September 2010 (View complete archive page)
- The transition to IP 6 will be painful
- Joys that endanger our identity
- Optimizing MySql
- MySql search has no way to describe a string as literal (as a word) - it stumbles on periods
- Linux memory management collides with MySql
- SilverPop will not support Google Chrome any time soon
- Women who post photos of their children, rather than themselves, on Facebook
- Why Unix survived
- People who hate Paul Krugman
- Atheists did better than most on a survey about religion
- Why is Microsoft giving up on its own platform and giving its users to WordPress.com?
- TechCrunch is a dipshit company says TechCrunch
- How wiki software goes downhill
- What Dorkbot needs
- Too contrarian
- Filesort invoked when ORDER BY clause used on a text field in MySql
- B-tree versus R-tree indexes for different searches in MySql
- Small fields speed lookup speed in MySql
- Are lots of queries faster in MySql than a big JOIN?
- The limits of MySql, and the possible advantages of PostGreSQL
- Pete Lacey's satire, The S stands for Simple
- Loneliness is contagious
- The USA loses high-end jobs
- Ron Conway denounces the attempted collusion among super angel investors
- Play music as you move from page to page
- Michael Arrington's track record
- What is wrong with .NET
- Facebook is not what worth its valuation
- Leiningen and Clojure
- Why is Wandisco investing in Subversion?
- Does this make a good impression?
- Is there an attempt at collusion among super angels?
- The problems in the medical industry are due to an obsolete professional culture
- Is the climate heating up for startups?
- Incanter is a Clojure-based, R-like platform for statistical computing and graphics
- Happy second thoughts about Emacs
- Setting up Clojure and Emacs
- Incoherent ranting in TechCrunch comments
- Things I dislike about the Symfony framework
- Clojure, Lisp and Emacs
- Ben and Mena Trott were not entrepreneurial types
- Are there any customers for your product?
- Can you do Ycombinator if you are over the age of 30?
- Michael Arrington claims he found several major angel investors engaged in illegal collusion
- Visionary customers
- Clojure macro tutorial
- The problem with reputation points, and other forms of game mechanics
- Being poor
- Linux kernel leaves open path to run script right before a process dumps core
- Skills atrophy after 20 years at one job
- What does it mean to be rich?
- Income inequality
- Freelancing is increasingly understood and accepted in the USA
- What do people want?
- Does anyone want co-founders on a startup?
- Reddit is friendly to hackers, Digg is not
- Bash history lets you go way, way back
- User feedback is good, but sometimes betrays a lack of confidence
- Groupon can bankrupt small businesses
- Steven Gary Blank: I hadn’t just lost a potential advisor I had lost an irreplaceable opportunity
- Income inequality
- Computers are coming to the people
- Color palettes
- What is an idealist?
- What exactly is a hero?
- Do web designers and programmers just stop caring after awhile?
- Why do we have last names?
- Thomas Watson was fired several times, then sentenced to jail
- 37 Signals strict attitude about features
- Why did the media promote Haystack?
- Power tends to blind you
- Lying, cheating, stealing
- Not my best moment
- Request Tracker
- Linux cheat sheet
- The insanity that runs the world
- Is Marge Simpson white?
- Startups are different, and the job roles are different too
- The problem with declarative schemas for ORMs
- How can one ever know what the right tool is, when there are so many?
- Accidental Rails Love
- Lisp for Java programmers
- One word graphics
- We are looking for beta-testers who want to start a site like WP Questions
- Progressive algorithms
- What men pay for
- What created the current culture of Berlin?
- One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic
- Why is alcohol good for you?
- Rejection is good
- Why is Ruby fun?
- Cows excrete peaches
- Not answering questions
- Twisting people's words
- The productivity boom
- Government secrets and torture
- How many times do clients need to ask for a feature before you give it to them?
- The finances of BabyCastle
- Why are there so few billion dollar startups Europe?
- The 4 rules of a sick relationship
- The restrained use of color
- Closures won't be in Java 7, does anybody care?
- Gender misrepresentation in advertising agencies
- Darren Hoyt is focusing more on his other projects
- Truth is a Wikipedia talk page
- Is Craigslists so perfect that it must be destroyed?
- Small in-house tech teams often face uphill battles in big corporations
- A really good prediction algorithm
- Exception handling in the Zend framework
- Cassandra not ready for prime time? Or put to an inappropriate use?
