January 2012
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December 2011
3 posts
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“You know what’s great about New York? The threshold for citizenship as a New...”
– Anthony Bourdain in his new show, “The Layover“ (via alittlespace)
November 2011
2 posts
3 tags
Reks - Limelight
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“For great is the power of arguing and the faculty of persuasion, and...”
– Epictetus, Why Not Sophistry?
October 2011
5 posts
3 tags
“For 30 years now, he has lived a monkishly regimented life, each facet of which...”
– The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami
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“…inspections are a cheaper method of finding bugs than testing; according...”
– Kevin Burke, Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research
Lil Wayne - 6 Foot 7 Foot (Feat. Cory Gunz)
...
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“What’s the potential power of the entrepreneur’s simple leap of...”
– Charles Schwab, Every Job Requires an Entrepreneur
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“Dr Bartels and Dr Pizarro then correlated the results from the trolleyology...”
– The Economist, Moral philosophy: Goodness has nothing to do with it
September 2011
7 posts
2 tags
“According to Global Trade Alert, a database of restrictions on international...”
– The Economist, Protectionism in Argentina: Keep out
I have trouble reconciling reports like this with the high marks Buenos Aires receives from everyone I know who has traveled there. A great place to visit, a terrible place to live?
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“Outsider, non-founder CEOs are often overvalued because many corporate boards...”
– James Kwak, Steve Jobs’s Law: Why Founders Make the Best Leaders
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“Foursquare uses Scala’s difficulty as a filtering mechanism. You’ve gotta be...”
– David Pollak, Yes, Virginia, Scala is hard
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“The only person with the credibility to helm Apple in the long run is a person...”
– Aaron Swartz, How Apple Works
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“…Heroku is a polyglot platform. Techniques for deployment, logging, and...”
– Adam Wiggins, Heroku for Java
“For six generations, the same family has run Hermès. That has given this company...”
– Patrick Thomas, Hermès’s CEO, via WSJ
August 2011
1 post
1 tag
“German-style games avoid direct conflict. Violence in particular is taboo in...”
– Wired, Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre
July 2011
9 posts
1 tag
“One of the best, unattributable quotes from Social Foo last year was the data...”
– Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Streams, affordances, Facebook, and rounding errors
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“Mr Murdoch has shown both a restless hunger for the next deal and the patience...”
– The Economist, Schumpeter: Great bad men as bosses
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“My life’s low points are nowhere near as severe many other people’s;...”
– an anonymous response to Peter Singer’s post, Should This Be the Last Generation?
“The urban scene is a spectacle that fascinates me. People are animals, and the...”
– E. B. White, The Art of the Essay No. 1
Watchjosephschmitt:
Warren Buffett:
I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
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“We live our modern, high-tech lives immersed in a sea of devices and systems...”
– Josh Susser
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“I left the Ransom Center wondering whether one of the most valuable parts of...”
– Maria Bustillos, Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...”
– Sexus, Henry Miller. 1949.
via Airwalker.
(via tlvx, rememo)
June 2011
2 posts
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“Good product managers take written positions on important issues (competitive...”
– Ben Horowitz, Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager
Gainfully applicable to all roles, I think.
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“Do a small thing and if it is successful, you have the confidence to do another...”
– Tina Rosenberg, Revolution U
May 2011
1 post
2 tags
“Good writing should be convincing, certainly, but it should be convincing...”
– Paul Graham, The Age of the Essay
April 2011
2 posts
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“It is obligatory these days in a polite society to have a complicated attitude...”
– David Brooks, Why Trump Soars
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WatchX-Men: First Class Title Sequence
I would see the film just to catch this sequence on the Silver Screen.
March 2011
2 posts
5 tags
February 2011
7 posts
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“Our pipeline strategy started when we first moved to Vegas in 2004. Even though...”
– Tony Hsieh, Training, Mentorship At The Core Of Our Employee ‘Pipeline Strategy’
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WatchDas Racist - Who’s That? Brooown!
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“There’s a big difference between being self-employed and being a business owner....”
– Derek Sivers, Delegate or die: the self-employed trap.
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“One American senator in ten is closely related to another national politician, a...”
– A special report on global leaders: Not for sale | The Economist
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“It’s comparatively a lot easier to find 30-50 people, validate you have a...”
– Ash Maurya, The Fallacy of Customer Development
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“There is a big lesson we’ve learned here [at Netflix], which is that the ideal...”
– How We Determine Product Success, John Ciancutti, Vice President of Personalization Technology @ Netflix
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“We are going to increasingly see nichey services that sell curation as a primary...”
– Paul Kedrosky, Curation is the New Search is the New Curation
January 2011
16 posts
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“In writing the steps, Wilson drew on the Oxford Group’s precepts and borrowed...”
– Brendan I. Koerner, Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works
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“At a time when fraternal orders and churches with strict hierarchies dominated...”
– Brendan I. Koerner, Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works
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“…I’ve been trying to fully engage with the social layer. I joined and...”
– Devin Friedman, The Viral Me
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“It couldn’t be any clearer that the Internet is what citizens need to keep their...”
– Albert Wenger, Egypt, the Internet, and the Second Amendment
I couldn’t disagree more. The lesson from America’s endless debate over the second amendment is that it’s a mistake to bind human rights to technology.
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“Hard-core porn, which is what Internet porn largely traffics in, is undoubtedly...”
– Natasha Vargas-Cooper, Hard Core @ The Atlantic
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“[Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Columbia University] discovered something...”
– Malcolm Gladwell, The Talent Myth
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All About Amazon Dynamo Paper →
nosql:
From the series “if you didn’t read the paper, here’s an overview”, this time Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store:
The Dynamo paper can be difficult to read. The main issue we had is that the authors don’t always motivate the different components of the system. For example, consistent hashing is one of the earlier concepts introduced in the paper, but it is difficult to...