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04/27/10--00:15: TDD without the T (chan 1775767)

Writing tests turned me off the whole enterprise so much that eventually I decided I'd just write without them. And nothing awful happened! In fact, it was as much a breath of fresh air as I'd first felt when I started. What gives?


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05/04/10--08:37: Looking for Beta Testers (chan 1775767)

My startup, codechart, is looking for beta testers.


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05/07/10--00:45: Chicken Little and 3.3.1′s Great Big Loophole (chan 1775767)

3.3.1 has a Great Big Loophole, so why all the fuss?


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The sky is falling!

05/18/10--02:26: Start In The Middle (chan 1775767)

Middle in the start you shall.


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Cornflakes

Looking inside a program

05/20/10--01:51: A Song Is Worth 1093 Words (chan 1775767)

"We're only wastin' time"


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Craig Lyons

06/06/10--13:46: Is That All? (chan 1775767)

What did Yahoo's bosses say when they saw Google's homepage for the first time? Why are 37signals so militant about saying 'no' to extra features? What did the Apple engineers think when Jobs told then to make a phone with one button?


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06/23/10--01:15: Criminal Overengineering (chan 1775767)

A vast proportion of software at work today is horribly over-engineered for its task. And I'm not talking about the interfaces, about having too many controls or options for the users. These are, indeed, terrible sins but they are the visible ones. The worst of the overengineering goes on under the surface, in the code itself.


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07/29/10--07:36: Make Exceptions (chan 1775767)

I used to think removing special cases – the extra if statement that handles the unusual file format that doesn’t quite fit – was the best way to improve my programming. Every time I had to add a special case to a function it meant I wasn’t solving the problem generally enough. In a way, [...]


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Doing It Right

08/04/10--05:38: Discipline: Be The Machine (chan 1775767)

People giving advice on how to make a million dollars often say things like “be a machine”. It’s just an expression, right? They’re trying to say that you should stay focused and work long, hard hours to the exclusion of all else. Aren’t they? No, I don’t think so. I think they’re trying to express [...]


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It's Hard To Argue With Science

Paul Graham Loves Discipline

It's a tenuous connection, I know



09/08/10--20:03: Yield Thought Has Moved (chan 1775767)

I’ve been happy here at wordpress.com, but it’s time to move to a new home: Adverts? On my blog? No thanks. Wait, how many dollars per year to get rid of them? I really need to be able to use javascript here. Gists, analytics, everything worth having uses javascript. Having one name for the blog [...]


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