- Why is the Safari browser so buggy?
- University Tutor has 200 subscribers
- Some really good hook scripts for git
- There is a 100% chance that I'm wrong about something
- Misunderstandings about the word "alpha"
- If you want to do something that's going to change the world
- Steven Gary Blank: 4 Steps to the Epiphany, part 1
- The artist and animal rights activist Angela Singer
- Stackoverflow: What Happens When You Reach 200k Reputation?
- Should we just chuck the whole thing out and rewrite it from scratch?
- Bill Gates reboots his computer every night
- A red flag for a startup
- Religious affiliation is strangely high in the US
- The Public School
- Read the stack trace before you launch the debugger
- The Whorf hypothesis
- PHP has some seriously strange behavior
- Some of the very things that made PHP seem so clever in 1999
- Divorce decreases because of the recession
- Alexis Ohanian is now Ycombinator Ambassador to New York City
- The unique scale of job losses in the current recession
- Makoto Aida on pessimism and art in Japan
- Fat tissue is an active organ that sends chemical signals to other parts of the body
- Ancient Egyptians consumed tetracycline
- Darren Hoyt on the secrets of web success
- Muscle loss in cancer is a cause of death
- A model is a map, and a map can serve a function, but no model can ever become the territory
- Does anyone still think of Clojure as a toy language?
- Generics in Java are awful
- Divorce, children, and a couples expectation of the future
- The advantage of co-working spaces in New York City
- The bliss of an 18-month, paid, Swedish paternity leave
- What do people pay in taxes? Apparently 40%
- Compelled to face with sober senses the real conditions of our lives
- Why would I start a new weblog?
October 2010 (View complete archive page)
- The truth about the Tea Party
- Do stuff
- Drugs that make you smart, but rob you of your creativity
- Sam Ruby says using Twitter needs to carry an obligation
- Lethal injection
- Work is like crystal meth
- A lost decade now seems likely
- Magnetic Fields has a documentary
- How bad can Yahoo be?
- The stuff that gets downvoted on Hacker News
- A lot of people hate PayPal
- It is legal to jail break an iPhone
- The value of a college education is decreasing
- Changing user interfaces for productivity?
- Edward Tufte reviews the Windows 7 phone
- Why is the market so slow? Why does it take several decades to respond to demand?
- Microsoft has huge growth potential in every market on earth due to its broad range of software and services
- Installing new Emacs major modes
- Diem is a CMS built on top of Symfony
- What to make of RawStory?
- Lisp on a Mac
- Gender and bias in the tech industry
- XML and Clojure
- Enclojure wants Maven 2
- Mandelbrot fractals with Clojure
- Clojure has complicated error messages
- Obama has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
- LispWorks
- Macintosh multi-core
- Overview of Clojure
- Subtle subconscious bias and gender
- Fabien Potencier takes PHP seriously
- The contract is broken for open source developers
- Steve Blank writing about Customer Education
- How to get an old copy of a file out of Subversion
- The FBI is spying on everyone
- Setting indent in Emacs
- The size of the Universe
- Useful emacs tips
- A single founder is a vote of no confidence?
- Similarities among entrepreneurs of both genders
- Not having kids
- An entrepreneur tells their employees: my family is more important than you
- Interviewing women for tech jobs, as technique for avoiding discrimination
- Mom and dad can either be the solution, or they can be the problem
- Career, marriage, divorce and remarriage again
- Women's choices regarding career and entrepreneurship
- A final fixed form is death
- Negligible senescence
- Why do we get old?
- About Vectors
- The fifth perfect number is 33,550,336
- Money doesn't matter, so long as you are among the wealthiest 5%
- Cascade and Moustache as a Clojure web frameworks
- How to get started with a web app written in Clojure?
- Where to find good UI designers?
- Is there no server monitoring at FourSquare?
- 10 good questions about Symfony
- Some clients are evil and their work is toxic
- What its like to have kids bully you when you are small
- Ruby and Python are terribly slow, I assume PHP is as well
- How many design patterns should a software project have?
- What to do when clients push you to move faster than what would allow good quality code
- How many different video formats do you need to publish if you want to use the new video tag?
- How to have a separate layout template for every user, in Symfony
- Slippery object handling in Symfony
- 30 year Treasuries now trade for 3.676%. Think about it.
- Newer JVM build tools
- Why are technical recruiters so clueless about technology, and about the tech industry?
