January 2010
70 posts
autonomy
“If we want engagement, and the mediocrity-busting results it produces, we have to make sure people have autonomy over the four most important aspects of their work:
Task – What they do
Time - When they do it
Technique - How they do it
Team – Whom they do it with
After a decade of truly spectacular underachievement, what we need now is less management and more freedom – fewer...
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Modern browsers for modern applications →
Google apps stop supporting IE6, recommending:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+
Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
Google Chrome 4.0+
Safari 3.0+
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“About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do...”
– 9to5 Mac
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Top 50 imperial IPAs →
According to Ratebeer.
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Best beer blogs →
Best email subject lines →
AARRR... metrics for lean startups
First Round lets funded entrepreneurs exchange... →
First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm,
launched an exchange yesterday allowing their funded entrepreneurs
to trade small amounts of equity in each others’ companies.
Cloth Simulation →
by Andrew Hoyer. Part of a bunch of Chrome Experiments with Javascript.
“Someone from the EPA is going to call you in 5 minutes.”
– President Obama, in response to a woman whose child got lead poisoning and hadn’t gotten an answer from the EPA.
WatchJakob Trollback makes a music video.
list of governors of massachusetts →
Massachusetts has had Republican governors for 96 of the last 152 years.
Doing math
Research:
Moving average
Signal processing
Technical analysis
“4,000 Marines and sailors on their way to the Persian Gulf are being diverted to...”
– Not to diminish the hardship of those in Iraq, but this kind of news story makes me happy and I’ll bet most soldiers and Americans are glad to help Haiti instead of fight various insurgents in the Middle East.
MongoDB data modeling in Rails →
Google Chrome extensions
Not yet available for Mac Chrome, but for future reference:
Eye Dropper
Firebug Lite
Pendule
Youtube: HTML5 game demo →
A Couple of Nice UI Tools for MongoDB
nosql:
Try MongoDB ☞
A 2-in-1 application: a mini browser shell and a mini tutorial for MongoDB.
Mongo3 - rule your MongoDB clusters ☞
A tool for visualizing and managing a MongoDB cluster. Code available on ☞ GitHub
futon4mongo ☞
A port of the CouchDB Futon web interface to MongoDB.
@thibaut_barrere
phpMoAdmin ☞
An PHP AJAXified administration tool for MongoDB with no...
HTTP Basic Auth in Sinatra
Sinatra FAQ
sinatra-authorization extension
Lighthouse discussion
calendar about nothing →
Checking out my open source contributions by month. I need more months like October and fewer like December.
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Watchvim-rubyredgreen is very cool. I still want red lines in my implementation code when there is no test coverage for it like Augment for Emacs but this is sweet.
MongoDB browser shell →
Exploratory.
HTML5 Outliner →
Ensure that you’re using the heading elements (header, hgroup, h1, h2…) properly.
First Round Capital →
Someone told me about First Round Capital last night. The person described them to me as “cowboys” (in a good way). Looking at their website, they aren’t afraid to be gunslingers. Over 70 investments and check out these lines:
“We are not afraid of investing in pre-revenue companies.”
“We believe our experience, insight and expertise are far more valuable...
“More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product...”
– Customer Development slides
“The foundation of TPS (Toyota Production System) is that people need to be (and...”
– Kent Beck
problem & solution departments →
only ones necessary in a startup?
Embracing technical debt →
Invest in speed, do the simplest thing possible, technical debt is not “bad, period”, some debts won’t come due.
Watchmoby remix of “mr. plow”
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what...”
– Ernest Hemingway’s Hack
“The business school professors suggest that goals should come with their own...”
– Daniel Pink, Drive
Experiment Driven Development →
Pivotal Labs talk by Nathaniel Talbott.
Amazon Mobile Payments →
There once was a man from Nantucket →
Never knew the original clean versions:
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
But he followed the pair to Pawtucket,
The man and the girl with the bucket;
And he said to the man,
He was welcome to Nan,
But as for the bucket, Pawtucket.
crunchies
I’m a sucker for awards. In the categories that I care something about, I picked:
best mobile application
foursquare. I think about it each time I enter a restaurant or bar. When I build an app that needs authentication right now, I think “Twitter?” and when an app needs places I think “foursquare?”. I expect to be using their API second-most to Twitter this...
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WatchThe greatest upset in college hockey history.
CoffeeScript →
The power of Javascript with the ugly Java syntax replaced with a beautiful Rubyish/Pythonesque syntax.
“So when Brian Williams is asking me about what’s a personal thing that...”
– Barack Obama
“On the eve of his speech to the Democratic convention in 2004, the speech that...”
– Newsweek
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