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Where the fuck is my Ari Gold?
Software development is its own unique thing. It is not a profession that can be directly equated to any other. This tends to frustrate people who try to understand the profession. This is true even for software developers, who would like an established model to follow. This is why you see some software companies run…
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The App Store Nightmare
Edit: The specific error message I was getting is a bug in the App Store relating to disabling SpotLight on your Mac. Once this was fixed, apps from my Swedish region again started updating on the …
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Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is.
Disclaimer: I don't work for the Windows Team. I installed Windows 8 on my home ...
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The Tim Cook memo: line by line
Apple just won in their case against Samsung and Tim Cook has posted a memo to Apple employees. I’m not one of those but I feel pretty upset about the stupidity of this lawsuit, the verdict and patents in general. Here is the text of the memo with my comments: Today was an important day for Apple and for innovators…
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A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer
My name is Diane and Ken is my Life-Partner. I will probably be posting for him from time to time due to his eyes not be...
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Mountain Lion quietly includes app blacklist and security restrictions
Today I went to launch VMware 4.1.0 on my OS X 10.8.1 Mac and was met with this surprising refusal to open:
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Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y
PLEASE, if you do use Bootstrap for just about everything be courteous to your audience and change up some of the basic variables so it doesn’t look all…
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Backbone has made me a better programmer
Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.
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Why you should not be displaying relative dates.
Every time I see a web app display a date as "30 minutes ago" I cringe a little. This was cute 10 years ago when rapid publishing on the web was new, but there are a number of problems with this.
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Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby
"How two ugly parents (mathematically) can make a beautiful baby"
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The innovations of Internet Explorer
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr
As with Instagram, the change does not seem to have affected sharing outwards, but will impede users’ ability to follow friends that they may know from Twitter. This is part of Twitter turning the screws on sharing information about the users of its network out to other services like Instagram (and by extension…
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Bill Thurston has died
Bill Thurston, who made fundamental contributions to our understanding of low-dimensional manifolds and related structures, died on Tuesday, aged 65. Perhaps Thurston’s best known achievement…
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'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live
Today we're launching Capture the Flag: Web Edition, a security contest where you can try your hand at discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in mock web applications.
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