- Make, Ant, Maven: the problems with Java build systems
- Microsoft Internet Explorer now has less than 50% market share
- WordPress constantly loses my work
- And the subordinate pigs's habit of reclining idly by the trough is rewarded too
- Air views of housing developments in Florida
November 2010 (View complete archive page)
- A simple script to gather news, written in Clojure
- Reversing aging in mice
- I get angry reading criticism of hard work
- Milton Friedman supported unconventional monetary expansion for Japan
- A clever way to defeat comment spam
- If I turn you on, but George turns you off, are you on or are you off?
- The iPhone dev team hackers - sort of like the anti-dev team
- Eras of moderation are unstable
- Google and Microsoft violate Internet standards to get fast websites
- Excessive praise marks corporate peaks
- Viruses explain schizophrenia
- Viruses explain obesity
- What you can do with ssh
- If the USA is the most innovative nation on Earth, then how can it suffer long-term economic decline?
- Why is there no political price to be paid for policies that might hamper an economic recovery?
- The Mac OS X sucks
- Arduino cat repeller
- We are not driven by utility, but rather by social status
- The most blind thing I have ever read
- The newspapers are doomed, part CXVIII
- The importance of human capital in the era of free money
- Many-to-many relationships in Symfony
- Other programmer's bugs are boring
- A video of my talk to the WordPress Meetup is now available on YouTube
- Computer programmers keep up with changing technologies?
- ClojureQL: the ultimate database abstraction layer?
- An odd conversation with NetVibes
- Regressive taxes are common in social democracies?
- MySql needs better error messages
- A sensible HTML templateing system in Common Lisp?
- Using JanRain and their service RPXNow
- My thanks to Lark Davis
- The smartest thing Bill Gates has ever said
- There is no leadership crisis
- MySql Workbench is a total waste of time
- The all possible experience generator
- Impostor Syndrome
- Why do I live in New York City?
- What if cancer and diabetes are both just the mishandling of sugar?
- Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria show some of the largest gains in the world for human capicity
- An update for those of you who are on our waiting list
- Being a foodie is an acquired taste
- The summer of 2003 was the biggest turning point in the history of independent music sales
- If I do not remember you, it is because I read
- Why is the USA wealthy?
- If you are building a startup, it really helps to be in a city like New York
- Why does death seem more ironic when the chance of survival is close?
- WP Questions turns $10,000
- Mastering Emacs
- Reputational loss via Facebook
- Advanced routing in Symfony
- The US government has programs to promote cheese and programs to reduce cheese consumption
- FRED charts from the Fed
- Speaking out about misogyny in the tech world
- Misogyny in the tech world
- When backups fail
- How the US Revolutionary War was paid for
- Don't go to the Left Bank if you want to be a great writer
- Get the timing right
- The endless worry of non-support in future Linux desktop software
- Colin Steele: "The last programming language I will ever learn: Clojure"
- Ubuntu giving up on X
- Copyright penalties in Europe
- Copyright infringement
- I own everything that you write
- The incredible performance that Facebook gets from MySql
- Why is medical research into aging uniquely controversial?
- Converting Latin1 characters to UTF8 in MySql
- Git for beginners
- The solution is to yell a lot
- What makes a landing page effective?
December 2010 (View complete archive page)
- The Random Walk Theory of Measurement
- How to manage a tech career
- Autonomy and women in business
- Motherhood: the list
- Growing apart from old friends
- Employees who suffer Stockholm Syndrome
- Can the USA drive cowardice out of politics?
- Category theory offered programming insights in 1965
- Patterns of prime numbers
- A snow storm
- The tech scene in New York is running hot
- What is an introvert?
- Microsoft loses billions of dollars on its online division, and no one seems to care
- What about dumb people who are energetic? Do they do harm or good?
- What is it like to have suicidal depression?
- Americans over-estimate how much money the poor have
- Ellen Beldner on gender
- The USA has a drug problem
- Glassdoor is a place where employees post reviews of companies
- Too many new ideas will kill a startup
- Researchers discover evidence of a multiverse
- A list of startup incubators
- Politics leaves me lonely
- Orwell: the worst truth about atrocities is simply that they happen
- People who have something to lose
- You can not be neutral
- Running strace on bash and ls
- PHP is still broken in its UTF8 support
- Your idea doesn't suck till you test it against reality
- A conference on entrepreneurship should have some entrepreneurs at it
- Flash file uploaders do not work
- Lisp simplifies things
- The division of wealth
- Pagination with Doctrine in Symfony 1.4
- A quarter million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A web startup which makes the apartment rental process happen online.
