October 2010
15 posts
Dunbar number →
The maximum number of people, generally believed to be 150, with whom one person can have strong relationships.
“Fundamentally, ‘mobile’ refers to the user, and not the device or...”
– Barbara Ballard, “Designing the Mobile User Experience”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The essentials of writing high quality Javascript →
Long, but looks like it contains some good nuggets.
“We had the idea of the mobile device being less like a phone and more like a...”
– The Evolution of Foodspotting
DevOps and Chef →
thechangelog:
Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter.
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Better than a hybrid
A recent study found the average golfer walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found golfers drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.
That means, on average, golfers get about 41 miles to the gallon.
(via some email chain)
"Domain Specific Languages" Book →
Online, free, work in progress book by Martin Fowler.
“Since Netflix wasn’t tracking how many hours people were logging each work...”
– Netflix’s holiday policy is to have no policy at all.
The Bible
Houseguest: I didn't know you guys were religious.
Linz: We're not, really.
Houseguest: Oh, I just saw that Bible on your bookshelf.
Linz: That's the Linux Bible.
Ravelry on pace to hit 1 million users around... →
Casey just released some stats
Working backward, they’ll hit the magic 1 million mark in about 7.5 weeks:
((1000000 - 915000) / 1600.0) / 7.0 = 7.5
7 and half weeks from now is Thanksgiving. Congrats, Ravelry!
“I bet you’ve never thought of Django’s template library as the...”
– Antonio Rodriguez, VC at Matrix Partners, keynote at Pycon