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As a writer, I’m fortunate to connect with authors and experts all over the globe who have vitally important messages to share.


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Hangman — a short, easy to play game: all one needs is a pencil, piece of paper, and a friend.  A staple of bored school children everywhere, the game has origins dating back to the late 1900s. But what’s the hardest word to guess?


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Go has a very versatile toolchain and commands that makes Go programming fun. One of the famous tools is gofmt, which automatically reformats the code according to some predefined rules. However there are many other tools like goimports, oracle, godef, etc..


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I grew up in the United States, but volunteered to spend two and a half years in one of Israel’s toughest military units. Joining the military was never a thought that had crossed my mind, until – during college – I came across a review of a book called “A Purity of Arms.


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By Kathryn D. Cramer Until today when I went to get the Amazon link, I never made the connection between this book and a very cool book I read about a year and a half ago called Change the Way you See Everything Through Asset Based Thinking (Here is my much-shorter-than-this review of that book).


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Most of us strive to become leaders. We want to do something great, be respected by our peers, make more money and acquire more responsibility. Overall, we want to make a difference at our job.


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I've been lying to myself: I thought IT would survive the next shift in technology as all infrastructure moves to the cloud. But I no longer believe IT will survive that cloud shift -- certainly not IT as we know it.


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Google made it clear earlier this year that those doing guest posts “for SEO purposes” might be subject to penalties. But the latest chapter in its war on guest posts feels a bit crazy: an entire site put into Google’s penalty box because of a single guest post that Google didn’t like.


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Not a day goes past in the digital marketing industry without someone talking about "Content Marketing" as if it were a relatively new thing.


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When it comes to academic research, especially when science or statistics are involved, the math doesn’t involve a lot of actual numbers. It is well beyond the high school level algebra which marks the peak of many of our formal educations and, well, looks like the stuff above.


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You hear it all the time – delegate more! Use your team! Empower those that work for you! Forget that.


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"There are times in life when you will find yourself out of place, out of your depth, and out of time. How you respond to these moments will forever dictate how you respond to adversity and challenge. As you continue forward you will see more and more of what you are capable of withstanding.


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Note Scott Hanselman (me): I had been meaning to write up my productivity tips for years. Isn't that ironic? However, after giving a presentation at SXSW on Productivity this year, Danny Schreiber from Zapier took it upon himself to do just that.


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The President of the United States, is, at the end of the day, a person — with everyday things to do, just like anyone else.  But you never see him carrying anything more than, perhaps, a small portfolio, running the tiny errands which make up our everyday lives.


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The 2006 movie Zyzzyx Road sounds like a typical thriller from the get-go. Grant (played by, Leo Grillo, no one you’ve ever heard of), the protagonist, is a family man on a business trip to Vegas, where he meets Marissa (played by Katherine Heigl).


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George Washington, the first President of the United States, died on December 14, 1799. He was interred four days later at his plantation home in Virginia, Mount Vernon. While some would (had they been alive to notice) object to such a delay, Washington probably did not mind.


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Sometime in 2004 or thereabouts, a man only identified as Graham was suffering from severe depression. He decided to take his own life. He ran a bath, got in, and brought in some sort of electrical appliance with him.


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On March 31, 1979, a Bard College student named Jamie Livingston did something unspectacular — he took the picture, above, with his Polaroid camera.   On April 1, 1979, he took another perfectly uninteresting Polaroid.  On the 2nd, another.  The 3rd, another.


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Benjaman Kyle, pictured above, is missing. Benjaman Kyle also lives in Savannah, Georgia.  If you had his address, you could go visit him, and he’d be there, doing whatever he does each day.


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At this very moment, you have people, projects, or tasks you need to eliminate from your life. Maybe you’ve been dealing with a troubling employee situation for months, or even years, and despite your best efforts you don’t see any hope for improvement.


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Scrum is one of the most used project management methodologies in the games industry. I know many companies that use it, including we ourselves at Ronimo. Most companies don't use pure Scrum: they change parts to fit their needs.


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Gallup has found that one of the most important decisions companies make is simply whom they name manager. Yet our analysis suggests that they usually get it wrong. In fact, Gallup finds that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time.


