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Hansson merged Rails and Merb last year, and, despite initial “squabbles,” the fruits of their cooperation—Rails 3—is on the verge of release.
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With applications like Ruby on Rails lowering the bar for creating web applications, some programmers may complain about “the unwashed masses” overrunning their “beautiful, pristine programming communities.” Hansson thinks that […]
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“A big part of what makes Ruby so special to work with is just how much expression you can pack into a few lines of code,” says Hansson.
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David Heinemeier Hansson was so fed up with PHP and Java that he almost gave up on programming altogether—then he found Ruby and everything changed.
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A conversation with the programmer and creator of Ruby on Rails.
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Bioethicist Jacob Appel thinks that adding small amounts of lithium to our drinking water could potentially reduce the rate of suicide.
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When creating a new business, take your big idea and chop it in half. And then chop it in half again. Rather than loading your product up with lots of […]
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At some point, however, the country will have to let the yuan appreciate and allow cash flows in and out of the country.
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Cutting down on over-the-counter derivatives trading among banks will reduce the likelihood that if one bank goes under so will the rest.
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Buoyed by past deregulation successes, Congress didn’t want Wall Street regulators to interfere before the crash.
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Why some of the notorious financial instruments that helped bring down the financial system in 2008 really aren’t so bad.
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Investment banks encourage faulty risk management because the risks are “not internalized by the people that are taking them.”
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A conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning economist.
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It’s possible the U.S. will succeed in the long run in Afghanistan. But first it must prove that it is not the Soviet Union—and that it does not want to […]
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The U.S. should be wary of its “ally” Pakistan, says Van Dyk.
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Van Dyk’s captors insisted that bin Laden is no longer in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and, for various reasons, he believes them.
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Jere Van Dyk, who was imprisoned by the Taliban for 45 days, explains the historical and cultural facts that are crucial for understanding the war-torn country—and why our goals there […]
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Using connections he’d made living with the Mujahideen in the 1980s, Van Dyk set out to discover the relationship between the Taliban and Al Qaeda, but ambition and deadlines pushed […]
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Several times during his 45 days in captivity, Van Dyk was sure his life was about to end. Exercise, studying, and prayer helped him keep his wits.
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A conversation with the journalist.
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I would only build the things that I need,” says Fried. “I’m really a big proponent of building products that we’re going to use.
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Always hire after you need someone, “after it hurts,” not before. When companies ramp up fast in anticipation of work to be done, it can be really hard to hire […]
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When companies have a “free only” business model—thinking they’ll make money later—they’re usually betting that “there’s going to be this magic switch they can flip.”
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Competition doesn’t put start-ups out of business. Rather the businesses tend to put themselves out of business by hiring the wrong people, being afraid of making money, and spending too […]
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Raising money upfront puts you in the wrong frame of mind. A ventured-backed company has to spend money. A self-funded, bootstrap company has to make money.
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If you really want to get creative and work on something, you need uninterrupted stretches of quiet time. Jason Fried says you need to keep the distractions out.
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It’s best if people stay away from each other while they are working, because when people are all together all the time, they tend to constantly interrupt each other.
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A conversation with the co-founder and president of 37signals.
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The conductor’s mother is a violinist in the New York Philharmonic, but he says her presence has assumed it’s proper proportion. “I’m lucky that she’s playing really, really well, and […]
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The conductor demonstrates some of the basic hand motions involved in his craft.
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