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by petewarden 16y ago
I have to say, I was amazed at how nice an atmosphere there was when I visited LinkedIn a couple of months back. I was expecting something a bit stuffy, considering their market and somewhat conservative approach to innovation, but the peop
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by petewarden 16y ago
I get about 1 comment and 1100 page views a day, which is a similar ratio. Thanks to an Intense Debate/Feedburner bug (FB adds ?=... to the end of the article link in the RSS and ID treats it as a different page for comments) I've noticed I
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by petewarden 16y ago
When people ask what I do, I often break the ice by saying "I'm self-unemployed" with a smile. I can then explain the somewhat complicated web of open-source, startup building and consulting projects that fill my day, without some of the aw
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by petewarden 16y ago
Ever wondered why Dundee in Scotland has a lot of game companies? In the 80's Timex made the Spectrum there, so all the local kids ended up with the machines thanks to (sometimes ahem 'unofficial') employee discounts. So you have Clive Si
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by petewarden 16y ago
I'm nowhere near as mathematically savvy as RoG, but I do have some practical experience from dealing with game physics simulations. A classic problem with naive collision code is objects popping through each other occasionally, and a commo
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by petewarden 16y ago
Get involved with Techstars and the tech community, there's a lot of events all the time here in Boulder. Boulder/Denver New Tech meetups are probably the best introduction: http://www.bdnewtech.com/
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by petewarden 16y ago
There's lots of examples of successful lone founders, but most of the angel investors I met cringed at the thought of putting money into a one-man band. It's possible to overcome that with enough traction, but it is an extra obstacle.
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by petewarden 16y ago
Definitely. At the end of the day, the best way to get any kind of funding is to make people worry that they're missing the boat heading towards a ton of money. Demonstrating real customers, and everything else that falls under 'traction' a
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How to suck at raising angel investment(petewarden.typepad.com)
2 points by petewarden 16y ago|0 comments
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The continuing mystery of the Lehman black hole(nakedcapitalism.com)
1 points by petewarden 16y ago|0 comments
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by petewarden 16y ago
XCode is an awesome IDE, way better than Eclipse, and nicer than Visual Studio+Visual Assist, which was a surprisingly strong combo. But , it keeps getting crippled by its need to do fancy UI stuff to impress Steve. Wheee, pretty iChat bub
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by petewarden 16y ago
If you look at http://facebook.com/robots.txt there's actually a sitemap. It's protected, and may well not contain these pages, but I have heard that Google and other privileged partners have access to it.
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by petewarden 16y ago
It's just for text files, but opendiff is a pretty nice GUI diff that gets quietly installed as part of the Developer Tools package on OS X: http://data.agaric.com/node/1101
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by petewarden 16y ago
I've reluctantly come to a similar conclusion. I moved to California from the UK in 2001 thinking that the anti-smoking laws in bars, etc were oppressive 'nanny-state' measures. I was finally able to give up smoking though, and it really he
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by petewarden 16y ago
I discovered this through a fantastic list of 'mindfuck movies': http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/reviews/mindfuck_movi... It's definitely the most complex of the bunch, but most of them were great finds. Cube was another low-budget
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What I learned about engineering from the Panama Canal(petewarden.typepad.com)
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by petewarden 16y ago
I agree with you that your underlying data has to be on something people care about. It's necessary but not sufficient, since the same visualization without labels and coloring sank without a trace when I released it a week before.
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by petewarden 16y ago
The gentleman himself here! You're right to be suspicious, there is a bias towards the more popular pages, since they show up more frequently on people's crawlable public profile pages. Only 20 liked pages are shown for each person, and FB
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by petewarden 16y ago
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." Enthusiasm, like optimism, is a choice rather something that just happens to you. It requires a lot of forethought (what do I really care about?) and continual ma
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The VC tax break(baselinescenario.com)
1 points by petewarden 16y ago|0 comments
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by petewarden 16y ago
Here's the paper giving details: http://www2.research.att.com/~bala/papers/wosn09.pdf There's three ways info leaks: 1 - Referer header, eg facebook.com/profile.php?id=1 2 - Request, eg analytics.google.com/script.js?page=facebook.com/pro
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Are you in danger from Facebook's privacy changes?(thefastertimes.com)
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by petewarden 16y ago
No, but he does discover that the guard/prisoner relationship is a lot more complex than he expected, relying for the most part on subtle persuasion and negotiation by the guard not raw coercion. He also show how much time prisoners devote
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by petewarden 16y ago
If you're interested in the strange working relationship between guards and prisoners, I highly recommend Newjack: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newjack:_Guarding_Sing_Sing?w... The author is a journalist who was refused access to Sing S
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by petewarden 16y ago
A few points I can confirm from talking with Jud about this over the last few weeks: - Billions is the correct magnitude. It's the result of Gnip's aggregation of multiple Twitter-firehose-scale feeds over a year. They are massive users of
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Removing your files from S3 can cost thousands of dollars(one.valeski.org)
46 points by petewarden 16y ago|16 comments
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by petewarden 16y ago
On a related note, I've been on the partial Twitter firehose and I've only seen around 5 million unique users over a couple of months. Granted this is the partial firehose, but I'd still expect the number of uniques to approach the true n
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by petewarden 16y ago
No split-window view for comparisons: http://ticket.macromates.com/show?ticket_id=F4398B73 It doesn't look like that's achievable via plugins either, so my experiment with TextMate is over unfortunately.
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by petewarden 16y ago
You finally pushed me into giving it a try. I started a 'Find in project' on a project with some multi-megabyte text files, and it not only gave me the Beachball of Death, it also was thrashing so heavily it took several minutes to get the
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by petewarden 17y ago
> It's complex, let's just give up with laws. Not a good stance. Think of legislation as a script written by a committee that's then deployed with no testing. Sometimes it's the only way to solve a problem, but it's a very blunt instrum

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