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I was quite surprised at a recent blog post by Uncle Bob Martin, titled: "Type Wars", in which he writes:"Therefore, I predict, that as Test Driven Development becomes ever more accepted as a necessar
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Looting of the Fox The Story of Sabotage at ShapeShift Bitcoin, as any system of man, exhibits together both the highest ideals of utopia, and the lowest residual trash of society. This is the story of how ShapeShift, a leading blockchain asset exchange platform, was betrayed. Not once, not twice,…
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O n 4 December last year, the London Underground ingested 4,821,000 passengers and spat them out at their destinations, and in doing so set a new record for a single day . If you paused to contemplate
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The US Department of Labor projects that one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020. These are good jobs, jobs that would allow economic mobility and great earning potential over the cours
Jim Fleming: Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck has spent decades trying to figure out how to succeed and the right way to fail. She wrote about her findings in the book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. And as it turns out, everyone fails, but not everyone fails the same way. Carol…
I was three months into my first startup gig, as a community manager at a small company in Boulder, and we had just closed a Series A round of funding. To celebrate, we gathered for a customary champa
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An automated regression suite can play a vital role on asoftware project, valuable both for reducing defects in production andessential for evolutionary design. In talking with development teamsI've o
I really enjoyed reading Piotr Solnica’s post “My time with Rails is up” —it helped crystallize a lot of thoughts I’ve been having about frameworks and design. The first thing I need to make clear is
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