May 2013
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April 2013
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pieratt:
The first Great artist of the 21st century will be a programmer.
I love this.
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Bijan Sabet: Picking up our own tab →
bijan:
In the earliest days of a company the most critical things are team & product development. Founders energy needs to be primarily focused on those two things. Everything else is often a distraction. Raising capital for startup companies also requires a big effort. Choosing the right investors that…
I love this so much.
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WatchOldie, but a goodie, about the Twitter tool Murder, which is their BitTorrent deploy system.
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March 2013
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Three eras of currency
cdixon:
Commodity based, e.g. Gold
Politically based, e.g. Dollar
Math based, e.g. Bitcoin
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The Indie Web
nickgrossman:
Last night at USV, we hosted the latest of several recent meetups on the “Peer Economy”. We are in the process of organizing a number of companies and organizations that represent a certain sector of the internet economy in NYC, with an eye towards building a more formal coalition (perhaps in the model of San Francisco’s BayShare) at some point in the future.
As is to be...
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ruffaloon:
omfg my mom dropped her iphone in the toilet so she fished it out and desperately yelled ‘SIRI I DROPPED YOU IN THE TOILET WHAT DO I DO’ and siri replied ‘Tara, you have 28 events in July. That’s a lot.’ and then died
Too funny not to share.
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February 2013
22 posts
Ungamable
thegongshow:
I recall back in 2008 talking to a colleague about Mint and Wesabe, the first two social “Web 2.0” financial aggregation services. My friend’s insight into why these two services were interesting was terrific: the quality signal in the system costs real money to exercise. On Facebook, a “like” costs a user only a click. In Mint or Wesabe, you had to spend real money with a...
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“I have only 1 goal, and that is to stick to my values as a human being and offer...”
– Buster Benson
(from his recent post on 750words.tumblr.com)
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WatchBetween 5th grade and the day they graduate high school, students will have spent 10,800 hours in school if they have perfect attendance. By age 21, the average gamer will have spent 10,000 hours playing video games. There is an entirely parallel track of education going on in a typical gamer’s life.
So… Just what are they learning?
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My Ideal Calendar
I would like a new calendar app for my phone. I have some problems that I would like to see solved by the calendar and from that I believe there is a new concept for what a modern calendar system should look like.
The calendar system should be a cleanly designed system. The idea is to make scheduling yourself a comfortable and easy experience, but a designer should lead this process. In fact,...
“As Facebook has become a real-life social network infested with parents,...”
– Tumblr Is Not What You Think (via amandalynferri)
kickstarter:
What would it cost to back every active Kickstarter project right now?
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Rubik's Cubes in Multiple Dimensions
I first saw a Rubik’s Cube back in high school. Some kids knew a few moves with one but no one really knew how to solve them. I did, however, learn that some moves exist which could change the state of the cube without disturbing it too much. The idea that there were special moves fascinated me for a long time. It felt like learning moves in video games like Street Fighter, but used for...
AMAZING
$ traceroute 216.81.59.173
traceroute to 216.81.59.173 (216.81.59.173), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1) 5.136 ms 2.554 ms 2.514 ms
2 user-387g801.cable.mindspring.com (208.120.32.1) 44.145 ms 46.753 ms 39.527 ms
3 tenge-0-2-0-6-nycmnyw-rtr01.nyc.rr.com (24.168.134.185) 15.058 ms 17.846 ms 12.763 ms
4 bun100.nyquny91-rtr001.nyc.rr.com (184.152.112.81) 16.415 ms ...
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“On the other hand, it’s easy to see why telcos would love the idea that every...”
– FedEx’s file-transfer capacity versus the Internet - Boing Boing (via nickgrossman)
What I Learned from Ding Dong
nchirls:
I’ve been at betaworks for over a year now. With Josh and John’s guidance, I oversee our seed investing activity, where I’ve gone from complete noob to moderate noob. Since I started we’ve made 21 investments in new companies. The transition from builder to investor has been fascinating, damn fun, and at times downright bizarre. For the first six months, for all sorts of reasons and...
January 2013
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a...”
– Albert Einstein
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LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency →
Martin Thompson and Michael Barker talk about building a HPC financial system handling over 100K tps at less than 1ms latency by having a new approach to infrastructure and software. Some of the tips include: understand the platform, model the domain, create a clear separation of concerns, choose data structures wisely, and run business logic on a single thread.
The system that required this...
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