July 2010
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June 2010
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My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly...
– Awesome quote by Bezos
Jeff Bezos Princeton Commencement
runs straight fucking through the core of everything i believe in.
(via soxiam)
(via fred-wilson)
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The Saudis are probably the most sexually repressed people in the world. Women...
– Sleeping with the Devil - How Washington sold our soul for Saudi Crude By Robert Baer (Simply Horrible to know)
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Gulf disaster needs divine intervention as man’s efforts have been futile....
– The Great Sarah Palin in the process of going Rogue
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Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail...
– Unknown
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Even if the climate bill is eventually approved, the disaster in the Gulf will...
– The Spill, The Scandal and the President
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The mortgage finance companies, created by Congress to help Americans buy homes,...
– Cost of Seizing Fannie and Freddie Surges for Taxpayers
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Interesting video interview with Tom Preston-Werner (Co-founder of GitHub and Gravatar) about the github.com architecture and scaling issues.
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This is hilarious!
<3 Daily Show
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IBM Watson: “Question Answering Machine”
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the...
– George Bernard Shaw
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Karate Kid Reloaded
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Episode 0.2.6 - Douglas Crockford on JSON and... →
While at TXJS, Adam and Wynn caught up with Douglas Crockford, author of both JavaScript: The Good Parts and the JSON spec, and a global namespace unto himself.
Items mentioned in the show:
JSON - (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format, easy for…
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Elegant UX
I didn’t know that calculator app change itself from normal to scientific mode when you tilt iPhone / iPod touch accordingly.
I think it’s one of the simple yet powerful UX design I have ever seen in hand held devices.
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US Debt overtaking GDP
Obama is borrowing record amounts to fund spending programs to help the economy recover from its longest recession since the 1930s.
It’s really easy to blame Obama for soaring national debt but I am pretty sure that even if the president was a conservative republican, he would have no choice but to prioritize growth over deficit. And US entered the age of trillion dollar deficit during...
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This movie seems worth watching
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