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Needs a [2012] in the title.

Add to this: transparent pricing. Most developers I know are highly allergic to "Call for a quote!" For enterprise pricing, this can be unavoidable, but a ballpark is nice. Or say …

I've always considered this video the canonical example of intentionally misleading censorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA

At first glance, the colorful layout (and the introductory tone of the first page) made me think this was a brochure page for a company specializing in CRO. It's not - it's a compr…

Gladwell seems to be making the point that doping in sports is a sort of reverse Harrison Bergeron, with the have-nots needing to "cheat" to get to the same level as the geneticall…

This resonates with me on many levels. The main point - that clear and unemotional communication is key - applies obviously to all your relationships and not just those with a busi…

This is true - yet I'm pleased to see that the 37signals blog posts which are starting make it to the top of HN are those with more depth. For a while, it seemed like all of the on…

What we do is to back up the staging DB, overwrite it with the current production DB, then run the necessary migrations on stage to get the schema up-to-date. This has a couple of …

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If you follow the link to the more detailed blog post, Andrew shows how he was able to speed up the data transformation script by a factor of 60 by using ALTER TABLE statements to …