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Bigger monitors

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:30:47 -0400

“Places that value their people consider equipment expenses small compared to the productivity (and happiness) of their people.”

So true.

http://bit.ly/KFG5iR

I'm at Houses of Parliament!

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:17:11 -0400

http://4sq.com/5yFSFK

Front End Performance Case Study: GitHub

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:13:47 -0400

http://bit.ly/KkOvYP

Cook something or get out of the kitchen

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:13:43 -0400

http://bit.ly/Jdmx4J

You Are Probably Not a Hacker

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:29:00 -0400

A thought provoking post about what it means to be a _real_ hacker. In short: it’s your life, an obsession:

http://bch.me/J5tU02

Content focused design

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:13:59 -0400

“The central goal of our design is to put the content first and get out of away. For example, we recently removed the traditional top navigation bar from our web and mobile products to give more vertical space for content.”

Check out the first screenshots to see how well this works:

http://bit.ly/JadqTw

Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:44:00 -0400

http://bit.ly/I4rn3j

Continuous deployment with Heroku

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:43:00 -0400

This would be great if only Heroku had rolling deploys with little impact on the end user. But it doesn’t.. Yet. http://bit.ly/IYqryc

No I won't sign your NDA, here's why.

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:30:27 -0400

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How Not To Sort By Average Rating

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:31:06 -0400

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Global min_messages

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:45:00 -0400

When running Rails apps with Postgres in development mode, you might notice output like this when running tests:

NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "users_id_seq" for serial column "users.id" NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "users_pkey" for table "users"

Here is the solution

Thought this was impossible? IP address failover across cloud/provider networks

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:30:58 -0400

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UI responsiveness: OSX vs. Windows, iOS vs. Android

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:46:02 -0400

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What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:46:01 -0400

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Puma (Mongrel/WEBrick Alternative for Ruby by EngineYard) Hits 1.0

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:30:52 -0400

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Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:31:01 -0400

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Kickstarter: rails.app

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:15:00 -0400

Let’s make Rails on OS X easy again!

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Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:15:00 -0400

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Want To Hook Users? Drive Them Crazy.

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:15:00 -0400

Note: This post originally appeared in TechCrunch

Here’s the gist:

Rather than using conventional feedback loops, companies today are employing a new, stronger habit-forming mechanism to hook users—the desire engine.
At the heart of the desire engine is a variable schedule of rewards: a powerful hack that focuses attention, provides pleasure, and infatuates the mind.
Our search for variable rewards is about an endless desire for three types of rewards: those of the tribe, the hunt and the self.

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Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literally

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:15:37 -0400

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