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Centro | Application, Data, QA Engineering roles | Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco | ONSITE, Full-Time | http://centro.net We build Basis, Centro's answer to the challenging and co…

I've recorded all kinds of music in Ableton. The main thing you have to cope with is Ableton expects you to work with a constant tempo on a grid, although it doesn't force you to i…

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I don't think they _should_, I just think they _will_. Really, what international megachain wants people doing "social experiments" with their customer-loyalty infrastructure?

And Starbucks shuts this down in 5... 4... 3... 2...

It's not actually that there are more artists, it's that the Apple bazaar has attracted customers who are willing to pay money for the art.

In other news, Wal-Mart stocks a lot more clothes than Armani Exchange.

He didn't raise a stink about Twitter trying to monetize, he raised a stink about them making a well-designed app ugly and less relevant to its users.

He didn't raise a stink about Twitter trying to monetize, he raised a stink about them making a well-designed app ugly and less relevant to its users.

I would have preferred a list with more editorial input than "listed in the order received." As a math novice, I'd be much more interested to learn what Salman Khan's favorite math…

My employer paid for a branding agency and wound up throwing away most of their names and settling on a name we came up with ourselves. They did give us one good name that I wound …

If your product is killer I don't think it matters what your domain name is. People are going to get the word out. Look at "blekko" for crying out loud.

My favorite sentence: "I manage to form relatively brilliant sentences compared to my peers." I bet your peers absolutely love working with you.

Back in the day (around the turn of the century) I worked for a startup building a web application using Common Lisp. We used a framework called IMHO, which was developed in-house …

Is that the app that lets you watch them send your password to the Russian spam factory in real time?

I'll try this as soon as somebody proves to me it doesn't immediately send my GMail password to a Russian spam factory.

Web Application Engineers, IxD, Support, QA - Chicago/San Francisco, USA Centro is writing web apps in Ruby and Javascript with the intent of overthrowing the tyranny of Excel and …

Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA Centro LLC ( http://centro.net ) is looking for Ruby and JavaScript experts, product development folks and testers. We are building a SproutCore-in-th…