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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
IIRC there was a study done along these lines a couple of years ago. The actual number was 90 minutes. Among the chair-moistening set, actual productivity per week boiled down to 5 * 90 minutes.
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I agree. Imagine gathering the hundreds of people that worked on the Apollo missions and fitting them in the room that housed the project's main computers. They might all fit. Then tell them before most of them were dead they would be able
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
Yes, part of the reason we moved back to Bangkok. Forget about operating costs, worth it just for the awesome food.
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
Bangkok, Thailand
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
I do the following: 1. Use a python profiler and look for problems, which usually means rewriting db calls to tradeoff storage space vs CPU time and/or front loading tasks so they're heavier on write than read 2. Write memcache layers where
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
My site's down since about 5 minutes ago. It's on App Engine... Maybe this is more widespread than Twitter? Global cyberattack?
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
Bad joke...
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That's pretty cool...
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
True, I've had a girlfriend stand by me now through two startups. Why? Because she has her own career and her own life. And despite being a Buddhist, thinks more about the future than the present, as do I.
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
Funny, I used to work with a copywriter who would always leave a simple punctuation mistake in her work so her editor (me) would have something to do. I think she knew if I had to struggle to find something I'd probably suggest unnecessary
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Presentation: The Zeitgeist Movement Orientation(youtube.com)
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If a journalist can talk you out of starting something new, then, well...
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
I love vim. That's all I have to share.
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
I just had the pleasure of reading another 'oh my gawd, PR people are so stupid' story over at TC. For me that's the journalistic equivalent of Nietzsche's music of decline. That latest Twitter fiasco shows what they're all about. I love th
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Playster.org has been redesigned. Would love feedback.(playster.org)
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
It's a trojan.
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
It depends whether or not Big Tobacco takes it on as a cash crop. I'm sure you could make marijuana addictive with enough additives and advertising. I've met a lot of messed up people, the vast majority were primarily addicted to alcohol. A
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
People with something valuable to say generally don't yell. It reminds me of that Mr Show where they were playing ad execs and almost gave their client a heart attack by insulting him and yelling. Now that we have your attention...
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
Maybe a little trite but I always try to look at the larger picture. I've traveled quite a bit so I often think about the poorest people I've encountered, for example, in India and the life that they live day to day. I figure any day I have
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
A lot of the things that amaze me - 500$ 2.5Ghz PCs for one - took decades to happen.
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
39k, compressed - including a jquery and ga.js (jquery from google and ga locally, ironically). On a reload it's 2k.
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
What bothers me? All male porn stars. Most female porn stars.
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
I look at it this way: you need your 'collection' side of things to be as lightweight as possible. I would 1) collect request data in memory 2) 'post-process' and move that data periodically into your db (once a minute, once a second, whate
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
I've been on both sides of the hiring table in different professions (staffer, co-founder) and that article made my stomach turn. Anyone who puts up that much of a fuss lacks the courage to lead and manage people the right way - through ins
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Facebook Sued for Click Fraud(econsultancy.com)
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Playster.org - a New Events Search Engine - in Open Beta(playster.org)
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by mbenjaminsmith 17y ago
That's just it - it's not a new flavor of linux as much as it's a kernel++ to support Chrome. No one will know or care if it's linux or not. The question is will people gel to the idea of just having a browser and nothing else.