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Google has become an indispensable part of our lives.  Their brand name has become synonymous with “look it up,” even sprouting joke websites such as “Let Me Google That For You.” In 2008, The Atlantic asked if Google was changing the way we think, a question others have echoed since.


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I love the way the light makes this flower glow. Taken at Biltmore on the first day of Spring 2014.


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Food pictures are not always interesting, but this meat and cheese board looked as good as it tasted!


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Essentially nothing in the gardens was blooming, but the conservatory had several beautiful flowers.


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I love the way the light lit up the inside of this tulip.


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(CNN) -- A few months ago, after drinking scorpion shots with Zappos' CEO Tony Hsieh, he gave me a tour of the Downtown Project, a formerly blighted neighborhood in Las Vegas being revitalized.


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In 2010, Dave Brailsford faced a tough job. No British cyclist had ever won the Tour de France, but as the new General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain’s professional cycling team), that’s what Brailsford was asked to do.


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Although there are some people who advocate for dropping all your goals or focusing on systems instead of goals, I’ve never managed to fully give up on setting goals for myself.


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What is a content delivery network (CDN) and how they  increase the speed of a website, without having to alter a server’s hardware.


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Do you ever wonder what it is you're missing when you're focused on your smartphone? Or when you're focused on a memory? Or anxiously anticipating something coming up in the future? The way we use our attention shapes and controls our reality.


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When I hold interviews for a job, I’m mostly trying to get a sense of the candidate's personality, and how they would perform at our company. Over a series of hundreds of interviews, I've narrowed down to the 8 most important questions I rely on to determine if candidates are a good fit.


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As I turn 35 and think of my life so far and what’s to come, I realize how much I’m shaped by the questions I ask. I’ve always been insatiably curious. These are the 35 questions that have made the biggest impact on my life.


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In recent months, “planking,” an Internet-fueled fad, has travelled the globe. Planking is the simple act of lying down, rigidly (as if one were a plank of wood), in a setting or area that would be at least out of place and in some cases, simply outrageous.


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It happens to all of us. You send an email to someone that requires a reply. You might even add some sizzle to it with a big red exclamation point. Could be a request to fix a problem. Could be something really urgent and you are desperate for an answer. Could be an appointment or a meeting request.


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Continuous Delivery is a software development discipline where you build software in such a way that the software can be released to production at any time.


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I meet them on a regular basis, tech-savvy teens who’ve been coding websites from an early age. They’ll often seek my advice about breaking into the industry.


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New research has found that decision-making accuracy can be improved by postponing a decision by a mere fraction of a second. That mechanism requires that a decision-maker do nothing — just briefly.


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"You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain" ― Miyamoto Musashi


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CIO — In many organizations, the complexity of the application landscape is becoming a major challenge for the CIO. Maintaining and supporting legacy applications consumes the lion's share of the budget, leaving little room for innovation.


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Everyone has their unique way of using Evernote. This is especially true at your desk, where you’re likely to have a different work style than the person sitting next to you.


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Editor’s Note: This a guest post from Will Black. So you have started shaving with a safety razor like your handsome granddad and taking James Bond showers to stimulate your muscles with a frigid rinse at the end.


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The United States entered World War II in December of 1941, and only after Japanese planes bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Even though the U.S.


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When Americans think of traitors, Benedict Arnold springs to mind.  But seventy years later, a much larger group of soldiers defected to the enemy.  Meet Saint Patrick’s Battalion. In 1835, Texas was still part of Mexico.


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In a world governed by capitalism, consuming is culture. For this very reason, it is not the person who does the most who stays ahead, but rather the person who says no that is king. Most of us are raised believing that we must always do more in order to succeed.


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The ability to focus may be one of the most important techniques to master in order to achieve big things in life. We all know that in order to focus we should switch off our phones, close our email and take regular breaks.


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Day One is passionate about making software that people love to use. From creatives to lawyers, parents to photographers, there are people from all walks of life that use Day One every day to capture the important thoughts, events, and experiences in their lives.


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Is it just me or are there a lot of aspiring product managers out there? Maybe it’s just because I am one myself, but I feel like all I hear these days is that people who are not product managers — consultants, MBA candidates, engineers — want to be product managers.


