February 2012
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Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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“There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...”
– Phil Karlton (Found on this redis tutorial)
Feb 27th
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27 Inspirational Quotable Quotes →
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Feb 26th
Sweet and (Slightly) Disturbing Art by Sebastien... →
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Feb 26th
Fascinating Photos of Young People with All Their... →
Feb 24th
High Times →
A New York based magazine, started in 1974, this is all about getting high!
Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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ListenA rare cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs....
Feb 20th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 15th
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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.
Feb 12th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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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.
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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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...
Feb 8th
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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
Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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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...
Feb 5th
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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...
Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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January 2012
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“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...”
– George Orwell (via nevver)
Jan 31st
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