Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

RaceSplitter race timer for iPhone and iPod Touch

Last week, after seven months of design and development, we launched RaceSplitter, a high quality race timing application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. (It will also run on an iPad, in 2x mode

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Bronze Medal at the 2011European Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championship

Sunday, January 30, I competed for the first time as a black belt in the 2011 European Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championship, in Lisbon, Portugal. My category was light weight (under 76kg), Senior 2

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The Sprint HTC EVO 4G — Sorry Apple, you knew it was coming

SPRINT ARE BRINGING OUT THE BIG GUNS, with this truly powerful advertisement for the, uh — not sure exactly what it's called, The Sprint HTC EVO 4G? Doesn't matter, just have a look:

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Toshiba Teaser Site

Daring Fireball just linked to an article about how Toshiba's new teaser site for its upcoming tablet sends a message to iPhone users. Well, here's my message to Toshiba:

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A look at Apple competitor advertising

It seems Apple has no competition these days, and judging just from advertising, I'm thinking we're a good ways off from seeing any. Why? Try as they may to copy, companies like Samsung just don't

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Inadvertent worldview distortion

In his excellent book, "Innumeracy," John Allen Paulos presents a number of surprising and important consequences of our general lack of understanding of the principles of mathematics; particularly

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Why we do not sign NDAs at Makalu

Recently, a potential new customer expressed surprise when I told him that we at Makalu usually don't sign NDAs. Mentioning that he'd found plenty of other companies willing to sign his NDA, I

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Notes on application of game mechanics to functional systems.

I recently watched this interesting video from Amy Jo Kim about the application of game mechanics to functional systems — in particular social systems. For reference, here are the brief notes I took.

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Financial independence.

Although people often state financial independence as a personal goal, few with whom I've spoken can articulate what that means. (And even fewer know precisely how to get there.) It's a lot easier

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The Harry Browne Permanent Portfolio

Each person who makes the decision to save, must decide where to store his savings. This article introduces the “Permanent Portfolio,” in which the late Harry Brown recommended to store that portion

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