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How to submit an app to Apple’s App Store when it uses encryption
Carousel Apps was the company behind Watu, the application for temporary staffing agencies. It was co-founded by Julian Johnson and Pablo Fernandez. They both since have moved to other things. Julian is working on many projects, but his main one is improving education and quality of life for children in Africa which…
Overcoming Intuition in Programming
In a [series of experiments](http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/nicholas.epley/alteretal.pdf), researchers set out to discover the relationship between difficulty or
New string formatting in Python
For a language that claims to focus on one right way to handle most situations, string formatting in Python is quite a buffet and it’s getting more diverse by the year. Starting with Python 3.6 we now have three ways to format strings (outside of simple concatinating things or using string.Template ):
IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
If you've already tried IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP announced last week, you'll be glad to know that we've just released a new build.With this build IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates
The sad graph of software death
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Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth
In 2007 I wrote about using PNGout to produce amazingly small PNG images. I still refer to this topic frequently, as seven years later, the average PNG I encounter on the Internet is very unlikely to be optimized. For example, consider this recent Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon. Saved directly from
The Same User Interface Mistakes Over and Over
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Where are we in the Python 3 transition?
The Kübler-Ross model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model] outlines the stages that one goes through in dealing with death: 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance This is sometimes referred to as the five stages of grief.Some have jokingly called
Clojure 2015 Year in Review
Another year, another year-in-review post. To be honest, I feel like any attempt I make to summarize what happened in the Clojure world this year is largely moot. Clojure has gotten so big, so — dare I say it? — mainstream that I can’t even begin to keep up with all the interesting things that are happening. But it’s…