How Tim Cook is changing Apple
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FORTUNE -- In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a "bus tour" led by a research analyst for Citibank. The session started with a 45-minute presentation by Peter…
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5 electric cars that stretch your mileage
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Car technology has come a long way. In the fight to decrease dependency on oil and avoid high gas prices, more electric-powered cars are starting to make their way onto the scene. It's now possible…
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A Richer Life by Seeing the Glass Half Full
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The definition of an optimist:Someone, like me, who plans to get more done than time permits.Having failed to achieve the impossible, someone, like me, who is sure everything will somehow get done…
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Light Blue Touchpaper
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May 22nd, 2012 at 16:37 UTC by Frank Stajano As any computer user already knows, passwords are a usability disaster: you are basically told to “pick something you can’t remember, then…
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Understanding Git Conceptually
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Loading The latest Arc90 lab experiment, powered by Readability. Arc90 + Readability Readlists on Twitter Feedback? © 2012 Readability LLC
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Steve Vinoski’s Blog
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May 21st, 2012 | Published in column, javascript, languages, web |
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Readlists
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RT @craigmod: I've started a Future of Books & Publishing Readlist:
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Readlists
2 days ago
RT @arc90: Introducing Readlists: Your Reading, Unbound and Remixed. Visit to get started.
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Introducing Readlists: Your Reading, Unbound and Remixed | Arc90 Blog
2 days ago
RT @arc90: Introducing Readlists: Your Reading, Unbound and Remixed. Visit to get started.
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A Chart that Reveals How Science Fiction Futures Changed Over Time
2 days ago
The future may seem to be closer or farther off, depending on the era you're living in. That's one of the possible conclusions you can draw from this chart (embedded below), created by Stephanie Fox…
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2 days ago
50 Months of Evolution
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Michael Dubakov, TargetProcess FounderMay 10, 2012 Our company is almost 6 years old now. It was founded on agile principles and grew up on them. We've used Extreme Programming from day 1, immixed…
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2 days ago
Selecting a Mobile Implementation Strategy
2 days ago
The sudden and rapid explosion of mobile technology in the past five years offers huge opportunities. While it seems likely that a number of mobile platforms will continue to thrive, mobile customers…
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2 days ago
Java Doesn't Need to Be So Bad
3 days ago
It's a long-standing joke because we've all seen it and we've all grown to hate it: "The Abstract Factory Pattern," euphemistically referred to as "The Factory Factory". As envisioned by the Gang of…
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3 days ago
30 minutes a day
3 days ago
Do you brush your teeth every day? Do you work on your dream project every day? ….. no? Sometimes? Your teeth will begin to decay if you don't brush. And so will your idea. Specifically: ideas…
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3 days ago
Michael Lopp on Why Everyone Should Learn to Write – aviflax.com
3 days ago
New post: Michael Lopp on Why Everyone Should Learn to Write
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3 days ago
Will Work for Fun — killscreendaily.com — Readability
3 days ago
Devastating essay on the state of play in video games: “The best players in the world are workers, not players.”
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3 days ago
Producer/Consumer Rate-Matching
3 days ago
Flow control is a critical feature in a network of asynchronous communicating processes. Our fanciful exploration of a yak-shaving barber’s shop provided us with patterns we can apply to more…
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3 days ago
Was Columbus secretly a Jew?
3 days ago
Christopher Columbus bids farewell to his son Diego at Palos, Spain, before embarking on his first voyage on August 3, 1492. Editor's note: Charles Garcia is the CEO of Garcia Trujillo, a business…
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3 days ago
» Fully Distributed Teams: are they viable?
4 days ago
It has become increasingly common for technology companies to run as Fully Distributed teams. That is, teams that collaborate primarily over the web rather than using informal, face-to-face…
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4 days ago
Come and get it
4 days ago
Back in the heady days of the first dot com boom, when I had my first grownup design job making state-of-the-art websites using HTML 2.0 and horrible table layouts, there was a lot of chatter about…
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4 days ago
Lego Is for Girls
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Lego Is for Girls By Brad Wieners December 14, 2011 9:49 PM EST Wa
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Ridley Scott Opens Up About 'Prometheus,' Kick-Ass Women, and 'Blade Runner 2'
4 days ago
No project is off limits to Ridley Scott. Over the course of his 35-year filmmaking career, the English auteur has dazzled audiences with his thrillingly diverse oeuvre, tackling everything from…
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4 days ago
Roominate: Make It Yours! by Maykah Inc. — Kickstarter
4 days ago
RT @cshirky: Kickstart Roominate: Dollhouse kit for girls that includes circuit components: lights, fans, buzzers, etc.
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4 days ago
Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
5 days ago
THANK YOU for the screen shot. I was actually already aware that the type on my site is big. I designed it that way. And while I’m grateful for your kind desire to help me, I actually do know…
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5 days ago
The Age of Innocence
5 days ago
The people who pioneered democracy in Europe and the United States had a low but pretty accurate view of human nature. They knew that if we get the chance, most of us will try to get something for…
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5 days ago
FS (MA): 2005 LGT Wagon 5MT ABP - 68k miles - Subaru Legacy Forums
6 days ago
Located in Boston; asking price $13,750
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6 days ago
TextMate productivity tips | 456 Berea Street
6 days ago
Just found this great TextMate tip: ⌃⇧⌘W will wrap all selected lines with <li> tags.
