Social Skills

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Brian

Occasionally, I will go back and reread some of Paul Graham’s essays, of which I am a huge fan. Recently I re-stumbled upon Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas. I had somehow missed his recommendation to read How to Win Friends and Influence People, so I picked up a copy (the 11th printing, [...]

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The Cost of Web Development

Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Brian

Douglas Crockford has a very interesting article on fixing HTML. He points out many of the most annoying things about HTML that make web development difficult. The currently proposed HTML spec only fixes one thing as far as I can see (being a developer), the addition of more specific types of inputs: time, [...]

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