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How a WWII Jet Fighter Was Designed in 150 days & shipped in six months
Quick prototypes. Small teams. No bureaucracy. No lengthy documentation. Limited meetings. A Skunk Works approach to design. They were all essential to Clarence (“Kelly”) Johnson’s process for creating some of the most remarkable planes of the past century, including the Lockheed …
Coming Home to Vim
I'm a programmer. I work with text files for 6-12 hours every weekday so I care about the text editor I use. If switching to a different editor can increase my efficiency by even 10% it would save a good chunk of my time and let me get back to making cool things.
Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist
Over the last year, I’ve become a heavy user of Scribd. I have posted over 100 documents to Scribd that have generated over 100,000 reads. Posting to Scribd is fast and easy–much easier than using my extremely cumbersome web hosting...
Blind user of the iPhone
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Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness
Microsoft have released a beta of Internet Explorer 9. This much is good, they’re back in the game. The engine supports modern standards—and for the first time Internet Explorer now renders this website (which has been HTML5 since early 2008 ).
Vaccines don't cause autism
The debate is essentially over and the final word is in: vaccines do not cause autism. The results of a rigorous study conducted over several years were just an
Then Welcome To Android
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