July 2012
A blog from the mind of falicon: How will gawk.it... →
falicon:
As I’ve mentioned before, gawk.it primarily serves two groups:
1. People who search.
2. People that blog and want to offer a powerful conversation-search feature to their audience.
With those two groups in mind, and thanks in large part to Fred Wilson’s latest post, I wanted to think a…
Rajiv's blog: Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox,... →
eranki:
Rajiv Eranki <rajiv.eranki@gmail.com>
I was in charge of scaling Dropbox for a while, from roughly 4,000 to 40,000,000 users. For most of that time we had one to three people working on the backend. Here are some suggestions on scaling, particularly in a resource-constrained, fast-growing…
Bradley Wright: Sharing files with virtual... →
intranation:
In a previous post, I sang the virtues of VMWare Fusion’s shared folders feature, and the way it lets one share files from the host OS to the guest OS. Folder sharing is a bit of a pain to install, especially because OS upgrades on the guest seem to break the guest tools installation. The…
Bijan Sabet: Getting Sherlocked →
bijan:
Many years ago a company called Karelia developed a cool desktop app for the Mac called Watson.
Wikipedia describes the story of Karelia quite well:
The Karelia logo was inspired by events that occurred shortly after Dan Wood created Watson. The application was designed as a complement to…
Strong Opinions @marksbirch: Building on Someone... →
marksbirch:
When you are building the next great Internet innovation, where you build can make all the difference between success and failure. Like the real estate adage about location, API’s and platforms can be hugely important in gaining traction. But platforms can also be dangerous propositions and…
Instagram Engineering: What Powers Instagram:... →
instagram-engineering:
One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in…
Stowe Boyd: Rachel Armstrong on The Problem With... →
stoweboyd:
This was a comment to a post, The Future is Now, but the comment is better than the post.
Rachel Armstrong
The problem with ‘the future’ - is that is is actually not the future at all - it is a version of now.
At a very real and practical level when we talk about ‘the future’ - we…
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la vie...: Reece's Sports --> Business Wisdom →
donnabrewingtonwhite:
I appreciated this exchange in the AVC,com comments:
LE: I know you are a big sports person and I’m wondering if there are any things you learned from your various team participation and how coaches deal with under-performance that could be of value in a company and employment situation.
blog.izs.me: Benchmark: Array-ification of... →
izs:
Having really hot paths in your code can be great, but it can also be a little dangerous. When v8’s Crankshaft landed in the Node.js dev build, it immediately resulted in a significant drop in Node’s “hello world” performance benchmark. This was alarming. Crankshaft was supposed to be faster,…
Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay
blakemasters:
Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.
CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future
Purpose and Preamble
We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. A...
