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MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs(nytimes.com)
489 points by kellegous 10y ago|255 comments
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Five years, building a culture, and handing it off(medium.com)
3 points by kellegous 11y ago|0 comments
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by kellegous 11y ago
Neil Gershenfeld is responsible for two of the best courses at MIT: "How to Make (almost) Anything" and "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling". Neither are compatible with healthy sleep habits, but both are transformative
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by kellegous 11y ago
It's a good point and since journalists are already asking about it, I now wish I hadn't even posted it. I think Apple is not trying to hide the fact that they are looking for search and machine learning people, but the press will
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by kellegous 11y ago
I don't think email is considered confidential by default. Had this recruiter made any confidentiality request, I would have tried my best to honor it. Instead, he seemed more interested in spreading the word that they were entering th
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by kellegous 11y ago
FWIW, an Apple recruiter approached me about working on a new Search-related thing. He used the following enticement in the initial email: "We are building the future of search for the best user experience (unadulterated by advertising
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by kellegous 12y ago
The biggest difference is that Hound uses an inverted index to support regular expression searches. This is a technique borrowed from the original Google Code Search. The details are discussed on Russ Cox's site ( http://swtc
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by kellegous 12y ago
I understand your perspective, but I still think this is a reasonable thing to warn people about.
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by kellegous 12y ago
The point is that changing the service location is not covered in the contract. I wrote the article to warn people that Comcast believes this is covered in the contract and will enforce it. So we fundamentally disagree here on whether I&#x2
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by kellegous 12y ago
Not sure if I'm answering the right question. I moved out of the service area (not realizing I was out of the area until I called). I tried to have my service moved and was told they could not give me service (because of the area). To
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Don't Lose $2,000 to Comcast Business(kellegous.com)
12 points by kellegous 12y ago|13 comments
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Personalized Recommendations at Etsy(codeascraft.com)
73 points by kellegous 12y ago|5 comments
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by kellegous 12y ago
I'm not at liberty to give details and I know very few of them after early 2012, but this doesn't seem accurate to me. The original design of Inbox was the work of Michael Leggett ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/
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Where in the U.S. will you find the most “pleasant” days in a year?(kellegous.com)
13 points by kellegous 13y ago|2 comments
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Node at LinkedIn: The Pursuit of Thinner, Lighter, Faster(queue.acm.org)
3 points by kellegous 13y ago|0 comments
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by kellegous 13y ago
If you are interested in a slightly less heavy-handed approach. I wrote this to steer me away from the distractions. Just click the browser button to "block" new domains. You can unlock a page, but you only get a 5 minute window.
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by kellegous 13y ago
I may be responsible for the term "layout thrashing" and tried to explain it in a blog post a while back: http://kellegous.com/j/2013/01/26/layout-performance/
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Mraleph's JavaScript performance talk at LXJS(youtube.com)
2 points by kellegous 13y ago|0 comments
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This isn’t my best post.(blog.homebase.io)
1 points by kellegous 13y ago|0 comments
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by kellegous 13y ago
I mean no offense to the author, but speaking of the DOM as if it is uniform in terms of performance seems silly. Pretty much every piece of API in the DOM has its own semantics and performance expectations (even if it's presented as a
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Getting all your data out of Google Reader(blog.persistent.info)
86 points by kellegous 13y ago|26 comments
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How to Negotiate a Job Offer(blog.upstart.com)
176 points by kellegous 13y ago|104 comments
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SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.(blog.clipboard.com)
41 points by kellegous 13y ago|55 comments
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A distributed system in your browser(blog.jaimeyap.com)
3 points by kellegous 14y ago|0 comments
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InnerText vs. textContent(kellegous.com)
2 points by kellegous 14y ago|0 comments
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by kellegous 14y ago
Some random suggestions: (1) Developers do A LOT of style tweaks using the dev tools. In Chrome, this flow has gotten smoother and smoother. For example, the little of feature of having key handlers to jog numeric style properties is huge a
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by kellegous 14y ago
from Email Landing Page: "Increase your chances of winning the Pack Share something about us: [twitter button]" from Front Page: "we will randomly select 250 lucky startups that will get the Pack." If this is not a biased random sweepstakes
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by kellegous 14y ago
Thanks. I've meaning to put the links back for a while and never have done it.
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by kellegous 14y ago
You are going to make me give away my future punchline. ;-) The short story is that innerText will include the line breaks that are introduced by text layout. A lot of people call innerText when what they actually want is textContent (which
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by kellegous 14y ago
I've been battling with her in PageRank for years. I claim she isn't playing fair!

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