Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times

Media com­pa­nies respect their cus­tomers or maybe not.

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January 1, 2012 – 10:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Design, Marketing, Quick Posts, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | | Short Link http://jty.me/uKt6yg Comments Off

The Kernel – The golden age of the developer

I’m try­ing to do more of this mov­ing for­ward even in lit­tle bits and pieces I think help me stand out as a devel­oper and it’s good to help the com­mu­nity which pro­vides the basis of so much of my daily income (CakePHP, jQuery, etc).

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December 28, 2011 – 4:57 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | | Short Link http://jty.me/vmeaV3 Comments Off

The Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained — NYTimes.com

How­ever, busi­ness schools seem to cre­ate an envi­ron­ment that rewards not mak­ing happy cus­tomers, not doing the eth­i­cal thing, not doing the thing that pro­tects the envi­ron­ment down the road.

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December 16, 2011 – 12:03 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Culture, Quick Posts, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , | | Short Link http://jty.me/u8dyEk Comments Off

John Kary – git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer

Some small but use­ful changes to Git, git grep now being able to search untracked files in par­tic­u­lar is useful.

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December 14, 2011 – 12:05 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , | | Short Link http://jty.me/tGwPMs Comments Off

BBC News — Cambridge University puts Isaac Newton papers online

One of the geniuses of all time.

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December 13, 2011 – 11:55 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , | | Short Link http://jty.me/s52Efr Comments Off

Adblock Plus – Allowing acceptable ads in Adblock Plus

I’m all onboard with this, in fact I’ve even writ­ten my own Adblock Plus fil­ter to enable ads that I want to see.

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December 12, 2011 – 12:34 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Marketing, Quick Posts, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , | | Short Link http://jty.me/siozKD Comments Off

O’Reilly Radar – The end of social

The more we share the less value each piece of infor­ma­tion has to the peo­ple (but not the sys­tems) that we share to.

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December 11, 2011 – 2:13 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Culture, Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | | Short Link http://jty.me/u13zmT Comments Off