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Web Design 101: Get Your Color Contrasts Right
Great web design is hard. It requires imagination, a keen eye, and the ability to project ideas onto a, generally digital, medium. In today’s world this calls for a conflation of both artist and technologist. I am not one of these people. I am a technologist, but I am no artist (thankfully I know some great artists!). Nonetheless, I’ve always had a good eye for things that look good and for sites that look like they were built with an early version of Micro...
Web design,Structure,UI,Contrast 2012-02-04 21:42:50
How GitHub Works: Hours are Bullshit
Frederick Winslow Taylor wrote the seminal analysis of management and efficiency in 1911 with The Principles of Scientific Management. He took the first scientific approach towards maximizing efficiency in manufacturing jobs. Time is money. Faster is better. More hours are better. Hours are bullshit Hours are great ways to determine productivity in many industries, but not ours. Working in a startup is a much different experience than working in a factory. You can’t throw more time at a...
Work,Style,Time,Efficiency,Code,Enforcem 2011-08-19 07:42:32
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world†actually works. ...
Career,Programmer,Advice,Low level,Development 2011-10-29 07:09:23
HeartBleed: Should C be blamed for the HeartBleed bug?
There is a discussion about the security of applications written in C on Hacker News recently after the report of HeartBleed bug in OpenSSL. In this discussion, some people are saying that the applications written in C are unsafe. It seems all or most of the faults should be laid on C. I think this is biased. The language itself should not be blamed.Safety is a relative term for programming languages. No language is absolutely safe. We claim some languages like Java and C# are safer than C/C++ b...
C,HeartBleed,Analysis,Code review 2014-04-14 03:52:55
How big company CEOs spend their time in work
As a company's steer holder, the CEO or founder takes plenty of pressure ordinary people even cannot imagine. They usually need to deal with different aspects of daily operation of a company including technology, business, marketing, public relationship etc. Lots of meetings, negotiations and presentations are waiting for them every day. Hence time is a precious resource for them. Let's take a look at how these CEOs spend their time in their work. 1. Apple CEO Tim Cook Gets up at 3:45 am ...
CEO,STEVE JOBS,TIM COOK,ELON MUSK,JACK MA,MARK ZUCKERBERG,PONY MA 2016-08-13 13:29:00
Why Building a Mobile App is Hard
Kent Nguyen has a great article about how building iOS apps takes a lot of work. And, here at Parse, we agree. Making a well-designed app is not a trivial task. Many non-developers hugely underestimate the amount of sweat and tears that goes into a single app. The big component that is overlooked and that Kent stresses is the server component. An app is not an island. Users expect their apps to richly interact with the internet. This means you need to worry about developing code on servers, com...
Mobile app,Hard,Chanllenges,Platform 2012-02-01 04:45:45
Including Related Objects in Queries
Every time you hit a mobile network, it slows your users down and introduces another point of failure. So when you're designing your application, you need to take advantage of every opportunity to omit needless requests. Parse's philosophy is to help make this easier by providing standard ways to reduce network requests. One example is caching queries, which lets you avoid resending requests you've already sent. Another example, which we've launched in the most recent version of the...
Software design,Request,Network load,Resource manage,Mobile 2011-12-07 08:51:56
Writing great JavaScript
I probably could have named this post something like “Writing clean, validating and portable JavaScriptâ€, but that would be no where near as catchy. The problem with “great†is it means different things to different people. I am going to show you my idea of great which may differ from many developers views, but I hope it helps someone improve their code. So what’s the point in this, why can’t you just carry on writing JavaScript as you have been for a...
JavaScript,Great,Clean,Tips 2012-03-24 05:18:12
Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters
Looking at things through a microscopesometimes leads to surprising discoveries Obviously this is an utterly preposterous statement: it’s hard to think of a more ridiculous and esoteric coding requirement. I can just imagine all sorts of amusing conversations with designers and business sponsors: “No… the size of this <input> field should be 23… 24 is just too long!†Or: “We need to explain to users that their subject lines should be les...
Ruby,Specification,String,Interpreter,Optimization,23 2012-01-05 07:58:07
How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important
We want to foster a creative environment. We love it when employees hack on side projects. It gets people excited. Excitement is contagious, and spreads easily from one project to another. Even if we’ll never make money on that side project, the excitement generated from it can bleed into things that will make us money. Alcohol It’s no secret that there’s more than a few people at GitHub who like to drink. I mean, we have four beers on-tap at the office in our kegerator. B...
GitHub,HR,Creativity,Innovation,Recruitm 2011-08-19 07:46:07
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