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The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. Tom Cargill, Bell Labs (the Ninety-ninety rule )

The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need : zenhabits And those two things are so deceptively simple that you might decide to stop reading after I name them: 1) make things enjoyable and 2) use positive public pressure . Also, reframing things can go a long way into motivating someone to do something they really don’t wan’t to do!

Camels and Rubber Duckies – Joel on Software The answer is really complicated. I’m going to start with a little economic theory, then I’m going to tear the theory to bits, and when I’m finished, you’ll know a lot more about pricing and you still won’t know how much to charge for your software, but that’s just the nature of pricing.

73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up — How to Interpret Analysts Reports The problem of skewing results: (…) How is it skewed? There are so many ways to present data to tell the story you want that I can’t even list every way data is skewed. Here are some examples: You ask a small sample set so that data isn’t statistically significant . This is often naiveté rather than malicious You ask a group that is not unbiased. (…) This type of statistical error is known as " selective bias ." Also common, you look at a large data set of questions asked about consumer preferences. You pick out the answers that support your findings and leave out the ones that don’t support it from your report. This is an " error of omission ." You change the specific words asked in the survey such that you subtly change the meaning for the person reading your conclusions. But subtle changes in words can totally change the way that the reader interprets the results. Also common is that the survey itself asks questions in a way that leads the responder to a specific answer. There are malicious data such as on Yelp where you might have a competitor that types in bad results on your survey to bring you down (…) (…) As my MBA statistics professor used to say, “seek disconfirming evidence.” That always stuck with me. ...

Facebook Home prototyped in Quartz Composer – Tutorial Facebook Home is prototyped with Quartz Composer (by Facebook), @DaveOBrien_ (a design student from Ireland) reverse engineered it and made 5 tutorials explaining how it’s done!

Lowering your price may help you increase revenue, but lower it too much and you cost yourself money. (via Understanding App Store Pricing — Part 3 — Jury.me ) Loosely speaking, we refer to situations where a percentage change in price leads to a larger percentage change in quantity sold as elastic. Situations where a the percentage change in price and quantity sold are roughly equal are called unit elastic. And situations where a percentage change in price leads to a smaller percentage change in quantity sold as inelastic. ...

(via Just For Fun: ADHD and Routine )

The Simplest and Most Effective Method of All? – Blog – Get Everything Done 3 + 2* Write down three tasks Do the first two in order Add another two tasks (so there are three tasks again) Do the first two in order Repeat ad infinitum (…) I myself have found it works best for me the less I consult them [ lists ]. This is because every time I do two tasks the method requires me to think carefully about what I should do next. This seems to result in a training effect on my mind enabling it to grasp the totality of what I have to do. This ability is inhibited by relying on lists and reminders. ...

(via a show :: thoughts on the creative career ) If you wanna be something, start being it. (…) Not tomorrow, but today! Get your work in front of other people (…) you really respect. When you get a criticism, you don’t have to take all of it, or none of it. You get to piece it a apart and take the part which you think are valuable and throw away the ones you think aren’t really worth it. ...

I must admit my heart sank a little bit a lot when saw this on my RescueTime “Weekly Summary” email… Oh dear! “Notepad”? Really?!? Sounds like a clear case of corporactivitis to me 🙁 For The Week Of April 04, 2013Top applications and websites: 13h 06m — wiki.netpost 6h 16m — NotePad 5h 01m — MS Excel 3h 39m — MS Outlook 2h 09m — Windows Explorer

You Are Boring — The Magazine A few years ago, I had a job that involved listening to a ton of podcasts. (…) The people who were interesting told good stories. They were also inquisitive: willing to work to expand their social and intellectual range. Most important, interesting people were also the best listeners. They knew when to ask questions. (…) Here are the three things they taught me. Listen, then ask a question ...