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In the neverending rush of our day, what does one little task matter? It is everything.


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Hard boil an egg, let it cool, and crack the shell. If you did that about a decade ago, it probably peeled easily, breaking into a few large pieces — or, at least, that’s how you probably remember it.


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Chances are, there’s a map of the world or a globe somewhere near you. And chances are, it’s out of date. Typically, maps fall out of date when political boundaries change; for example, most maps made before July 9, 2011 lack the country of South Sudan, which gained its independence on that day.


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I’m up here in the mountains with my loved ones post-tour. Refueling. Reviewing 2014 year-to-date results. And doing some early Spring skiing.


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If you are an avid watcher of lectures, teachings, and debates, then you know how time-consuming it is to watch them. At least when you listen to audio you can speed it up in your iPod or audio player.


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DevDay, 5th October 2012, Kraków "As developers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More APIs, more documentation, more patterns,...


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Devops is about holistic, systems-orientated thinking; it’s been misappropriated to be about configuration management.


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Wasabi is a plant native to Japan, and in the same biological family as mustard, cabbage, and unsurprisingly, horseradish.


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I’m a photographer of many things. I shoot live music, portraits and fashion, but my favorite subjects have wheels—and more specifically, two wheels. There are many ways to photograph a motorcycle. You can shoot it while riding, racing, or wrenching.


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In this week’s success strategy I’m covering my favorite 3 Ps of time management—Pareto’s Principle, Parkinson’s Law and the Pomodoro Technique. Keeping these 3 concepts in mind can help you greatly increase your efficiency and effectiveness in your business.


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I make coffee expecting that to help. It doesn’t. Instead I just start grinding my teeth.  This is a bad day.


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Did you say “role model”? Or “true leader”? No. When you start searching the Internet for “My boss is a…,” the most common completions are “bully,” “idiot,” “jerk,” “liar,” “psycho,” “moron,” and some other words that aren’t very nice.


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Everyone is doing Disney's Frozen videos and covers lately, but this has to be the best yet: Watch Seth O'Neal singing Let It Go impersonating 21 classic Disney and Pixar (which is now Disney too) characters, which is extremely hard to do while singing. Really amazing talent. He really nailed it.


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Regg Struyk will be presenting a presentation titled Why Classic Software Testing Doesn’t Work Anymore at STARCANADA 2014, which will take place April 5-9, 2014. The classic software testing team is becoming increasingly obsolete.


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CIO — According to comScore, as of December 2013, 156 million Americans owned a smartphone, a more than 3 percent increase from September 2013. And that number is expected to continue to grow. Indeed, eMarketer predicts that by the end of 2014, 1.


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You probably seriously underestimate how important this is. (Actually, there’s research that says you do.) Being in nature reduces stress, makes you more creative, improves your memory and may even make you a better person. We all know how important this is, but few people do it consistently.


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Last October, Alistair Dent wrote an interesting – if somewhat misguided – post about why you shouldn't worry about quality score. I've been meaning to respond since I read the piece, but hey – better late than never, right?


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Including the incredibly handy hxpipe, which converts HTML to a line-by-line format that plays nicely with awk, grep, sed, &c. NB: see this Hacker News thread if you’re having trouble building on OS X.


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Unmark is designed to help you actually do something with your bookmarks, rather than just hoard them. A simple layout puts the focus on your task at hand and friendly reminders keep you in line. Filtering options let you find what you’re looking for.


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Before the days of Continuous Integration (CI), the development process for web applications took long. They were coded, launched and then tested. As a result, new features weren’t being released as ...


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The idea of success can be a daunting concept for everyone, but particularly for college students. On the one hand, you’re young and have your whole life ahead of you.


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I can see what a minimum viable product is for my clients. I have a much more difficult time for myself. I bet you're not surprised. I have several books in process. I write small chunks in their entirety, so I don't have pieces hanging around. Then I make sure the book builds.


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If you’re looking to save a few bucks and don’t really care too much about your wardrobe, t-shirts are a good way to go. They’re typically rather inexpensive and, in some cases, can be entirely free.