- Pluto is not a planet
- Changing task names in Symfony 1.4
- How to edit the default CRUD templates used by Symfony for scaffolding?
- Learn Clojure, a new site
- Loading data from fixtures for functional tests in Symfony
- Another attack on Jason Calacanis
- Negative karma undermines online reputation systems
- Decision making among bees
- Women facing harassment at tech conferences
- What is the real meaning of Google? It is too soon to tell.
- Smart people prefer being smart versus having social skills
January 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed
- A carefully edited collection of vintage clothes
- Sometimes divorce is a great idea
- A brilliant Regular Expression matcher
- New York City has a vast underground
- Loose weight, be healthy
- The difficulty of predicting how people will perform
- The decision to be childless
- Parenting styles
- The importance of being positive?
- A Javascript tutorial where you can edit the examples
- Really bad sex for science
- Too many people are trying to get Phds
- Who the hell is Softlayer?
- What keeps people away from startups?
- The web answers a fundamental human need: Why wasn't I consulted?
- If you ask for a behavior on your blog, you have failed
- Gender dynamics in 1941
- An innocent man spends 30 years in prison
- Spam overwhelms Google
- 100 start-up seed stage incubators
- There is only one way to fight spam, and that is with money
- User session security in PHP
February 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Reload the config file using SIGHUP
- How to index for Joins in Mysql
- A simple game written in Clojure
- DNSstuff is the place to look up your DNS stuff
- What is worth these feelings of inadequacy?
- Keeping women's point of view out of the tech industry
- There is no evidence for behaviorally-limited early homo sapiens
- Land Of Lisp code translated into Clojure
- Colin Steele on the culture of Hotelicopter
- There is no truth - truth died with Riemann
- Why the future didn't happen
- All the good ideas get stolen and re-used
- Why I hate WordPress
- New art directions from the government
- How to become an entrepreneur
- They're attacking the very definition of property
- Why Wall Street criminals never go to jail
- How is Silicon Valley innovation different?
- An old post about WP Questions and Symfony
- Women, men, and the culture of computer programming
- My greatest vice
- A list of Clojure projects
- Link schemes that undermine Google's search results
- The war on drugs is useless and counter-productive
- The law is strangling innovation
- What did the web browser incite at the beginning?
- What was it like to work for Netscape?
- Entrepreneurs mitigate risk
- Donating genetic code to the public domain
- SNPedia: a single-nucleotide polymorphism wiki
- Why do we make teaching so hard?
- The end of Nokia
- What does it mean to say math should be fun?
- Why I'd like to try online dating
- Readability.com
- Daniel Chu: I was able to turnaround from that crazy thinking
- The decline of Groovy?
- The newspapers are doomed, part CCXXXVI
- WalMart, Kmart, Target: why does one fail?
- The new nationalism
- Why purpose makes a difference
- The world needs more failure
- Manufacturing in San Francisco
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
- The Verizon iPhone
- What is money?
- The best kind of progress
- Become a Dentist
- A history of Lisp error systems
- The noise is a lie
- Symfony security can not be set on a per-environment basis
- Historical Statistics of the United States
March 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Bad names for startups can cause big problems
- The New York Times is doomed
- Radiation near Fukushima is now at twice the level of Chernobyl
- With computers, reliability is the most important feature
- Most job interviews for computer programmers are done poorly
- Spec work makes people angry
- Working remotely at Deviant Art
- Maintenance programming requires telepathy
- Funding Makes Lots of People Miserable
- The decay at Google, the struggle for organization at large scale
- Earliest humans to North America were here at least 13,000 years ago
- Every job interview should offer you valium
- All of Chrome, every window, can die at once
- How much should entrepreneurs network with other entrepreneurs?
- Gregory Dal Piaz writes his own articles?
- What else ends when a man dies in a bus accident?
- Coal is more deadly than nuclear power
- Wine was invented at least 6,000 years ago
- A developer's personal history with Twitter
- http_build_query
- Checking to see if a secure page really is secure
- Automated creation of functional tests for Symfony
- Functional programming lets you create your own language, specialized for your project
- Rare languages bring forth good programmers
- The correct way to add context information to a form class in Symfony
- You will be influenced by who you work with
- The end of publishing as we know it
- StackOverflow continues to expand the range of sites in its network
- What sort of free work are women willing to do online?
