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Mastering Programming - by Kent Beck (2016)

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016 ยท FACEBOOK This was one of those posts that I threw together, thought nothing of, & then it blew up. Until recently this was my most-read post ever. From years [decades] of watching master programmers, I have observed certain common patterns in their workflows.

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When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)

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A talk given at the ebookcraft conference, March 30, 2016

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My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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Discover why a 2016 mood tracker remains unparalleled. Boris Berenberg shares his journey with MoodApp, exploring the challenges and potentials of mood tracking.

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The Recovery of Case (2016)

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Jean-Roger Vergnaudโ€™s famous 1977 letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik assumed that case is obligatory. As Juan Uriagereka and David Berlinski argue, Vergnaudโ€™s case filter was a vindication of the principles and parameters approach to language. Case is an aspect of Universal Grammar itself.

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Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)

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Steve Jobs famously cared about the unseen backs of cabinets. Antique furniture built with hand tools isn’t like that at all. Cabinetmakers made each part to the tolerance that mattered.

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Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain (2016)

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As the clocks go forward for the start of British Summer Time, many of us will rue the loss of an hour in bed. But how did people get to work on time before alarm clocks?

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Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016)

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Check out Speldosa - The Wintergatan Music Box![link] link] as AU/VST/AAX: [link] on App Store for Ipad and Iphone.

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