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Summary: from The Rational Edge: If, in movie-making terms, the software project manager is the producer, since they make sure that things get done, then the software architect is the director, who makes sure that things are done correctly and, ultimately, satisfy stakeholder needs.


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Bennett Haselton writes with a bit of online detective work done with a little help from some (internet-distributed) friends: "A website that was temporarily inaccessible on my Comcast Internet connection (but accessible to my friends on other providers) led me to investigate further.


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An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator. Since everything is a plugin, the core library is actually just an abstraction for manipulating a directory of files.


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Peter A. Lawrence is a developmental biologist at the University of Cambridge’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology.


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Use a Bluetooth 4 enabled Mac running Mavericks as an iBeacon. Via Brett Terpstra.


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A lot of what we do every day is automatic. We absentmindedly walk down the street, sit in traffic, and tie our shoes. And, I've found the same "autopilot" can be present in our conversations. We must make an effort to listen to ourselves to become mindful of the situation.


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The SLXtreme is a a rugged, waterproof, solar-charging case for the iPhone 4, 4S and 5. It was originally a Kickstarter project that received more than twice its funding goal. This nifty DIY charger is available as a set from Brown Dog Gadgets.


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Whether you're a serial procrastinator or a black belt in OCD, everyone with a job requiring travel feels the pressure to reach Jedi status while on the go. Whether we're tasked with meeting and impressing a VIP or aiming to land a new client, we need all the "force" we can get.


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Another one from the "when did Apple add this feature" category: You can select any folder/mailbox from any of your email accounts to be displayed on the top-level in the email account and mailbox list. Simply access your account/mailbox list and press 'Edit' on the top right.


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Flip a coin. There’s a 50% chance it will come up heads. Roll a six-sided die, and you have about a 33% chance of rolling a one or a two. Buy a lottery ticket and your odds of winning are astronomical, but at least it’s pretty straightforward.


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One of the most fun and useful things I’ve been doing lately is automating small processes I do all the time. It took me a while to work up the courage to dive into automation, as it always seemed like a really difficult, technical thing to do, which should be left to programmers.


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CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said Tuesday that his company's namesake broadcast network could go "over the top," or be delivered via the Internet, if Aereo's model of streaming over-the-air programming is ruled legal.


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I’ve written about the history of the to-do list before, and how to write a great one. One of the most counterintuitive but effective methods I’ve found for increasing my productivity is to limit how many items I add to my to-do list.


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The United States Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, has issued plenty of ridiculed trademarks over the years, perhaps most famously the “method of exercising a cat” by teasing it with a laser pointer.


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Back in the roaring 90s, when rap and rock came together to lower our collective standards, when Shaq made his star turn as an acting juggernaut, and lots and lots of other really bad things happened (or amazing depending on the tint of your glasses), usability expert Jakob Nielsen published an of


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There’s a new trend taking root among organization and business leaders today: mindfulness.


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This particular blog post was sitting on my mind for a long time. I don't want to start a flame war, but at the same time I also don't wish for Linux community to build and grow upon ad-hoc solutions that we've accumulated over the last 30 years to the packaging and deployment problems.


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That annoying little cursor. Blinking at you. Waiting for you to say something.


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Try and recall the last dream you remember. Perhaps the facts and circumstances are hazy, but how about the color?  That is, was the dream in color, or black and white? If you said color, you are staunchly in the majority.


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Powerful editing. Enjoy advanced editor features such as code completion, syntax highlighting and user-defined color themes. Easily work on multiple files using tabs and the built-in file browser. Built-in console. Forget about dozens of terminal windows and complicated commands.


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I’ve been interviewing and hiring web developers for many years now. Along the way, I’ve made a few bad hires, and some fantastic ones, and those experiences have helped me develop a specific approach to the technical interview.


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I find it hard to believe that even in 2013 software professionals are still having difficulties getting good software requirements.


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In this post, we have gathered 10 best bootstrap design tools for the coming year. Bootstrap is the most commonly used front end framework in 2013 and many of you must have played with it. Therefore, we thought to compile a list of some useful bootstrap design tools for you.


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This is a guest post by Sara Caputo, MA, a productivity coach, consultant, and trainer based in Santa Barbara, California. She is the founder and principal of Radiant Organizing, a professional organizing and consulting company. They say that the power of advertising is in the “white space.


