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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars
When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars Ralph Waldo Emerson This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for. One out of ten of Americans is out of work. The common wisdom say…
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What A CEO Does
I am posting this as a MBA Mondays post. But I did not learn this little lesson at business school. I learned it from a very experienced venture capitalist early in my post-MBA career. I was working on a CEO search for one of our struggling portfolio comapnies. We had a bunch of them. I […]
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The Facebook F8 Story No one is writing: Nothing works.
If you develop Facebook applications, or have a website you’d like to integrate with Facebook connect, you have undoubtedly seen at least some of the videos from the F8 Conference this weeken…
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The advantages of programming on a small netbook
Most software developers prefer to work on "fast" computers, and I am normally one of them. Many of my tools work best with lots of memory, ...
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DHH vs. Calacanis on This Week in Startups
An intense debate about business models, bubbles, capitalism, quality of life, market share vs. profit share, running a business vs. selling a business, and a variety of other related topics from episode 46 of This Week in Startups. This is really good stuff. (There’s 47 minutes of mater…
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Realtime encoding - over 150x faster
We are excited to announce real-time encoding, allowing videos to be encoded while they are still uploading and effectively making encoding 150 times faster!
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Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career
Eric Gill, Adrian Frutiger and Max Miedinger are names we associate with the classic typefaces designers use on a daily basis. Their font creations are timeless designs that look right at home no matter what century we’re in. This collection of 25 classic fonts is a round up of the best and most popular fonts […]
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How old were you when you decided to start giving up?
The official blog of Inkling Markets. We make prediction market software for organizations to improve their forecasting and make better decisions.
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Why we switched from Google App Engine to EC2
Transform your course with Top Hat. Engage students with in-class polls, quizzes, and discussions, AI-powered assistance, and personalized content. Learn more!
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ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack
Berkeley Sockets (BSD) are the de facto API for all network communication. With roots from the early 1980's, it is the original implementation of the TCP/IP suite, and arguably one of the most widely supported and critical components of any operating system today. BSD sockets that most of us are familiar with are…
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Where Are the Android Killer Apps?
It’s not that most top-notch mobile apps are written for iOS. It’s that *almost all of them* are, despite the fact that Android, by most accounts, has surpassed iOS in phone sales and perhaps drawn even in unit sales overall.
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The 10:10 Code
Four years ago I wrote about a way to encode the latitude and longitude of any point on the Earth's surface to 10m of accuracy with a 10 ch...
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Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide
That's what this guide is for. It's a basic guide to diet and fitness for beginners who want to get in better shape. If you want to look better, improve your overall athletic ability, or just improve your health, read on. If you're a bodybuilder or athlete, you probably already know most of this anyway.
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