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February 28, 2011
The Gap
There exists a gap between what's required to do stuff folks want to do and the actual knowledge they have to go make it happen.
February 25, 2011
Code Complete
When I started hn-books, it was just a lark. Still is, really. One of the things I enjoyed doing was listening to hackers talk about how great certain books were, then going off and reading them myself. With this latest...
February 22, 2011
Book Pushers
The last large contract I worked on, we had the book guy -- you know, the guy who brought a new book in every week. Each book was awesome, and many of us usually gathered around to hear how he...
February 21, 2011
The Mythical Man-Month
Just got through reading Fred Brook's "The Mythical Man-Month" over the weekend. Very interesting and thought-provoking book! It works both as a story of how the IBM System/360 was built, a story about how software development used to happen, and...
February 20, 2011
Programmer as Market
A lot of tools are very useful, no doubt. But we need to be extremely careful that we are not being taken into some kind of imaginary marketing world that doesn't exist for anybody else just for purposes of feeling like we're cool.
February 18, 2011
Understanding Flowcharts
Found this old xeroxed piece of paper I picked up somewhere that explains flowcharts....
February 16, 2011
The 3-Letter Hacker Dirty Word: SEO
It's interesting that whenever you mention "SEO" in the context of startups many folks get very bothered. I think it's because, as hackers, we view everything in the world as some sort of computer program. We program the computer, we...
February 15, 2011
Nattering Nabobs of Hacker News
How do you deal with a negative comment online? Turns out that's not an easy question to answer, and the answer I've found is counter-intuitive....
February 12, 2011
Being Left Alone
Where does your right to be left alone end and society's right to bother you begin?
February 9, 2011
Nourishing a Culture of Failure
Everybody and their brother is talking about creating innovation nowadays. Where I live, our president, my state governor, my legislators (both local, state, and national), and the newspapers are all talking about how great startups and innovation is and how...
February 7, 2011
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Just got through reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" This is one of those books that I have heard hackers rave about for years, but never bothered to read myself. Heck, I even bought the book a year...
Continue reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
February 6, 2011
Hamburger Casserole Recipes FTW!
We published our first ebook. Here are the mistakes.
February 4, 2011
Media, Morals, and Money
In fact, I don't think it's impossible to run a technology company without being able to make good moral decisions. Here are just a few of the moral questions I've faced:
February 2, 2011
A Deepness In The Sky
Just got through reading a great sci-fi book, "A Deepness In The Sky" The last startup book I read was so good that I felt like it was best to switch to sci-fi for a bit while I digest all...
February 1, 2011
Surrendering to the Devil
The devil has won, and it's time for the rest of us to join up.