- Oxygen: an XML editor
- The word "passion" is terribly over-used regarding startups
- Sleep is the most important thing that top performers have
- How to recover from burnout
- DNA is Turing complete
- Dealing with burnout
- The many failures of Lisp: are they fixed by Clojure?
- The advantages that Ruby has over Lisp
- My friends, this conversation happened several decades ago
- A clever way to implement login history in Symfony
- Accounting can be made visually simple with nodes and edges
- LilyPond, a computer language for creating music sheets
- The Common Lisp Music Synthesizer
- Land Of Lisp is the best introduction to a programming language that I have ever read
- What is perfectionism?
- Symfony changes too much and the documentation does not keep up
- Flowing Data
- A great programming blog regarding Symfony
- Down voted on StackOverflow just for asking a question?
- Lisp is a brilliant failure, and it draws similar people to it
April 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Madam, Sir, a file or a resource you requested does not exist on this server
- College is over-rated
- Do you remember when Facebook was doomed?
- The curse of Lisp
- Motions in a textile factory
- My last day at M Shanken!
- Eating has a big influence how judges render decisions
- The complete Emacs function list
- How much are programmers paid?
- How does Clojure shape your code?
- Like buying a house in 2006
- Where PHP regex fails
- “Professor, we don’t need to be studied. We need help!”
- The short term versus the long term
- Clojure is almost as big as Common Lisp
- The difficult of handling line endings
- Lisp lamda: When you need to use the same variable twice
- Bad CEOs come up with rationalizations, good CEOs deal with the pain
May 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Entrepreneurs and labor unions are on the same side
- How do managers treat waiters?
- Dealing with depression and writing code
- Why are Italians apathetic?
- Don't do what I'm doing
- Method names should explain your intentions
- The disaster in Japan was worse than anyone knew
- The culture of short little bits of infotainment
- What is Clojure?
- RDF in Wikipedia
- Ballmer is a terrible CEO for Microsoft
- A cure for cancer?
- The master and the novice
- Sugar Helps Antibiotics Kill Dug-In Bacteria
- How to hire computer programmers
- Kill math
- Why do mommy bloggers have such a strong online presence?
- Can mortals and immortals be friends?
- Tomboy is useful for notes I take during a project
- What is "best practice" in programming?
June 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Big Law is badly run
- Why Symfony sucks
- Is Apostrophe the best CMS for Symfony?
- Humans sense the Earth's magnetic field
- With more women, groups get more effective
- Micro controllers, soder, pizza and beer
- The limits of ORMs in PHP
- How far away is the nearest star?
- An algebra of types
- How to cure cancer
- A patent for movie plots
- Anyone looking for an apartment in New York City?
- A father with young children climbs Mount Everest and dies
- Science is biased, and it can kill you
July 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Places where evolution does not explain behavior: kill all your children
- AirBnB stumbles badly when a user's home is sacked
- I am not a secretary
- Paul Graham on cities and ambition
- Creativity harms the careers of those seeking leadership positions
- The hunger to get people into the office is like the hunger to have too many meetings
- Managing by numbers will ruin companies
- The falling demographics of household formation
- How hackers can time your code to figure out a secret login
- Evolution is misunderstood
- Debt is useful
- Living longer is a political battle
- Rare frog found again
- Memory leaks in Javascript
- When is it appropriate for an entrepreneur to pull money out of the business?
- Free speech, open source software, and non-consensual pornographic references
- How patents destroy the economy
- Creating APIs with Ruby and Rabl
- Dominant bosses gain more power, yet do more damage to the organizations they lead
August 2011 (View complete archive page)
- GitHub Flow
- Tutorials for RSpec
- Understanding JIT spray
- More innovation from CouchSurfing
- Looks have a bigger impact on earnings than education?
- Changing the gender ratio at SXSW
- Steve Jobs resigns
- Feeling like a phony
- Never paid for work, a developer releases the software as open source
- Bad management can kill any community, but Yahoo is especially good at the killing
- The only way forward for the USA is innovation
- The unreality of economic rhetoric in 2011
- Modified HIV delivers genetic changes to white blood cells which then kill cancer cells
- Why patents are awful
- Setting up Rails on a Mac
- The power of Lisp macros
- Wrecking one of the most fascinating projects in human history
- The problem with anonymous votes on social sites is that the votes are anonymous
- Wall Street traders are hackers
- When will democracy end?