Three useful one-liner anchors to use on e-mail | Ricardo Clerigo I also find that starting text with a “> [Keyword]” combination works great, as in: Agreed: text Follow-up: text Action: text

Roger Ebert’s “The Great Movies” | Derek Sivers Roger Ebert’s “The Great Movies” essays 12 Angry Men Ace in the Hole Adaptation. The Adventures of Robin Hood After Dark, My Sweet After Hours The Age of Innocence Aguirre, the Wrath of God A.I. Artificial Intelligence Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Alien All About Eve Amadeus Amarcord Annie Hall The Apartment Apocalypse Now The Apu Trilogy Army of Shadows Atlantic City Au Hasard Balthazar Au Revoir, les Enfants An Autumn Afternoon Babel Badlands The Ballad of Narayama The Band Wagon The Bank Dick Baraka Barry Lyndon The Battle of Algiers The Battleship Potemkin Beat the Devil Beauty and the Beast Being There Belle de Jour La Belle Noiseuse The Best Years of Our Lives The Bicycle Thief The Big Heat The Big Lebowski The Big Red One The Big Sleep The Birth of a Nation Blade Runner Blow-Up The Blue Kite Bob le Flambeur Body Heat Bonnie and Clyde Breathless Bride of Frankenstein The Bridge on the River Kwai Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Broken Blossoms The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Cabiria Cache Casablanca Cat People La Ceremonie Un Chien Andalou Children of Paradise Chimes at Midnight Chinatown Chop Shop A Christmas Story Chuck Jones: Three Cartoons The Circus Citizen Kane City Lights La Collectionneuse The Color Purple Come and See Contact The Conversation Cool Hand Luke Cries and Whispers Crimes and Misdemeanors Crumb Dark City Day for Night Days of Heaven The Dead The Decalogue Departures Detour Diary of a Country Priest Diary of a Lost Girl The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Diva Do the Right Thing Dog Day Afternoon Don’t Look Now Double Indemnity The Double Life of Veronique Dr. Strangelove Dracula Duck Soup E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial The Earrings of Madame de… Easy Rider 8½ / Eight and a Half El Norte El Topo The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Exotica The Exterminating Angel The Fall of the House of Usher Fanny and Alexander Fargo Faust The Firemen’s Ball Fitzcarraldo Five Easy Pieces Floating Weeds Forbidden Games The 400 Blows French Cancan Gates of Heaven The General The Godfather The Godfather, Part II Goldfinger Gone With the Wind The Good, the Bad and the Ugly GoodFellas Gospel According to St. Matthew Grand Illusion The Grapes of Wrath Grave of the Fireflies The Great Dictator Great Expectations Greed The Grey Zone Groundhog Day The Hairdresser’s Husband Harakiri A Hard Day’s Night Heart of Glass Hoop Dreams House of Games Howards End The Hustler Ikiru In a Lonely Place In Cold Blood Inherit the Wind It’s a Wonderful Life Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II Jaws JFK Johnny Guitar Jules and Jim Juliet of the Spirits The Films of Buster Keaton Killer of Sheep The Killing Kind Hearts and Coronets King Kong L’Atalante L’Avventura L.A. Confidential La Dolce Vita The Lady Eve The Last Laugh The Last Picture Show Last Tango in Paris The Last Temptation of Christ Last Year at Marienbad Late Spring Laura Lawrence of Arabia Le Boucher / The Butcher Le Samourai Leaving Las Vegas Leolo Leon Morin, Priest The Leopard The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp The River (Le Fleuve) The Life of Oharu The Long Goodbye Lost in Translation M Magnolia Make Way for Tomorrow The Maltese Falcon A Man Escaped The Man Who Laughs The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Man With a Movie Camera The Manchurian Candidate Manhattan The Marriage of Maria Braun The Match Factory Girl McCabe & Mrs. Miller Mean Streets Mephisto Metropolis Metropolis-2010 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Mon Oncle Mon Oncle Antoine Mon Oncle d’Amerique Monsieur Hire Moolaade Moonstruck Mr. Hulot’s Holiday Mulholland Dr. The Music Room My Darling Clementine My Dinner With Andre My Fair Lady My Man Godfrey My Neighbor Totoro Mystery Train Nanook of the North Nashville Network Night Moves The Night of the Hunter Nights of Cabiria Nosferatu Nosferatu the Vampyre Notorious On the Waterfront One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Only Son Ordet Orpheus Out of the Past Pale Flower Pan’s Labyrinth Pandora’s Box Paris, Texas The Passion of Joan of Arc Paths of Glory Patton Peeping Tom Persona The Phantom of the Opera Pickpocket Picnic at Hanging Rock Pink Floyd: The Wall Pinocchio Pixote Planes, Trains and Automobiles Playtime The Pledge A Prairie Home Companion The Producers Psycho Pulp Fiction Raging Bull Raiders of the Lost Ark Raise the Red Lantern Ran Rashomon Rear Window Rebel Without a Cause Red Beard Red River The Red Shoes Richard III Rififi The Right Stuff Rio Bravo Ripley’s Game Rocco and His Brothers Romeo and Juliet The Rules of the Game Safety Last Samurai Rebellion Sansho the Bailiff Santa Sangre Saturday Night Fever Say Anything Scarface The Scarlet Empress Schindler’s List The Searchers Secrets & Lies Senso Seven The Seven Samurai The Seventh Seal Shadow of a Doubt Shane The Shawshank Redemption The Shining Shoah The Silence of the Lambs The Silence Singin’ in the Rain Smiles of a Summer Night Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Solaris Some Like It Hot Souls For Sale Spirit of the Beehive Spirited Away Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring Stagecoach Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) Strangers on a Train Stroszek A Sunday in the Country Sunrise Sunset Boulevard Superman The Sweet Smell of Success Swing Time A Tale of Winter Taxi Driver Tender Mercies The Terrorist The Thief of Bagdad The Thin Man The Third Man This Is Spinal Tap Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red 3 Women Through a Glass Darkly Tokyo Story Top Hat Touch of Evil Touchez Pas au Grisbi The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Triumph of the Will Trouble in Paradise 25th Hour 2001: A Space Odyssey Ugetsu Umberto D Unforgiven The Up Documentaries Vengeance Is Mine Veronika Voss Vertigo Victim Viridiana Vivre sa Vie / My Life to Live Waking Life Walkabout Werckmeister Harmonies West Side Story What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The Wild Bunch Wings of Desire Winter Light Withnail & I The Wizard of Oz Woman in the Dunes A Woman Under the Influence A Woman’s Tale Woodstock WR – Mysteries of the Organism Written on the Wind Yankee Doodle Dandy A Year of the Quiet Sun Yellow Submarine Yojimbo

