February 2012
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January 2012
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“I do love to learn. It’s all I feel like I’m ever doing. It’s...”
– Louis C.K.
“Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources...”
– Howard Stevenson, Harvard Business School.
December 2011
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How to build a modern website in 2011 →
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“When it comes to gettin’ a dirty job done, it takes a redhead.”
– Bruce Springsteen
WatchWe’re using the power of rock and roll to change the world! Woo!
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WatchTug of war
November 2011
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“Again, we see the complimentary nature of these two definitions; they are...”
– Martin, Robert C. (2008). Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (p. 97). Prentice Hall. Kindle Edition.
“When you can extend a system solely by adding new objects without modifying any...”
– Kent Beck, “Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns”
“I hate the term “minimal viable product.” Good companies do ship,...”
– Robert Scoble on harshing the mellow of startups
“When we see previously successful people achieve something new we tend to...”
– Brian Balfour, Core peer groups
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“We think that Harvard is complicit in propagating the ideology that made the...”
– Harvard student adds her wordy voice to the Occupy Wall Street protests. The New York Times
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Design goals of Node.js
No function should perform direct I/O.
To receive data from disk, network, or another process, there must be a callback.
Have built-in support for the most important protocols: TCP, DNS, HTTP.
Support many HTTP features:
Chunked requests and responses.
Keep-alive.
Hang requests for Comet-style applications.
The API should be familiar to client-side Javascript programmers and old-school...
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“If you know what it’s going to look like, stop. Do something else.”
– Marcin Ignac
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Sinatra Stripe example →
24 lines of readable Ruby and 11 lines of readable HTML & Javascript in order to use Stripe payments. Lovely.
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“Imagine the U.S. Census as conducted by direct marketers — that’s the social...”
– The Social Graph is neither.
Most thought-provoking article about the web I’ve read in a long time.
/via Daring Fireball
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“Large firms win on differentiation or cost, and small ones win on focus; but...”
– A Beer Drinker’s View of the Venture Industry
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October 2011
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