jamie

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by jamie 17y ago
Well, they have to catch up to Facebook's overdoneness. http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/28/facebook-headquarters...
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by jamie 17y ago
Is there any notable innovation here over tumblr?
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DVR, Once a Mortal Foe, Is a Friend After All(nytimes.com)
3 points by jamie 17y ago|0 comments
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by jamie 17y ago
This is tremendous advice: "Jeff makes an insightful point that, when designing for scale, you should design for expected load, ensure it still works at x10, but don't worry about scaling to x100. The problem here is that x100 scale usually
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Advice from Google on large distributed systems(glinden.blogspot.com)
20 points by jamie 17y ago|1 comments
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by jamie 17y ago
Probably zynga.
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by jamie 17y ago
This is at least interesting; articles from the last 90 days are for-pay, but once that window closes, it will be available for free. How long until there's a reverse auction or minimum clearing level for articles? It seems the future of p
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Economist.com slipping behind the paywall
2 points by jamie 17y ago|2 comments
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Inside the Private Equity Game: NYT feature on the PE industry (graphics8.nytimes.com)
2 points by jamie 17y ago|0 comments
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by jamie 17y ago
Yes, but you can commute in it year-round. And with a fixie or single speed, the hills add at least a modicum of challenge. There's no reason to say that SF proper is too small to take advantage of; I think the appeal is that here, you hav
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by jamie 17y ago
I'm amazed how caught up in the SF tech-scene people can get. Sometimes, it feels like anyone who ever used vi or emacs moved to the Mission or SoMa. I know those are trendy places for engineers to live, but this city is really a bunch of
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by jamie 17y ago
Don't forget that the weather here means you can comfortably go running year round. In fact, the san francisco half is in January. That's a huge advantage that SF-proper has. Soccer, running, and cycling are all activities you can do eve
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by jamie 17y ago
For those that don't remember, the early days of TechCrunch were all about "who is getting bought today!" A big part of the "sellout to google" dream started from TechCrunch making it seem like Google would buy any and every startup. Here'
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by jamie 17y ago
Yup, and while you can fault them for investing in phone operating systems and two aborted attempts at a phone os, arguably both of these represent the real threat to the MS cash cow. It's execution (and fear of killing the cash cow), not m
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by jamie 17y ago
What's striking to me is that the CEO letter mentions Moritz directly. I'm sure this isn't the last we'll hear of this story. > We asked our board members what they thought of the opportunity. Michael > Moritz, who represents
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by jamie 17y ago
Also, this job for HW engineer makes it much more obvious: http://www.facebook.com/careers/positions.php?id=672 Funny, I can't find them linked from the careers site, just as ads in the right hand gutter.
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Facebook hiring for mechanical engineers; following google into custom HW?(facebook.com)
3 points by jamie 17y ago|1 comments
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by jamie 17y ago
What I think is interesting is that they're beyond what general recommendation engines can provide; it sounds like they're down to making domain specific optimizations. I wonder how many of these techniques will be generally applicable.
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On the front lines of the Netflix Prize(glinden.blogspot.com)
2 points by jamie 17y ago|2 comments
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by jamie 17y ago
Actually, I think this is a pretty realistic - and appealing - view of startups, but it's also very much a description of what the experience of a VERY small startup is. I think it's important to note that there are different stages of a st
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by jamie 17y ago
Re: Apple, that's not the story I hear from apple veterans from the mid-90's. I'm not sure how apple reduced bureaucracy (or if it did), but given some of the stories I've heard about the pre-Steve Apple, it was an awful place.
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by jamie 17y ago
I'm a little confused by how Google plans to go back and add further optimization steps. From what I gathered from the video, they skip any IR step, and compile the javascript source straight to machine code. Lars Bak said a couple of tim
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by jamie 17y ago
"Founder and CEO Mick Mountz experienced the challenges of existing material handling systems firsthand while working at online grocer Webvan." I wonder how many other dotcom flameouts went on to rethink the expansiveness of their plans, an
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by jamie 17y ago
Don't confuse continuing to operate with continuing to innovate. A few technical individuals can move the needle more than you'd imagine, even at a big co.
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by jamie 17y ago
This isn't the case with the MBA. You have no idea how little it takes to push it over the edge. There's a good chance that running anything on the external display is what's pushing it over the edge. If you look around, the most common c
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by jamie 17y ago
Yea, I don't think people quite understand what the Macbook Air issue is. As a fellow MBA owner, I can vouch for this behavior. The system will become completely unusable while the 'kernel_task' takes over the system trying to cool it dow
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by jamie 18y ago
Funny- That's exactly my story as well. I've met quite a few Boston escapees out here in SF who all tell the same story. Loved Cambridge; hated the winter.