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Startup fallacy: Low Reward != Low Risk
You’ve heard it before. Things that tend to have higher risk exhibit higher reward, and lower risk exhibit lower reward. You’ve seen it in Las Vegas casinos. You’ve seen it in your 401k choices....
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Reduce stress with 3 operational modes
A large part of stress is thinking about something that worries you for too long or in a repeated cyclic fashion. It can happen very naturally, as our minds can be free to wander at any given time in...
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Design Study: Mint.com
One of my favorite web designs is Mint.com. Here’s their header: The lightweight simplicity of the logo, menu, and white space is very appealing to me. Nothing looks too crowded or overwhelming. But...
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Why GPL Rules
With the recent media buzz around SOPA and PITA, as well as on-going debates about MPAA and software piracy, it helps to take a step back to see what all the fuss is about. At the root of the debate...
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Wannabe Founders are Not Leaving the Nest
Venture capitalists are eager to give their money away to a great startup idea. Yet, one of the chief complaints is a lack of great ideas. How can this be? You can take a stroll down Silicon Valley...
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Success Comes from Joy
Some of the greatest things we all love and use today have been created, not by business masterminds, but rather by people who explored their creativity. Everything from computers, the Internet, to...
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High Quality Code is Not a Business Goal
Engineering for business is clearly not the same as engineering in an opensource, academic, or hobbyist environment. One of the key differences is that deadlines and business value change the...
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Cyclic Dependency Injection and Making a Choice
Cyclic dependency injection is your code asking you to make a choice rather than remain on the fence. Here’s a story of what happened in my case. I ran across a troubling case of cyclic dependency...
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Client-Side Apps, REST APIs, and CDN Caching
Rich client-side applications written in Javascript (such as those using Backbone.js, Ember, etc) are quickly replacing many server-side implementations (such as those that render pages using PHP,...
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The Worthless Dollar
The real estate market has dried up. In the first wave, everyone who felt the pressure of a crashing housing market tried to sell their home as quickly as possible before it fell any further. This, of...
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