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This is how you actually teach people to program 3 May 2012 | 09:50 am
This won't be a short post, but it'll give you a summary of close to a year's worth of trying to teach people how to program. We know what works and what doesn't, and so far there's a lot of stuff out...
why do people still buy books? 15 Sep 2011 | 12:24 pm
there's been a lot going on recently with books. i've been watching eric ries and i'm blown away by how successful he's been at promoting his book the lean startup. i saw that @dharmesh wrote about it...
The predictable criticism of my latest VentureBeat post 19 Jun 2011 | 10:57 am
I've heard a few people criticize my advice when I wrote "How To Land Meetings with Anyone", although the response has overwhelmingly been very positive. It's one of the most-liked stories (by Faceboo...
startups open sourced is out, go grab it! (and how to deal with traffic) 2 May 2011 | 07:28 pm
forgot i haven't written anything on my personal blog about the book i announced last week, and the follow up that i just wrote today. this tweet summarizes how today has gone for me. what a ride. i ...
scrape wikipedia 22 Apr 2011 | 10:57 am
built a quick recursive wikipedia scraper with depth limit in ruby because wget was an epic fail. uses nokogiri, which is excellent for using CSS selectors. this script will recursively get all categ...
scrape hn 4 Mar 2011 | 08:39 pm
working on a search engine and i am using hacker news as a test forum. if anyone needs to do something similar, feel free to use my simple scraper: grab top stories from hacker news grab all commen...
where did the idea for foursquare's badges come from? 2 Mar 2011 | 10:32 am
i got to ask some questions i had always wondered about when i spoke to dennis crowley today, one of the cofounders of foursquare. i wanted to know what inspired him to come up with the badges, which ...
hacking your apartment's electronic entry system 24 Feb 2011 | 07:10 pm
i was talking to a founder of a startup since i'm publishing a book in april (shameless plug: it's about how many of today's startups came to be and the founders' stories). i ask every founder to answ...
math behind dope wars drug trading for profit 14 Jan 2011 | 05:31 pm
disclaimer: this is not a complex analysis on the statistics of trading and risk in a game like dope wars. it's mostly an uncovering of how simple the trading actually is, and is my attempt to offer ...
navigator.geolocation working only sometimes or not working at all 3 Jan 2011 | 11:21 am
really annoying if you've ever worked with navigator.geolocation, you'll realize that sometimes it just doesn't work at all. i thought there was some type of rate limiting where you can only make a r...