September 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Sometimes a computer programmer needs to fire their entrepreneur
- How one person can wreck a startup
- How to add and delete remote branches in git
- Most people are miserable
- Does "git push" make sense?
- A possible job interview question?
- HTML5 validation does not check for much
- The Board of Directors of Hewlett-Packard is criminally stupid
- The Board of Directors of Yahoo is criminally stupid
- Is cooperation more powerful than competition?
- Getting git
- The internet is the place where people say anything, a lot of is unpleasant
- Homophobic recruiting
- Surprises from linear algebra
- There is no overnight success
- Drupal in crisis
- Take risks, don't bother with contracts
- Notifo is shutting down
- Who exactly is Scala for?
- The software revolution
- In the modern age, your independence lasts as long as your username and password are valid
- You're so cute
- Managers are incompetent
- Ruby is just a temporary name for Ruby
- A map of out-of-wedlock birth
- Can governments fund startups?
- Burnout among programmers is common
October 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Cubic-bezier animations
- True skunkworks, the programmers work without pay
- Drupal has decided to become Symfony
- In Japan, programmers must retire at age 35
- In the real world, most programming is boring internal apps
- Lying is useful because it is rewarded
- The impossibility of the pure API
- RSS is still important
- The newspapers are doomed
- Who will fix blog comments?
- How should I interpret this?
- The importance of trust
- How wrong is David Brooks?
- If Haskell is a failure, does that mean that math is a failure?
- Patents are evil
- How complicated is modern software?
- Why Google Wave failed
- lsof does everything
- Sometimes the best thing you can do is quit
- Startups are sexy
- Guidelines for getting into YCombinator
- Stored procedures do not scale
- Airbnb cheats its own workers out of they money they deserve via their stock options
- The movement against organizations
November 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Representers: a brilliant idea from Nick Sutterer
- When an entrepreneur loses their nerve
- What is the REST interface?
- Into the Ruby community: RubyFlow
- Why entrepreneurs are giving up on the USA
- WhatFont tells you what font
- Mental decay and religion
- Cultures that oppose the startup mentality
- Google inflation
- The newspapers are surviving on momentum
- Rabl for easy APIs in Rails
- Kill math
- Current interaction design lacks tactile sensation
- John Nunemaker: using EventMachine with Passenger
- Coal continues to kill, nuclear does not
- Never seen this done effectively: it is important to be able to go back a number of years to determine the facts that were considered in arriving at a decision
- Mike Gunderloy's Double Shot
- Ditching your ORM and using straight PDO
- Very cool places to work in NYC
- Every recession, people write essays about how this is "the end of work"
- Korma
- Stop listening to other peoples advice. Go with my gut.
- Sometimes I regret being a murderer
- The focus on short term profits is destroying the possibility of long term growth
- If the deflation of 1930-1932 brought Hitler to power, why should Germans fear inflation?
- Just use divs for everything
- Nouriel Roubini foresaw Italian crisis back in 2006
- Computer programming is complicated, Rails is not
- John McCarthy has died
- Goals are unhappy
- We’ll fix it later
- Land rush or gold rush?
- Dynamic programming asks for a dynamic mindset
- The un-shared sacrifice of the millions
- Drugs have nothing to do with the crime wave of 1960-2001
- Amazing video of Earth
- Honey pots to keep comment quality high
- The influence of race in the tech world
- Racket is a good language for creating languages
- Open invite to anyone on LinkedIn
- A classic psychopath at Zynga
- Why are comment systems so broken?
- My trip to the Apple Store
- Anti-women activists
- Apple Computer is stupid
- The problem with fields such as 'type' in database tables
- Soulver
- This is when Java programmers smugly proclaim why their ecosystem is superior
- Democracy doesn't work
- Overconfidence to accuracy
- Consulting is addicting and it ruins your startup
- Memory allocation in ruby
- John Nunemaker offers drop-dead-simple debugging tips
- Using Rspec to write tests
- Why are there no dating sites started by women?
- Clients can be extreme
- College is worthless for most
- Money versus reputation: a woman kills a woman for sweatpants, or for reputation?
December 2011 (View complete archive page)
- Don't manage memory in PHP
- Amazon is unfair to its Kindle partners
- The loves of Ayn Rand
- Bad management is more powerful than good programmers
- Can you solve the quintic?
