taylan

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by taylan 13y ago
There is Loader.io from SendGrid ( http://loader.io/ ) that lets you load test your web apps with thousands of concurrent connections.
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Even in Straitened Times, Portugal Loves Its Bimby Cooking Robots(online.wsj.com)
3 points by taylan 13y ago|1 comments
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by taylan 13y ago
Do you mind expanding on it a bit? Is it the volatility of oil prices or lower margins in aviation fuel compared to specialty lubricants?
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Start-Up Uses Plant Seeds for a Biofuel(nytimes.com)
23 points by taylan 13y ago|32 comments
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by taylan 13y ago
I'm having hard time wrapping my head around the time-money analogy here. In the case of money, by investing it or delaying spending, you can have more of it in future. In the case of time this does not hold, because time is essentiall
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Redditviz | reddit interest network(rhiever.github.io)
2 points by taylan 13y ago|0 comments
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by taylan 13y ago
I find these graphics by WRI particularly useful in understanding the different angles to this problem: http://www.wri.org/blog/global-food-challenge-explained-18-g... As a geneticist, I'm more than slightly offen
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The Creative Team at Pinterest(creative.pinterest.com)
1 points by taylan 13y ago|0 comments
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by taylan 13y ago
I think Quora handles this better than HN. It gives you the option to be completely anonymous on a case by case basis, reap the benefits/upvotes even when you are anonymous. Most people on HN/Reddit resort to throwaway accounts wh
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Anti-pattern - Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by taylan 13y ago|0 comments
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by taylan 13y ago
Money quote: Buying Bitcoins while their price is so bubbly is nothing more than a gamble. Investing in other online currencies, or in companies that can help the Bitcoin economy develop, looks like a sensible use of a venture capitalist’s
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by taylan 13y ago
I agree. After talking this much about complexity, it is rather simplistic of him to praise Ritchie over Jobs in terms of impact. On the one hand, I can imagine where the computing world would be without the work that Jobs did and the peop
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The Axis of Ennui(nytimes.com)
3 points by taylan 14y ago|0 comments
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by taylan 14y ago
I've been pretty happy with Contactually ( http://www.contactually.com/tour ) as a personal CRM for a while. Basically it sucks in your contacts from Gmail, LinkedIn, Facebook etc, and schedules follow-ups for you. Obviously, they monitor a
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Steve Blank's How to Build a Startup course is UP(udacity.com)
3 points by taylan 14y ago|0 comments
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by taylan 14y ago
There is something fishy here. Neither www.corporate-ir.net nor corporate-ir.net resolve. And the site asks you to login. Relevant link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/465600/
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Meme Weaver(theatlantic.com)
1 points by taylan 15y ago|0 comments
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Cassandra: My IT guy is better than a husband(women.timesonline.co.uk)
1 points by taylan 17y ago|0 comments
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by taylan 17y ago
Try http://www.wikimatrix.org/ if you'd like to compare available wiki engines side by side.
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by taylan 17y ago
Here is a simple reason why these type of graphs are flawed: they ignore economics. If you've taken Econ 101, you'll know that the demand is sensitive to price and scarcity drives up prices. Present demand is meaningless while making foreca
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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable(edge.org)
1 points by taylan 18y ago|0 comments
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The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free(techdirt.com)
1 points by taylan 18y ago|0 comments
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Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems (nytimes.com)
9 points by taylan 18y ago|1 comments
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The Persistence of Ideology (Educated+Unhappy=Ideological)(city-journal.org)
13 points by taylan 18y ago|3 comments
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by taylan 18y ago
I'm curious if we can generalize even more. For example, can we call Academia a giant Ponzi Scheme that will collapse when run out of naive new recruits laboring their years away hoping to reach top of the pyramid one day?
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by taylan 18y ago
One line summary/spoiler: "Technical supremacy divorced from sound strategic vision is no virtue, it can even end up in disaster."
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by taylan 18y ago
This a solid no-nonsense list that applies well whatever your startup about is about, be it in biotech or software. "#10. The life plan has to come before the business plan." was recently discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by taylan 18y ago
jmtame is right; work-life balance shouldn't be your top priority, it shouldn't make you question the time you are investing in your startup. as you make progress opportunity cost of your time increases, i.e. an hour of your time when you g
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by taylan 18y ago
It has something to do with economics of punditry. Basically, for pundits incentives are against voicing dissent. If you go against the conventional wisdom and your predictions turn out to be right, you'll still have hard time getting your
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by taylan 18y ago
Good article, but making headlines more descriptive like "Private iPhone APIs" can save people reading through RSS few clicks.

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