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Sharetribe is a great, Almost Open Source project which enables one to put up a C2C marketplace in record time. Well, that record time is indubitable when compared to starting from scratch, but that doesn’t mean it’s effortless. We’re going to set-up a Sharetribe instance on a Ubuntu VPS. Why Ubuntu? It’s easy and the […]
Keep ReadingI love morality. It may be silly, this bizarre obsession of mine, but I sponsor morality whenever I can. I plead for it, I advocate for it, I embrace it. I work so hard to advance morality that I’m often asked: Why? Why should I care about morality? How do you even define morality? What […]
Keep ReadingVarnish Cache is Amazing I will leave it to you to read some of the benchmarking studies, it is likely you already have if you’re here. I am going to cut straight to the point and share my shell-secrets with you, so you can start speeding up your sites right away. Pre-req’s I am assuming: […]
Keep ReadingMOOCs vs College Degrees Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are miles ahead of their rapidly aging predecessor, the unJustifiably Overpriced Collegiate Experience (uJOCE). We will compare and contrast the two in this article, weaving a neat little story about finances, economics, and information in the meantime. MOOCs Are Awesome! Oftentimes, I find myself taking classes […]
Keep ReadingPeace, Love, and Understanding? Superficially, the idea of a “gift economy” may strike you as fanciful or inconceivable. How could people get by simply by giving away what they have to others? What market forces would conspire to feed the nation: simply goodwill and peace on Earth? Where are the real incentives? Fortunately, it is rather […]
Keep ReadingCapitalism doesn’t stand alone. Nor even isolated in a small room with its uncomfortable flatmates, Command and Mixed Economies. Many economic theories have come before and will come after. Indeed, Adam Smith’s original conception of Capitalism is alive and well, yet in our era it is has seen some changes. We are realizing the effects of […]
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Boy, if I knew then what I know now… This is going to be a quick list of all of the tips and tricks I picked up making an API for ShareTribe Go v10. I used Grape API, which is great, though I found myself confused by the docs and wanting more. This is what […]
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