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6 days ago
Proposal to Automate Frequent and Simple IPM Transactions
6 days ago
Status: INCOMPLETE DRAFT [edit] The Problem Many IPM transactions are very simple and require no input from a human in order to be successfully processed. Today, however, we have no mechanism to…
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6 days ago
Untitled (http://twitter.com/avi4now/status/203167093187805184/photo/1)
7 days ago
That thing where you’re walking in Manhattan and you hit an orange hand at every intersection.
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7 days ago
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
7 days ago
I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a…
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7 days ago
Thoughts on Development using CouchDB with Node.js
7 days ago
I was recently on a client facing project for Bocoup and needed to store millions of tweets that contained sentiment analysis of the text. From this sentiment gathered along with other various…
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7 days ago
Welcome to the World of the Sighted
7 days ago
I just had what we jokingly referred to as Echolocation Woodstock. Read that article first if you haven’t, as this one picks up where it leaves off. It discusses my introduction to…
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7 days ago
laullon/gitx · GitHub
7 days ago
@cshoe_ GitX is great. Are you using a mainline build? I discovered that’s pretty stagnant. Now trying this one:
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7 days ago
No DB?!? | Arc90 Blog
7 days ago
New post on the @arc90 blog: No DB?!?
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7 days ago
Using CoffeeScript in Production - CoffeeScript New York (New York, NY) - Meetup
8 days ago
@arc90 folks, you might be interested in this meetup next week: Using CoffeeScript in Production
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8 days ago
2002 HONDA S2000 SEBRING
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original owner 32K miles, long island, asking $17K
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8 days ago
Add the CORS header to the REST API : Zendesk Support
8 days ago
@Zendesk created a feature request:
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8 days ago
Excerpt « WordPress Codex
8 days ago
This is awful:
“The WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary or description of a post; in short, a post summary.”
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“The WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary or description of a post; in short, a post summary.”
8 days ago
Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night
8 days ago
This guest post comes from Daniel Jacobson (@daniel_jacobson), director of engineering for the Netflix API. Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where he created the NPR API,…
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8 days ago
World’s Subways Converging on Ideal Form
8 days ago
Sample of subway network structures from (clockwise, top left) Shanghai, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul and Barcelona. Image: Roth et al./JRSI After decades of urban evolution, the world’s major…
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8 days ago
NO DB
8 days ago
In the United States, in 1920, the manufacture, sale, and importation of alcoholic beverages was prohibited by a constitutional amendment. That amendment was repealed thirteen years later. During…
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8 days ago
Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team
9 days ago
Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team ;; AcknowledgementsFlowers and chocolates to the Room Key team members who…
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9 days ago
Y-Love is Ready for Love
9 days ago
The black Jewish hip-hop artist Yitz Jordan has struggled with his public image for years. Now he's ready to come out. Photo by Schneur Menaker Most people have probably never heard of Y-Love.…
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9 days ago
Home // Think Like (a) Git
9 days ago
When you're just getting started, something as straightforward as a merge can be terrifying. It can take a long time to really become comfortable using some of Git's more advanced features. (It took…
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9 days ago
Untitled (http://i.imgur.com/wGUTG.gif)
9 days ago
RT @codinghorror: time for a little code refactoring!
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9 days ago
(Some) ORM Haters Do Get It
10 days ago
13th May, 2012 This post continues the recent discussion in ORM-related posts such as this one or that one. I'm not particularly happy to participate to this very old flame war. However, I recently…
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10 days ago
Will Work for Fun
10 days ago
Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to linger as long as it likes…
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10 days ago
Java DSL for easy testing of REST services
10 days ago
Testing and validating REST services in Java is harder than in dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy. REST Assured brings the simplicity of using these languages into the Java domain. News older…
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10 days ago
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay
11 days ago
Here is an essay version of class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s. Class 11 Notes Essay—Secrets I. Secrets…
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11 days ago
Israeli government must confer the right to marriage for all
11 days ago
Homosexuals Brazilian Toni Reis (L) and British David Harrad of Macclesfield city kiss for a picture after their wedding in Curitiba May 9, 2011. Photo by Reuters At the end of last week, Barack…
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11 days ago
Coding is priority number five
11 days ago
Let’s set the scene. It’s the summer of 2010. Kiln had been launched into the wild for all of six months, after a grueling year-long, no-revenue sprint to turn my dinky prototype that…
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11 days ago
‘Why Don’t We Have Any White Kids?’
11 days ago
IN seventh-grade English class, sun leaked in through the windows. Horns bleated outside. The assignment was for the arrayed students to identify a turning point in their lives. Was it positive or…
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11 days ago
Listen: Steve Jobs On The Payoff Of A Great Employee
12 days ago
Journalist Brent Schlender drew from dozens of conversations with Steve Jobs from over a quarter century of reporting to make the case that Jobs' so-called "wilderness years," his time between Apple…
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12 days ago
Israeli father embarks on quest to save ailing son
12 days ago
They call it “Oded’s research.” In the lab on the sixth floor of Ichilov Hospital, Dr. Etty Osher, an internist and endocrinologist, and Nadav Sagiv, a graduate student with a…
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12 days ago
On fixing VC ourselves
12 days ago
What good is it for me to sing helplessness blueWhy should I wait for anyone else? - Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues That's for Fred Wilson. In his post last month "Can the Crowd Be More Patient",…
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12 days ago
Bishop: Makes Your Web Service Shiny
12 days ago
Each Bishop resource is defined with two hash-maps. The first provides a map of content types provided by the resource and the functions that accept a Ring request map and return data in that format.…
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12 days ago
Application Refresh, Restart, Reinit
12 days ago
[edit] Purpose There is often a need to refresh, restart, or reinit an application after a deployment for the updated code to be utilized. There are a few different commands in use, and this page…
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12 days ago
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