professorplumb

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by professorplumb 2y ago
Needs a [2012] in the title.
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by professorplumb 2y ago
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 you can offer steep discounts in the right situati
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by professorplumb 4y ago
I've always considered this video the canonical example of intentionally misleading censorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA
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Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die in a Fire (2014)(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
36 points by professorplumb 10y ago|5 comments
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Why C++ Programmers Aren't Moving to Go(commandcenter.blogspot.it)
14 points by professorplumb 13y ago|3 comments
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by professorplumb 13y ago
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 comprehensive and detailed 12-chapter summary of best p
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Post-Clinton, Post-Obama: The Rise of the New New Political Left(thedailybeast.com)
1 points by professorplumb 13y ago|0 comments
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by professorplumb 13y ago
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 genetically gifted haves. What happens, though, when the mos
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by professorplumb 13y ago
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 business partner. I also like that he brings up the Puritan wor
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Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?(thelowdownblog.com)
1 points by professorplumb 13y ago|0 comments
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72 Posters of Real Design Feedback from Clients(theultralinx.com)
2 points by professorplumb 13y ago|0 comments
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by professorplumb 13y ago
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 ones making the front page were simple platitudes with n
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Riddle of the Script: How Linear B Was Solved(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by professorplumb 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Productive People Get Up Insanely Early(fastcompany.com)
19 points by professorplumb 13y ago|8 comments
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by professorplumb 13y ago
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 side benefits: - "Dry" run of the migrations you&#
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Fitts's Law and UX Design: How to Help Your Users Succeed(asktog.com)
1 points by professorplumb 13y ago|0 comments
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US Airways/American Airlines Merger: Less Competition, Higher Fares(slate.com)
2 points by professorplumb 14y ago|0 comments
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Dropzone.js - JS library for drag-and-drop file uploads with image previews(dropzonejs.com)
206 points by professorplumb 14y ago|32 comments
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by professorplumb 14y ago
Is there a way to sign up to be notified when a new version is available?
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No-contract plan on AT&T's network through Walmart and Straight Talk(macrumors.com)
1 points by professorplumb 14y ago|0 comments
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The Case for Governing by Lottery: Should we pick our leaders at random?(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by professorplumb 14y ago|0 comments
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Lawsuit targeting MLB's blackout policy to proceed(sports.yahoo.com)
12 points by professorplumb 14y ago|1 comments
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by professorplumb 14y ago
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 cast column types after the fact rather than rewriting every
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Ask HN: What's your mobile development setup?
1 points by professorplumb 14y ago|0 comments
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Meet Li-Fi, the LED-based alternative to household Wi-Fi(wired.co.uk)
4 points by professorplumb 15y ago|1 comments
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Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares(online.wsj.com)
2 points by professorplumb 15y ago|0 comments