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Is Entrepreneurship the Right Answer, Right Now?
For perspective, I should note that most of my friends and acquaintances, or most of the people I associate with, are entrepreneurs. The kind of people I find most interesting are self-actuating...
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During the course of the last few years, my Myers-Briggs psychological profile changed. It has been interesting to watch the transformation, and only recently did I discover the change in my score. If...
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When I started my data visualization business, I had some pretty ambitious plans. I would get a bunch of work, too much work, and quickly start hiring people. I would also focus a portion of my—and my...
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People Put People in Boxes
"Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else." If you think about it, it is obviously not possible to completely and accurately describe a person’s personality in one sentence....
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Personal Computation
Discover Supercomputer 2 by nasa_goddard on flickr During the 1980s and 1990s, a powerful revolution took place in computing hardware. Programs had historically been executed on mainframe computers,...
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In building my personal computation proof-of-concept, one thing became clear very quickly: I needed a graceful and extensible way to manage service dependencies. One thing I wanted to avoid was a long...
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The Singularity and Forward Progress
In technology, singularity can be defined as the point in which an artificially intelligent computer, network, or robot is capable of recursively improving itself, leading to a runaway affect of rapid...
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Extensibility and Declarative Programming
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When I first got into CoffeeScript, one of the main factors that got me over my resistance to learn a foreign (Ruby-inspired) syntax was that it...
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Data is Everywhere
via aaddaamn on flickr The popular term Big Data represents the collection, storage, processing, and analysis of vast quantities of data. At its simplest, it represents a shift in perspective to the...
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A Platform for Mashup Artists
“I make stuff move with code.” When people ask me what I do, that’s what I say. I don’t say I’m a framework author. I don’t say I’m a systems administrator or database administrator. I don’t say...
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