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> <channel><title>Sealed Abstract</title> <atom:link href="http://sealedabstract.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://sealedabstract.com</link> <description>sealed abstract class drew {}</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:07:53 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>All the surveys you can eat</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/all-the-surveys-you-can-eat/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/all-the-surveys-you-can-eat/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:07:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rants]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1402</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is a real support request: Hi developer, I really hate how you have to pay for more minutes I was wondering if you could update to do surveys also as a way of paying? The mental model of this individual is astounding: How do I eat a survey, or use it to buy computing [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/all-the-surveys-you-can-eat/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movements are an excuse to think</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/movements-are-an-excuse-to-think/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/movements-are-an-excuse-to-think/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:05:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[rants]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1399</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jason Gormon wrote a post against software movements: The problem I perceive is that this kernel of useful insight tends to become enshrouded in a shitload of meaningless gobbledygook, old wives tales and sales-speak, so that the majority of people jumping on to the bandwagon as the movement gains momentum often miss the underlying point [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/movements-are-an-excuse-to-think/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Life After Jobs</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/life-after-jobs/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/life-after-jobs/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:29:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[rants]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1369</guid> <description><![CDATA[Something that&#8217;s occurred to me recently is that there seems to be a pretty big disconnect between how hackers see the world, and how many others (reporters, market analysts, investors) see the world. When non-hackers look at a company, they might measure it by the quality of the furnishings, the prestige of the office building, the market [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/life-after-jobs/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Things I don&#8217;t understand:  USPS</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/things-i-dont-understand-usps/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/things-i-dont-understand-usps/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:57:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Don't understand]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rants]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1365</guid> <description><![CDATA[I consider myself a pretty smart person, but there are some things that I don&#8217;t understand.  One of these things is USPS. You may or may not know that USPS is granted a government monopoly on delivering mail and also has exclusive access to mailboxes.  This means that FedEx and UPS effectively cannot compte on the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/things-i-dont-understand-usps/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>How to save time and money</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/lifehacking/how-to-save-time-and-money/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/lifehacking/how-to-save-time-and-money/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:24:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Lifehacking]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1288</guid> <description><![CDATA[The law of diminishing returns is such that you sometimes spend an increasing amount of effort for a small incremental gain.  Its obverse, that sometimes the first step on the road to awesomeness has a huge effect, can also be true.  This post is about how fifteen minutes will save you $1k or more.  (Not [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/lifehacking/how-to-save-time-and-money/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>I&#8217;ve moved away from NFSN</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/ive-moved-away-from-nfsn/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/ive-moved-away-from-nfsn/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:50:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[rants]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1323</guid> <description><![CDATA[Readers know that I&#8217;ve been a longtime supporter and have given high praise to my (now former) web host, NearlyFreeSpeech.Net.  I&#8217;ve supported them because they do fair usage-based-billing in a market of &#8220;unlimited&#8221; that&#8217;s really limited, because I&#8217;m a big fan of their stand against SOPA, on content neutrality, and other matters of libertarian ethics, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/ive-moved-away-from-nfsn/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>NSIncrementalStore &#8211; The future of web services in iOS / Mac OS X</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsincrementalstore-the-future-of-web-services-in-ios-mac-os-x/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsincrementalstore-the-future-of-web-services-in-ios-mac-os-x/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:42:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Code]]></category> <category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1251</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Problem You may be interested in how to wire up or sync CoreData to a remote web service.  There are plenty of frameworks to do this, like RestKit, RestfulCoreData, and various defunct libraries (CoreResource, etc.)  The problem with these libraries is twofold: They assume things about your backend (like &#8220;It&#8217;s REST!&#8221;  or &#8220;It has [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsincrementalstore-the-future-of-web-services-in-ios-mac-os-x/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>19</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>On assumptions</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/on-assumptions/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/on-assumptions/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:32:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[rants]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1239</guid> <description><![CDATA[We do not question assumptions.  This is, of course, a tautological statement.  But its logical infallibility belies its profoundness. For example, Rondam argues: Underlying the debate about the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is the unstated assumption that intellectual property rights have the same legal standing as other property rights. They don&#8217;t, and the tacit concession [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/on-assumptions/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cross-platform logging and analytics talk</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/code/cross-platform-logging-and-analytics-talk/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/code/cross-platform-logging-and-analytics-talk/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:37:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Code]]></category> <category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1235</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is the talk I gave at CocoaCoders about cross-platform logging and analytics. Cross-platform logging and analytics View more presentations from Drew Crawford]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/code/cross-platform-logging-and-analytics-talk/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Of Wizards and Magical Machines</title><link>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/of-wizards-and-magical-machines/</link> <comments>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/of-wizards-and-magical-machines/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:42:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Drew Crawford</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[rants]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sealedabstract.com/?p=1206</guid> <description><![CDATA[People want things to be cheaper and easier and faster than they are. That doesn&#8217;t seem very extraordinary, does it? I mean, it&#8217;s not really news. In fact, the opposite would be news&#8211;if people wanted things harder, slower, or more expensive. You may not even believe it is true. People in fact pay more for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sealedabstract.com/rants/of-wizards-and-magical-machines/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
