This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity. I'm a developer by trade, and I've
My wife and I had 12 children over the course of 15 1/2 years. Today, our oldest is 37 and our youngest is 22. I have always had a very prosperous job and enough money to give my kids almost anything.
A Speck in the Sea John Aldridge on the deck of the Anna Mary. Credit... Daniel Shea for The New York Times Looking back, John Aldridge knew it was a stupid move. When you’re alone on the deck of a lo
I'm a huge Steve Yegge fan, so It was a great honor to have Steve Yegge on a recent Stack Overflow podcast . One thing I couldn't have predicted, however, was one particular theme of Steve's experienc
Cornell More than nine in ten cancer-related deaths occur because of metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumor to other parts of the body. While primary tumors can often be treated w
This past October, just before the leaves changed, I went on a six-day hike through the mountains of Wakayama, in central Japan, tracing the path of an ancient imperial pilgrimage called the Kumano Ko
Posted on January 3, 2014 I've had the idea for an app that would simply show you the value of your bitcoins at a glance. Lots of Shares users have requested bitcoin support in Shares, but it would be very different since it's a lot different than a stock. Coins is just a simple little app that…
A 911-jubileum nem is kezdődhetett volna tökéletesebben. Így mulat a gazdag paraszt keleten, így gyűlöl az irigy proli világszerte, és nagyjából ez minden baj a 911-essel. Mert egyébként az autógyártá
Channel 4 NSA leaks Op-ed: Why Obama should pardon Edward Snowden Op-ed: Why President Obama won’t, and shouldn’t, pardon Snowden Snowden ’s bias is blatant—but Gordon-Levitt makes its message powerfu
Improving your public speaking despite hating crowds 10 min read · Dec 11, 2013 -- I am an introvert and I have always feared public speaking, and despite having given an industry conference presentat
(Notes taken by Professor David Kass, Department of Finance, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and Rahul Shah, MBA student) Warren Buffett (WB) met with 20 MBA students from each of eight universities, including the University of Maryland, on November 15, 2013. The MBA…
Tony’s note : The following post was written by my close friend, amazingly talented tech reporter and about.me Advisor Om Malik as part of our Stories about.me project. Om survived a near fatal heart
What does it mean when a company says they are looking to hire hackers? They’re looking for people who move fast, prototype rapidly, and get an idea into the wild. The implementation may not be perfect, but it works. Small companies in particular benefit from the rapid feedback loop. Build an MVP ,…
A lot of what we think we know about interrogation tactics comes from television and movies. Above (from left), Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum and Robert Young appear in a scene from the 1947 film Crossf
This is a guide for writing consistent and aesthetically pleasing node.js code.It is inspired by what is popular within the community, and flavored with somepersonal opinions. There is a .jshintrc whi
There are three parts to your iOS or Mac app: design, implementation, and back-end. Design is what it does, how it works, and what it looks like. Implementation is what you do in Xcode. The back-end i
DIGG PICKS | SPONSORED This $40 Kit Will Teach You To Pick Locks Digg Picks 3 months ago You can get started a lot easier when you have a clear visual of what's going inside of this clear lock. · salt
For a man cut off from the world for so long, Mandela looked at home in the spotlight, connecting with the black crowd that worshipped him, while taking the first steps to win over skeptical whites. However, Mandela later acknowledged that he felt anything but comfortable as he was thrust onto the…
The Circular Estimation Conjecture: You should always multiply your estimates by pi. Project estimation is a black art, nowhere more so than in game development. I once heard of a mysterious cabal of numerologists that multiplied their time estimates by π . The practice allegedly gave them…
When you run your own company, you make the rules. You decide how you spend your money. You decide the structure of your company and where and when you do work. The default option is to get an office in a city like New York (where we are) and work normal business hours. John and I have both been…
UPDATE: The price for spot instances has risen and the value of LiteCoin has dropped. The combination of these two factors makes LiteCoin mining on EC2 likely to be unprofitable at the present time. I'm sure a lot of people will be paying close attention paid to the spot prices now though… Original…
It took us a few weeks to sort out the small but high quality craft beer scene in Budapest. Our favorite Hungarian beers are brewed by Foti, Hopfanatic, Legenda and Tavoli (a gypsy brewer currently on
Kereskedelmi értelemben dörzsölt államigazgatás Véleményvezér 2015 március 11., 07:14 Tegnap nemcsak a Quaestor, hanem az MNB is megbukott. Bár van politikai dimenziója a botránynak, mégsem az az első
Here is one clue as to what is going on: To what does he [Zennon Kapron] attribute bitcoin’s popularity in China, and how could others benefit from it? “There’s BTC China’s no-fee trading for starters
On May 13, an obscure mathematician — one whose talents had gone so unrecognized that he had worked at a Subway restaurant to make ends meet — garnered worldwide attention and accolades from the mathe
With the LHC ramping up, the hype about the Higgs particle is at frenzy levels, but what exactly is it? You may have heard some frivolous descriptions, for example “the God particle”, but at the very
Setting up a new machine can often be an exciting prospect. However, as developers, there are a lot of tools we need that don't come as standard. In this post, I'd like to go through some of the techn
The Royal Suite at Claridge’s in London is not where you would expect to be meeting with Jonathan Ive, the man who designed the iPod, the iPhone, the MacBook Air, and just about everything else that h
10 years ago | Posted in: science | 1913 Views Sharon Oosthoek U of T’s Samah El-Tantawy hopes to help implement the award-winning traffic light system she developed for her dissertation (photo courte
ON JUNE 16th something very peculiar happened in Germany’s electricity market. The wholesale price of electricity fell to minus €100 per megawatt hour (MWh). That is, generating companies were having
This article has been archived and is no longer being updated. It may not work with the most recent OS versions. Home Raspberry Pi Airplay Tutorial Home Raspberry Pi Airplay Tutorial Nov 8 2013 A tutorial that guides you through setting up a Raspberry Pi AirPlay receiver. It then shows you how to…
IT’S LESS THAN YOU THINK Somewhere between college graduation and your second job, a chorus enters your internal dialogue: be realistic and stop pretending. Life isn’t like the movies. If you’re five
I f you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious. There, on the set of Meet the Press , the host, David Gregory, was intervi
Sometimes, life seems upside-down. I originally wrote this post months ago, but I’ve been too self-conscious to publish it until now. This quote convinced me to put on my big girl pants: “The moment t
Milyennek látszik a mai magyar valóság Spanyolországból? Hazalátogatva pedig kívülállónak érezheti magát az ember, kiszakadva az otthoni körülményekből, már egy sor dolgot nem hogy nem ért, fel sem fo
This is a written version of a talk I gave on September 21, 2013 , at the XOXO conference in Portland. This is a picture of me in 2009, right around when I started Pinboard . I'm standing on a balcony
What can we do to make our average life expectancy jump again? Above, residents of a continuing care retirement community practice chair yoga. Photo by Melanie Stetson Freeman/ Christian Science Monit
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