May 2012
7 posts
“I did not have that experience at all. I was accepted at Caltech, and when I...”
– Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School | Hacker News
April 2012
26 posts
I can’t remember how, but I ended up at Zencoder’s jobs listings:
Office Manager at Zencoder in San Francisco, CA:
What we’re looking for:
You are the most organized and efficient worker you personally know.
You take on responsibility before being asked just because you see that something needs to be done.
You act with a sense of urgency. Why put off a task until...
“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– —President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
I graduated from medical school in 2002. As of today, I am $202, 012.79 in debt. I pay about $840 a month. I will pay this for the next 29 and a half years...
Lee Rubenstein: How Tumblr Changed my Life →
lee:
I was in the room.
It was Fall 2006 and I was working in a shared office space with this small web shop called Davidville.
The open office space was different than what I was use to. Around 12:30 pm everyone stopped working and we would all cram into the elevator and head to the…
Spam from Nigeria via Ukraine
I just got an interesting piece of spam in my Gmail inbox, that made it past the spam filters.
I noticed a few points:
Originating IP is assigned to Direct-on-PC Limited, Lagos, Nigeria.
It was SPF-passed, it actually came from ukr.net.
It had a valid DKIM signature too.
It was sent from freemail.ukr.net, a Ukrainian mailhost.
Spammer used Firefox 3.6.13. That release dates to December...
Dropbox tech blog » Blog Archive » zxcvbn:... →
A decent discussion of estimating password ‘strength’, or entropy. It’s certainly a more sophisticated (and nuanced) approach than most password requirement schemes. I hate it when systems require capital letters or numbers or special characters, there’s a strong whiff of design-by-committee.. and yes, my normal set of no-special-character passwords contain a lot more...
“Another preschool removed “free playtime” from its schedule because,...”
– Very, very disturbing. Hen: Sweden’s new gender neutral pronoun causes controversy. - Slate Magazine
“To sort the list, sandwich the head between the sorted list of all elements...”
– Definition of a FilterSort in Haskell. Very elegant, very different perspective than what’s taught in C++/Java classes, but really really inefficient compared to a quicksort. (via Why Haskell matters - HaskellWiki)
“Ericsson have developed a new functional language, Erlang, to use in their...”
– The 130k-line Erlang application must be HUGE if that is considered “very much shorter”.. (via Introduction - HaskellWiki)
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Pololu - Simple LED circuit abstractions →
This is why I had huge issues with physics in school and why I probably should not do engineering..
“Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see...”
– Laura Vanderkam (via swissmiss)
I’ve been thinking recently about how some people don’t have time to take 6 minutes to walk someone across to another building, yet how I’m busy figuring things out and doing things from 8am-ish till 5pm or even 9pm+ some nights. Maybe...
“I like drinking coffee alone and reading alone. I like riding the bus alone and...”
– (via youth-thoughts)
March 2012
25 posts
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On taking risks
harvest:
Bosses should encourage workers to take big chances, even if it means they crash and burn from time to time, says Tracey Matura, general manager at Mercedes-Benz USA’s Smart car unit. Workers need to know their bosses would “rather pull you out of the wall than have to push you through it,” Matura explains. “The wall hurts everyone, but if you stop short every time you see the wall, we...
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Custom "Rubber" Stamps in Singapore
I spent yesterday shopping around online for rubber stamp makers here in Singapore, and ended up learning a fair bit. There are a few types of “rubber” stamps that can be easily found here, each using a slightly different idea:
Rubber stamps (confusingly named, but actually, non-inked stamps)
Self-inking stamps
Pre-inked stamps
Rubber stamps (non-inked stamps)
Let’s start...
Harvest Watercooler: Giving someone 4 hours of... →
harvest:
Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals and co-author of Rework, has an interesting comparison of work to sleep when thinking about why stretches of uninterrupted time are important.
“[S]leep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events. So sleep is about sleep phases, or stages … There’s five…
cause physical pain feels so much better than...
thesecondstar:
giving me the illusion of control over the pain i feel
that’s why it’s done.
“The man [Jef Raskin] who invented the Macintosh and misnamed what should be the...”
– My Father’s Final Gift « Aza on Design
“I had a professor in college who was a bit of a Somalia expert (has done work...”
– [FARE GONE] TK: IST-MGQ (Mogadishu, Somalia) $263/€199 ai; 5750miles; 4,6cpm - Page 3 - FlyerTalk Forums
“In 2011, Netflix’s online video rental service regularly accounted for 30...”
– Netflix: How we got a grip on AWS’s cloud | Cloud | ZDNet UK
“As an American, I also prefer the British border security folks. They’re...”
– The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists | Hacker News
Nano Workout - A healthy lifestyle without... →
A collection of little workouts in everyday situations that you can do. They’re so small, they’re like calf raises while brushing your teeth. Sounds perfectly doable? Yes!