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Technology & Marketing Law Blog « Google Wins Trade Secret Lawsuit Over Ill-Fated Coffee Meeting--Booloon v. Google | Main May 29, 2012 Illinois Supreme Court Says Woman Deceived by Fake…
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Sir Jonathan Ive
As Apple’s senior vice-president of industrial design, he is the driving force behind the firm’s products, from the Mac computer to the iPod, iPhone and, most recently, the iPad. He…
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11 weeks ago
Getting started with Readability for iPhone
Congratulations! Your Readability account has been created. You’re moments away from saving anything you find on the web to your iPhone for reading on your terms—anytime, anywhere. If…
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12 weeks ago
Managing Node.js Dependencies with Shrinkwrap
Photo by Luc Viatour (flickr) Managing dependencies is a fundamental problem in building complex software. The terrific success of github and npm have made code reuse especially easy in the Node…
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february 2012
Wage slave? or slave to the wage?
One of the cover stories in this month’s Fair Lady is on how to STOP BEING A WAGE SLAVE NOW! Just in case we thought it was something we could sleep on there is the exclamation mark, red…
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february 2012
This is Garrett Murray's
I’m frequently asked via Tumblr (and email) which applications and utilities we use at Karbon to get work done. Consider this an up-to-date, complete list of the applications, tools and…
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february 2012
10 sql tips to speed up your database
10 sql tips to speed up your database On most websites, content is stored in a database and served to visitors upon request. Databases are very fast, but there’s lots of things that you can do…
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february 2012
Why I Don’t Host My Own Blog Anymore
I moved my blog over to WPEngine recently. Why? Read on. I started blogging about 375,000 words ago (about three full-length novels… crikey). At first, I was on a subdomain of WordPress.com,…
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february 2012
How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane
The must-have app on the iPhone is not iMessage. It's not iTunes or Safari or even Find My iPhone. It's Instagram, the photo-sharing app that once described itself as "quirky." Cultish would be more…
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february 2012
PHP: land of a thousand frameworks
Ask me which framework to use and I'll probably have a grumpy old woman moment and tell you that all frameworks are as bad as one another. Which is not to say they are all bad, exactly, but in PHP…
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february 2012
Writings
Publications on the critical details and big picture behind digital product design. LukeW's 11 years of writing cover Web and device strategy, interaction design, visual design, usability, and much…
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february 2012
24.12. PHP and the Lean Startup
About ten years ago there was a rumour. If you want to get things done, and if you want to get them done fast, go for PHP. Yes, it's been like a badly done perl ripoff with even worse object…
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february 2012
More than secure shell
Why SSH? As recently as a 2001, it was not uncommon to log in to a remote Unix system using telnet. Telnet is just above netcat in protocol sophistication, which means that passwords were sent in…
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february 2012
You Only Wish MongoDB Wasn’t Relational
MongoDB = Get Stuff Done Update: Changed blog example to use a normal belongs-to relationship. When choosing the stack for our TV guide service, we became interested in NoSQL dbs because we…
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february 2012
Why tabs are clearly superior
Whoever follows me on twitter or has been in the audience of one of my talks is probably aware that I despise spaces for indentation with a passion. However, I’ve never gone into the details…
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february 2012
Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery
We send a lot of mail for Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, and Campfire (and some for Sortfolio, the Jobs Board, Writeboard, and Tadalist). One of the most frequently asked questions we get is about…
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january 2012
How I Got Node.js Running On A Linux Micro Instance Using Amazon EC2
In the past, I've dabbled with Node.js (a server-side JavaScript runtime environment) on my local MacBook Pro. If you know JavaScript, it's not too hard to get something up and running on your local…
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january 2012
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january 2012
Germany Wants in on the Cannabis Club
News By Stefan Ullrich The liberal political party in Germany, "Die Linke", is pushing to make marijuana legal as long as it's cultivated in so-called Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs). Under the…
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january 2012
Jonathan Coulton
Uh oh, he’s blogging. What happened? I wrote this thing on Twitter this morning about the MegaUpload shutdown, and it’s gotten some crazy traction on the old internet. In addition,…
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january 2012
Building trello.com for multiple devices
We built Trello from the ground up to work on just about any device. It’s not a simplified version with limited features, either. Trello responds to your device’s screen size and…
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january 2012
Daemonic Dispatches
When I heard last Wednesday that Amazon was launching DynamoDB I was immediately excited. The "hard" server-side work for my Tarsnap online backup service consists mostly of two really big key-value…
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january 2012
Code as Craft
Posted by etsydavidgiffin | Filed under data, engineering, infrastructure, operations, search Many of you probably use BitTorrent to download your favorite ebooks, MP3s, and movies.  At Etsy,…
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january 2012
The Faster Web Server Alternative
This formerly obscure Web server is gaining popularity with businesses. NGINX is now the new number two Web server, largely because it promises a fast, light, open-source alternative to Apache.…
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january 2012
The Trello Tech Stack
Trello started as an HTML mockup that Justin and Bobby, the Trello design team, put together in a week. I was floored by how cool it looked and felt. Since Daniel and I joined the project to…
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january 2012
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january 2012
New York Museums and Galleries
Skip to content, or skip to search. Vulture + Agenda Stay up to speed on breaking news and the latest from the world of arts and entertainment.
