Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
march 2009 by andyh_ky
RT @jasonsantamaria Clay Shirky, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. Wow, an absolute must-read (don't skim):
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march 2009 by andyh_ky
TR thoughts on ticket re-sellers / scalping
march 2009 by andyh_ky
Trent Reznor doesn't like Ticketmaster or StubHub or TicketsNow.
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march 2009 by andyh_ky
MySQL :: Kaj Arnö
may 2008 by andyh_ky
omg! * MySQL 6.0’s pending backup functionality will be open source, * the MyISAM driver for MySQL Backup will be open source, and * the encryption and compression backup features will be open source,
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may 2008 by andyh_ky
Up or Out: Solving the IT Turnover Crisis - The Daily WTF
april 2008 by andyh_ky
and, no... i'm not planning on making any life changes soon
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april 2008 by andyh_ky
Justin.tv - DHH Talk - Startup School 2008 - HackerTV - Live Streaming Video
april 2008 by andyh_ky
AWESOME talk! DHH is reputedly arrogant, but this is a breath of fresh air.
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april 2008 by andyh_ky
More on Excel in-cell graphing - Juice Analytics
april 2008 by andyh_ky
Had no idea this was possible.
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april 2008 by andyh_ky
CodeClimber: "All I need is a Programmer"
april 2008 by andyh_ky
If I could get paid for these kind of conversations I wouldn't need a job.
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april 2008 by andyh_ky
Technical Revenue: The Young Man's Business Model
april 2008 by andyh_ky
He was basically building a (good) product, then laying it out on the web for all to see and hoping to get a million eyeballs. The viewpoint of the business is to get eyeballs, often from things like Digg or Techcrunch...
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april 2008 by andyh_ky
Cover story: Blown away
march 2008 by andyh_ky
This is why Dirt Merchants suck.
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march 2008 by andyh_ky
Don Norman's jnd.org / Why is 37signals so arrogant?
march 2008 by andyh_ky
Park concludes his article by saying "Call it arrogance or idealism, but they would rather fail than adapt. 'I'm not designing software for other people, 'Hansson says. 'I'm designing it for me.' "
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march 2008 by andyh_ky
Google Video Advertising Solutions
february 2008 by andyh_ky
Gotta pay that huge bandwidth bill somehow.
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february 2008 by andyh_ky
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database
january 2008 by andyh_ky
Sun will pay approximately $800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL stock and assume approximately $200 million in options.
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january 2008 by andyh_ky
Where there's muck, there's brass - Joel on Software
december 2007 by andyh_ky
...they have is a simple little Ruby-on-Rails Ajax site that has no barriers to entry and doesn't solve any gnarly problems. ...they haven't solved anything difficult yet. ... People pay for solutions to their problems.
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december 2007 by andyh_ky
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Blindfolded basketball, Part Two
december 2007 by andyh_ky
Turns out, however, that this is another one of those Valley beliefs, like Metcalfe's Law and the Long Tail Theory, which aren't actually true if you bother to scrutinize them. The good news is that nobody out here ever scrutinizes anything.
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december 2007 by andyh_ky
Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet | I Am Seb
december 2007 by andyh_ky
If I'm ever having a bad day, I'll just look at this and realize it can always be worse.
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december 2007 by andyh_ky
The Working Dead · LifeReboot.com
october 2007 by andyh_ky
To me, the Working Dead are the class of people who waste their lives away one day at a time at jobs where they accomplish nothing. I was made aware of their existence in the summer of 1997.
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october 2007 by andyh_ky
Why Enterprise Software Sucks - (37signals)
october 2007 by andyh_ky
always interesting from SVN
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october 2007 by andyh_ky
If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call [dive into mark]
october 2007 by andyh_ky
There’s only one way to pressure Apple into opening up iPhone development, and it isn’t by developing underground iPhone apps. It’s by not buying iPhones.
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october 2007 by andyh_ky
Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social networking « Scobleizer
october 2007 by andyh_ky
Mr Ballmer also noted that sites such as Geocities, an online community that was bought for $3 billion by Yahoo! in 1999, at the height of the dot-com boom, “had most of what Facebook has.”
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october 2007 by andyh_ky
nanocr.eu » Blog Archive » Think Closed
september 2007 by andyh_ky
"it’s evident that Apple is well on its way to become one of the most consumer hostile tech companies."
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Thirteen Patterns Of Programmer Interviews — Typical Programmer
september 2007 by andyh_ky
this is far too true... had every one of these besides the Voigt-Kampf test
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september 2007 by andyh_ky
Bike sheds and C. Northcote Parkinson - (37signals)
august 2007 by andyh_ky
Poul-Henning Kamp used the term in “A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass…”
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august 2007 by andyh_ky
Bear Stearns Says Battered Hedge Funds Are Worth Little - New York Times
july 2007 by andyh_ky
Think you're having a bad day? "Bear Stearns told clients in its two battered hedge funds late yesterday that their investments, worth an estimated $1.5 billion at the end of 2006, are almost entirely gone."
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july 2007 by andyh_ky
[Fireside Chat] skinnyCorp-Threadless and Connected Ventures-Vimeo (part 2 of 2) - (37signals)
march 2007 by andyh_ky
“When i was out [in Silicon Valley,] every person i met gave me a business card that said CEO. It just seems like everyone is so up in each other’s kool-aid they forget to just stfu and work.”
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march 2007 by andyh_ky
Creating Passionate Users: Don't ask employees to be passionate about the company!
february 2007 by andyh_ky
"The company should behave just like a good user interface -- support people in doing what they're trying to do, and stay the hell out of their way." - of course...
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february 2007 by andyh_ky
Apple - Thoughts on Music
february 2007 by andyh_ky
"So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none." preach it
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february 2007 by andyh_ky
The Hard Rain That’s Falling on Capitalism - New York Times
january 2007 by andyh_ky
"Empires come and go. Economic systems come and go. There is no heavenly guarantee that capitalism will last forever as we know it." - Ben Stein has a good piece on capitalism
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january 2007 by andyh_ky
What You Didn't Know About Payment Systems: What to know before you commit
january 2007 by andyh_ky
excellent piece about choosing an online payment system (aka Merchant)
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january 2007 by andyh_ky
Tropical SEO » The Lazy SEO Manifesto
january 2007 by andyh_ky
I pledge to only give my phone number to very close associates. Everyone else will have to email me. I will compulsively check my email throughout the day, but it may take me up to a week to answer one, especially if the reply requires effort on my part.
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january 2007 by andyh_ky
Why I Don't Wear a Suit and Can't Figure Out Why Anyone Does ! - Blog Maverick
january 2007 by andyh_ky
Gee, no suits would be the same as giving your employees a tax free raise. Think that might make them happy ? Or do employees consider having to spend money on suits a perk ?
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january 2007 by andyh_ky
Radical Chef David Chang and the Plight of the Asian Burrito -- New York Magazine
january 2007 by andyh_ky
“We said, ‘Fuck it, let’s just cook what we want.’” -- amazing, basically an AZN chipotle.
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january 2007 by andyh_ky
A List Apart: Articles: Avoid Edge Cases by Designing Up Front
december 2006 by andyh_ky
However, it has been my experience that too often, a graphic designer will begin a project by building composites or prototypes with the goal of creating an attractive site. While there’s nothing wrong with attractiveness, the look and behavior of a sit
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december 2006 by andyh_ky
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