- Institutional memory and mass layoffs during recessions
- The end of constitutional limits in Hungary
- Married women make bad teachers?
- PHP memory management is bloated
- Volkswagon cuts off employees email during non-working hours
- In the mid 90s the American dollar hit its all time low against the Yen and so the US economy took off like a rocket
- Is ambition more difficult as you get older?
- Could Poland become a super-power of energy production?
- Developers as Kings
- Teachers hate creativity
- What I want most right at this moment is to punch you in the face
- Context and environment suggest who belongs and who does not
- When I really want to share something with a friend I send them an email
- College is a scam
- How women get cheated at work
- How to trip yourself up with Clojure
- How does hiring happen at elite law firms and hedge funds?
- Why a poor black kid might get pregnant
- Grit determines the winners
- Lego no longer markets to girls
- A strange bug in Ruby On Rails: CSRF protection was eating sessions
- The pressure of startups can drive some people to suicide
- Easy to read does not equal quicker comprehension
- How to build desktop applications with Clojure and Swing
- How does HTTP work?
- What is your customer churn rate?
- The next Java isn't
- Fred Dewey is misunderstood
- Spider emulates intelligence by considering parts of a problem in turn
- A comparison of different admin frameworks for use with Ruby On Rails
- Cheeseburgers are difficult
- The connotations of the words "women" and "girls"
- Nothing is changing
- Why does Netvibes fail?
- The system can not be fixed, it needs to be burned down
- The Swedish Pirate Party gains another vote in the European Union
- The USA shadow banking system is made up of European banks
- Build it in a way that you can improve it later
- Build systems, versioning and dependency
- Bank bailout goes to hookers and drugs
- Why startups are great
- How much of politics is about who you like?
- PayPal is dangerous
- Emergency Linux Support
- What would we do if we weren't us?
- Responders as a controller in Rails 3
- Websockets foreseen in HTTP 1.1
- It seems overly emotional to me to write this article
- Why are payroll systems so complex?
- Social networks are anti-social
- How cells program other cells
- What does Poland ask of Germany?
- Failure is the most stressful part of a startup
- Great videos about git
- The need for an in-house graphic designer who can interact with the front-end developer
- John Nunemaker: how to create an API
- The correct, socially-acceptable amount of padding
January 2012 (View complete archive page)
- Yahoo is run by idiots
- How to get 99.3% of your email delivered
- This guy almost died of an infected tooth
- Why are so many software estimates wrong?
- The adaptable survive
- Brainstorming sessions are a bad idea
- Is entrepreneurship risky?
- "I want to protect you" can also mean "You should be afraid"
- A radicalism I could support
- Who would trust a proprietary hosting system?
- Command and Conquer as an HTML5 game?
- Why are free conference calls free?
- Truly innovative ideas are misunderstood, even by well educated peers
- How much privacy can you ever have with cloud services?
- MIT does not teach humility
- Use Smashwords to publish on the Nook
- Total USA debt is declining
- Self-publishing is a revolution to publishing
- The new, new web moves beyond HTTP to the Spdy and WebSocket protocols
- What is lowering household formation in the USA
- The difference between git and mecurial
- Formal modeling could be a useful technique for computer programming
- With an automated test suite, what kind of tests are important?
- All startups are chaos
- People like to be around similar people
- Can a nation be punished?
- Quotas for men
- Engineering archaeology
- Willful ignorance is key to continue with any bad practice
- Why is Hungary spiraling down a dark path?
- Within a tradition, but what is the name of that tradition?
- Trade with the enemy so you can kill them (and they can kill you)
- Multitasking on Android and iOS
- Resolving git conflicts
- Government regulation will protect Microsoft
- Why the movie industry fails to innovate
- PayPal orders the destruction of a violin
- Path dependency regarding TV displays
- WebSockets are a new World Wide Web
February 2012 (View complete archive page)
- The true cost of cloud hosting
- The endless injustice of firms with big budgets for lawyers
- Gender differences in the tech industry
- Privacy violations often get a pass
- How much legal protection do content producers need?
- A ZeroMQ Javascript library
- How much does income influence decisions about marriage?
- Consulting depends on the social status of the of the agencies?
- Religion is the opium of the people?
- Can ZeroMQ replace RESTful HTTP?
- How to find all the ports that are currently in use on your server
January 10, 2012 1:09 pm
From lawrence on Fred Dewey is misunderstood
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