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january 2012
An Important Time for Design
Design is on a roll. Client services are experiencing a major uptick in demand, seasoned design professionals are abandoning client work in favor of entrepreneurship, and designer-co-founded…
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january 2012
SOPA is a Red Herring
By Adam Curry on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM. As usual, the bought and paid for self-fulfilling tech press is missing the elephant in the room.  The blogosphere discussion surrounding…
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january 2012
What It’s Really Like to Work at Google ~ LockerGnome
Google. It’s one of the most common household words in today’s modern society, and yet for a company that is used by most of us essentially as an algorithm, it tends to trigger a highly…
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january 2012
Four Seasons unveils $18m website
Print Luxury hotel chain Four Seasons has unveiled a new website that cost an eye-watering $18m to develop. The result of the investment is a slick, bright website, with a new booking process,…
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january 2012
Technological change: The last Kodak moment?
LENIN is said to have sneered that a capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him. The quote may be spurious, but it contains a grain of truth. Capitalists quite often invent the technology that…
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january 2012
Muslims revere the Koran. But its study is not taboo—and is in some quarters increasingly daring
RELIGIONS invite stereotypes, holy texts even more so. Non-Muslims often see Islam as a faith followed by people who hew so closely to an unchanging set of words that they ignore awkward new facts…
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january 2012
Apple Reveals Its Suppliers for First Time
Apple Inc. on Friday disclosed a list of its major suppliers for the first time, moving to combat an array of criticism about working conditions in its supply chain and the company's transparency…
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january 2012
How hackers gave Subway a $30 million lesson in point-of-sale security
Update: this story has been corrected and amended based on information received from Richard James of sendpace.com. For thousands of customers of Subway restaurants around the US over the past few…
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january 2012
The Academy For Software Engineering
A number of years ago, I wrote a blog post talking about the need to teach middle school and high school students how to write software. In the comments (where the good stuff happens), a Google…
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january 2012
Next Generation
So everyone's excited about the frickin' Wii. That's how I find myself saying the name of Nintendo's upcoming game console most of the time: with an expletive as a prefix. Yes, I'm sure we're all…
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january 2012
Windsor Knot
Prince William and Kate Middleton visiting the University of St. Andrews, February 25, 2011 These should be anxious times for the House of Windsor. They are about to stage a lavish wedding at the…
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january 2012
How to use services in Mac OS X
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld.com   One of the little-known time-saving features of Mac OS X is services—hidden, single-feature commands that you can access from a special Services menu,…
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january 2012
Making the Transition from Development to Design—My Experience and Advice — Some Random Dude
A couple months ago, a person emailed me asking for tips for transitioning to design from a development background. As someone who had loosely gone through the same path (from programming to design…
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january 2012
Micro PHP's Missing Tenet
Ed Finkler's post on "MicroPHP Manifesto" made the the rounds last week. It expresses a widely felt desire lurking in the minds of PHP developers. Especially those who have spent time working with…
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january 2012
My Guantánamo Nightmare
ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my…
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january 2012
Good Math, Bad Math
It's a variation on the extremely common belief that C and C++ are the best languages to use when you need code to run fast. They're not. They're good at things that need to get very close to the…
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january 2012
Young, Obese and in Surgery
Shani Gofman, now 20, was 17 when her pediatrician first mentioned weight-loss surgery. More Photos » Though Shani Gofman had been teased for being fat since the fourth grade, she had learned…
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january 2012
Edamame Dip Recipe
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january 2012
The Market Scene Guide to Surviving Winter at the Greenmarket
Kohlrabi from Migliorelli Farms at the Union Square Greenmarket. [Photos: Ben Fishner] Here we are: it's already January, and fall's bounty has given way to what can feel like a dearth of good local…
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january 2012
John Goulah
Intro Oftentimes you need to know what MySQL is doing right now and furthermore if you are handling heavy traffic you probably have multiple instances of it running across many nodes. I’m…
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january 2012
Learning From The Masters: Level Design In The Legend Of Zelda
When going back to replay classic games I played as a kid to mine them for knowledge, I always fear that any games from the NES era or earlier are too old to learn much from. I tend to assume that…
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january 2012
Los Angeles magazine
Anyone scanning Disney Hall’s debut calendar in the fall of 2003 would have noticed the size of that first season’s schedule, 128 shows in all. That’s a weighty number for a new…
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january 2012
Practicing Ruby
Over the last year and a half, I have worked with a small group of students and staff to create an excellent online learning community at Mendicant University. Unfortunately, because Mendicant is…
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january 2012
Joel on Software
by Joel Spolsky Friday, January 06, 2012 Just a few months ago, we launched Trello, a super simple, web-based team coordination system. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and adoption has…
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january 2012
Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes.
I’ve been recently working on optimizing performance of a so-called one-page web app. The application was highly dynamic, interactive, and was heavily stuffed with new CSS3 goodness. I’m…
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january 2012
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january 2012
Are You There, God? It's-a Me, Mario!
