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How I almost killed Facebook
It is a little-known fact that I nearly killed Facebook before it started. At least, that's what I like to think. Though, perhaps it was in...
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Call to action: Deceptive marketing of Safari 4
@burnout426 I was one of the complainers. But my complaints were limited and refered only Opera tools panels (sidebar setup, Bookmarks/History panel). I'm still confident that mentioned panels should be locked at 100% zoom because they directly refer to the UI (which is not zoomable in Opera). So sidebar setup have…
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Why I chose Clojure/CouchDB for a new site
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Technology: Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.
“Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.” It is true. We take for granted the miracles we get from technology, and complain when the miracles aren’t perfect. This comedian’s routine on the Conan O’Brien show is funny, mocking our … Continue reading →
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You can go beyond quotas now on Google AppEngine
Posted by Brett Slatkin, App Engine Team We're psyched to announce that developers can now purchase additional computing resources on App ...
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How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year
“Lean startups are built from the ground up for learning about customers.” – Eric Ries I recently sat in on Eric Ries’ presentation on lean startups at Berkeley. The slides and audio ar…
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All we want are the facts, ma'am.
I've never been involved in a detective interview, but occasionally I'm interviewed by a journalist. Some publications use a quaint procedure known as fact checking ; for example, the New Yorker had a wonderful piece by John McPhee in their Feb. 9th issue on their fact-checking process. (My favorite part was about…
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Thinking about using Facebook Connect on your site? Step one: Abandon your will to live.
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Heroku: Why Instant Deployment Matters (YC W08)
How much better are two steps than three? Does it matter if something takes five minutes instead of twenty? When it comes to software deployment and...
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Why GPSes suck, and what to do about it
I’m the lead of the GPSD project , a service daemon that monitors GPS receivers on serial or USB ports and provides TPV (time-position-velocity) reports in a simple format on on a well-known Internet port. GPSD makes this job looks easy. But it’s not — oh, it’s decidedly not — and thereby hangs an entertaining tale of…
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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
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Startups in 13 Sentences
February 2009 One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them. Then I thought: what…
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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous....
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Pretending to be Wise
> The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral. > > —Dante Alighieri, famous hell expert > > —John F. Kenne…
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Untitled Document Syndrome
People have a natural tendency to skip the *have to do* stuff to get right to the *want to do* stuff if they can get away with it.
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