December 2011
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March 2010
1 post
February 2010
4 posts
Jeff Bezos on the next web innovation | Video on... →
Incredibly optimistic talk from back in 2003
“Use your electricity for more than just light”
Software Engineering for Internet Applications →
“The other objection that’s been leveled against static type systems is...”
– The Purpose of Scala’s Type System
“Great business idea. But did you find a zealot to run it?”
– Jack Welch
One of the interesting things about running an IAC company is that once a quarter you sit in a room with Jack Welch all day and talk about business. It turns out to be an incredibly healthy exercise to have to answer questions from a tough outsider every once in a while. The above...
January 2010
4 posts
“This, to me, is one of the great mind-blowing SQL queries. It means something...”
– Why Arel? « Magic Scaling Sprinkles
“In science, being completely and utterly stuck can be a good thing; it often...”
– 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense (via david)
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox) (via marco)
August 2009
4 posts
“I don’t think about records. I don’t put myself under pressure. I...”
– BBC SPORT | Athletics | Awesome Bolt breaks 200m record
“The interpreter was written by someone who shouldn’t have stayed up so...”
– Whitespace
July 2009
1 post
“Piracy is essentially the consumer’s wish to have everything on demand. It’s not...”
– Daniel Ek - founder of Spotify
Slipstream - Streaming Services May Soothe the Music Industry - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson) (via tylerhwillis)
So true.
June 2009
12 posts
Half Asleep
Sometimes I go whole days
listening bored, half sleep
I won’t say anything
that’s worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time
took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
What begins as an unguarded
train of thoughts slowly can become
an addiction to the slumber
of disconnection and the resonance
of memory that no longer has a shape...
WatchSchool of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
“If we want to write parallel programs that work reliably, we must pay particular...”
– Papers on transactional memory
“I found it interesting that someone at Microsoft thought that it was important...”
– Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google, Starting a Business Article - Inc. Article
“Two economists working at Dartmouth, Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra,...”
– Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
“It is still too early to argue whether Wave can or will every replace email...”
–
Google Wave: Our First Hands-On Impressions
AWS Elastic Load Balancer Tutorial →
(via joergbattermann)
iPhone's Safari Browser to include Geolocation -... →
WatchVideo: PSFK Conference NYC: Building Healthy Brands With Heart - PSFK.com
May 2009
11 posts
“Healthcare needs to be Amazoned, Zipcarred, Facebooked, Etsyed, Tumblred,...”
– Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH. A doctor in New York City.
WatchNaguino: an Arduino-based Nagios monitoring display on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
More here
“The Blimpduino kit is a very low cost, open source, autonomous blimp kit. It...”
– Blimpduino kit
“If Google’s power over the web wanes, and I think it will in time, it will not...”
– Fred Wilson, Default Behavior and the Internet Operating System (via factoryjoe)
“Now, the military wants a new equation: one that explains the human mind as a...”
– Darpa: Heat + Energy = Brains. Now Make Us Some. | Danger Room
Tapbots shows how much you can do with just a... →
“Sixty years later Salk’s hunch is now backed up by empirical evidence as...”
– This Is Your Brain on Architecture | Cannell | Fast Company
ASIHTTPRequest - An easy to use wrapper around the... →
(via joergbattermann)
“Twitter is such a simple service overall, but look at a few screenshots of these...”
– Daring Fireball: Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
April 2009
8 posts
“This removal of the baggage that comes along with trying to win the approval of...”
–
The 5 Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self | JonBischke.com
CloudKit - An Open Web JSON Appliance →
“That, in fact, is the problem with using polling in any form to synthesize a...”
– Asynchronous I/O - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The judge who sentenced four men to jail for their involvement with The Pirate...”
– Pirate Bay judge ‘biased’: experts - The Local
http://ai.rb.ag
You’re looking at the proud new owner of this domain hack
March 2009
18 posts
Watchtylerhwillis:
Our new player is sexy. Like Uncle Scrooge.
New Involver Player FTW
“The NVIDIA® Tesla™ S1070 Computing System (Dual PCI Express 2.0 cable...”
– NVIDIA Tesla C1070 1U Computing System - Scalable Many Core Supercomputing for Data Centers