April 2013
1 post
What happens when you give 4chan images of the...
basedheisenberg:
They might actually find the guys responsible.
Post Bombing:
Pictures dug up from the same spot as the blast:
Posted on Al jazeera:
May 2012
3 posts
Instagram Engineering: redis-faina: a query... →
instagram-engineering:
As we mentioned in our previous blog, we’re big fans of tools and techniques for introspecting our live traffic to see what exactly is going on. One tool we use frequently is PGFouine, a query traffic analyzer for PostgreSQL. We recently found that we also needed a similar tool for Redis,…
March 2012
2 posts
Aaron Schaap: Why you don't need a programmer →
schaapy:
Once or twice a month I get the question from an aspiring entrepreneur that’s been pushing their idea forward in hopes to (very soon) create a company out of what they’ve been working so hard on.
They’ve spent countless hours working through all the details of what this new product will do, who…
The timing of this article is personally uncanny, and a lesson well learned for...
Culture is not just the immune system for your company—it is the basis of how...
– “Culture is a Product” by Ethan Kaplan (via marksbirch)
February 2012
1 post
Convore: Convore Shutting Down April 1st →
convore:
We’re sad to announce that Convore will be shutting down on April 1st. We are closing the site in order to focus our time and energy on working on Grove - hosted IRC for teams. We built Grove based on the lessons we learned with Convore and to better fit the needs of our business customers.
August 2011
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July 2011
1 post
Getting Funded: Step 2, The First Meeting -... →
June 2011
1 post
Instapaper Blog: The FBI stole an Instapaper... →
instapaper:
One of Instapaper’s five leased servers was hosted at DigitalOne, a Swiss hosting company leasing blade servers from a Virginia datacenter. Early Tuesday morning, the FBI raided the datacenter to seize servers used by another DigitalOne customer for fraudulent “scareware” distribution, according…
April 2011
2 posts
Marco.org: Let us pay for this service so it won't... →
marco:
MG Siegler laments Gmail’s recent issues: Google, please set a price — any price — that you determine is necessary to keep anyone’s account running smoothly at all times. I’ll gladly pay it. I don’t care if it’s $100 a year or $1,000 a year. It would be worth it. People often talk about the…
January 2011
2 posts
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Sour Apple App Store
I can’t be confident I’m the only one having this problem or not, but I’ll go out on a limb and say some of you are having this problem too:
In order to use the new App Store application (http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/) you need to first sign into it, a la iTunes. However, I sat there once I clicked on the Twitter app in the App Store application staring at the ubiquitous...
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December 2010
1 post
WONDER-TONIC: 4chan Declares War On Snow →
wondertonic:
A loosely-organized group of internet activists known as Anonymous announced on Sunday that it was declaring war on the meteorologic phenomenon known as snow. The hacker group, born out of the influential internet messageboard 4chan and responsible for the recent attacks against MasterCard and…
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
foursquare, you're losin' me here
Does foursquare purposefully make it near impossible to successfully checkin using their shortcode capability? (@50500). I used my LG Dare, send an SMS to @50500 with the body of the text being “McGee’s” (post-zogsports-volleyball communal commiseration) and not only did Foursquare unsuccessfully pair my SMS with the proper place, it also now provides me with no means to...