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Recently I've found myself reading a lot of poorly written online content. I don't mean that there were typos or that the writer wasn't using big fancy words. After all, there will probably be typos and a noticeable lack of big words in this blog post. What I mean when I say "poorly written" is t...
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If you're ever making a flier, brochure, or any other type of document where you need to squeeze a lot of information on one page, you've probably struggled to find ways to differentiate different sections of text. For example, on a page where lots of things need to be called out, it can be di...
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As of Monday night, Less Annoying Software is officially live. What that means is that our software (the CRM I talked about earlier) is both stable enough and complete enough to be ready for real customers. If you were thinking about trying our software out, now is as good a time as any ...
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I have an annoying habit of evangelizing certain technologies to just about anyone I talk with. One of the most common programs I recommend is Chrome, a relatively new web browser from Google. I've been asked to defend my love of Chrome enough times that I figured I'd publish it online f...
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Hello blogosphere, Bracken here, checking in for the first time on the Less Annoying Blog. While I have been working behind the scenes on Less Annoying Software, I've been absent from the blog to date. Tyler finally prodded me with enough force that I'll be posting with some regularity for the fores...
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As promised, I'm back with more analogies to chemistry and physics. If you enjoyed yesterday's post, you're in for a treat. If not, this post is completely different.
Technology is cooperative
It's no big revelation that change
is difficult but important. We've talked about it before, and
we'v...
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Hello again and welcome to this third and final installment of obfuscation in the name of clarity (for now anyways). I wanted to get away a bit from discussion of using technology and focus more on how some of those ideas impact the way we are approaching the design of Less Annoying Software. So her...
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During my graduate career, I've read and analyzed a ton of research papers. Of all the compliments that one could give, I think the highest praise is to say that a method, experimental design, or proof is elegant. The papers that bring huge resources to bear to tackle crucially important problems ...
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Here's a fairly spot on comic on the relative importance of elegance in academics vs. business, courtesy of xkcd.com. I leave it up to the reader to decide which viewpoint is less twisted. Figured it was worth posting given my earlier post on the subject.
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Now that we actually have a product, Bracken and I are trying to figure out ways to bring people to our site. Probably the most cost-effective way to do this over the long term is by working on Search Engine Optimization (or SEO). SEO is the practice of using various techniques to make y...
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