April 2012
4 posts
I fear for future generations of programmers. Carefully engineered systems with the best of intentions turn into organic abstraction-sprawls as we build more and more on top of the old.
I can easily lose hours of my day code-diving into software, systems, and services conceived & built 1 year ago, 10 years ago, or 30 years ago.
In a hundred years from now, code-spelunkers will find the...
$8M in Funding and a Lawsuit to Boot? Game on.
Nearly a year to the day we began, we’re ready to tell the story of one of the most broken yet important areas of education.
boundlessinc:
It’s been a hell of a year for Boundless Learning. We’ve raised $8 million in new funding, reached thousands of students with our products and innovated in an industry that’s long overdue for disruption. But whenever there’s a great party, there are...
Just say no to testing red vs blue →
Great reality check / advice
nabeel:
The problem with A/B testing is not the testing, it’s the inputs. If you are an early stage company and you need 2x returns you need to be swinging big.
I personally found this hilarious, tested these 2 ads for the sake of curiosity 15k impressions each:
- Nice picture of actual in-game content - Green call to action button w/ “free”, “free online...
Badass JavaScript: WebKit.js: Yes it has finally... →
badassjs:
I knew this was going to happen eventually, it was just a matter of time. WebKit has been ported to JavaScript, and no, this is not just some Emscripten compile, it is a full hand port of the popular browser engine to JS. WebKit.js uses WebGL as a rendering backend and basically enables…
