American education providers are businesses dressed up as philanthropic institutions, and students are customers whether they realise it or not
2 min read#education
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Education is a business Addendum to the rule Adding to Luke Kanies' rule about avoiding food in transportation hubs with my own hard-earned rule: never eat the breakfast buffet
1 min read#foodSinatra and Sub-URIs Fixing 404s and broken asset paths when deploying a Sinatra app under a sub URI, using sinatra-static-assets and the url helper
That time she danced with me in Brooklyn A short personal piece on loving cities, their noise and smell, mass transit, the rain on concrete, and the crush of people
Hiring Challenges How Puppet Labs uses written exercises and short coding challenges to filter candidates before phone screens and reduce screening time
4 min read#hiringHow we use IRC at Puppet Labs Why the Puppet Labs ops team picked IRC for team chat and how a Cinch-based bot called Lampwick handles tickets, alerts, and assorted memes
Please take an Arts degree Why so many Arts graduates wind up in IT and how consuming, assimilating, and synthesising information makes us well suited to it
4 min read#america