May 2012
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How to Make Wealth →
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May 16th
Going from $0 to $500k in 1 Year with no VC Money →
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May 9th
I just killed a social game mechanic | Gravity7:... →
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May 9th
Creating Great Developers: Planning →
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May 9th
Creating Great Developers: Training. →
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May 9th
Creating Great Developers: Hiring. →
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May 9th
Creating Great Developers: Orientation →
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May 9th
I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years:... →
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May 9th
April 2012
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Realism in UI Design | UX Magazine →
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Apr 30th
Why The New Guy Can’t Code →
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Apr 30th
Stevey's Blog Rants: Execution in the Kingdom of... →
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Apr 28th
Instagram Engineering • Keeping Instagram up with... →
tumblr.com Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours On Tues­day we launched Insta­gram for Android, and it’s had a fan­tas­tic response so far. The last few weeks (on the infra­struc­ture side) have been all about capac­i­ty… The art of scaling on the fly. Kudos to Instagram and its non-existant downtime!
Apr 7th
March 2012
6 posts
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Mar 25th
How to disappear completely
Today I’m starting a small experiment: how long can a “homo digitalis” survive without the plethora of social networks, profiles and tools used every single day (and every day more)? We, the new humans: a collection of profiles, thumbs-ups, pins, badges, karmas and retweets. What we eat, what we see, where we go, what we wish - it’s all there (here), not just for anyone to...
Mar 19th
You Will Not Be The Next Silicon Valley, Please... →
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Mar 3rd
Denis Dutton on Cold Reading →
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Mar 3rd
I’m So, So Sorry. Here’s My Belly. Now Please Move... →
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Mar 3rd
Mar 2nd
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February 2012
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Aching for some Ruby voodoo? Try one of these... →
Feb 9th
January 2012
5 posts
iPhone Development Diary: Week 1 : Research -... →
The anatomy of an iPhone game. Pretty clever writeup! diaryofanappdeveloper: This weekend I started work on my first full blown game for the iPhone. I’m not ready to share the details of what the game will be specifically as I’m sure these will change dramatically over the coming weeks. All I’m sure on is it will be a platform game built with Corona SDK. To get me started…
Jan 15th
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Jan 9th
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A few predictions for 2012
* No economy bubble burst in europe * G+ doesn’t go anywhere, but doesn’t shut down (yet) * More failed IPOs will make mass media call it “another 2k bubble, but different” * Incubator/accelerator bubble burst (specially outside USA) * Facebook phone (extended prediction: made by HTC) * Facebook credits for physical stuff will face-off with Paypal * Obvious Facebook...
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Jan 6th
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Noticed a lot of people have been reading Zappos’ book and start calling their customer support “Customer Happiness Department”, “Head of Smiles” or something equally silly these days. Guess what: calling the same old crappy and slow support with a new name won’t fix any problems. At least it sounds “cool”…
Jan 3rd
December 2011
6 posts
2011's closing remarks
Learned a few things in 2011 that I think are worth sharing/keeping record. What did YOU learn in 2011? - No matter how knowledgeable you are, a spark in the eyes is always more convincing than words. - Location matters. It sets the tone for your spirit and aspirations. - Associating with assholes will only bring you down, no matter how great the promises sound. Don’t. (not talking about...
Dec 31st
On (Startup) Chile
So, after 6 months of stay in beautiful Santiago, my stay has come to an end and now is time to set sail and move on to unexplored waters. I’ll keep this post brief and focus on the two things that, in my point of view, make the program not as successful as it could (should) be. The first, cold truth, is that there’s no VC money in Chile. And I mean no money at. All. The causes of this...
Dec 28th
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Now *that's* being different...
When startups have to do a hip-hop video to try and differentiate themselves pitching VCs, you might think it’s gone way too far. When A BLOODY VC responds with ANOTHER HIP-HOP SEQUENCE, it’s quite clear that, no matter if a neon sign or a hip-hop scene, getting attention is all that matters. Now all we need is an impromptu for the due diligence meeting… Brilliant, but...
Dec 26th
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November 2011
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Nov 29th
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Nov 23rd
How To Use the “Seven Deadly Sins” to Turn... →
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Nov 20th
“I once knew a company with a problem. So they outsourced. Now they have 10...”
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Nov 20th
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Nov 15th
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Nov 11th
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Will GenY Entrepreneurship Be a Disaster? |... →
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Nov 3rd
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October 2011
27 posts
thorncp / fsck - express yourself while write Ruby
blat: fsck gem made me smile: 42.gimme_succ # => 43 ary = Array.new_array_please # => [] (1..10).each_fucking_element { |e| sum += e }
Oct 31st
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“Software Engineering expects you to always do something you’ve never done before...”
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Oct 29th
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Oct 29th
WatchWatch
that’s quite a bit of code… theatlanticvideo: You Are Data—4MB to Be Exact Bits and Base Pairs explores the concept that the information encoded in our DNA can be compressed down to just 4MB, the equivalent, for example, of “the three floppy disks you owned in 1999.” To think of ourselves as mere data can feel mundane (the scientists who worked out the compression called their...
Oct 26th
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thedistanceinsidious asked: Yes, which makes both operators pretty much just handy tools, albeit not phenomenally game-changing. I would honestly prefer to handle the logic for either case (||= or =||) manually in my code simply because I'm more a fan of the very atomic language constructs when another way isn't significantly faster or more practical for some other compounding reason. I'll admit, I don't...
Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
thedistanceinsidious asked: About your not-nil-assign operator: It cuts down on the number of lines within a program in a somewhat noticeable way which is nice [though, in many cases, any situation with this kind of assign so it's not nil bit can be rewritten cleaner], but I don't see it being phenomenally useful. By incorporating it, you're deviating from Ruby standardization and saving little or no...
Oct 26th
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Improving Ruby, one operator at a time...
There’s this very, very handy operator in Ruby that only attributes value to some stuff it it’s nil. Let’s call it “assign if var is nil”: some_var = nil some_var ||= this will_stick some_var ||= this_wont_stick But how about the OPPOSITE of that? I.e. what if I want to assign a value only if the value is not nil? Introducing: the “assign if stuff is not...
Oct 25th
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