February 2011
“Market price and intrinsic value often follow very different paths – sometimes...”
– http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2010ltr.pdf
Information Arbitrage: Investing in "quirky" →
informationarbitrage:
I recently answered the following question on Quora:
As an investor, what do you do when pitched by an entrepreneur with a great idea but who is really annoying?
I stated that this is a very hard question to answer because “annoying” is a non-specific term. There are many things that…
Ego’s relationship to Expertise →
The path of the master is neither clearly laid out nor easily traversed
A recurring theme within Victus Spiritus is the art of leveraging internal desire and drive to create…
BRYCE DOT VC: Why I Deleted My AngelList Account →
brycedotvc:
Yesterday I deleted my AngelList account. Doing so generated a lot of questions on Twitter, in email and from the press so I want to explain myself.
Its a decision I’ve been wrestling with for the last few months as I’ve found the service increasingly not matching my investment philosophy. That’s…
reecepacheco.com: Put your personality in your... →
reecepacheco:
Those of us working in ‘tech’ love to obsess over hot innovations and cool features in the latest apps, but at the end of the day most consumer web products “win” with their overall voice and vision.*
If you look at some of the best communities - Tumblr, Foursquare, Twitter and now Bnter, Forrst…
Emergent Design by a Super Organism →
It’s easy to forget that man doesn’t have a monopoly on massive construction projects. Colonies of ants have evolved to construct extraordinary shelters for defense and…
Anyone have a TARDIS I can borrow →
Planning a daytrip
A talented web slinging friend of mine (not Spiderman) is developing a slick social interest filtering platform. I met with founder Kevin Marshall a couple of weeks back to…
Death by To Do lists →
This is a guilty admission of not following my own advice from an earlier post cautioning against never ending task lists. I’ve been lax with ruthlessly culling my inbound over the past few…
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“Little by little the machine will become part of humanity. Read the history of...”
– via Russ Garett’s blog
inception - The movie, explained through C code →
thechangelog:
I’ll be honest: this is one of the cooler things I’ve seen recently:
/*
* Create separate threads for the main protagonists involved in the inception
*/
static void *inception(void *unused)
{
struct sched_param param = {.sched_priority = 99 };
int policy = SCHED_OTHER;
if(!getuid()
||
!geteuid())
{
output("Setting policy to real time...
Netflix outsources a huge portion of its... →
erikschwartz:
“Netflix outsources a huge portion of its operations to Amazon Web Services. AWS became a Netflix vendor in 2009, and has taken on an increasingly larger role in managing the “majority of our computing,” according to the 10-K.”
Speculating operating budgets for large museums,... →
I’ve had the good fortune of enjoying many day trips into New York City’s museums, but I’ve always wondered how they function as non-profit organizations. I know the major revenue…
Twitter’s a business first, a social platform... →
The background
UberTwitter was cut off from Twitter’s information pipeline yesterday and it impacted many users. There were three key violations of Twitter’s terms of service by UberMedia, all…
Hacker Chat: Max Ogden Talks About CouchDB, Open... →
Unraveling the Knots of Implementation Benchmarks →
One of the biggest gains that can be achieved with any specific implementation, independent of the language(s) it is written in, is having experts spend time profiling and optimizing system…
Monkey Opus: The $20 Starbucks Test →
snootymonkey:
A couple of weeks ago I had the good fortune to meet Hugh Crean, the ex-CEO of Farecast, ex-Microsoft executive (they acquired Farecast) and current Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst. A group of us talked to Hugh for close to an hour, and I learned more about the travel industry…
Building an App for Mac OS X Part 1 →
This is the first post in a series on understanding the basics of developing for the Mac platform. As I proceed with building the app, I’ll share helpful documentation and discoveries along the way.
Beware compulsive bookmarking →
A continuation of cleaning up your info diet and tricks for managing information overload
Work space design patterns describe the effect of clutter on critical thinking. Junk filled…
AutomaticDJ in Action!
gleitzman:
People have been sending lots of love and great feedback for AutomaticDJ, the passive music selection system that plays tunes from the Hunch API based on your face. I’ve released the code on GitHub and am looking forward to see what people can create.
Here is a video showing AutomaticDJ in action:
Built to Last →
In it’s earliest stage, a project is most malleable. Spinning pottery clay is still soft, concrete has yet to set, and experimental code is quick to build and throw away. The…
Quick blast from the past – nostalgic tune →
It’s another one of those Sunday mornings where time is tight but I feel like I have an eternity to lounge around. The music that immediately came to mind was the background music Tyler Gillies (
“Looking at HTML5 through the lens of Christensen’s disruptive innovation...”
– HTML5 as a Disruptive Technology | Platformability (via johnallsopp)
Startup Strategies that Survive, Prosper, and Win →
Cross Platform App Strategies Elevate Beyond Cannibalistic Platforms
A significant portion of new media and tech companies are founded on platform access to both people and their data. Early on in…
It’s time to Retire the Spreadsheet →
Deep down the community I can most relate to needs a little adventure or wonder in the applications they depend on. One more block of dry predictable text, or another pointless pie chart is the…
Coding web apps is the new literacy →
A follow up to yesterday’s riff acknowledging the barriers which deter regular folks from actively crafting web applications.
We’re hardwired to process information, whether it’s
Continuations: Sketchup + Shapeways = My First 3D... →
continuations:
One of my personal projects for 2011 was to design something and print it on Shapeways. This weekend I decided that I had a couple of hours to do that and so as the first step I installed Google Sketchup.
Having never done any 3D design before, instead of jumping straight into the…
CouchOne – Blog: CouchOne + Membase = Couchbase →
couchio:
Hi, this is Damien Katz, CEO at CouchOne. I’ve got some news I’m extremely excited to finally announce: a merger between CouchOne and Membase! A little background: I met James Phillips, the co-founder of Membase, for the first time in December. I’d heard a little about Membase up to that point,…
DNSimple Blog: Preparing Domains in GoDaddy for... →
dnsimple:
If you have more than a few domains with GoDaddy then preparing them for transferring away can be a time-consuming process. To help, we’ve put together this guide.
Prerequirements
Before transferring all domains that will be transferred need to fit the following requirements:
The domain…
know about it: What does your tagline actually... →
knowabout:
In case you haven’t come across it yet, this is the one-liner we use to describe know about it:
Knowabout.it tries to make sure that you ‘know about the great stuff’ passing through your social media services.
We think it’s pretty accurate in describing the basic idea of what we are trying…
treesaver: HTML5, JavaScript library for creating... →
thechangelog:
A new breed of mobile devices led by the Apple iPad are changing the way we think about web layout. Applications like Flipboard and Feedly have led the charge in a resurgence of magazine-style layouts both on the web and on the tablet.
Treesaver from Filipe Fortes is a new JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS. Weighing in...
