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I hear a lot about how enterprise software can learn from startups, is there anything startups can learn from enterprise?

For me, learning Haskell was a supremely educational experience. There is no better way to learn functional programming techniques and you will not regret learning it. That said I …

Elixir! On one hand it has a simple ruby-ish syntax and a solid MVC framework (Phoenix). On the other hand it has immutability, concurrency through processes and message passing (w…

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SEEKING WORK - REMOTE OR TAMPA FLORIDA My name is Erik Christensen email me at christensen.em@gmail.com I can do Rails or Javascript (Angular and Backbone) or Node or Python Recent…

I went through a period of depression two years back. My family and friends were the last people to notice it. I put on a strong face for them and went out of my way not to worry t…

There are many problems with the current crop of MOOCs, I'll be the first to admit that. In their current state they are not an alternative. That said, the argument advanced agains…

Now this is awesome. No room for ads though, so I doubt anything like it will ever happen.

Seconding Mindfulness in Plain English. I am a much healthier person today because of that book.

Check out recipes with backbone. I was in a similar place(past to do apps, but not ready for anything substantial) and I found it to be a great help. Truth be told, there is not a …

http://recipeswithbackbone.com/ Check out this book. It sounds like what you are looking for.

If I may add to this, I found it really helpful to comment out every line as I went. Even today, when I want to learn new languages or frameworks I pick a repo on github and copy t…

I'm the same way. I use a txt file that I keep on my desktop. It does the job.

What they are doing is legal, yeah, but it is pretty much textbook "vulture fund" behavior.

It seemed like a pretty obvious reference to 2666 to me. The first part of the book has a number of dream sequences where its characters will just list off philosophers and put the…

Didn't Jobs want Apple to work on a car next?

The menu behind the content UI Pattern is actually one of the suggested UI patterns in the official Android style guide.

My biggest gripe with Pulse and similar readers is that clicking on a headline takes me to an article stub with an option to click a link to the full article. Just take me to the a…

This may work for crude made to measure suits, but bespoke is often more about trial and error than incredibly precise measurement. It also has a lot to do with the preferences of …

This may work for the initial fitting, but that is a relatively one. Some of the later fittings, particularly in the shoulder areas are more difficult and more trial/error.

Do you have a tailor? I buy cheaper department store clothing and have it tailored. It fits me like a glove. The quality isn't quite the same, but the price come out in my favor.

It may only be the top 0.01% but there are also only really a handful of established tailors who offer full bespoke. I really doubt there are more than 100, maybe 200 tops. They se…

Tropical weight worsted, seersucker, linen, all work pretty well. Tropical worsted in particular is what I steer my friends towards usually as it looks about the same as a normal w…

yeah. Its a great resource but a little over the top at times and the repeated questions wear you down.

This is awesome! Definitely using it!