In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and pe...

Now a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller "I raced through Radical Candor--It’s thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. Radical Candor is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical su...

A New York Times Bestseller A Three-time Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016, Publishers Weekly One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, Kirkus Reviews One of The Wall Street Journal's “10 Books to Read Now” Something big is going on. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms at once, it’s dizzying. Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to think about this era of accelerations. It’s also an argument for pausing to appreciate and reflect on this amazing historical epoch we’re passing through . . .

In The Road to Character David Brooks, best-selling author of The Social Animal and New York Times columnist, explains why selflessness leads to greater success You could say there are two kinds of virtues in the world, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résum...

The girl who wouldn't die, hunting a killer who shouldn't exist... A terrifying and original serial-killer thriller from award-winning author, Lauren Beukes. "It's not my fault. It's yours. You shouldn't shine. You shouldn't make me do this." Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a ...

With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and best-selling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in t...

The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!? in which it is revealed that one of the world’s great Taoist masters isn’t Chinese’or a venerable philosopher’but is in fact none other that that effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear. A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh!While Eeyore frets? and Piglet hesitates? and Rabbit calculates? and Owl pontificates? Pooh just is.And that’s a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists.

This could be bat country, I really don’t know. I’m heading into, for me untested waters as a project leader, working with agile methods.

I’m reading a great deal of personal blogs, company blogs, getting inspiration from digests and popular news feeds pertaining my area of expertise. And I would like to share some of the sources I find very interesting. They are in no particular order, preference or grouped by at all.

Stepped onto an article at The Code Project on how to reverse a number in javascript without casting it to a string and decided to understand how this works by my self.

Interesting read on why Uber switched from Postgres to MySQL

TL;DR

Apparently Postgres does not scale really well and data gets corrupted over time.

Read the full blog post here

Two dealers of illegal substances standing on a corner trying to make a sale and trying to kill time while waiting.

You may know the Football World Cup logo Brazil 2014 looking like a facepalm and thought to yourself that looked pretty funny.

It’s been a month since I posted the initial version of feed2mail.python and now I have some updates for you.

A while back I started getting anti social and move all my news reading back to feeds and sent them to my email. I used Ifttt for this. It is a pretty good service for getting feeds into your mailbox. You can set up daily or weekly digest of a feed or you can just send a feed entry to you mail when is it posted. But what didn’t work as well were the mails I received eg. I can not change the layout of these mails. Ifttt is also shortening all links in the mails. This means they know which links I have clicked and I didn’t need that. Some links even failed to redirect and I was left at Ifttt with a message that the link didn’t work.

Just a funny song with a catchy chorus

Just a heads up. I’ll be changing feed url to /feed.xml from atom.xml soon. Github Pages are now supporting the jekyll-feed plugin. There are both a summary and a content field in the new feed. Nothing changes other than a more rigid feed generation.

Yes, I know! I’m add it again. There is a a new Windows Phone OS and a new Microsoft Lumia. Since the last price bump for an iPhone 6s I’m having a hard time justifying the price tag. When I look at the Lumia 950xl and the pricing and features it look more what I want from a phone.

This must be one of the must frustrating experiences a developer can endurre. I laughed through the entire video when he tries to write code through speech recognition.

A good intermediate developer needs less supervision. They can be trusted to raise issues of code design, and play a valuable role in design discussions. They are also the “workhorses” of the dev team. However, further mentoring and higher level supervision is still vital.

by Matt Briggs

I’m an experienced developer, with lots of baggage. But reading this broad generalization I’m still an intermediate developer and I’m fine with that. There are still much to learn.

I’ve seen millions of people claiming that public fields are evil, so they make them private and provide getters and setters for all of them. I believe this is almost identical to making the fields public, maybe a bit different if you’re using threads (but generally is not the case) or if your accessors have business/presentation logic (something ‘strange’ at least). I’m not in favor of public fields, but against making a getter/setter (or Property) for everyone of them, and then claiming that doing that is encapsulation or information hiding… ha!

by Pablo Fernandez

I came across this short film and I really enjoyed the visual style and effects. It is about 10minutes long.

My current job at Tangora Software A/S is soon comming to an end. It been more than five years since they hired me.

I’ve cleaned up some of my accounts an this time I quitted Twitter, Instagram and Google. I’ve been using these platforms for some times now and I came to realize that they weren’t giving me anything at all.

So no, I’m not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan’s pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a few more days.

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PIWIK is my opportunity to roll my own analytics tools and stop relying on the mighty Google Analytics. The tool is based on PHP and MySQL as every other free webservice almost is. And as every web hosting today in Denmark is serving PHP and MySQL, then why not.

Jeg fik aldrig anmeldt alle øl i mine ølkalender for 2014, så her kommer der lige en lille opsummering af min generelle oplevelse. Dem der havde set frem til at få alle øl anmeldt må jeg hermed skuffe.

Sending a SMS and get it displayed correctly on the device shouldn’t be a concern for the end programmer when using a SMS gateway, but it is. When using ClickATell’s API you have to tell it that you are sending unicode characters and encode it in HEX too.

It is not alway easy to choose the right twitter client, but Federico Viticci from macstories.net tries to cast light on the matter in his segment called “Twitter Clients in 2014 = An Exploration of Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and Twitter for iOS”