Update 2023-07-31: Internet Archive 2013-04-02 The Game-Based CAPTCHA Alternative | Are You a Human Awesome way to replace the dreaded “Captchas”…

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Quem tem medo compra um não Os medos são companheiros mais ou menos frequentes das crianças. Aumentam ou decaem consoante a maneira como os pais não os entendem ou os abrigam. Se os pais os acolhem e, de forma firme, persuadem os filhos a enfrentarem-nos, o semáforo amarelo apaga-se aos poucos. Se os ignoram, tornam-nos um pouco mais alaranjados. Se os almofadam por todos os lados, dão-lhe gás e eles ficam avermelhados. ...

Jornal das 8 – 23 mar 13 – Parte II @ 71:55

Visceral Apps and You — Mysterious Trousers All of the apps mentioned above exhibit that same kinetic/potential interplay. They’re the UX version of bubble wrap. So here’s my theory: I believe that introducing visceral elements into an app will take it past the point of just being awesome. It will make your app speak to the subconscious, built-in affinity that humans have for the physical properties I mentioned before.

Stripe: Payments for developers Stripe makes it easy to start accepting credit cards (…) today. **Full-stack payments ** You don’t need a merchant account or gateway. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to your bank account. Stripe.js lets you build your own payment forms while still avoiding PCI requirements. Available only in the US and Canada, unfortunately 🙁