It’s a domestic energy system that is being used in Japan and…
At long last revealed.
A detailed primer on Roaring bitmaps explaining what they are, how they're different from traditional bitmaps, and how they work internally.
Probabilities vs. the real world when it comes to big money decisions.
A technical recruiter, having discovered that that the ways of Unix hackers were strange to him, sought an audience with Master Foo to learn more about the Way. Master Foo met the recruiter in the HR offices of a large firm.
In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
If you’re just interested in the code, here it is.
SQLite: Past, Present, and Future is a newly published paper authored by Kevin P. Gaffney, Martin Prammer and Jignesh M. Patel from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and D. Richard Hipp, …
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How macOS now has anti-malware scanners checking your Mac automatically many times each day for the most frequent malware.
Ever wondered how bank branches work at a nuts-and-bolts level? Let's dig into the logic and economics of them.
