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How Vested are You?
To have a “vested interest” in something means you need to have actually invested something. Hearing someone who’d been paid for their time, had reneged twice on offers to actually invest in a business, and had nothing tied up in the business itself claim a “vested interest” felt incredibly wrong.
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Attention Span
The majority of this site’s content – 470+ individual articles – goes relatively unnoticed. I personally go back and review the archives from time to time and am absolutely floored by some of the content I find.
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Net Neutrality: Crowdsourcing Data
Network throttling is a dick move on the part of ISPs. According to some, though, it’s already happening.
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PHP: Read Only Attributes
Like in JavaScript, sometimes you want an object property in PHP to be read-only. This is pretty easy to set up!
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JavaScript: Read Only Attributes
Sometimes you want a property of an object in JavaScript to be read-only. Thanks to newer language features, this is pretty easy to set up!
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Someday is the Enemy of Progress
If you plan to reach your goal “someday,” it’s a dream. Not an objective.
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Making the Decision for Open Source
At some point in your career, you might find yourself weighing the pros and cons of open source as it relates to your business.
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Why Doesn’t Someone Do Something?
When tragedy strikes, there’s no end to the number of people crying out in public for us to ban together and “do something.”
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Intrinsic Value
To often, we take the things around us that are purchasable for granted.
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It’s a Dirty Job …
I insist that everyone on my team reviews code, and that everyone’s code goes through review before it hits the server. Two sets of eyes are always better than one.