software crafting is 3 things
engineers:
- want to know their work will go somewhere meaningful
- need access to the best tools to do the work
- need the space (c.f. time) to do the work as right as possible
THAT’S IT. 90% of blogs professing to explain what motivates software engineers, or what makes software engineering work, are bullshit. also, “software engineering” is bullshit. we code.
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Cool Things I Saw at MacWorld 2012
Poldera.com
Rad 6-foot long iPhone cables!
j5create.com
Makers of “The Wormhole Switch” — brilliant name.
neat.com
Rad little receipt and paper scanner – @dugsong has one of these. #want
SolarJoos.com
big hype on solar chargers (20 hours to charge, are you fucking KIDDING me?), but nice design
Heatma.ps
like crazyegg for iPad app designers. Dumb idea but cool execution.
Grifiti.com
iPhone and iPad tripod mounts for use with TelePrompTer software. I need this.
BeYellou.com
clean, beautifully made cases in nice colors
Bobo-group.com
Makers of the im.play wireless audio / video streamer hardware device. Interesting to me because AirPlay always dies for me in my apt.
Miraizon.com
Makers of Cinematize 3, some kind of artisanal DVD ripping app thing
HubInnovations.com
Makers of the very futuristic “Prizm” metal iPad and iPhone stands
OrigAudio.com
weird cube speaker things, supposedly Time magazines “50 best inventions of the year”… because we all look to magazines as our source of innovations.
OpaLang.org
the only vendor I saw who mentioned open source. some new goofy language with strong static typing, supposedly someone at Facebook has used it. No idea.
BlueMic.com
nice pro-sumer mica and shock mounts
Kanexlive.com
no idea what these guys were shilling but they had some great hexagonal print materials.
Corpcom.co
super rad mini speakers. also! these guys had a TINY (smaller than an ipad) sized digital DJ mixer with crossfader: totally insane. also, worst domain name ever.
iBattz.com
more nice cases
NatureSpace.com
Relax, meditate, escape, sleep: cool audio chillout stuff.
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cool.io - cool event driven programming for Ruby →
It seems like there is a common pattern with many libraries: You have your full stack solution, and then you have your lean and mean one. Ruby on Rails has its counterpart in Sinatra, for example. So what about event-driven programming frameworks, like EventMachine or Node.js?
Enter cool.io:
require 'rubygems' require 'cool.io' ADDR = '127.0.0.1' PORT = 4321 cool.io.server ADDR, PORT do on_connect do puts "#{remote_addr}:#{remote_port} connected" end on_close do puts "#{remote_addr}:#{remote_port} disconnected" end on_read do |data| write data end end puts "Echo server listening on #{ADDR}:#{PORT}" cool.io.runPretty cool. Cool.io is trying to make evented programming really easy, which is good, because this style of programming is a bit different than your usual kinds of web programming.
Under the hood, Cool.io is built on top of
libev, which hooks it up to various system calls on different operating systems for doing this kind of thing in a blazing fast manner. Then again, my OS developer buddies would kill me for calling a system call ‘performant,’ but that’s a different story… what it boils down to is that Cool.io doesn’t reinvent the wheel: epoll on Linux, kqueue on BSD and OSX…Personally, I’ve been meaning to write some software in the evented style, but I haven’t had the time to appropriately level up my Javascript skills yet. Cool.io just might be the ticket to building something more than just a toy example or two.
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What’s the case for Constructive Capitalism? Why should you be a Constructive Capitalist?
The simplest reason is: because Constructive Capitalists don’t just outperform—they redraw the boundaries of disruptive outperformance.
The chart shows the performance of Constructive Capitalists vis a vis market indices (the Nasdaq, S&P 500, and Dow Jones) over the last decade. Here’s the rub. A broad enough basket of equities can only go up, right? Wrong. In a stark contradiction of the conventional wisdom, the noughties were the worst decade in financial history. If you’d put $1000 into the markets in 2000, you would have, for the first time in recent financial history, lost roughly 20-30% of your money, and been left with only $700-800 at the end of the decade.
But if you’d invested the same $1000 in the Constructive Capitalist portfolio—a cohort of radical institutional innovators, focused on constructive advantage, smart growth, and thick value—you would have more than tripled your returns (or, in the Street’s jargon, achieved an “alpha” of over 300%).
Yet, that’s just the beginning of the story. What’s more significant is that the performance of Constructive Capitalists isn’t just countercyclical, skyrocketing during the downturn, and then collapsing during today’s nascent, halting recovery. Rather, they are rebounding harder and more intensely than the markets—suggesting that their performance is structurally disruptive. They’ve built stronger economic foundations, that underpin structural outperformance, deeply rooted superiority in 21st century terms—because, as I discuss in the Manifesto, Constructive Capitalists aren’t just seeking industrial age efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness: they’re taking a quantum leap beyond them.
Want to join them? The lessons are simple. If you’re a C-suiter, get constructive. If you’re an entrepreneur, seek a constructive advantage. If you’re an investor, invest in constructive firms, markets, and economies. And if you don’t, won’t, or can’t—well, then, maybe you should prepare to be structurally disrupted.
Why does mattering matter? There’s a lot more to the case for Constructive Capitalism, of course, than mere financial superiority—competitive context, social relevance, engaged people, stronger foundations, more enduring growth. But if you’re looking for a place to begin, you can start with the hard truth that even in 20th century terms, 21st century renegades outperform—disruptively.
Source: thenewcapitalistmanifesto
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The Pepsi Challenge: 140 Proof beats Facebook Ad Engagement by 50x! →
It’s the Pepsi Challenge for advertising.
We created two ads for our intern position and ran them on both the Facebook ad platform and the 140 Proof network. The ads had the same copy and graphic, the same targeting, and the same landing page. Except for the different format requirements of…
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“I believe in MOTION. I believe in CHAOS. I believe in taking what happens as inevitable. Lightning STRIKES. It RAINS. You get ILL. You get NOMINATED. The photon SHATTERS the molecule, the electrons SHOOT OFF in all directions, and I BEHOLD the mineral around me!”
The what?
“THINGS SHOOT OFF!” Shatner exults. “That’s our lives!”
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The Goal
- Create an app relying on customer discovery and lean startup methods.
- Let users demonstrate what app they need and how the app should behave — without writing any code.
- Launch a minimum feature set, re-test it with users, and iterate constantly.
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Taken while putting up the Christmas tree.
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