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The Death Of Dynamic Range
1983 - Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife (A&M CD-3288) This represents the earliest stage of CD audio mastering techniques. One of the big attractions of the CD format was its very wide dynamic range and absence of surface noise, so the first generation of CDs that were released made full use of this. The CD's digital…
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Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Media Temple Hacked
I don’t normally do negative posts about another person or company, but I feel this needs to get out there. A few hours ago I received an email from MediaTemple , where I host several of my clients. It was an automated message informing me that:
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Put that database in memory
Writings on artificial intelligence, personalization, recommendations, and the tech industry.
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Bithacks.h - bit hack macros
A part of being a great programmer is having your personal code library. With a personal code library I mean a repository of code that you have an intimate knowledge of and that you can reuse quickly. If you are a C programmer, you don't want to reimplement linked lists, trees, various utility functions, macros and...
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Google Multivac
In 1958 Isaac Asimov wrote a short story titled "All the Troubles of the World" (included in the collection "Nine Tomorrows" ). It described a world transformed by Multivac, a giant all-knowing computer. Asimov died in 1992, a mere four years before Larry and Sergey started their project "to organize the world's…
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Why Continuous Deployment?
Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a p...
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The Y Combinator in Arc and Java
I was recently reading The Little Schemer , a very intersting book about how to think in Scheme. The book uses a unique question-response ...
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Supercomputer Porn - Letting your competitors do your market research for you
As VP of Marketing at our new startup, the CEO literally threw me out of the building and told me not to return until I understood the market and could identify the key applications and customers f…
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Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS hacks. Full cross-browser.
A simple cross-browser method of centering tabbed menus with pure CSS and no hacks.
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Large-scale graph computing at Google
Posted by Grzegorz Czajkowski, Systems Infrastructure TeamIf you squint the right way, you will notice that graphs are everywhere. For example, soc...
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Typeface by Toyota. The iQ font Designed By A Moving Car.
A blog about the best creativity and design in the world.
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The 'We Need To Own' Baloney
Over the past few months, I’ve heard countless VCs utter the words ‘we need to own’ followed by some number. Often it is 20pcnt, but it is frequently 30pcnt. I heard someone tell me about a VC yesterday who said they needed to own 44pcnt. I was tempted to ask them to give me the […]
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Creating the Illusion of Accomplishment
Many game developers are starting to find that games with illusory challenges sell better than those with real challenge. They believe that…
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Paul Buchheit: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life
"Open" is a great thing. Everyone likes it. Unfortunately, nobody agrees what open is. There are many meanings, but in general, I think "ope...