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Time has various levels of quality.

Grow organically. Have users from day one. Don't do a Hollywood style launch.

Tips for being a more productive programmer. Avoid distractions. Work in long stretches. Use succinct languages. Keep rewriting your program. Start small.

Run upstairs. A startup is like a mosquito. For potential acquirers, the most powerful motivator is the prospect that one of their competitors will buy you. The second biggest is the worry that, if they don't buy you now, you'll continue to grow rapidly and will cost more to acquire later, or even become a competitor. Users are the only real proof that you've created wealth. Wealth is what people want.

How to structure your CSS for a web application. Great for programmers who have to design because it emphasizes modularity and separation of concerns in CSS.

The founding document of The Economist.

Remember to ask the all-important question of why you're building a website, even if it looks like everyone else is enthusiastic about building one just for the hell of it. Everyone will be happier and better off if you ask.

The desire to redesign is aesthetic-driven, while the desire to realign is purpose-driven. One approach seeks merely to refresh, the other aims to fully reposition and may or may not include a full refresh.

Putting more logic into the model rather than the controller makes the code more readable, maintainable, and testable.