February 2012
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“While Galileo played life and death doctrinal games over the mysteries revealed...”
– High Scalability - The Data-Scope Project - 6PB storage, 500GBytes/sec sequential IO, 20M IOPS, 130TFlops
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“the European Enlightenment. Two fundamental ideas were at its core: the...”
– Why China’s Political Model Is Superior - NYTimes.com
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“Learning to program isn’t the hard part. The biggest challenge is figuring out...”
– Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram | TechCrunch
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January 2012
10 posts
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“We all know that TV today — from a dollars standpoint in terms of advertisers —...”
– College Sports League to Stream Its Own Content Online
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“Hitch-22 was a title born of the silly word games we played, one of which was...”
– Salman Rushdie on the Wonder of Christopher Hitchens | Culture | Vanity Fair
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“Some of our specific challenges of the denormalization process were:
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– Building Facebook’s Timeline: Scaling up to hold your life story
December 2011
6 posts
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“It now costs over a billion dollars a year to run Facebook, and delivering ads...”
– (2) Advertising on Facebook via Daring Fireball
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“To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be...”
– -Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)
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Hugo, though a bit long at times, is a beautiful... →
The automaton, a complex work of art and science designed to do one thing, or communicate one message, in this case, is an ingenious metaphor for movies themselves. Moreso, the automaton would not reveal its purpose or message until a heart-shaped key was inserted; nor will a movie reveal its deeper meaning without the viewer using their mind (as key) and heart to engage with the movie and unlock...
Evernote Hello, Will Help You Remember People «... →
November 2011
2 posts
“NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy says the football league is holding back technology...”
– NFL teams love the iPad | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
“While it is perfectly obvious to everyone that Ben Jonson wrote all of...”
– “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” : The New Yorker
October 2011
7 posts
“We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many...”
– A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
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“The way to revolutionize the TV market is to cut out all of the legacy. No cable...”
– “I finally cracked it” – Marco.org referring to Steve Job’s biography.
I wonder how agency execs would respond to this idea. Surely with horror.
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“We think it would be very compelling to own a TV or a device that could quickly...”
– Siri: Game-Changer, Not Gimmick - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD
“Steve Jobs’s occupation on his death certificate was listed as...”
– Official cause of death for Steve Jobs released | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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John's Tumblr: Steve Jobs →
lilly:
Like many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs the last few days — thinking about the man and his legacy. I’ve been having some trouble even understanding the way I feel, let alone being able to put it into words.
continues:
Be yourself and work as hard as you can to bring wonderful things into the world. Figure out how you want to contribute and do that, in your own way,...
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September 2011
2 posts
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Google Analytics Adds Real-Time Traffic Data →
I guess we’ll be canceling our Chartbeat account now.
“There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more,...”
– Jeff Bezos’s letter on the front page of Amazon.com
August 2011
5 posts
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“For all the variations, the common theory of human nature underlying...”
– Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes - Religion - Salon.com