February 2012
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There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...
– Phil Karlton
(Found on this redis tutorial)
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27 Inspirational Quotable Quotes →
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Sweet and (Slightly) Disturbing Art by Sebastien... →
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Fascinating Photos of Young People with All Their... →
High Times →
A New York based magazine, started in 1974, this is all about getting high!
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...
– Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I.
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In 1980, Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a...
mentalflossr:
Saddam had made donations to the city’s Chaldean Sacred Heart church.
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Consumer internet and privacy: Weighing in on the...
A few years ago when I was in Oracle, our entire product team got a mandate to make the an older version of an application “accessibility compliant”. This included a huge number of super boring tasks like adding alternate text to images so that the visually impaired who rely on screen-readers could better understand the web page contents. In the consumer tech world, where our...
Top five regrets of the dying
nevver:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.more
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Adventures in TodoLand
I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir, because I’m not myself you see.
~ Alice in Wonderland.
A long time ago, when I was still in school, I used pen and paper to make TODO lists. Stuff like “copy exercise #4 from V and submit tomorrow”. Yeah, I was kinda using GTD years before I heard the term.
Over the past five years, I have had a string of affairs...
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A great letter template for acquired startups →
Dear soon-to-be-former user,
We’ve got some fantastic news! Well, it’s great news for us anyway. You, on the the other
hand, are fucked. We’ve just been acquired by:
[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter
[ ] Other: _________________
As you are aware, we’ve always provided a free service, and have never even tried offering a for-pay option. This means we’ve...
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January 2012
45 posts
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...
– George Orwell (via nevver)