RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (by theRSAorg)
Scott Adams wrote this post today, March 7 2011, on his blog and then deleted it.
The topic my readers most want me to address is something called men’s rights. (See previous post.) This is a surprisingly good topic. It’s dangerous. It’s relevant. It isn’t overdone. And apparently you care.
what matters is not experience per se but “effortful study,” which entails continually tackling challenges that lie just beyond one’s competence.
Gradle has shown an impressive set of features and documentation even though it hasn’t release 1.0 GA (it’s on a milestone 1.0, almost there). Other major Java frameworks like Hibernate and Spring are now moving away from Maven and will use Gradle instead. Now that’s a trend to watch out for!
Frameworkitis is the disease that a framework wants to do too much for you or it does it in a way that you don’t want but you can’t change it. It’s fun to get all this functionality for free, but it hurts when the free functionality gets in the way.
A few frameworks come in to mind when I think about this disease: EJB classic, Spring, and the notorious Maven…
Think (by beaubaphat)
Everyone has their beliefs as to how they fit into the world. However, only those who think for themselves, rather than blindly follow, will truly experience the real world. This animated tale is about one character’s journey learning that lesson.
2nd prize winner in the 2011 Project-Reason Video contest.
Inspirational talk from GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner, on the realities on startups, how to bootstrap ideas and how to make it grow to something big.
Marco Arment, the founder of Instapaper and former CTO of Tumblr, had some interesting comments on the recent dissent on Twitter, compliments of their new “dickbar” feature. As I read it, I realized that Twitter is turning the corner from a beloved, worry-about-making-money-later company into a…
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Now the company is in the hands of a true corporate radical.
