March 31, 2011
Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511104
good points
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07:00 AM
March 27, 2011
MacOS X is an Unsuitable Platform for Web Development
http://teddziuba.com/2011/03/osx-unsuitable-web-development.html
well, it's amusing
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10:46 PM
March 26, 2011
Redshift | jonls devblog
http://jonls.dk/redshift/
a linux specific tool like f.lux for adjusting screen settings based on time of day
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04:23 PM
High-tech industry on hiring binge in California; Google, Facebook and Zynga lead the pack | Technology | Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/03/high-tech-industry-on-hiring-binge-in-california-google-facebook-and-zynga-lead-the-pack.html
"San Francisco's Twitter, which is valued by investors at billions of dollars, has more than 400 employees and plans to grow to 3,000 employees by July 2013. A year ago, it had just 140 employees." Yikes!
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04:23 PM
Hacker News | Flux: Better Lighting for Your Mac
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369788
windows and linux versions too
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09:00 AM
March 25, 2011
O+P Insights: Improving Linux performance by preserving Buffer Cache State
http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise/
it would be great to see this make its way into rsync, scp, and a host of other tools really
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01:00 PM
March 24, 2011
Best Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe, Easy Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe
http://www.famousfrenchdesserts.com/chocolate-lava-cake-recipe.html
gonna have to try this and see how it compares to our "normal" recipe
Posted by jzawodn at
05:23 PM
LearnBoost/cluster - GitHub
https://github.com/learnboost/cluster
Node.JS multi-core server manager with plugins support.
Posted by jzawodn at
04:23 PM
kriszyp/multi-node - GitHub
https://github.com/kriszyp/multi-node
Multi-node provides launching of multiple NodeJS processes for TCP/HTTP serving
Posted by jzawodn at
04:23 PM
Zile - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/
wow, it's like a tiny emacs
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08:46 AM
March 23, 2011
Welcome to the Tomato USB web site - TomatoUSB
http://tomatousb.org/
runs great on the new ASUS router
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09:23 PM
133 Cities Now Have Their Own Broadband Networks - 54 Cities Run FTTH Networks, 79 Run Cable Networks | DSLReports.com, ISP Information
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/133-Cities-Now-Have-Their-Own-Broadband-Networks-113346
man, I wish we could get some of this going
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03:23 PM
An EventMachine Tutorial
http://20bits.com/articles/an-eventmachine-tutorial/
a very simple but useful introduction to eventmachine in ruby
Posted by jzawodn at
01:23 PM
March 22, 2011
snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor - Google Project Hosting
http://code.google.com/p/snappy/
fast compression lib from google
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04:23 PM
My Life Without A Cell Phone: An Amazing Tale Of Survival | The Awl
http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/my-life-without-a-cell-phone-an-amazing-tale-of-survival
heh, that's amusing on multiple levels
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01:00 PM
March 18, 2011
Sight - Google Chrome extension gallery
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epmaefhielclhlnmjofcdapbeepkmggh#v1.6.2
make code easier to read in chrome
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09:23 PM
Geologist: Alarming magnetic field changes signal major quake for West Coast - by Terrence Aym - Helium
http://www.helium.com/items/2117269-magnetic-field-changes-signal-major-quake-for-west-coast
I guess we'll know soon... heh
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04:00 PM
Zed Shaw
http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html
yes, there are some very good points here
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11:23 AM
AT&T Global IP Network Home
http://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att.net/pws/index.html
at&t ip network health
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09:23 AM
Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html
this would be amazingly powerful
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08:46 AM
Ann Cooper talks school lunches | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/ann_cooper_talks_school_lunches.html
I had no idea that Berkeley was doing this
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08:46 AM
March 16, 2011
UTILITY POLES
http://annsgarden.com/poles/poles.htm
for some strange reason, I find utility poles utterly fascinating
Posted by jzawodn at
09:46 PM
Lessons from 11 years of community (my SXSW 2011 talk) on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/21043675
interesting to see what sort of tools metafilter has built up (and how similar some of them are to ours at craigslist)
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08:23 PM
March 14, 2011
Nelson's Weblog: aviation / flight-sim-for-instrument-training
http://www.somebits.com/weblog/aviation/flight-sim-for-instrument-training.html
interesting stuff
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11:46 AM
Chili Lime Peanuts | Serious Eats : Recipes
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/02/chili-lime-peanuts-recipe.html
I want to make these sometime
Posted by jzawodn at
10:23 AM
March 13, 2011
"File not found: lib" when installing rails-3.0.0 - Ruby on Rails: Talk | Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/7f8dd116fdcfe0f8?pli=1
this just bit me in the ass
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08:46 PM
Get Organized with Emacs Org-mode | Linux Journal
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9116?page=0,1
I'm actually starting to dig this a bit
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08:46 AM
March 12, 2011
YouTube - Santa Cruz Tsunami Up Close 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgt8qBSZEn0
did more damage than I expected
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11:00 PM
The Little Habits
http://zenhabits.net/lil/
I couldn't agree moe
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09:23 AM
More Redis internals: Tracing a GET & SET - Paul Smith
http://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2011/03/redis_get_set.html
a good walk thru of some common redis server code paths
Posted by jzawodn at
09:23 AM
March 10, 2011
Bug #662847 in openvpn (Ubuntu): “multiple DNS search domains not supported by update-resolv-conf”
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn/+bug/662847
yay, my patch was accepted into Ubuntu
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05:46 PM
YouTube - Y Combinator's Graham Doesn't See `Bubble' in Technology: Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBTRf1kgm8
Paul is a smart cookie
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03:46 PM
March 09, 2011
YouTube - Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTFEUsudhfs
it's amazing to see how far Khan Academy has come
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10:23 PM
Worst Automatic Garage Door Opener Installation Ever Video
http://www.break.com/cue-the-cuervo/worst-automatic-garage-door-opener-installation-ever-2020629
that is full of awesome... and fail
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05:46 PM
March 08, 2011
Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/bill_gates.html
interesting to see Bill Gates getting into next-gen nuclear power
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11:23 AM
March 07, 2011
Welcome to Ledger - GitHub
https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/wiki
open source command-line accounting
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05:00 PM
Men’s Journal » Print » Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie
http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness-is-a-lie/print/
interesting perspective on how most people are doing it wrong (if they're doing it at all)
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05:00 PM
PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
this all seems very sensible to me
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04:46 PM
March 03, 2011
YouTube - Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14&feature=player_embedded
all I can say is: wow
Posted by jzawodn at
06:46 PM
Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html
a classic that explains most of his book in ~18 minutes
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01:23 PM
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html
probably the single most important TED talk I've seen
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01:23 PM
Michael Pollan gives a plant's-eye view | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pollan_gives_a_plant_s_eye_view.html
some ideas I haven't seen in his books (those that I've read) or other talks/presentations. I think the farm he refers to was in the movie Food, Inc.
Posted by jzawodn at
01:23 PM
March 02, 2011
(1/1) TED Talks: What are some must-see TED talks ? - Quora
http://www.quora.com/TED-Talks/What-are-some-must-see-TED-talks
wow, I've seen many of these, but many more I have not
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08:23 AM
Easy WebSocket - a WebSocket client to broadcast messages to webpages
http://easywebsocket.org/
this could be fun to play with
Posted by jzawodn at
07:23 AM