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Back to Square One(fastcompany.com)
1 points by mcfunley 12y ago|0 comments
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The Common Genius of Lincoln and Einstein(nautil.us)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
It's really easy to get the wrong idea about post-childbirth from just watching your friends have kids on Facebook. I think it's commonplace to assume that the birth is the difficult part, because nobody posts about their trauma i
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How Will the Universe End?(slate.com)
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The Search for the Anti-Facebook(slate.com)
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In Search of Uber’s Unicorn(slate.com)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
I'm sympathetic to the idea that classic episodes were superior. But when the classic episodes first aired, there were literally five channels in most homes. Simple rating trend analysis is doomed. The world around the show has changed
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Stop Bashing Bash and GNU(weev.livejournal.com)
39 points by mcfunley 12y ago|4 comments
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Data Driven Products Now(speakerdeck.com)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
On the other hand, doing even simple things at Amazon scale is WAY more difficult and time consuming than doing them at practically zero scale. There are plenty of examples of features that can be accomplished using quick and dirty methods
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Data Driven Products Now(mcfunley.com)
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Thoughts on Five Years of Emerging Languages(al3x.net)
40 points by mcfunley 12y ago|3 comments
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by mcfunley 12y ago
He should have differentiated operational metrics from product (or business) metrics. He seems to be talking about the latter categories.
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Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court(vox.com)
290 points by mcfunley 12y ago|98 comments
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The Lesser Known Normal Forms of Database Design(johnmyleswhite.com)
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[pdf] Style in the Long Tail – Best Industry Paper at KDD 2014(dl.dropboxusercontent.com)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
IRC on the web with tons of work-relevant integrations. And an easy API, emojis, searchable history, etc. It's great.
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Here's one that doesn't crop out the graffiti on the mailbox: http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/36894460/...
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by mcfunley 12y ago
There are plenty of reasons to be angry, why pick just one?
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Their collusion depressed the price of engineers generally. I spent a lot of the years in question ignoring recruiting emails from those companies, and this affected the amount my employer needed to pay me to do that. We should dig up the c
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by mcfunley 12y ago
How many ex-google engineers are there? Tens of thousands? They can't all be any good.
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by mcfunley 12y ago
> "Mission Statement" on this album seems to be inspired by the hippie acoustic hits of the 60s and 70s At the risk of sounding like someone who is a bit too familiar with the hippie acoustic hits of the 60s and 70s: this is a
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Me too.
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Two weeks ago I tried to explain this idea to an ex-Air Force tour guide as we were standing next to the waist guns in a B17. He said I was full of shit and that the planes flew with basically no reinforcing armor. It was kind of embarrassi
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Etsy Acquires French Marketplace A Little Market(blog.etsy.com)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
To be fair, for all these people know the examples of insane ebay ads are the experimental control. Probably not, but maybe.
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Exactly right. If search ads don't work for this kind of activity, we only know that because online ads allow measurement. If your takeaway from the article is that you should go back to buying billboard space instead, you're an i
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Opsweekly: Measuring on-call experience with alert classification(codeascraft.com)
4 points by mcfunley 12y ago|0 comments
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Conjecture: Scalable Machine Learning in Hadoop with Scalding(codeascraft.com)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Sharing photos and videos is an activity that brings meaning to billions of lives, and it's not unreasonable to try to improve upon it. Facebook is a large company with a number of revenue streams. Every single feature they undertake d

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