May 2009
15 posts
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Gödel, Escher, Bach →
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Squeak on the iPhone →
The 12 books that shaped science in the 20th...
Paul Dirac, Quantum Mechanics (1930) Albert Einstein, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1902–09 (1930) Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Fractals (1977) Linus Pauling, Nature of the Chemical Bond (1939) Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica (1910–13, 3 vols.) Cyril Smith, Search For Structure (1981) John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern,...
The Case for Working With Your Hands →
“You can’t hammer a nail over the Internet.”
“Some people are hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, when they would rather be learning to build things or fix things.”
“It is a rare person, male or female, who is naturally inclined to sit still for 17 years in school, and then indefinitely at work.”
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Maglev interview from Railsconf (~30mins) →
“The object models were pretty congruent. In Smalltalk, people tend to subclas & have pretty much static code. Although you can do a lot of metaprogramming by creating methods on the fly, introspection, they tend to subclass & have fairly static stuff. In Ruby, a lot of runtime evaluation takes place. So, it’s a different form of metaprogramming than you see in...
Boston-area User Group Calendar →
Twitter clone in 200 lines of Sinatra/Ruby →
each thoughtbot employee now has a theme song play...
The Git Parable →
Clear-headed, approachable.
Launch a Business, Not a Side Project →
This article half-hits the point. Their list of 9 steps is decent, but they say the problem is between 7-8. What if the problem is with number 1?
“Identifity a niche need that you have that’s currently under-served”
What if the niche need you have is over-served but you don’t it? What if your niche need is not valuable enough to be worht the costs of building the app?
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Paperclip & Delayed Job →