May 2008
19 posts
Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library →
A very useful little bunch of web design stencils: graffle, png, svg, and mobile devices.
“The failure rate for software projects is astonishing, somewhere around 80%....”
– James Lindenbaum of Heroku
Heroku is abstracting the stack even further. You write Ruby/Rails apps in a web-based text editor and their infrastructure takes care of the rest—it’s a web-based IDE. I don’t think they’ve done away with SQL like AppEngine, but I’ve only written...
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“As of this writing, Cambridge seems to be the intellectual capital of the world....”
– Paul Graham, Cities and Ambition
Ella Fitzgerald, Hotta Chocolatta
The...
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“Strategy in network markets is distinct from strategy in markets for information...”
– Hal R. Varian and Carl Shapiro in Information Rules. Hal is now the Chief Economist at Google. (via factoryjoe)
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British companies formed to colonize and capitalize the New World were known as adventures, later shortened to ventures.
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Ratatat - Shiller
coming on the new LP
themarkpike:
Prediction: Chester French is going...
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“Without the helplessness that makes kids cute, they’d be very annoying....”
– Paul Graham, Lies We Tell Kids
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“If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been...”
– Larry Page
I like this quotation because there’s been a lot of chatter about how the current crop of funded companies are only incremental improvements on things that came before them—and that there is no way they can create the kind of shareholder value that solving big hairy problems can....
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“It is entirely possible that before Twitter makes its first penny, it will...”
– Hank Williams
Twitter does go around calling themselves a social-networking utility…
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Matty Charles - Long Gone
Matty is a...