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Scheduling and Interruptions

On hacker news for the last couple of days an essay by Paul Graham has been on the front page, its called Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule.
Paul put into words something I have known for a long time, generally software developers(I use myself and people I know as examples) when interrupted tend to take longer [...]

New Twitter Monetization and Interface changes

I certainly have no problem with the people at Twitter making money I love the service and if they had some kind of pro account(I don’t know what they could offer in this space), I would more than likely pay for it. So I am really glad to see them slowly rolling out some non-obtrusive [...]

How to get things done

I am not a productivity expert by any means, in the past and even now I am known to procrastinate quite a bit. However, after much searching and trying many methods to keep myself on task I think I have found the winner, the surefire way(for myself at least) to get things done.
My key to [...]

Programming Languages as Tools.

Lately I have read a bunch of articles around the internet talking about why one language is better than another, why C programmers are better than Java programmers, why ruby is better than python, etc. Honestly I think its all irrelevant, just like its irrelevant whether your program your latest greatest application in vi, emacs, [...]