January 2012
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I use ebay to buy something about once every a year. It’s ALWAYS the worst experience I have on the Internet that year. From the website (“it worked in 1995, let’s stick with it”), to the payment (paypal), to the products not being shipped (still waiting for a Christmas present for my wife), to the handling of problems (non-existant). Does eBay work for anybody who...
Jan 10th
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December 2011
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“Our preference is [to invest in] founders solving a problem for themselves. It’s...”
– What We Look For - daslee.com Scratch your own itch, the pay is better.
Dec 8th
November 2011
3 posts
“Startups are triage: For every problem, is it BLEEDING TO DEATH? If no, move on....”
– Jason Cohen
Nov 29th
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Nov 27th
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“Every business built on gatekeepers eventually fails.”
– Why Everyone But The Artist And The Music Fan Is Doomed | TuneCorner Music Blog
Nov 22nd
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October 2011
3 posts
Oct 15th
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“Account setup is done Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm EST, and typically is completed...”
– If your website can only set up accounts during business hours (and it still take an hour), you’re doing it wrong.
Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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September 2011
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TechCrunch: A great place to read about TechCrunch
Sep 17th
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“Raise your hand if you’re pushing code.”
Sep 4th
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August 2011
8 posts
6 tags
Aug 20th
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If PHP Were British →
Aug 20th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 16th
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Aug 10th
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“My computer monitor has seen a lot of my middle finger today.”
Aug 10th
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Aug 7th
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July 2011
5 posts
Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 25th
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Mission Control bug →
Even if Spaces doesn’t really exist anymore, I’m glad to see they kept this bug around. (also here)
Jul 22nd
Jul 21st
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June 2011
3 posts
Wireless keyboards are not all they’re cracked up to be.
Jun 30th
“I have spreadsheets of his projections from when [Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos]...”
– Meet Amazon.com’s first employee: Shel Kaphan - GeekWire
Jun 18th
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May 2011
6 posts
May 30th
For the record...
You couldn’t drag me to a “hackathon.”
May 23rd
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May 19th
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“300 TB of data is stored in Memcached processes [at facebook]”
– What is Facebook’s architecture ? - Quora
May 12th
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May 3rd
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March 2011
5 posts
Mar 29th
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It's a joke! (but an actual conversation)
me: Wait, duckduckgo.com is a google apps domain?
yegg: Haha, yup.
Mar 27th
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Mar 9th
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“This was made by people who use something called Emacs, which we originally...”
– Merlin Mann
Mar 3rd
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February 2011
4 posts
1 tag
Feb 24th
Feb 18th
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mwunsch: | Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
Feb 6th
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Feb 2nd
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January 2011
13 posts
Jan 24th
A UDP packet walks into a bar.
fuckyeahcomputerscience: The bartender doesn’t acknowledge him.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 18th
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More on who you should listen to when introducing new features Future User: I’d sign up if you added X feature. Me: Introducing X! Future User: What about Y? When will you have Y? Existing Users: Awesome!
Jan 15th
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A message about trust
Don’t trust… A smoker who refuses to smoke inside his/her own house A programmer who doesn’t have a strong preference about a specific keyboard What did I miss?
Jan 11th
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Always a good sign...
telnet localhost 11211
Jan 10th