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API as Product Definition | Tom Harrison Jr

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. API as Product Definition. By Tom Harrison Jr. May 14, 2015. Selling into large institutions is hard unless you hold all the cards. Sales are a visual thing — customers see demos, slide decks, mockups and all the rest and start thinking along the lines, “Wow, that’s kind of like what I want … hey, can your product do this? Then, Engineering gets a look and says “You told them we would do. So we try to please everyone. But this just thrashes the product&#...

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Stepping Back from Ruby | Tom Harrison Jr

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. Stepping Back from Ruby. By Tom Harrison Jr. August 12, 2015. I am not a programming language bigot. All have their purposes and their. Operates on a list or other enumerable objects. Operates as you would expect, mostly:. Max([1,2,3]) # = 3 math.sqrt(25) # = 5 1 2 # = 3 int("3") # = 3 (3.0).is integer # = True . wait, what? Ah, is integer tests if the value can be an integer). Integer # = false . wait, what? Ah, is a? But consider this tradeoff:. A Fixnum)&...

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Skills | Tom Harrison Jr

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. I have developed a lot of technical and business skills over the years. Saying “I know Rails” is one thing. Knowing how to use it is another — a skill. If you’re looking for my technical chops and experience, you’ll find them here. I excel when topics require both in-depth technical. A working implementation of software is the best design. Tools available today make it possible to whip up something that works, even if just a little — endless meetin...I have ...

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Thoughts | Tom Harrison Jr

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. US Digital Service: Now We’re Talking! By Tom Harrison Jr. June 18, 2016. By Tom Harrison Jr. May 1, 2016. Using StackOverflow to Learn by Teaching. By Tom Harrison Jr. April 17, 2016. Brilliance is not so Bright. By Tom Harrison Jr. March 20, 2016. Developer vs. Engineer, An Alphabet Angle. By Tom Harrison Jr. January 24, 2016. 8220;How to Live Wisely”, from NY Times. By Tom Harrison Jr. August 1, 2015. Making Technical Debt A Feature.

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Green | Tom Harrison Jr

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. Open Energy Information Initiative from DOE uses Amazon EC2. By Tom Harrison Jr. September 16, 2010. Energy Monitoring: It’s Not a Passive Thing. By Tom Harrison Jr. August 26, 2010. It’s Not Easy Being Green, But I Am. By Tom Harrison Jr. August 19, 2010. Making Technical Debt A Feature. US Digital Service: Now We’re Talking! It’s A Feature, Not Technical Debt. The Value of a Computer Science Degree? Guest Loyalty Programs for Restaurants.

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Social Connections by Numbers | Tom Harrison Jr

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. Social Connections by Numbers. By Tom Harrison Jr. June 6, 2015. We spend lots of time wondering how new technologies will affect (read: harm) our children. I am not sure these technologies are so bad, and maybe fill a gap that a lot of other social changes have created. Also, it strikes me as funny that a phone number is still an important identifier … more so even than an email address. Not friended, not emailed, not instagrammed. The friend’s phone ...

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Tom Harrison Jr: Make It Work, Make It Beautiful, Make It Fast | Page 2

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. Change is hard in people, companies. January 16, 2016. Companies and people may be more alike than we think. They seem to resist change in similar ways. I am working to try new things in my current company. No company could be more open, willing, accepting and encouraging of change than ours. Compared to other companies, both large and small, our leadership is wide […]. Read more →. Don’t Sell Past the Close: Don’t Solve Past the Solution. December 11, 2015.

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Biggest performance bump in ages: SSD | Tom Harrison Jr

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. Biggest performance bump in ages: SSD. By Tom Harrison Jr. May 6, 2015. I hadn’t realized how slow my MB Pro was until I started using one with SSD. Two nearly equivalent machines for home and work: 16GB RAM, modern CPU, but one with SSD. Everything is faster, notably reboot, but any startup. If I restart Chrome, where I typically have 15 or 20 tabs open it is stunningly faster. So much is cached on disk that a fast disk makes a remarkable difference. Next p...

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You Never Really Go Back | Tom Harrison Jr

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. You Never Really Go Back. By Tom Harrison Jr. April 30, 2015. I had the chance to talk to some technical folks today. The conversation helped me further coalesce my ideas about “Make it work, Make it beautiful, Make it fast”. That I have written about here before. In short, it’s three parts of one whole, and not three distinct phases. It is indeed my horrifying experience that this last paragraph is an accurate description of the typical state of the large m...

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Consulting | Tom Harrison Jr

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Make it Work, Make it Beautiful, Make it Fast. Hi, I am glad you found my site. At present, I am happily employed full time. I am very interested in advising early-stage startups, but don’t have time to do more. If I Were a Consultant :-). My purpose is to promote my skills and experience so that you’ll hire me to consult for your business. My life is an open book — you can see my web life through the links to my social networks on the right, read the technical blog. In most cases, my best advice is.