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052313

"A startup is like a mosquito. A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored against one, but a mosquito is designed for one thing: to score. No energy is wasted on defense. The defense of mosquitos, as a species, is that there are a lot of them, but this is little consolation to the individual mosquito."

PG is so good

How to Make Wealth (via davehyndman)

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Disqus: The Official Blog: Trying out this Go thing...

disqus:

Last Thursday, May 16th, we shipped our first Go project into production.

Disqus has a history of using one tool for the job and hammering through everything. Until now, that tool has been Python. This mentality has been extremely beneficial for us since we are a small team. Everyone is able…

052013

marksbirch:

METAL MONDAY: Break On Through by The Doors - Now you might be thinking that The Doors are not metal. Strictly speaking you are probably right, but all the metalheads of the day were Doors fans and had a bigger influence on metal than people acknowledge. Also, this is a shoutout to Ray Manzarek, the Doors founding member and keyboardist, who passed way today. Without him and his unique sound, a song like Break on Through would not be the classic it is today. RIP Ray.

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051813

Matthew Rosenberg: What's the shrewdest, smartest maneuver you've ever seen in business?

matthewerosenberg:

Herbert Dow founded Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan when he invented a way to produce bromine cheaply. He sold the chemical for industrial purposes all over the US for 36 cents per pound at the turn of the 20th Century. He couldn’t go overseas, however, because the international market was…

oldloves:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

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051713

imgur: the simple image sharer

relaxing morning walk

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051613

A moments distraction

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051513

magnolia street

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programming is terrible: A lifetime of terrible code

programmingisterrible:

Although many entries posted here are far from optimistic, and often glib criticism dressed up in technical jargon, they don’t always come from a position of arrogance. It is not that my code is devoid of mistakes, but understanding the mistakes of others has given me a perspective I wouldn’t be…

051413

dvdp:

130515
just a shortie to send some (+)vibes

txchnologist:

by Txchnologist Staff

Jet engines need cutting-edge materials that are strong, light and can withstand extreme heat. GE is developing a material that can handle high temperatures like ceramics can and is also as tough as metal. Here, a projectile fired at a sample of advanced ceramic composite tests the material’s ability to endure the strike.

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