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It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
As a senior developer I get asked sometimes if constant change of technology is making me, well, obsolete. Personally I don't have problem w...
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Why developers should be force-fed state machines
This post is meant to create more awareness about state machines in the web application developer crowd. If you don’t know what state machines are, please read up on them first. Wikipedia is a good place to start, as always. State machines are awesome The main reason for using state machines is to help the design…
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When hard books disappear
[Translations: Japanese] Hard books are on their way to extinction. Biologists maintain a concept call a “type specimen.” Every species of living organism has many individuals of noticeable variety. There are millions of Robins in America, for instance, all of … Continue reading →
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Aha Moments When Learning Git
Git is a fast, flexible but challenging distributed version control system. Before jumping in: Along with a book, tutorial and cheatsheet, here are the…
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Tower Bridge bot killed by Twitter, replaced with marketing
I got an email today, a bit sad that the bot I made to comment on Tower Bridge's state had disappeared.
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How to become a proficient Python programmer
Update: This is a re-post of an older blog post of mine. Originally it was posted on my personal blog where it has >30 comments and >20’000 views over the last years. I’m deprecating my personal blog in favor of this 200OK blog.
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Idea to Paying Customers in 7 Weeks: How We Did It
Learn how paying customers in 7 days became an idea. This post is an overview the idea to paying customers in 7 weeks and how we did it.
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Things that amuse me
I think the only serious gripe is what you call your biggest gripe, and I must say that I envy this in Haskell. As you know, in the eager world we tend to write out our own recursive functions, rather than use combinators. You give part of the reason; the other part is that deforestation and related transformations…
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Connecticut Killed Affiliate Marketing with Amazon.com
Connecticut killed affliate marketing with Amazon.com I just opened my amazon account and read this: Account Closed This account is closed and will not generate referrals. Access to this site is for historical purposes only. When I checked my email, I had this letter from Amazon.com: Hello, For well over a decade, the…
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Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users
I find myself saying this quite often these days to entrepreneurs and their product teams. It's something that I've noticed working with leading social platforms like Etsy, Twitter, Tumblr, and others. Services such as these have a large number of their users accessing the service regularly on a logged out basis. I…
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How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper
There’s a provincial general election here in Prince Edward Island on October 3 this fall, and over the past month here at Reinvented we’ve been ramping up the technology side of the Elections PEI operation as planning and preparation for the election is now in full swing.
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Taking Cold Showers
This post is about why you might want to start taking cold showers. I’ve been doing it for over a month now and I really like it. The seed was planted in my mind afterreading an article about it [http://gettingstronger.org/2010/03/cold-showers/]on a blog
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Coding tricks I learnt at Apple
When I worked at the Apple Online Store , we would never load test the live website. There was rarely a need. However, it was always an inte...
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How I doubled the price of my software product and sold ten times as many copies
A bootstrapped developer doubled his software price from $9.99 to $19.99 and saw sales increase tenfold — proving that customers still equate cost with quality.
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Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.
Fill this in yourself.
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Apple’s Magnum Opus
It’s been a few days now since Apple’s epic WWDC keynote, I have been sick everyday since that keynote so I have been passively following all the reactions from my RSS reader. Here̵…
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Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen
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