[Enjoy this guest post from frequent contributor Richard Rosenbaum! - Ed.] Video games have been accused of promoting a wide variety of social ills: violence, misogyny, drug abuse, consumerism; the…
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january 2012
Kodak Preparing for Chapter 11 Filing
Eastman Kodak Co. is preparing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy-protection filing in the coming weeks should efforts to sell a trove of digital patents fall through, people familiar with the matter said.…
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january 2012
Why do we pay sales commissions?
Among our many cherished verities and assumed assumptions is the widespread belief—nearly universal practice actually—that salespeople are to be paid commissions. It’s the way…
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january 2012
Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters
Looking at things through a microscopesometimes leads to surprising discoveries Obviously this is an utterly preposterous statement: it’s hard to think of a more ridiculous and esoteric coding…
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january 2012
Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking
Monday, January 2, 2012 at 12:09PM There is one iOS "tip" that I keep hearing and it is wrong. Worse, I keep hearing it from supposedly authoritative sources. I have even heard it from the lips of…
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january 2012
Why Best Buy is Going out of Business...Gradually
Electronics retailer Best Buy is headed for the exits.  I can’t say when exactly, but my guess is that it’s only a matter of time, maybe a few more years. Consider a few key…
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january 2012
TVs are all awful
A discussion a couple of days ago about DPI detection (which is best summarised by this and this and I am not having this discussion again) made me remember a chain of other awful things about…
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january 2012
Call Me Fishmeal.
Saturday, January 8 SPOILER WARNING: This article is entirely full of spoilers. If you're going to play Fallout: New Vegas (and gord have pity on your soul if you do) you may not want to read this.…
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january 2012
How I Designed CodeYear.com in 1 Hour
Code Year is a great initiative by the folks behind Codecademy. The concept is simple: sign up to Code Year, and each week you’ll receive a new coding exercise. By the end of the year,…
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january 2012
12 resolutions for programmers
Go analog Programmers obsess over the discrete and the digital well past the point of diminishing returns. Thus, small investments in the analog yield comparatively large gains. Here's a starter…
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january 2012
Eight lazy ways to lose weight
Forget dieting. Shedding a few pounds could be as easy as having a lie-in, turning down the lights and getting vaccinated THE holidays are a time of excess. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we…
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january 2012
AMA the guy who replaced Paul Christoforo and is cleaning up after him.
I'm the guy who took over marketing and sales for Avenger Controllers (N-Control) and am cleaning up after Paul Christoforo's explosive mess "on wwebsite as on internet". My name is Moisés…
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january 2012
An Updated Mapping
> db.runCommand({aggregate: "DenormAggTable", pipeline: [ { $match : { Filter1 : {$in : ['A','B']}, Filter2 : 'C', Filter3 : {$gt : 123} } }, { $project : { Dim1 : 1, Dim2 : 1, Measure1 : 1,…
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december 2011
Who Needs Process?
Software development methodology is organizational Valtrex. Sure, it treats a symptom, but the only cure for the underlying disease is to never have contracted it in the first place. This is not to…
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december 2011
Graceful Moves, for a Boy Made of Metal
Charles F. Penniman, a retired museum employee, gently tended to the automaton. PHILADELPHIA — What makes an automaton tick? For the one on display at the Franklin Institute here, the…
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december 2011
Automating deployment with Fabric
22 December, 2011 Lately as part of my work, and as part of trying to make changes faster on my personal site, I have been trying to really ease deployment. I encourage people to release early,…
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december 2011
The Single Step
Why there might not be enough Raspberry Pi to go around The incendiary prediction I'm starting this post off with an incendiary statement. You're probably not going to get your $25 linux computer.…
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december 2011
Reactivate Skype Credit
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december 2011
Netflix
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december 2011
Hacker News
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december 2011
MintyBoost'd!
http://adafruit.com/products/14 MintyBoost v3.0 Kit Oh man, I have seriously looked at purchasing this thing 3 or 4 times. The video tutorials at adafruit are top notch. I'll be heading over to my…
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december 2011
Amazon Doesn’t Care About Your Local Bookstore
True Colors Feminist Co-Op Bookstore in Minneapolis, formerly Amazon Bookstore. Photo by Ed Kohler; Used Gratefully under a Creative Commons License Here are two surprising holiday shopping season…
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december 2011
kickingbear
When you unboxed my hypothetical Apple Television Set you would find three devices inside. There would be a lovely large display panel with an impossibly thin bezel (unadorned by an Apple logo).…
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december 2011
betashop
Let’s face it, fundraising can be a real pain in the ass for the entrepreneur. It takes up a ton of time that can be otherwise spent managing the business. Sure, it’s a necessary evil,…
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december 2011
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december 2011
Daniel Craig exclusive interview – with Time Out Film
Daniel Craig is doing a terrific impression of a smiling buffoon. The actor is explaining how he’s rubbish at grinning on demand and is always branded ‘mean and moody’ whenever…
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december 2011
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