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On diversity at conferences 9 Jan 2013 | 07:57 pm
There’s never a shortage of controversy about diversity in tech (or non-tech) conferences; I have probably written about this in the past—I honestly don’t remember—and now that, after a decade of orga...
I am Jack’s complete lack of understanding of the mobile industry 19 Dec 2012 | 03:38 am
Via Daring Fireball, I came across this article by one “Tyler Durden,” who claims that Apple is in such huge trouble that they’ve been forced to allow Walmart to sell the iPhone 5 for “a third off the...
Tabini, out! 17 Dec 2012 | 09:52 pm
Well, it’s official. In a little less than two weeks, php|architect will pass in the care of very capable new hands. The expression “mixed feelings” has been so overused as to have lost all its meanin...
Piracy just is 30 Nov 2012 | 09:21 pm
Marco Arment, Cable companies aren’t “forcing” people into piracy: Realistically, nobody’s going to stop you from pirating it, but you can’t argue that you’re justified in pirating it. Admit it: you’r...
Redundancy, squared 27 Nov 2012 | 12:58 am
While having a conversation with a friend over the weekend, we somehow ended up discussing redundancy (I think we were talking about spacecraft at the time, but we could have as easily been discussing...
The power of “no” 21 Nov 2012 | 07:49 pm
Reading through the latest issue of The Magazine, I came across a piece by Marco Arment titled Anti-Apple Anger. In it, Marco says: Apple’s products say “no” a lot. No, you can’t have that hardware ke...
Apple doesn’t need to buy Twitter 20 Nov 2012 | 06:58 pm
Patrick B. Gibson (via Marco Arment), Apple and Twitter: Almost anything Apple does which involves the internet is a mess, save for their excellent web browser teams. … Here’s what I’m getting at: App...
You need math to be a good programmer, and that’s a good thing 19 Nov 2012 | 07:43 pm
It’s not uncommon—in fact, it hasn’t been uncommon for many years—to come across two kinds of archetypal articles or blog posts about the difficulty of learning to develop software: The “No Math and E...
A network of one 16 Nov 2012 | 07:23 pm
I was in the crowd at WWDC when Steve Jobs took the stage and first announced iCloud sync in 2011; I remember thinking to myself that it was either going to be an amazing product, or a complete dud. I...
Negotiations for beginners, part one 15 Nov 2012 | 08:43 pm
If you run a business of any kind, it soon becomes apparent that the ability to negotiate effectively is a pretty important part of your daily job. Negotiations affect everything from managing client ...
