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Experiment: Living Without A Home Internet Connection
I moved into a new apartment at the start of April, and decided to try an experiment: not having an internet connection. When I tell people that I don’t have internet, they assume that it’s because I…
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Are Apple 'stealing' Open Street Map data?
Update: Please also read the further information about this post — Traditionally, map applications on Apple platforms have made use of Google Maps. But iPhoto for iOS, launched today, ditches…
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Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists
Linked lists look harmless until they start detonating your game at runtime. This is the bug pattern far too many programmers miss.
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Introducing Instapaper 4.1 for iPhone, iPad
With so many Retina iPad updates, it looks like the App Review team is working overtime to approve apps quickly. In a very pleasant surprise, my 4.1 update was approved much more quickly than I expected. Thanks, App Review team!
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New study affirms that fewer copyright restrictions benefit the economy
A new study from Australia presents the latest evidence that loosening copyright restrictions not only enables free speech, but can improve an economy as well. The study, published by the Australian Digital Alliance, indicated that if Australia expanded copyright exceptions like fair use, along...
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Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
We strive to craft delightful experiences with simple utilitarian apps.
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The best things and stuff of 2012
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2012. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness
Kenji Crosland's Blog: Thoughts about personal growth, meditation and mindfulness, the creative process, career development, and technology.
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Meteor meets NoGPL
Meteor made a big splash this week. Check out their screencast if you haven’t already. For “real-time” web applications it really seems to simplify things a whole lot. The team behind it seems plenty experienced and they are building a business on Meteor by going with the GPL/commercial dual-license approach made…
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The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn
Update (1/22/2012): SOPA was indefinitely postponed by Rep. Lamar Smith on Friday (PIPA is likewise stalled). Rep. Smith also has another Internet rights bill on deck though: the The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which mandates that Internet services store customer data for up to 18…
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Datomic Free Edition
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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Google will start warning Chinese users about problematic search terms
Over the past couple years, we’ve had a lot of feedback that Google Search from mainland China can be inconsistent and unreliable. It depend...
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Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes
UPDATE: it appears that the pathetic cowards who perjured themselves filing these maliciously false copyright infringement claims have chick...
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$15,000 In Income From An EBook, How I Did It
Over less than 6 months I've made more than $15k in revenue from Clean Ruby . It's an unfinished book and I've been working to polish it up and get new content out to my customers but I wanted to take a step back and review where I am.