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Lord of the REPLs
While working on App Engine's new Java runtime , we realized that we were missing something important. Something the Python runtime already...
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World-Class Performers Don't Work - They Enjoy High Performance
Think of all of the things you 'have to' do right now. What would it look like if you took away the pressure and performance anxiety and maximized the fun?
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Matt Mullenweg's 12 Rules to Move from 1 User to 100k
Printer-Friendly Flyer One-Page Flyer (PDF) for your bulletin board. (Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader .)
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One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree
We were in a board meeting today and the founder/CEO made a comment about a deal he's working on and I said "well you learned that well in school." He smiled and said, "we didn't go to school" (meaning college). I didn't actually know that, but it did not surprise me. I have learned that […]
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Problems with TDD
If you have not yet read it, please read Maria Siniaalto's 15 page " Test-Driven Development: empirical body of evidence ." It summarizes the few empirical studies done to evaluate the effectiveness of TDD. In the conclusion you'll find:
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3 Rules of Database App Aging
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How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong
Over the weekend I’ve exchanged a few emails with my source, so that I can explain what happened.
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The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial
In Farmington, CT, in fact, the town my cat was named after. Oh yes. That's how much we love that place. Lukasz, Ashok, and Matt will be...
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SSD Streaming at Last.fm
This is the second in a series of posts from the Last.fm engineering team covering the geekier aspects of our recent Last.fm on Xbox LIVE launch. Part one (“The War Room”) is here .
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BSD For Linux Users
Your browser doesn't seem to support CSS , which this page uses for all styling. Don't be surprised if it looks kinda boring.
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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?
In my 21 years of startups I’ve had my ideas “stolen” twice. Once it almost mattered. This is about the time it didn’t. Worries from the garage One of the worries I hear from entrepreneurs (not ju…
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Heroku: Commercial Launch (YC W08)
When Adam, Orion, and I started Heroku two years ago, we had no idea how much new technology we would have to build to realize our vision of an instant...
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Closure. "I had the only farm capable of nuclear weapons design."
For those that know me, I’m kind of a “life is too short” kind of guy. I liked to fail fast, move on, and not look back. However, in catching up with the VP of Sales of Ardent last night, I was rem…
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PyPy Status Blog: First results of the JIT
Hi all, Just a quick note to tell you that we are progressing on the JIT front. Here are the running times of the richards benchmark on ...
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