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Commas for Developers
Brent Simmons pays attention to the details and gets right to the point: If your writing — in tweets and especially on your blog and product pages — is full of misspellings and improper capitalization and other errors, I will lose trust in you and your product. If you’re careless with language, are you also… More →
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Sharding & IDs at Instagram (2012)
Back in 2012, Instagram Engineering wrote about sharding & IDs. I re-read it yesterday and this particular requirement for their ID generation system still stands out: The system should introduce as few new ‘moving parts’ as possible—a large part of how we’ve been able to scale Instagram with very few engineers is by choosing simple,… More →
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Why Small Choices Count
Brett & Kate McKay explain why our everyday choices make or break our integrity. Once you commit one dishonest act, your moral standards loosen, your self-perception as an honest person gets a little hazier, your ability to rationalize goes up, and your fudge factor margin increases. Where you draw the line between ethical and unethical,… More →
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Serve Del Mar: Timelapse
I was on gum-removal duty last Saturday (so I’m not in this video), but this is a really cool timelapse of another Serve Del Mar project that renovated the school’s teacher’s lounge. Via Jay Kim. More →
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Contempt for humanity?
There is a very real danger of our drifting into an attitude of contempt for humanity. We know quite well that we have no right to do so, and that it would lead us into the most sterile relation to our fellow-men. […] Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from… More →
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Starting at Apple
I will help small businesses succeed by building Apple Business Essentials — a product which brings together device management, 24/7 Apple support, and iCloud storage into flexible subscription plans. More →