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Coding Horror has been updated @ 04:33 am, Nov 05/09
I've spent a significant part of my life online. Not just on the internet, I mean, but on modems and early, primitive online communities. Today's internet is everything we couldn't have possibly...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 01:07 am, Nov 03/09
That Stack Overflow thing we launched a year ago? It's been going pretty well so far. Of course, everyone knows you could code Stack Overflow in a long weekend. It's trivial. Assembling a...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 03:25 pm, Oct 26/09
After I posted my blog entry on Treating User Myopia I got a lot of advice. Some useful, some not so useful. But the one bit of advice I hadn't anticipated was that we were not making good use of...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 11:59 pm, Oct 22/09
I try not to talk too much about the trilogy here, because there's a whole other blog for that stuff. But some of the lessons I've learned in the last year while working on them really put into...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 10:00 pm, Oct 18/09
If the internet has perfected anything, it's the art of the crappy, phoned-in, half-assed email "interview". For all those who have bemoaned the often pathetic state of internet journalism, when...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 11:59 pm, Oct 13/09
I've seen a lot of people play The Computer Performance Shell Game poorly. They overinvest in a fancy CPU, while pairing it with limited memory, a plain jane hard drive, or a generic video card....
Coding Horror has been updated @ 02:38 am, Oct 12/09
Links are the fundamental building blocks of the web. And every time I click on one, I can't help recalling the odd visionary who came up with the original idea of clickable links in text, aka...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 02:00 am, Sep 28/09
How often do you check your email per day? Does checking your email make you more productive or less productive? Oh, sure, we delude ourselves into thinking we're being extra-productive by...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 10:51 am, Sep 10/09
I recently read Predictably Irrational. It's a fascinating examination of why human beings are wired and conditioned to react irrationally. We human beings are a selfish bunch, so it's all...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 11:59 pm, Sep 02/09
Are you familar with happy talk? If you're not sure whether something is happy talk, there's one sure-fire test: if you listen very closely while you're reading it, you can actually hear a tiny...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 11:59 pm, Aug 27/09
The Gamasutra article Dirty Coding Tricks is a fantastic read. One part of it in particular rang true for me. Consider the load of pain I found myself in when working on a conversion of a 3D...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 11:59 pm, Aug 24/09
We may kid ourselves into thinking we're writing out of some sense of public good, or to create connections, or contribute some small bit of knowledge to the world. But let's face it. Most of us...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 11:59 pm, Aug 19/09
Do you remember Microsoft Bob? If you do, you probably remember it as an intensely marketed but laughable failure -- what some call the "number one flop" at Microsoft. There's no question...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 03:57 am, Aug 14/09
Michael Braude decries the popularity of web programming: The reason most people want to program for the web is that they're not smart enough to do anything else. They don't understand...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 11:59 pm, Aug 11/09
Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy describes how many of today's websites are built by the users themselves: It's dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood...
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