March 2013
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Micah's Musings: Working from home is like saying... →
micahwedemeyer:
Whenever the topic of working from home comes up, I always find myself defending my productivity. A colleague will say, “Well, it’s nice, but you’re just not as productive as if you were in the office.” Something about the argument never sat well with me, and I’ve finally nailed down what it is:…
October 2012
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September 2012
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July 2012
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Machine learning for the impatient: algorithms... →
dhotson:
Really good article. A good overview of how SVM can be applied and tuned in a practical way.
How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days →
dhotson:
An oldie but a goodie. Great article.
April 2012
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March 2012
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Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance... →
Welcome to the world of denormalized floating-point! They can wreak havoc on performance!!!
Denormal (or subnormal) numbers are kind of a hack to get some extra values very close to zero out of the floating point representation. Operations on denormalized floating-point can be tens to hundreds of times slower than on normalized floating-point. This is because many processors can’t handle...
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Tai Tran's Reading Archive: Data Mining at... →
taitran:
Attack of the Amazons: Data Mining at Amazon.com
by Cliff Kurtzman Chief Executive Officer, ADASTRO Incorporated. September 15, 2004
“In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.”
— Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal
Over this past…
February 2012
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Stellar.js: Easy Parallax Effects in JavaScript →
Stellar.js claims all you need to do is add some simple data attributes to your markup, run its stellar() method, and.. you get to enjoy the latest visual effect du jour.
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Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn? →
Anyway, I hope this post hasn’t been too harsh. I’m not all about the money. I think working in a startup can be an enormously rewarding experience. I wouldn’t recommend it any other way. But you need to match your talents, age, skills, ambition and economic situation with your current reality. At a minimum be realistic about the outcomes. And make sure you ask yourself the question, “am...
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Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours →
Also, discussion at Hacker News
January 2012
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TextExt: A jQuery Plugin to Extend Text Field... →
TextExt is a plugin for jQuery which is designed to provide functionality such as tag input and autocomplete and ultimate provides modularity and extensibility for enhancing text field functionality.
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The Top 12 JavaScript MVC Frameworks Reviewed →
Can’t remember the pros and cons of all those frameworks like Spine, Sammy, Sproutcore, Backbone, and the rest? Gordon L. Hempton runs through 12 of the most popular, lists their pros and cons, and picks Ember.js as his ultimate winner
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MacGap →
The MacGap project aims to provide HTML/JS/CSS developers an Xcode project for developing Native OSX Apps that run in OSX’s WebView and take advantage of WebKit technologies. The project also exposes a basic JavaScript API for OS integration, such as display Growl notifications. The MacGap project is extremely lightweight and nimble, a blank application is about 0.3mb.
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Why I Hate Android →
Interesting read
Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable” or “biased” or worse.
I should probably explain.
Believe it or not, I actually don’t hate...
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Web application development workflow with Node.js →
The aim of the article is to describe a good workflow to use when developing web applications. I always read advice on good workflow practices but they are never aggregated together, that’s why I do it right now.
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From Java to Node.js →
So having said all that, I wanted to share what resources helped me get up to speed in Node.js coming from a Java background.
October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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“<?php die(‘hard’) ?>”
– Long Nguyen
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CocoaHeads: Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO →
cocoaheads:
“To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple...
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Recreating OS X media keys on the command line →
Supports iTunes and Rdio, whichever is open. Available commands:
m to play or pause
m n or m next for next track
m p or m previous for previous
m + / m ++ to increase system volume by 5 or 10%
m - / m — to decrease
Great job, Jacob!
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“Every OS has its purpose. OSX, building webapps. Linux, running web apps....”
– TechScruggs (Aaron Scruggs)
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Invaluable command line tools for web developers →
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Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging Minified JS... →
Hell YES!
dhotson:
YES!
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Anonymous asked: Hi, Are you interested in doing some mods in wordpress?
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July 2011
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Kobo to Apple: We’re Building Our Own HTML5... →
parislemon:
Apple to Kobo: Good luck with that.
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WebPutty →
onethingwell:
WebPutty gives you a syntax-highlighting CSS editor you can use from anywhere, the power of SCSS and Compass, a side-by-side preview pane, and instant publishing with minification, compression, and automatic cache control. Get started with just a pair of tags in your website’s template and WebPutty will host and serve your published CSS minified and gzipped for super speed.
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Farewell Floats: The Future of CSS Layout →
gregbabula:
Great article by Design Shack
Floats are one of the most basic tools for structuring a web page using CSS. They’re both one of the very first things that we learn about and one of the last things that we truly master.
June 2011
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MNPP: Mac + Nginx + Percona + PHP or Python →
Forget MAMP. It’s time to get MNPP!
Install a world-class PHP development environment on your Mac and uwsgi support for Python apps. Unleash the speed of the webserver everybody is talking about, Nginx. And for storage, use Percona, the most carefully maintained independent fork of the famous MySQL database, now owned by Oracle.
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