Author Archives: Hayim Makabee

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About Hayim Makabee

Veteran software developer, enthusiastic programmer, author of a book on Object-Oriented Programming, co-founder and CEO at KashKlik, an innovative Influencer Marketing platform.

Super-Productivity

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

In a previous post I discussed the reasons some programmers are much more productive than others. But the fact is that every programmer experiences periods of time when he is much more productive than average, and I think there are … Continue reading →

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An Inspiring Jobs

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

With the recent death of Steve Jobs, I decided to learn more about his life and his many contributions to the world of personal computers. During my searches, I found a very inspiring speech he gave in a graduation ceremony … Continue reading →

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Research at Yahoo! Labs

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

My friends frequently ask me about the kind of research I do at Yahoo! Labs. Usually I cannot give them many details, because our work is confidential. But after a project is completed we frequently publish a paper describing it. This … Continue reading →

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The Effective Workplace

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

In a recent article at the Harvard Business Review, entitled “The Twelve Attributes of a Truly Great Place to Work”, Tony Schwartz provides a list of characteristics of an effective workplace that makes the employees more “engaged”, and thus more … Continue reading →

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Programming Without an Internet Connection

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

Are you able to program without an internet connection? In my case the answer is definitely “No.” In most of my programming tasks I need to get some help from the internet, generally in the form of documentation and examples. … Continue reading →

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How Decision Fatigue Affects the Efficacy of Programmers

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

In the past, programming was an activity based on assembling low-level instructions using a small numbers of structures: there were loops, conditional statements and function calls. Systems were built through the application of relatively few patterns at different scales. Even … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of Agile Development

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

What is wisdom? This is a definition from the Ethics Resource Center: “The ability to make good judgments based on what you have learned from your experience.” According to this definition, a wise man is someone with vast knowledge and … Continue reading →

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Who is an Expert? – On Rules and Exceptions

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

It is relatively easy to find very young people who are brilliant programmers, who seem to know every detail about a particular language, platform or technology. Some of them will be able to implement a nice Android app in a … Continue reading →

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Design Patterns and the Tower of Babel

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

This is the story of the Tower of Babel from Wikipedia: According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of … Continue reading →

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The Facebook Killer: Lack of Reciprocity

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

Some people claim that Facebook will be replaced by some other social network such as Google+. I think that the real Facebook killer will be the Lack of Reciprocity: If you are constantly posting about your personal life, you will … Continue reading →

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