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Apr 17

What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?

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 22

May 15

Instagram Engineering: redis-faina: a query analysis tool for Redis -

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,…

Mar 30

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 next time. 

Mar 07

“Culture is not just the immune system for your company—it is the basis of how you build, function and evolve as a producer of products. It should be omnipresent on your roadmap, given attention and never thought of as an option or afterthought when resources get constrained.” — “Culture is a Product” by Ethan Kaplan (via marksbirch)

(via marksbirch)

Feb 20

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.

Aug 23

… and no answers in sight.

… and no answers in sight.

Jul 08

Getting Funded: Step 2, The First Meeting - Passionate Intensity

Jun 23

Instapaper Blog: The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid -

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…