No I won’t sign your NDA, here’s why.
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Finds by @samoli
Ruby/Rails developer and designer in London.
Here are articles that I've read and found interesting, mostly from places like Hacker News and a collection of RSS feeds that I follow. It's mainly here for my own records but you're welcome to follow me.
I'm starring items I find in Google Reader (using Byline) and using ifttt to publish them to Tumblr. This way I can read and reblog articles on the tube (London underground) where there is no Internet connection.
You can also subscribe via email if you like
N.B I'm investigating why the full contents of the post are sometimes posted. They are intended to be links but sometimes the whole post comes through. Also I'd like a way to add a note to the post but since Google removed most of the useful features in reader, I'm not sure how I can do this.
— @samoli on Twitter.
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Global min_messages
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" Thought this was impossible? IP address failover across cloud/provider networks
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Puma (Mongrel/WEBrick Alternative for Ruby by EngineYard) Hits 1.0
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Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later
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Want To Hook Users? Drive Them Crazy.
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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