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Droid: iDon't Understand Search Engine Optimization
I've been waiting for Verizon to announce a competitive smart phone for a quite some time. With a barely functional, 3 year old Motorola Q you better be...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,923 posts.
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What every developer should know about time
How to handle time is one of those tricky issues where it is all too easy to get it wrong. So let's dive in.
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It's All Just Programming
My previous agile theme, on organic planning , has implications for how we design and implement solutions -- for making decisions that "stick". Derek Sivers recently used an apocryphal story about walkways to express a similar principle:
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Eventbug Watch JavaScript events finally in Firebug
More musings on software development
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How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data is King)
Well, it was really more like 17 weeks, but who's counting. ;) First, I'll give the punchline.
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Figuring out what your company is all about
What is your company about? Recently I got inspired by Kathy Sierra, whose blog Creating Passionate Users and Head First series of books revolutionized developer education. She kept saying the same…
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Skype Open Source "in the nearest future"
Lorsque le dernier Skype est sorti, il n'y avait pas de RPM Mandriva et j'ai donc contacté Skype pour essayer d'obtenir un RPM spécifique à Mandriva comme ils l'ont déjà proposé par le passé.
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Feynman, Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering
On January 28th, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger was launched at 11:38am on the 6-day STS-51-L mission. During the first 3 seconds of liftoff the o-rings (o-shaped loops used to connect two cylinders
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The Shocking State of Contemporary "Mathematics"
I just came back from attending the 1052nd AMS (sectional) meeting at Penn State, last weekend, and realized that the Kingdom of Mathematics is dead. Instead we have a disjoint union of narrow specialties , and people who know everything about nothing, and nothing about anything (except their very narrow acre). Not…
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You Aren't Average
Do you ever think that SEO is "obvious"? "Common knowledge"? "Pretty easy, really"?
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The most important question to ask before taking seed money (from VCs)
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Compleat: Programmable bash completion for human beings
Compleat is an easy, declarative way to add smart tab completion for any shell command. It’s written in Haskell but requires no programming knowledge. See the GitHub repository for a quick description, or read on for a complete explanation.
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