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Code | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. Pontoon – A Digital Ocean CLI (and library) in Python. December 26, 2013. Digital Ocean has been an excellent way for me to spin up test Ubuntu VMs for testing my expanding collection of PPAs, build scripts, and various other bits and pieces. While I do stack testing with kitchen, chef, vagrant, and frequently AWS, it is really nifty to be able to boot a fresh VM on […]. Musical floppy drive maintenance – flop.py. April 6, 2013. ArchiveTeam Yahoo Messages Followup: Success.
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Programming | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. May 11, 2013. In the startup world, it’s common to talk about “pivoting” a business; that is to say, taking what you are doing and refocusing on some aspect of the opportunity you hadn’t spent a lot of time on before. We aren’t all founders, though. Today, coders have a lot of options when it comes to what […]. January 14, 2013. Software developer located in Cork, Ireland. Authored The Noflake Manifesto. I run wthax.org. And co-founded Ireland's first anime convention, EirtaKon.
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Move slow and fix things.
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Move slow and fix things. In Support of the Outrage Machine. July 27, 2014. In Rage Against The Outrage Machine, published by The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf industriously picks apart the umbrage taken against an article by George Will published in The Washington Post titled, “Colleges become the victims of progressivism.” In his article, Will puts forward the notion that colleges are “conferring privilege” (Will’s words) – perhaps in the […]. The (Web) Skills of Leonardo da Vinci. July 21, 2014. In the...
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Technology | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. ArchiveTeam Yahoo Messages Shuttering EC2 Spot Instances = MegaCrawl. March 23, 2013. Update (24th March) Stop your engines! The response has been amazing, in 24 hours we’ve managed to crawl almost everything, and are processing the final few batches now! No need for more instances! I’ve created a tool to help people who decided to fire up a whole bunch of spot instances slowly trim down their […]. Reading list for scaling Solr. November 30, 2011. August 20, 2011. July 28, 2011.
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Mobile Opportunity: Mobile applications, RIP
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Mobile applications, RIP. The decline of the mobile software industry. Mobile computing is different from PC computing. For the last decade, that has been the fundamental rule of the mobile data industry. It was the central insight of Palm Computing's "Zen of Palm" philosophy. Psion came up with similar ideas, and you can hear echoes of them from every other successful mobile computing firm: Mobile computers are used differently from PCs, and therefore must be designed differently. The problem wasn't jus...
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Old media, new media and copyright law | Irish Shooting Politics
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March 2, 2012. 8212; Mark Dennehy @ 11:09 am. It is not grossly unfair to describe the advertising sold in this manner as. A point the editor of today’s Irish Examiner. Might do well to consider; though arguably a more charitable description would have in the past been. As the revenue from the advertising paid for the creation of the content. Debatable and by no means obvious. The authors’ claims appear to be even more valid than before, but as in the majority of cases, the author no longer has a c...
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Programming is not my idea of “fun” | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. ArchiveTeam Yahoo Messages Shuttering EC2 Spot Instances = MegaCrawl ». Programming is not my idea of “fun”. March 18, 2013. My motivation for learning to code was that I wanted to build things; not just anything, either, stuff that solved a problem I or someone else had. I don’t necessarily enjoy programming. For the sake of programming. Which seems to be unusual amongst a lot of developers I talk to. That might mean a lot of frustration along the path to that point. It mig...
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Pivoting yourself | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. Musical floppy drive maintenance – flop.py. Pontoon – A Digital Ocean CLI (and library) in Python ». May 11, 2013. In the startup world, it’s common to talk about “pivoting” a business; that is to say, taking what you are doing and refocusing on some aspect of the opportunity you hadn’t spent a lot of time on before. We aren’t all founders, though. Love if they gave it half a chance. If you can acquire the patience and empathy to understand other people’s problems, you unl...
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Pivoting yourself | Ross Duggan
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Move slow and fix things. Musical floppy drive maintenance – flop.py. Pontoon – A Digital Ocean CLI (and library) in Python ». May 11, 2013. In the startup world, it’s common to talk about “pivoting” a business; that is to say, taking what you are doing and refocusing on some aspect of the opportunity you hadn’t spent a lot of time on before. We aren’t all founders, though. Love if they gave it half a chance. If you can acquire the patience and empathy to understand other people’s problems, you unl...
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Software eats software development | cdixon blog
http://cdixon.org/2014/04/13/software-eats-software-development
Software eats software development. Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to disrupt the global SMS industry with only a few dozen engineers. Small teams can have a big impact because software development (and deployment) has improved dramatically over the past decade. Some improvements include:. Special-purpose tools for non-programmers. These tools let non-programmers create software in certain pre-defined categories, thereby lowering costs and re...
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