December 2011
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The reason productivity improvements don't...
GTD, 18 minute plans, organized folders… none of them work as well as you’d like.
The reason is simple: you don’t want to get more done.
You’re afraid. Getting more done would mean exposing yourself to considerable risk, to crossing bridges, to putting things into the world. Which means failure.
The leap the lizard brain takes when confronting the opportunity is a...
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How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift
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AIDS vaccine wins approval
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37signals doesn’t like you sorting stuff. Are you...
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Let’s Build a Simple Video Game with JRuby: A...
Ruby isn’t known for its game development chops despite having a handful of interesting libraries suited to it. Java, on the other hand, has a thriving and popular game development scene flooded with powerful libraries, tutorials and forums. Can we drag some of Java’s thunder kicking and screaming over to the world of Ruby? Yep! - thanks to JRuby. Let’s run through the steps to...
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Ludum Dare for Rubyists: An Online 48 Hour Game...
Ludum Dare is an online accelerated game development event that focuses on regular 48 hour competitions. Think Rails Rumble but for games! It’s been around since 2002 but has had a big publicity boost recently due to the participation of Notch, the creator of the mind-bogglingly popular indie game Minecraft.
The next Ludum Dare contest is taking place this coming weekend between December...
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TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha
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Insulate yourself...
from anonymous angry people
Expose yourself to art you don’t yet understand
Precisely measure the results that are important to you
Stay blind to the metrics that don’t matter
Fail often
Ship
Lead, don’t manage so much
Seek out uncomfortable situations
Make an impact on the people who matter to you
Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
Copyedit less,...
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Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students
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Vim: revisited
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The key value store we ignored (Postgresql)
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What children's drawings look like when painted by...
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Spaniards prototype ARM-GPU hybrid supercomputer
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Infographic: What Tools Developers Actually Use
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Moving to Stripe: Fixing the Biggest Mistake I've...
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Announcing Amber.js
A little over a year ago, I got my first serious glimpse at SproutCore, the JavaScript framework Apple used to build MobileMe (now iCloud). At the time, I had worked extensively with jQuery and Rails on client-side projects, and I had never found the arguments for the “solutions for big apps” very compelling. At the time, most of the arguments (at least within the jQuery community) focused on...
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Great Software Requires Continuous Transgression
[W]hen you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or doing it in the same way as you have done it before, it is clear why professionalism is not enough. After all, what is required in our field, more than anything else, is continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure, and if you are...
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"Prototype.js and Mootools did not break the web"
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Quadcopters build a 6 meter tower
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Apple Pulls Match.com iOS App over External...
TechCrunch notes that Apple has removed online dating service Match.com’s iOS app from the App Store over violations of the company’s in-app subscription requirements. The Match.com app had allowed users to sign up for subscriptions to the service through an external link in the app, a mechanism that is no longer permitted by Apple as it has sought to drive usage of its in-app...
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Researcher shows how to "friend" anyone on...
If there’s any doubt how social networks have presented hackers with a wealth of social engineering tools, a Brazilian security researcher recently demonstrated how he could “friend” even allegedly more wary Facebook users in less than 24 hours. At the Silver Bullet security conference in São Paulo, UOLDiveo chief security officer Nelson Novaes Neto showed how he leveraged...