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Calendars are great to have in your house, but the problem with most of them is that despite cute pictures of kittens or baby turtles, the calendars you can buy at those pop-up kiosks in the mall don't actually get updated with the events in your life.


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1976 was a good year for text editors. At MIT, Richard Stallman and Guy Steele wrote the first version of Emacs. And over at Berkeley, Bill Joy wrote vi (though it wouldn’t be called that for a few years yet).


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EMI is a company now known best for being a music company with many different labels under it.  But the company’s history is more robust than simply putting music onto records, cassettes, CDs, and iTunes.


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If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert documents in markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, OPML, or Haddock markup to


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Last week, we celebrated Alfred’s 4th birthday by giving away licenses and subscriptions for some of our favourite Macs apps. This month, we are featuring each one, as well as sharing the best Alfred workflows to make the most of them. Today, we’re taking a look at Dropbox.


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Singapore is a roughly 275 square mile island city-state located off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. With over five million people living on the relatively tiny dot of land, Singapore is the third most densely populated nation in the world, behind Macau and Monaco.


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The frequency of most of the handheld walkie-talkie on the market is 400-470MHz, and the max output power is 5W which the effective talking range is about 5-8KM(only in wide-open area).


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When the programmers at my company decided to switch from Subversion to Mercurial, boy was I confused. First, I came up with all kinds of stupid reasons why we shouldn’t switch. “We have to keep the repository on a central server, so it will be safe,” I said. You know what? I was wrong.


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Over the last decade or two, officials have tried to change this, with stricter sentencing for those convicted of the crime and awareness campaigns to help bring the issue to light. But by and large, these have not been very successful.


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This tutorial explains how to use Github, Bitbucket as hosting provider for your Git repository and how you can install a Git server on your own machine. Instead of setting up your own server, you can also use a hosting service. The most popular Git hosting sites are GitHub and Bitbucket.


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Lowell McAdam, Verizon's chief executive, could not have been more blunt in his comments Tuesday about the future of television. But what exactly will that look like, and which company will get there first?


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Day One is passionate about making software that people love to use. From creatives to lawyers, parents to photographers, there are people from all walks of life that use Day One every day to capture the important thoughts, events, and experiences in their lives.


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This article appeared on Things Career Related. Recently I attended a networking event which left me with the feeling that I must have had the words, “Talk at me” written on my forehead.


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However, at some point, my Evernote usage tailed off, especially for notes. Recently, I have brought Evernote back as a much larger part of my productivity tool set.


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A friend of mine is an executive for an organization with global reach. He is intelligent and driven, but constantly distracted. At any given time he will have Twitter, Gmail, Facebook and multiple IM conversations going. The majority of them are useful in some way.


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Well, well well!  I never thought I could love a pantry as much as I do now.  Actually, I never thought I would even give the pantry a makeover.  After all, it’s just a pantry.  But boy oh boy, how life changing this pantry makeover was.  Seriously.


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When I shared a screenshot of my Weekly Review routine in OmniFocus on Friday I was surprised by the number of people that came back and wanted an editable copy of my checklist for their own use and adaption. So here we go.


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The chances of being involved in a real active-shooting event are still pretty low, despite all the media attention we’ve seen lately.


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Is AT&T feeling heat from T-Mobile’s “un-carrier” moves? I think so, but you be the judge: AT&T just announced new family plans that are both simpler to understand and less expensive. The carrier introduced the new plans on Saturday, saying they’re available starting today.


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Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?When you look carefully at the way people work, he says, you find out there’s a lot more at play—and a lot more at stake—than money.


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As I work on my habits, I’m careful not to use a habit to make it easier to do something that I shouldn’t bother to do it at all. Have you ever faced this problem?


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This is a guest post by Sarah Gabot. Sarah is a Marketing Manager at Sqwiggle, a company dedicated to bringing together distributed teams and empowering remote workers by improving team collaboration and communication.


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I’ve spent a lot of time automating my Day One journal. Slogger and various other scripts keep it populated with my social and work logs. I recently decided to start logging my time better in general, so I’ve started using Day One “properly,” at least part of the time.


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