August 2011
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005. (via the Wall Street Journal) Sadness fills me about all of this. (via ario)
Aug 25th
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Aug 18th
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July 2011
7 posts
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are...”
– Lao Tzu  (via paperlover)
Jul 31st
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“The overculture will always try to devalue anything truly threatening. If you...”
– Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad Interview With Douglas Rushkoff | GeekDad | Wired.com (via ario)
Jul 30th
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bijan sabet: To regulate or not regulate... →
bijan: First, a disclaimer. As with every thing I write down on Tumblr, these thoughts are my own personal thoughts and do not represent companies in our portfolio, nor do they represent my partners point of view. They are simply my own and they are subject to change :) * * * I’ve been thinking a… I did not expect to agree with every single point made :)
Jul 19th
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“this goes deep into the interior mentality of the engineer, which is very...”
– Marc Andreessen on why @dens wears sneakers in business events Marc Andreessen on the Dot-Com ‘Bubble’ - NYTimes.com (via fred-wilson)
Jul 17th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 6th
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Jul 5th
June 2011
8 posts
Jun 27th
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Netflix Velocity Conference 2011 - Adrian... →
takeaways: -all AWS -automated builds - creates war file, RPM file, bakes AMI and launches -old world of many unique config hand-tweaked systems is dead -every production instance is a pre-baked image -encode every video to 50+ formats -all S3 data is backed up to a separate S3 account, and also to a second -apache, tomcat, cassandra, simpledb -biggest hardware commitment: encoding ...
Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
“What makes a good founder? If there were a word that meant the opposite of...”
– How to Be an Angel Investor by Paul Graham (via bijan)
Jun 18th
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“When someone tells me no it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t...”
– Karen E. Quinones Miller (via thatswhatshesaidquotes) I love this. (via ario)
Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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“Lap after lap a driver experiences g-forces comparable to an astronaut during...”
– These Cars Turn Right! Become a Formula One Fan This Weekend by Matt Langer (via petervidani)
Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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May 2011
7 posts
May 12th
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I sent nintendo some bricks. →
May 11th
“…I can guarantee you, without fear of contradiction, that no software engineer...”
– Jon Evans, Why The New Guy Can’t Code (via buzz)
May 10th
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