December 2009
10 posts
“Do something you’re very passionate about, and don’t try to chase...”
– Jeff Bezos
Walden, Thoreau
Men labour under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a semming fate, commonly called necessity, they are emploed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool’s life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. Most men, even in this...
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Sinatra minimal service
# Sinatra example for simple webservice.
# Sort lines in a file and return it.
require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
post '/sorter' do
params[:data][:tempfile].readlines.sort
end
# test service with this command
# curl -F "data=@sa.txt" 127.0.0.1:4567/sorter
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is...”
– Dieter Rams (via mnmal)
“The best designers and the best programmers aren’t the ones with the best...”
– It just doesn’t matter - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Simple design, intense content.
Tufte codified the design process into six principles: “(1) documenting the sources and characteristics of the data, (2) insistently enforcing appropriate comparisons, (3) demonstrating mechanisms of cause and effect, (4) expressing those mechanisms quantitatively, (5) recognizing the inherently multivariate nature of analytic problems, (6) inspecting and evaluating alternative...
“The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to...”
– Jim Collins - Articles - Best New Year’s Resolution?