Leanpub.com lets you keep roughly 90% and the publishing process is quite painless
I'm running Ubuntu on a Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus (http://www.samsung.com/global/ativ/ativbook9plus.html) with no issues and battery life is good. Nearly all media keys worked out of the box, as well as wifi.
Joel Spolsky wrote about this exact subject (with graphs, etc. as requested). very worthwhile read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
(Given your mention of a career, I'm going to assume he is at the stage where he can write programs to do stuff, but wants to move to the next level.) To get better at programming, you need to do more than learn to…
"What's wrong, honey? They had fresh eggs!"
However, Facebook uses HipHop (http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358) to make PHP faster (so it's not the plain-vanilla PHP). From the linked article: HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into…
Mint's pre-launch pitch deck can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-dec...
This says it much better than I can: How to Build a Web Site from Scratch with No Experience (http://lifehacker.com/5336113/how-to-build-a-web-site-from-s...) It details how the author built mixtape.me starting with…
http://www.twilio.com/ I haven't used them in production, but I've started playing around with their voice API and it's pretty neat. Also, you get $30 credit (for free) when signing up for a test account, so that should…
I've been using a Dell XPS 1530 with an SSD, and couldn't be happier. All the stuff I've tried worked out of the box (built-in wireless, webcam, sound, graphics card w/ NVidia driver, etc). It's a great laptop and the…
Not quite what you're looking for, yet still relevant: the UBS bank provides a (free) worldwide analysis of wages, purchasing power, benefits and the like - 2009 study…
Leanpub.com lets you keep roughly 90% and the publishing process is quite painless
I'm running Ubuntu on a Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus (http://www.samsung.com/global/ativ/ativbook9plus.html) with no issues and battery life is good. Nearly all media keys worked out of the box, as well as wifi.
Joel Spolsky wrote about this exact subject (with graphs, etc. as requested). very worthwhile read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
(Given your mention of a career, I'm going to assume he is at the stage where he can write programs to do stuff, but wants to move to the next level.) To get better at programming, you need to do more than learn to…
"What's wrong, honey? They had fresh eggs!"
However, Facebook uses HipHop (http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358) to make PHP faster (so it's not the plain-vanilla PHP). From the linked article: HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into…
Mint's pre-launch pitch deck can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-dec...
This says it much better than I can: How to Build a Web Site from Scratch with No Experience (http://lifehacker.com/5336113/how-to-build-a-web-site-from-s...) It details how the author built mixtape.me starting with…
http://www.twilio.com/ I haven't used them in production, but I've started playing around with their voice API and it's pretty neat. Also, you get $30 credit (for free) when signing up for a test account, so that should…
I've been using a Dell XPS 1530 with an SSD, and couldn't be happier. All the stuff I've tried worked out of the box (built-in wireless, webcam, sound, graphics card w/ NVidia driver, etc). It's a great laptop and the…
Not quite what you're looking for, yet still relevant: the UBS bank provides a (free) worldwide analysis of wages, purchasing power, benefits and the like - 2009 study…