May 2012
7 posts
A toothpaste factory had a problem: they sometimes shipped empty boxes, without...
– Lazy is what the jealous call efficiency.
Reddit, my friends call me a scumbag because I automate my work when I was hired to do it manually. Am I? : AskReddit
Getting the details right is the difference between something that delights, and...
– Coding Horror: This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details
The frequent fliers who flew too much -... →
An amazing story (with Brown mention to boot)
Which is why I have been so saddened and, yes, angry, about the recent trend in...
– Best Practices Exist for a Reason : Tom Dale
April 2012
11 posts
I’m 13. I have a little band. We are so much better than you. Honestly. You are...
– Teen Age riot: 13 year-old rips into Sonic Youth on Facebook | Death and Taxes
The sale of Instagram brings a harsh reality into focus, the realization that...
– Digital Diary: Instagram and the Internet’s ‘Secret’ Places - NYTimes.com
sandersak dot tumblr dot com: . @spotify must have... →
sandersak:
I’m giving Spotify a try. They are doing their best to make this the worst streaming music experience possible.
I’ve been using the free account for a while and I understand that I’m going to be served ads. That happens to me on Pandora and usually it’s not a problem.
So what gives with…
Somehow the legal team from the studio found out about a student project, in a...
– Burn, Hollywood, Burn | jwz
March 2012
24 posts
Being a startup founder in San Francisco feels like being a banker in New York
– Why Branch Is Moving Back To New York City | PandoDaily
When I'm looking for my phone
whatshouldwecallme:
travels with khuyi: Smart pricing strategy →
khuyi:
I got my hair cut today at a salon I found through a scoutmob deal. They’ve also done a number of promotions on Lifebooker.
Not only was the haircut and the service great (and cheap, thanks to the 50% off discount), they have a great pricing policy:
If you come into the salon on a discount…
Schneems: You got NoSQL in my Postgres! Using... →
schneems:
Heroku just announced their support of hstore in their dedicated Postgres 9.1 instances. Hstore is a schema less key value store inside of PostgreSQL that allows us to store data like hashes directly inside of a column. It’s great for when you don’t know exactly what types of attributes you need…
if they’re really so unconcerned, considering that they probably use...
– Scripting News: An open challenge to PandoDaily
Two hundred fifty milliseconds, either slower or faster, is close to the magic...
– Impatient Web Users Flee Slow-Loading Sites - NYTimes.com
We used to talk about downtime issues at board meetings. These days, beyond downtime issues, we discuss speed & latency. So important.
(via bijan)
February 2012
15 posts
Remembering Franz (2012, essay)
harperalexander:
Mike Franz was already a man when most of us on the Brown Men’s Ultimate Frisbee team still clung stubbornly to boyhood.
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Microsoft tries to find pockets of unrealized revenue and then figures out what...
– Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator’s Dilemma - James Allworth - Harvard Business Review
Impressive story.
Original weekend project mvp link on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614
(via Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million From Chris Sacca, Max Levchin And Others To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System | TechCrunch)