September 2009
21 posts
These United States - Honor Amongst Thieves
Grouping Related Trends with Hadoop and Hive →
The Amazon EBS Wikipedia Dataset is so badass…
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“A simple design always takes less time to finish than a complex one. So always...”
– XP: Simplicity is the Key
Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters →
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“Bang & Olufsen’s chief designer, David Lewis, cried foul. The...”
– The Case for Fanaticism
Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet... →
(Solved) Titanium: emulator: ERROR: unknown... →
Run: android —verbose create avd —name titanium —target 2 —force
(Solved) Titanium: WindowsError: [Error 3] The... →
Getting this when trying to launch your app into the android emulator? Didn’t install the Android eclipse plugin? You’re missing something in your PATH most likely.
“At the end of the day, ship the fucking thing! It’s great to rewrite you code...”
– Jamie Zawinski via Joel Spolsky on being against overengineering
Firefox Mac installation experience, revisited →
Initiate the Firefox download.
When download completes, Safari will unpack the disk image, throw away the image, and show a Firefox icon in its download window — as well as selecting it in the Finder in the background.
When you double-click the Firefox file, it gives you the options to:
Move Firefox to the Applications folder,
Add Firefox to the dock,
Set Firefox as your default...
Derek Sivers: Emphasize meaning over price = More... →
Because every person left each show with a CD, they were more likely to remember who they saw, tell friends about it, listen to it later, and become an even bigger fan afterwards.
Then, when the band came back to a town where they had insisted that everyone take a CD, attendance at those shows doubled! The people that took a CD became long-term fans and brought their friends to future shows.
