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The secret to Apple’s success: there are no secrets(stagetwo.com)
3 points by joshstaiger 16y ago|0 comments
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
I recommend Bringhurst's Elements of Typographical Style as a crash course in typography. http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin... It contains wonderful guidelines for typesetting and also gives a sense of history a
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
> Analytics Analytics Analytics! What metrics are you looking at in your Google Analytics data to find areas for improvement?
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
This video seems abridged. Does anyone know if there is an unedited version somewhere?
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
I've been using Tornado for the past few months, and it's great. The code is straightforward and easy to read. It does what it does very well. See http://www.tornadoweb.org/ for an intro.
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
Protocol buffers are great, but the Python implementation provided by Google is written in native Python and very slow for serializing/deserializing protobufs (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=767882 ). I've heard you can get around
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
The Hacker's Diet accounts for this by encouraging you to look at a moving average of your daily weight, rather than the number itself: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/signalnoise.html#Fa73
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
I switched from Python to R as my calculator of choice for this reason. I only recently discovered that there's a lot more to R than intuitive division of integers ;)
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
I posted this chart in the other thread, based on the same data. http://tinyurl.com/hnrank Shows the fraction of #1 stories, by submission time.
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
I happened to be playing with R today, so I took a stab at making a chart: http://tinyurl.com/hnrank
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
Friendfeed did something similar: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql
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Brent Simmons On switching away from Core Data(inessential.com)
23 points by joshstaiger 17y ago|4 comments
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The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics(edge.org)
1 points by joshstaiger 17y ago|0 comments
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
You can donate lower-priced titles to your local library.
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
I've been more interested in checklists after hearing Charlie Munger repeatedly espouse them: "...You’ve got all the tools. And you’ve got to have one more trick. You’ve got to use those tools checklist-style, because you’ll miss a lot if
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What analysts should ask Apple(macworld.com)
18 points by joshstaiger 17y ago|4 comments
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
Your loved ones could greet or see you off at the gate.
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
John Gruber had an interesting explanation for this with his Auteur Theory of Design (with Steve at the top): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk3UcgbbmxQ
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My poorly remembered and partially imagined predictions from Jan 1, 2000(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
3 points by joshstaiger 17y ago|0 comments
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
Note that this graphic only accounts for ~25% of total US debt - the foreign-held portion. The majority is owned by US institutions (mostly the fed): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estimated_ownership_of_tre...
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
Company financial statements are like porn to Warren Buffet (his words). The average investor doesn't do nearly as much research or thinking about their investments. Meanwhile, brokers and fund companies have a vested interest in making inv
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
Really? http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp... From 2004, but comprised mostly of essays that are on his site.
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
Actually, this presentation has been around for a while. I remember reading this around 2005. Not exactly 1998, but still :P ( http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.marshallbrain.com/mi... )
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by joshstaiger 17y ago
Go to http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&#38... and click on the first link to bypass the pay wall. Though, I find the article a little light on content.
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by joshstaiger 18y ago
He also has a webapp that does the same thing: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet
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Whatever Happened to Silicon Valley Innovation?(businessweek.com)
5 points by joshstaiger 18y ago|0 comments
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Amen Brother Cuban(mattmaroon.com)
21 points by joshstaiger 18y ago|67 comments
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Matt Maroon - But Seriously(mattmaroon.com)
63 points by joshstaiger 18y ago|61 comments
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Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich(blogmaverick.com)
108 points by joshstaiger 18y ago|63 comments
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App Store: I'm out(speirs.org)
123 points by joshstaiger 18y ago|78 comments

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