August 2011
3 posts
2 tags
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)
5 tags
July 2011
7 posts
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are...
– Lao Tzu (via paperlover)
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)
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 :)
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I’ve been thinking a…
I did not expect to agree with every single point made :)
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)
June 2011
8 posts
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
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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)
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)
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)
May 2011
7 posts
I sent nintendo some bricks. →
…I can guarantee you, without fear of contradiction, that no software engineer...
– Jon Evans, Why The New Guy Can’t Code (via buzz)